Originally Posted by
AfricanBluebird
Nice to see some very thoughtful comments on this thread about the terrible situation.
On other places I am seeing some really terrible comments where people are trying to defend their political positions on the issue when in reality... all of the following CAN (and probably is) true..
- We should have never been there... especially without a stronger alliance and plan
- Bush and Blair have a lot to answer for - this had nothing to do with 9/11 and was a stupid intervention
- The US and UK never had a long term hand-over plan and successive governments completely failed our troops and the people of Afghanistan
- Obama had 8 years to develop a plan - he tried but didn't do enough
- Trump negotiated with the Taliban because the Taliban refused to negotiate with the Afghanistan Government and completely messed it up - he had NO idea what he was doing
- Trump made promises to the Taliban which he was in no position to follow on through
- Trump had already agreed for the US to leave as a part of his 'agreement' with the Taliban
- Much of the military weapons and infrastructure being used by the Taliban is US and UK funded (as well as Russian) - what a mess
- Biden completely messed things up with the abrupt and unplanned nature of the withdrawal - he has blood on his hands
- The UK government have shafted Afghans who worked for us, with us and supported our military - they are likely to be executed and Patel has rejected their asylum to the UK because she wants to appease a heartless right-wing base
- People will get executed because the UK doesn't give a shit about people who helped us and the US are acting too late
NO ONE comes out of this looking good, no one!
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