And considering the number of people crowding the airfield, and the complete collapse of whatever government Afghanistan (allegedly) had, the idea that Biden could have done this better, or earlier, or more deliberately, is nearly laughable.“In the 20 years since September 11, 2001, the United States has spent more than $2 trillion on the war in Afghanistan. That’s $300 million dollars per day, every day, for two decades. Or $50,000 for each of Afghanistan’s 40 million people.” https://t.co/hniHue5vr4
— Dr. Mizanur Rahman (@prof_mizanur) August 16, 2021
Should we have stayed longer and educated the Afghanis on how to self-govern, or at least not try to climb onto a moving plane?One can question whether the president should have accommodated the decrepit regime’s request, but had the evacuation started sooner, the panic likely would have, as well.https://t.co/EtPpaX9JJS
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 16, 2021
Or we could spend another $6 trillion defending ourselves against the possibility of a terrorist attack sometime in the next 20 years, while China rebuilds the world?Want to know what we could have done with all of the money we’ve wasted in the last 20 years? Look at Chinahttps://t.co/FPbeFWwmR0
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 16, 2021
Because, you know, that's a good reason to keep killing people and spending treasure in Afghanistan. The possible terrorist attack that possibly doesn't come. Because, you never know, you know. Besides, what battleground are all those foreign correspondents gonna report from now?“We are now back to 1998, where the Clinton administration was launching missiles at desert camps & hoping to hit something. That wasn’t enough to prevent 9/11, and returning to that is not a recipe for success.”
— Andrew deGrandpre (@adegrandpre) August 17, 2021
New from @missy_ryan & @smekhennet https://t.co/2ms6aTKvJS
Meanwhile, measure this against the responses to this withdrawal, especially from the media:Withdrawal From Afghanistan Ends Longest Media Farce In U.S. History https://t.co/3lE9ijoieF pic.twitter.com/U49Mx5uXGg
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 16, 2021
The media is not best pleased:We’re going to learn how much truth the American people can handle, because the president gave them an adult portion on Monday afternoon. https://t.co/xBAqgCu2nj
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2021
That’s the respectable media version of “some people say.”Very similar feelings in Whitehall today: no one No10 or the FCDO expected President Biden to change his policy on Afghanistan. But they were all taken aback by the unyielding harsh tone and "the lack of humility about a humanitarian catastrophe" as one official put it. https://t.co/YQOHzIgfgj
— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) August 17, 2021
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