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So, there is a concern that the government couldn't evacuate Americans in the event of a conflict so they are doing it now, and that is leaving them "high and dry"?

Man, when it comes to Ol' Joe it really is damned if you do, damned if you don't with y'all, huh?
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
SGT Joseph Gunderson
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No, they are not evacuating them. They just told them to get out.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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Afghanistan was the right move in the long run. It remains to be seen how this will play out.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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SFC Casey O'Mally - Perhaps. I wasn't a fan. Of course, I'm also not sure other executions would have resulted in better outcomes either.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
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SPC Kevin Ford not good, but less bad. Taking the time to PROPERLY retrograde and recover (or at least scuttle) military grade equipment, for one.
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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SFC Casey O'Mally - I was thinking that too. A lot of the equipment was stuff we gave the late Afghan government to fight the Taliban. In the back of my mind I'm also thinking had the gone the destroy route I'd come to the conclusion we under-minded the old government and of course the collapsed because we took away what they needed to fight.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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SFC Casey O'Mally - Everything they did was based off the assumption that it would at least be the Vietnam model. They would continue to fight long after we pulled out our combat troops. That mistaken idea and all the planning that came based it was the lynchpin in the whole thing going wrong.
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CPO Cory Cook
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A couple of problems with that heavily slanted post.
It ignores the fact that the beginning of the bailout from Afghanistan started with Donald Trump. So the blame is shared, along with the lack of political thinking whether or not the Afghan government was not corrupt and incompetent. My sympathies to the population and salute to the military who did try to fight.
Second, this little foray by Putin (aka Herr Stalin-Hitler) began quite a bit of time ago long before Crimea and Syria. I wonder what may have or may not have happened if Trump had not sucked Putin's ego hero worshiping him as a great leader, encouraging his political philanthropy? The writing was on the wall about Putin's ambitions when he pulled off what Trump tried, to extend his office - any which way that would work. His military is stalled, at least 4 generals dead (front line fighting???), and his political world is in disarray. So does he rethink, yup...just bomb the hell out of the public. My sympathies to the population and salute to the military and population who are staying to fight...like...hell.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
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First, I've addressed the inane notion that Biden couldn't walk away from the Afghan deal just like he canceled several other Trump era policies. Second, Putin was kept under wraps during Trumps tenure. You can attempt to twist that, but it doesn't work. Putin took Crimea under Obama and is invading the rest of Ukraine under Biden. Your inability to think objectively here is incredible.
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SFC Wendell Pruitt
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SGT Joseph Gunderson - You are correct Putin was kept under wraps during Trumps time, Trump embraced the enemy and called him smart and a good leader.. Trump held meeting with Putin in which no one knows what He was giving away or compromising at a later time, Putin played Trump like a fiddle and laid the groundwork to do whatever He pleased if Trump got a second term, Which thank god didn't happen.....
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