.@mehdirhasan: Why should thousands of US troops stay in Afghanistan indefinitely, or even a few more months, to fight an unwinnable war with the Taliban on behalf of people who aren't interested in fighting it? @EliLake: Because a stalemate is preferable to a Taliban takeover.
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Mehdi: "Why should we believe [the generals] when they now try and corner a fourth president into staying for 'just a few more years! Victory is just around the corner!'?" Eli: "Well, I didn't say victory. I said stalemate."

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Mehdi: “Just to be clear for our viewers, Eli: Were you saying that we should be there for another 20 years, or for how long?” Eli: “However long it takes...”
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Mehdi! The Taliban sympathiser not even in disguise !! Now @MSNBC becomes the official spokesperson of Taliban
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and when the Taliban goes in and attacks and kills American soldiers...what should we do...escalate in retaliation? We seen this play before...it's called Vietnam.
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Mehdi seems to have trouble processing any argument that doesn't come prepackaged in the narrow categories of his ideology.
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Then eli should have signed up to protect Afghanistan - mothers are done with their sons dying for a “stalemate
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Such bullshit from this guy. The cease-fire was conditioned on US withdrawal. If we had decided not to withdraw, the shooting would have resumed. The only good thing about this entire shitshow is the US getting the fuck out of a country we should never have made war on.
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Stalemate is around the corner!1!!
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You know who the American people trust the least about war? Politicians..., okay but after that it's the generals. How many of those generals retired with fat paychecks and lucrative careers inside the military industrial complex? Most right? Yeah, thought so.
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The Taliban are also inspiring the USA's own tribal fascist militias - they are super anti-imperialist and VERY keen to smash the US system (as seen in January, but better organized next time, I'd think). Truly it's everything Biden deserves. vice.com/en/article/qj8apw/t…