Afghanistan Pullout: The Best Biden Could Do, or Total Clusterfuck?

[LutherBlisset]

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and assured Americans that the U.S. had “trained and equipped a standing force of over 300,000 Afghan personnel” and that “they’ll continue to fight valiantly, on behalf of the Afghans, at great cost.”

Needs repeating: either an ignorant statement, or something worse.

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soldiers recognized that they would soon be on their own and arranged “cease fire” agreements,

They already were on their own, since the US and their allies stopped air support, and their training makes them rely on air support.

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I confess to being knocked off-keel by the Republican reaction to the Kabul bombing.

That is the most surprising statement here for me.