No, my comment was directed at the American media who only makes a story out the death of a black (and to lesser extent, hispanic) person shot by police.  I didn't say all, but when 9/10 stories fit that bill to a t (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Jacob Blake, Antwon Rose, Breonna Taylor, to name some of the more popular names in the past few years), and you see the same pattern being repeated and the same lies being told, you recognize you're being fed a narrative.  No one cares that out of the thousand or so rioters at the Capitol, one unarmed white woman was the only protester shot.  If you bought into the false narrative that Jacob Blake wasn't tasered and told repeatedly to stop before grabbing a knife and shot, and expressed outrage, but didn't ask why only one unarmed protester out of a thousand was shot, I don't think you're really concerned with use of force.

Sorry for going off topic, but it was a clarification that was necessary.  My point being that US media has a very predictive script and narrative to dole out when they want attention elsewhere, so expect them to focus on whatever random tragedy they can spin to deflect from Biden's catastrophic international relations.  It's what they do.  You and anyone else can have the last word, I don't want to derail this topic.

You should go back and research this.  Even Biden says there's no evidence it's true.  More hyperbole and lies from a media salivating to find any content to make Trump the bad man. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation … n-n1264215

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your … after-all/

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-do … 160af2da42

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A reasonable question is how much is Russia behind the Taliban’s troop movements. And how far Pakistan will let the Taliban go. God forbid they capture and murder US citizens. That’d be catastrophic.

But they have to walk a line and not stage mass executions.  People are going to be slaughtered, but if it’s off camera the west will do nothing.

But the US just sacrificed a major staging area in the region.

Why are you so antagonistic on this. Yes, every President since Obama has run on the idea of getting out of Afghanistan. Biden attempted to do it. This is a major fucking deal for our foreign policy. Pakistan and Turkey have already started the orders to arrive. It’s a colossal failure for the United States.

Biden said the Afghani’s were ready. He stated the Taliban wouldn’t gain control. The American Embassy just lowered the flag an hour ago. That’s the sign the US no longer recognizes the Afghani government.

A lot of decisions are going to need to be made. The most important of which is what do we do militarily. If the US can no longer support the Afghani government, and it appears we just threw in that towel, I don’t see any point in wasting American lives and resources. I doubt our communication systems and crypto were left in the abandoned equipment, so the risk of threat to the US at this moment seems minimal.  Let Pakistan do in the open what it’s been doing for 20 years. Let Iran, China and Russia worry about it.

Others will feel differently and I’d like to hear those opinions. But why you can’t acknowledge that Biden fucked up here, and seem antagonistic toward anyone expressing that view, is beyond my ken.

And Biden also just deployed 1k 82nd soldiers with another 3k on the way to maintain the Afghani government. So he’s not doing what Obama did. I don’t know what the future holds, but we either leave an indefinite force in every nation we conquer, or we don’t and the power vacuum is filled by the the strongest force.

We just spent the past 15 years or so saying we’re going to pull out shortly. Trump wanted us out by last Christmas. Biden just delayed it  by 8 months.

Yes, President’s overrule generals every day. That’s how it’s supposed to work. I know the far left was giddy at the idea the Joint Chiefs would ignore Trump and refuse his withdraw order last fall. But people not bound to partisan idiocy generally agree civilian control of the military is a good thing.

Trump used a MOAB on the Taliban, the biggest bomb since Nagasaki dropped in a military conflict. I’m hoping Biden will prevent the complete collapse of the Afghan government, but as someone who worked first hand with Afghani officers (and other officers from the Middle East) I can’t say I have a very high opinion of them or their military’s capability. So how does the US prevent the Nuclear capable Pakistan’s puppets in the Taliban from gaining complete control over Afghanistan?  And what weapons are we allowed to use to accomplish this?  The Biden administration won’t stop tens of thousands of Covid positive illegals entering our county each week, so my hopes aren’t high they’ll handle Afghanistan right. But he certainly showed a willingness to protect the Afghani government by authorizing another 4k combat troops. I just don’t want to see several hundred Americans die while Democrats decide how long they’ll wait before tossing in the towel eventually.