President Biden addresses nation on Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

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[Deb]

1. Thanks for posting!

[peppertree]

4. You're very welcome

Besides hearing the president's warm, reassuring voice - it's good to see this trillion -dollar scam be brought to an end after 20 long years.

[erronis]

2. Truth is being told. Thank you for your clarity and caring.

Totally unlike the prior orange infection.

These are hard decisions but they need to be made. Let's not get back into these morasses.

[peppertree]

5. +1

War, it's said, is the greatest racket - but only for so long as we let it.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Simply the most presidential speech

I’ve seen in my lifetime of 50+ years.

[peppertree]

6. +1

After 20 long years, it's good to see this trillion-dollar scam be brought to an end.

The only things that cloud this moment somewhat are a) the grief the Afghani people are going through (which, sadly, was very much inevitable);

and b) the near-certainty that some future Repug president will stage something, to get us into another special interest-driven war.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

7. History will mark Joe Biden's leadership today

Even as the MSM grovels for the puketard scum. I saw a picture of a young Afghan girl in tears and it just breaks my heart. I read about Afghan men laughing at the women, mocking them with promises of forced marriage.
I wish there could have been some way to train and arm the women in that country and turn THEM loose on the Taliban. They’d be chasing them over the passes into Pakistan right now instead of the shitshow we see now. But all of this was put in place so many years ago.