Afghanistan - 20 years on

[Lord-Jaffa]

Oh boy this last question....

The blaming the closing of the base on the military, the same military hes in charge of?

 

[Malevolence]

Well, this has turned from just plain embarrassing to a right ***********.

 

[Rroff]

Biden's body language hugging that folder oof.

 

[antijoke]

I’ll admit, playing the “I have another meeting” card as the US president in a press conference is ******* hilarious

 

[chrismscotland]

I’ll admit, playing the “I have another meeting” card as the US president in a press conference is ******* hilarious

Whats next "my dog ate the evacuation plans"?

 

[Rroff]

I’ll admit, playing the “I have another meeting” card as the US president in a press conference is ******* hilarious

I have nothing against Biden, despite the way some of my posts might come across, but his days of being a president are long in the past.

 

[omnomnom]

Harris is even worse.

Why?

 

[Felon]

I always liked Biden, I think he’s a decent guy - but he’s just too old, he’s past it.

 

[Minusorange]

I'm not one for listening to some of the "alzheimers theories" etc but thats the first time I've really thought; what the hell is he saying

It's his scriptwriter getting Alzheimers

 

[deuse]

Why?

Ask her anything and she start laughing.

 

[XeNoN89]

Biden seems 10 years older than Trump at least

 

[Robbo]

You've got to feel for Biden, it's a tough enough job when you haven't lost your marbles...

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

Biden seems 10 years older than Trump at least

Imagine if he had to deal with the hostile press the way Trump had too, all his questions are pre approved and hes told who to pick.

 

[nine_tails]

I’ll admit, playing the “I have another meeting” card as the US president in a press conference is ******* hilarious

Its like a zoom meeting.

 

[FoxEye]

Cool. Still little bearded fascists.

But professors and experts? wow Afghanistan should be prospering within the next few decades then.

I wonder what the place will look like in 50 or 100 years time.

I think the odds of it still being a backwards hell-hole are pretty good.

It seems some places can't lift themselves above subsistence living or corrupt, tribal, conflict-ridden existences. Maybe it's the leaders, maybe it's the people themselves. Maybe it's religion, or tradition.

But you can point to any number of places and societies on this planet that basically have no hope for a better future. They won't improve, they'll just carry on in the same way their ancestors lived for the next millennia.

 

[Rroff]

But you can point to any number of places and societies on this planet that basically have no hope for a better future. They won't improve, they'll just carry on in the same way their ancestors lived for the next millennia.

TBH the spiral of many countries seems to be more towards that direction than real improvements.

 

[Sankari]

Only 1,000 Americans left in Afghanistan. Hopefully Biden will be able to get them out pretty soon.

 

[arknor]

Still not a great approach - even if a lot of it is older hardware, etc. the Taliban have acquired a ton of light armour vehicles some of it quite modern.

I saw reports saying they had light weight modern body armor, night vision goggles and sniper rifles left behind by the Afghan army.

thats kinda game changing tech for the Taliban or any terrorist groups they could sell it to surely.

any other terrorist groups or maybe even some governments in the region will have worse gear putting them at a disadvantage

 

[Tefal]

I saw reports saying they had light weight modern body armor, night vision goggles and sniper rifles left behind by the Afghan army.

thats kinda game changing tech for the Taliban or any terrorist groups they could sell it to surely.

any other terrorist groups or maybe even some governments in the region will have worse gear putting them at a disadvantage

How long is any of it good for though?

 

[rare]

The whole premise of this hap hazard retreat was apparently to safeguard American lives and to pull the soldiers out of an ongoing bloody and expensive war.

Yet the shortsightedness and the manner in which it’s been conducted created the airport and evacuation mess and has how resulted in the greatest loss of American lives in Afghanistan for something like ten years, and hundreds of dead Afghanistan (and probably American) civilians.

It’s a shocking and absurd situation.

RIP to the soldiers who were working in terrible circumstances trying to ensure people could escape tyranny. Hero’s all of them.