“Except For Joe Biden…”

"Nearly a score of different generals in charge of the war effort, and three presidential administrations, chose to extend an unsustainable status quo rather than acknowledge hard truths. None of them faced any consequences." https://t.co/Brgip2mKEE

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 21, 2021

"...who really shouldn’t have allowed the chaos.”

"For 20 years, at a cost of 2,448 American lives and more than 1 trillion taxpayer dollars, we attempted to do what the shopkeeper knew we could not: outlast the Taliban. We built schools and hospitals; we trained, paid and supplied the Afghan military." https://t.co/Brgip2mKEE

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 21, 2021

We started the chaos 20 years ago. We postponed the inevitable result of our invasion for all that time.

It took me while to understand that part of the press corps is grieving, not for the dead, but for the war. https://t.co/rxxdenXbdC

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 21, 2021

No doubt at all. It was the status quo for 20 years.  I'll be teaching students this fall younger than that. 

Now Biden has moved their cheese.

The Biden administration is making preparations to compel major U.S. airlines to help with the transportation of evacuees from Afghanistan, while expanding the number of U.S. military bases that could house Afghans. ⁦@glubold⁩ ⁦@alyrose⁩ https://t.co/6Cee4DYTLm

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) August 21, 2021

And I know we can complain about Biden (Be my guest!) without comparing him to the Former Guy, but is this the point where we say the Former Guy wanted to bomb those military bases to smithereens and THEN withdraw the military?  Because yeah, it's not going perfectly right now; but it's quite reasonable to point out (who got the vaccines distributed, after all?) that it could have been SO MUCH WORSE!