Our escapade into Afghanistan was ill advised and was inevitably going to blow up ...

[marble falls]

... or collapse spectacularly.

There was no way to end it in a consensus other than it needed ending.

Joe Biden ended it. Are we going to let him be the scapegoat for this GOP big ball of horror?

Joe Biden ended it. And I support him 100% for it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I had no expectation that it ever would end well.

That's just one reason why I opposed that war from the start. I recall watching in horror when the bombing started.

[sprinkleeninow]

2. Seconding that emotion. I had a really troubling sense in my soul/spirit when it started. 😪

[marble falls]

4. My first thought was: OK, W, you fought your way in, now what? And the "what" was never ...

... defined, a strange thing for the GOP who don't believe in nation building. Iraq had something to loot. Afghanis only had calendars that ended in 1400.

[brush]

3. Agreed. Twenty years of training and equipment and the...

Afghan army didn't just fold, they didn't fight for the most part...didn't fight for their own women who are going to get snatched back to the ninth century by the Taliban.

If they had put up resistance their fellow countrymen who help the American troops would've been allowed more time to make preparations to get out of the country.

Joe Biden ended it because someone had to. Another twenty years in babying a an army and holding up the foundations of a nation wasn't in the cards.

[PortTack]

5. Exactly...had the leadership and the ppl wanted those freedoms they would have been willing to

Fight for them.

It’s their culture, we cannot change it. We should never have been there in the first place