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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis may seem unfair, but it's my honest opinion that...
that certain (maybe not all) right-wing media pundits, MAGTs, haters and republicans finally got what they've been salivating for: deaths in Afghanistan they can blame on Biden.
If this is unfair of me? I don't care.
I know too many MAGAts, and I assure you they are glad there have finally been some deaths. It was the one thing missing for them in their narrative.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Trump left 9000 Isis unguarded when he abandoned Syria and the Kurds
Walleye
(31,081 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,446 posts)is calling for resignation/impeachment of Biden/Harris/Blinken
Sugarcoated
(7,734 posts)The usual dogs will be barking
Mad_Machine76
(24,446 posts)Feel bad for Tennesseeans
Blue Dawn
(892 posts)I live in Tennessee....and I agree that she is awful.
Thank goodness for my wonderful Democratic children, sister, nieces, nephew, neighbors, and friends. We are in the minority in this red state, true, but I am lucky to know many fantastic Democrats here.
We also have a terrible governor.
Xavier Breath
(3,657 posts)There are no doubt many cheering today's events. All would be enemies of America, and some are no doubt domestic.
Initech
(100,108 posts)And maybe this is pure tin foil hat fantasies but maybe someone in the conservative camp knew that Afghanistan was a no-win scenario and they planned it that way when Trump lost so they could blame his successor? But maybe that's my paranoid fantasy. You know that Fox News wasn't going to be happy no matter what the outcome was.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)fronts on his way out the door. He certainly was not hoping things would go well for the new administration.
Ohioboy
(3,248 posts)How was Biden expected to coordinate the pullout of Afghanistan only 3 months after being inaugurated? If Trump got elected he would have just done something else to placate the Taliban at the expense of the Afghan government.
Trump brags that no Americans were killed between Feb 2020 and the time he left office-that's because he sold out Afghanistan and made a deal with the Taliban.
Sorry, but I'm pissed that Trump's part in ending this war is not being emphasized, especially when it is a big part of what Biden was left to deal with.
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Obama wanted to get us out but listened to his people and agreed to give more support a shot.
Biden said he would get us out. He knew it would be messy. The unexpected was the sitting Afghan government abandoning their posts.
My feeling is it is going fine. We are actively working with Taliban security people to get it done. I also heard a general today say that Taliban has managed to stop a number of attacks in advance. It is something they will need to do after we go.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)It is what it is, and RWers love their talking points.
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)They absolutely have been salivating for the kind of thing that happened this morning. No question. They are salivating for more of it.
StarryNite
(9,461 posts)And further proof of them being a death cult is how they are setting up kids too young to be vaccinated to get COVID. It's only the repuke governors who are banning mask mandates in schools. That side loves blood sacrifices.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)not watching, and reading from afar, I hope they have a super-spreader event to top it off.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Just the way it is nowadays.
Budi
(15,325 posts)They want war.
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)It is way beyond twisting and ignoring facts to fit the narrative. What little I saw earlier bordered on celebration that US soldiers are dead.