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To: epicure who wrote (479160)

9/5/2021 11:58:20 AM

From: koan

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There is a difference with Afghanistan and other terrible places like Somalia.

We spent 20 years there nurturing the country, and using many in the country for our purposes of keeping terrorists under control. We set up an entire intelligence network to protect us and relied on thousands of interpreters, many of whom will be hunted and tortured and killed. because we did not get them out.

We had a duty to protect them when we left. We owed them.

And we had a serious relationship with that country encouraging women to go to school, get in politics and out in the work place and put millions in harms way by having them do what we wanted.

And now we have left them to a life of terror and starvation, just because Biden did not want to deal with it any more.

He went against his military, his intel, the Pentagon, Afghan diplomates and even his advisers in doing this, and he did not even plan for the barest mitigation of the humanitarian fall out.

He just bought into Trumps bullshit lock stock and barrel pulled up and left.

This is a matter of honor. We owed those people for putting them in harms way, and if people say the carnage we left behind is worth it, then those same people should be willing to look that carnage in the face, not want to bury the reality and forget about it.

PS and it has hurt we Democrats badly, IMO. We gained nothing politically, but will lose a lot of votes in 2022 and especially among the military many of whom now hate Biden. And we always had trouble getting military votes.

From a simple pragmatic point of view given the Republican assault on this nation, this was not an issue we needed to deal with right now.

As Richard Haass said, author of "The World, a brief introduction"," This was a choice". (not a need) My addition.

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You've managed to ignore it in lots of other places, give ignoring it a chance. It's not like raping and torture and starvation isn't happening all over the place (and in many places much worse than in Afghanistan.) But perhaps because the international spotlight isn't on those places it makes it easier to focus all the love on Afghanistan.