After 20 years, if the Afghan forces cannot stop the Taliban, what makes anyone believe that they

[JohnSJ]

ever will be?

The way much of the media has been pushing the narrative, along with Republican propaganda, that it will be The fault of the Biden administration if Afghanistan falls under Taliban control is absurd

What are they suggesting? That we should be there for another 20 years, 40 years, forever?

I don’t recall the media being as “concerned” when trump wanted to pull US troops out of Afghanistan.

Our objective was met. We pushed bin laden out of Afghanistan, eliminated him and AQ for the most part

President Biden made his views on Afghanistan very clear even before he ran for President. Enough is enough

[WA-03 Democrat]

1. So after 20 plus years

We can not move it. The military could nuke it off the earth and the republicans would still bitch about the operation they started and screwed up. The draw down was announced and planned by trump stable genius.

[Walleye]

2. They are desperate for negative stories about the Biden administration

[sboatcar]

3. There's just really no good solution here

No matter when we pull out, the Taliban is going to make a resurgence, and maybe the Afghan military can fight them off, maybe not. But like when do you finally call it over? Either you can make a planned withdrawal, or you can have it end like Saigon, with the last people being choppered out from the roof of the american embassy.

[rampartc]

4. trump negotiated the withdrawal, and its timing

so that the repubs will have lots af "fall of saigon" type video to show about us "america hating" democrats in future elections.

if he had won the withdrawal would not have occurred.

withdrawal is the right thing to do, but, as usual, we are holding the bag

[BSdetect]

5. If Pakistan does not help they are next in line.

How can we stop extremists there when we can barely contain them here?

[JohnSJ]

6. Pakistan isn't going to help. The government is extremely corrupt, and you are right, we can barely

hold the extremists at bay here, especially when 75% republicans believe the “left” is responsible for Jan 6th

There are a few times in this country when our democracy was on the line after we became a country

The Civil War
FDR, and WWII
Johnson and the Civil Rights movement
and right now

I am not sure if we will prevail this time