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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (486748)	2/22/2022 11:03:19 AM
From: Jamie153	Respond to of 540770

Republicans and the media tell us 20 years of war wasn't long enough. We created peace and it drives both of them nuts.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (486748)	2/22/2022 11:24:55 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 540770

I think you are over thinking Biden's motivation for getting out. He as much as told us. He said:" I don't give a damn about the women, and will not lose another "soldier" I am getting out! He left because he was determined to leave and had the power i.e. he did not go through a long thought out reason or plan. He just up and left. Because he wanted to. And no one was going to change his mind. And all the reasons I gave a few months ago for why we should stay, proved correct, except it is worse than even I thought. Plus it would probably been cheaper. "Message #486748 from Cautious_Optimist at 2/22/2022 10:54:03 AM I still don't understand why the Afghan army virtually surrendered to the Taliban. And how quickly. They wanted US troops to die for their country, or they were going home. It caught the US intelligence by surprise, and I believe that began the chain of disasters. Biden had to rely on bad intel to make his decisions. How much in that chain is due to corruption or biased thinking in the system? How do we fix this? Vice News has covered this still devolving Taliban story deeper than anyone. If you don't record and/or watch Vice Nightly News you are missing a lot. JMHO. Isobel Yeung has interviewed Taliban and brave critics recently there. She is the most courageous reporter ANYWHERE today IMO. Her dramatic reporting on Yemen and China also: From her short wikipedia: Yeung traveled to to report on women in Yemen during the Yemeni Civil War. In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", Yeung interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict, female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemini Ministry of the Interior who downplayed gender discrimination, gender violence, and the financial displacement of Yemini women. [9] Yeung also interviewed former Houthi child soldiers while in Yemen where adolescent boys describe the difficulties "us[ing] different types of rifles and machine guns" and "seeing all the dead bodies". [10] In 2019, Yeung went undercover to cover the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, reporting on their mass detention, familial separation and surveillance at the hands of Chinese authorities. Numerous times during her reporting, Yeung was followed, accosted, and had camera footage deleted by Chinese police and security services. [11]