Per news reports, there is a number of Americans in Afghanistan (mostly in Kabul) who now find they can't get to the airport as easily as going to Dulles on a slow day. The U.S. government urged them to leave earlier, and they declined until shit hit the fan and they decided "Well, maybe I should have left...." Trump would have avoided that problem by: removing them forcibly at gunpoint?"No chaos, no death—they wouldn’t even know we left!"
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) August 19, 2021
It's my understanding, again, that all equipment not left for the Afghan army (i.e., given to them, maybe not the smartest idea in retrospect) has already been removed. I remember a news story of how U.S. forces had removed all equipment from Kandahar air base (IIRC). It was portrayed as hardly being helpful to the Afghan military to do this. Again, hindsight proves somebody knew what they were doing.
"And then we bomb the bases to smithereeenies!" Whether or not civilians are nearby, or Afghan military are on the base?
And after that, as everyone has noted, we remove the military. Who would have been on those bases. And how do we do that? A la Saigon, but with many, many, many more helicopters (how many helicopters does it take to replace the carrying capacity of one C-17?)? Can't use the C-17's, because we bombed the bases, which would include the runways, right? And the result of this mass destruction?
"No chaos, no death—they wouldn’t even know we left!"
That's the crazy cherry on top of this insanity sundae.
Starting to get the sense he didn’t absorb a ton about the realities of the presidency while doing the job pic.twitter.com/BXPE9cLSIM
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 19, 2021
Wonder what movie he got that idea from. Or more likely hundred movies.
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