They need you to think that the real horror is a messy exit rather than the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and two trillion dollars spent to make war profiteers billions and rebuild the Taliban.
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I think it’s both.

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If only we had cleanly allowed the taliban to take over a country
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I would argue the latter is the logical conclusion of the former.
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this is just insensitive
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The situation cannot be fixed, and the intention of the joint chiefs of staff have been clear for months. You can't convince Pentagon beurocrats to behave morally because they can't. All the messy exit does is send a message to would be collaborators that we don't give a shit.
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It's all awful but the end was inevitable for a long time. You want to feel Biden had options, but Trump left him just 2500 troops. To do anything other than leave, he would have to send more troops & start fighting the Taliban again. 3 weeks ago npr.org/2021/07/26/102066602…

As U.S. Withdraws, Civilian Casualties In Afghanistan Reach A Record High

The U.N. warns that without a major de-escalation in violence, Afghanistan is on course to have the highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since record-keeping began.

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Julianspeaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan
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You also think #ApartheidInNYC isn't worth a mention, Marianne. 72% of young black NYers that just got banned from stores and services may think that's a myopic, authoritarian, and racist take for a "liberal" #VaccinePassportsAreRacist
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