The reactions of Biden pulling out is just a reflection of how divided

[Jspur]

this country is. I say this as a Bernie Sander's supporter that this was the best move of Biden's presidency so far. He did the right thing and I think deep down everybody on both sides knows it was the right move.

I'm pretty sure the majority of Republicans support getting out of Afghanistan but they disagree with leaving now simply because it wasn't a republican president that was in charge of the exit. If this was Trump they would be screaming about how he did a great job of leading the country out of Afghanistan.

What a really comes down to is that even if you make the universally popular move it is still unpopular in this country politically due to not being on the same team as the other party.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. The chaos is upsetting to people

In a few weeks that will be forgotten. The Taliban is keeping up their end of the deal we made with them so far and the US is getting their people out without interference. The next several days will see us get out everyone we wanted to get out, without violence.

Biden is going to say we planned for this, and he's right, if we didn't have a plan in place for this contingency (Kabul falling quickly) our troops would be fighting right now.

In the end, all this will be is that we left a couple weeks sooner than we thought we were going to.

The Taliban is a brutal regime, don't get me wrong, but they're holding up their end so far.

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3. Trump made the deal with the Taliban anyway...

We would look like we don’t honor agreements across administrations if he hadn’t withdrawn the troops.

In the press they keep talking about how disastrous this is. Like Vietnam.

Vietnam is actually doing pretty well for themselves. Anthony Bourdain really liked going there. They have a fast growing, healthy economy if one can believe what they read on the internet.

If Dubya hadn’t slept during the PDB, we wouldn’t have been there in the first place.

It’s time for the administration to scrutinize the press and the military industrial complex being bedfellows and break up some monopolies based on the coverage I’m seeing.

You’re absolutely right, everyone will forget about this in a couple of weeks. It was wise for Biden to do this early in the admin.

[CrispyQ]

2. Just like health care & infrastructure, if the repubs had a better plan to leave Afghanistan,

why didn't they implement it when Trump was in office?

[Chainfire]

4. The negative publicity is just politics as usual.

If Biden personally provided a cure for cancer the right wing would complain that it didn't come quick enough.

[Jspur]

5. Agree your statement sums up how I feel about the current environment

of politics. I would say if Biden found the cure for cancer then the Republicans would be hellbent on finding a way to destroy the cure as soon as possible.