Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan is looking better and better. It wouldn't be a good time to have U.S. soldiers as targets in Afghanistan for a well-equipped Taliban newly backed by Russia (and probably China).
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Anyone who mocked Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan should have be shamed into silence on Russia-Ukraine. The Afghanistan withdrawal was a strategic masterstroke.
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The Afghanistan withdrawal was not only a strategic masterstroke, it was also incredibly well done. I'm not being sarcastic, I've never seen a more gross distortion of an operation than that. It is insanely hard to withdraw from Afghanistan and the U.S. lost just 13 soldiers.
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Only if women don’t matter, Matt. Thousands of women whose escape should have been prioritized were neglected and abandoned. The evacuation could have been achieved far more humanely and effectively. The narrative that “there was no easy way to do it” is not an excuse for that.
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I've listened to several highly placed women activists who worked in Afghanistan or worked closely with women there, who have a very different take on this that officialdom's "we couldn't have done it any better." It could have been done *much, much* better vis a vis those women.

Mar 16, 2022 · 8:31 PM UTC