American military helicopters have been filmed evacuating US embassy staff in Kabul, with multiple aircraft shuttling to and from the compound. The footage invoked striking similarities with the 1975 retreat from Vietnam’s Saigon.

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[–]yetanotherone_sigh 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Every President since Reagan has had some involvement in Afghanistan. It's almost as if you create an instability in the region, you create terrorists. Keep swatting the hornet's nest, next time will be better.

Reagan -> CIA -> Supported Bin Laden "freedom fighters" against the Soviet Union. When we inevitably pulled out, we left the Mujahadin hanging and this caused them to become radicalized and eventually turned into Al Qaeda.

George W. Bush -> Invaded Afghanistan to go after Bin Laden. What was left of Al Qaeda radicalized further and created the Taliban.

What will be next? We shouldn't have ever been involved there at all.

If our 20 year, $2 trillion dollar involvement fell apart in a couple of weeks, there wasn't really any long term stability there, ever. This isn't Biden's fault. This isn't even Trump's fault. It isn't Obama's fault. It isn't W's fault. But they all share in it. Whoever was left holding the bag, the person who was POTUS when we inevitably pulled out, got stuck with it. Musical chairs.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I appreciate the statement that this falls on no one person's shoulders. Not Biden, not Trump, not some other president. Anyone who tries to blame one or the other is foolish and trying to devide.

To me it's human nature.

We seem to think (in the west at least) that in the last 100 years we have gone though some radical evolution that has whiped out a million years of instict and natural evolution.

I'm never shocked when I see a governor make advances on a female subordinate, or unending fighting over a patch of desert or a lack of female construction workers or the hundreds of other examples of progression we see now on a daily basis.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try and change. However progress moves at a snail's pace.