Fair point, but he was talking about GWB.
Their goal was to prevent Russian control of Afghanistan, not long term what was good for the area. 
But hey, it looks like the TAPI pipeline is still going ahead, so if like Cheney all you care about is oil and private profit, maybe the whole thing has kind of worked out.
They surrendered.
Absolutely bog standard imperialism. It’s the same deal every time.
Utilise ethnic/religious/financial fault lines in the country.
If they don’t exist to your liking, invent them.
This was no different to every other grubby, squalid, murderous western colonial jaunt.
Beau of the Fifth Column has his doubts:
“It would provoke a US response. … hitting the US as it’s leaving … would be a bad move. And they haven’t made a lot of bad moves.”
Today’s white house press briefing should be quite something. That’s not an attempt to be funny.
Yes, it’s real.
This is the guy who negotiated the withdrawal deal right?
Yep.
Makes sense. The Taliban took over the country by force to stop the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. I just wonder where they could have gotten the idea…
Do they even have Fox News there?
Actually that’s not what he said.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo falsely asserted on Sunday that President Joe Biden had put the U.S. embassy in Kabul at risk by focusing on critical race theory instead of foreign policy.
Meanwhile:
“Backing the mujahideen against the Soviets” rhymes rather well with “Giving Ho Chi Minh guerilla training against the Japanese.”
It might be ‘manifestly not Saigon’, but it is manifestly Kabul, and it’s not like there wasn’t warnings from both history and contemporary analysis for fuck’s sake. Yeesh.
Well I’ve never been a fan of the “Neener neener, I don’t like you so I won’t talk to you.” school of diplomacy. With no serious opposition, the Taliban are the closest think Afghanistan has to a government. Recognition isn’t some sort of prize, just a recognition of reality.
