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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While what is happening in Afghanistan is heartbreaking, US citizens should have left on their own dime a while ago.  The plan has been in place for over a year now, and unless you worked for the US government, you should have known to leave.  I have ALOT more sympathy for Afghans and especially those waiting for visas to leave than I do for citizens and GC holders who had the ability to leave in the last few months and didn’t but are now waiting for a ‘handout’ and adding to the confusion of the humanitarian response.[/quote]

The intelligence failure was pretty vast here.  The speed at which the Taliban took Kabul took many in the government, including the intelligence community, by surprise, so expecting  an ordinary citizen to know it was that dire is a bit unrealistic IMO.  I know someone in the govt who was scheduled to go there for work last week, and literally until Kabul fell their superiors were telling them to proceed, that it was all fine.  Heads in the sand.[/quote]

The Nation Building was a mistake and Biden knew it was a mistake in 2009 to his credit. Now Mullen admits the mistake.  Obama years were just so wrong.  For example the corrupt Afghan bigwigs swindled us out of 850 million dollars and we gave them a complete pass.  Our tax money.  Then Obama enlarged the Embassy- it never stopped.  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/mike-mullen-afghanistan-biden-right-surge-concession.html

[i]core issue is the corruption. … It’s been a way of life for some time, and it’s just got to change. That threat is every bit as significant as the Taliban.” Sen. Lindsey Graham, noting that the Taliban were gaining ground because of this corruption, asked, “We could send a million troops, and that wouldn’t restore legitimacy in the government?”* Mullen replied, “That is correct.”

The corruption never ended, yet Mullen continued to support the war effort. In our interview, he recalled a 2011 scandal at Kabul Bank, in which Afghan insiders embezzled [b]$850 million[/b]—all U.S. taxpayers’ money—and spent it on personal luxuries. “We had the goods on them,” Mullen recalled. An anti-corruption agency, led by U.S. officials, had been created to go after these sorts of crimes. But [b]the administration “chose not to prosecute,”[/b] he said. “I realized right then that this was politically going nowhere.”[/i]

So Ghani's 169 million.  Vacationers in Afghanistan still boggle my mind. Our troops are supposed to die for them? [/quote]

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