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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Engel still wants the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan
That's the only takeaway I can glean from that completely biased "Year in Review" report on MSNBC right now
Srkdqltr
(6,317 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Several months ago, Malcolm Nance was on Michael Cohen's "Mea Culpa" podcast. He described what life was like in Afghanistan for journalists. He says, that a number of wealthy people opened up their luxurious compounds to the various journalists. The reporters very often had loads of time to kill, so their hosts held frequent, lavish parties to pass the time. Those good times have ended. I heard this podcast not long after the pull-out. Before that, I had always wondered why Engel, Martha Raddatz, and other were so bent out of shape over the war's end. Now, I know. All the hand-wringing about the Afghan people was just cover for the real source of their ire.
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)And also upset because the Afghan story fell off radar.
NQCowboy68
(67 posts)pwb
(11,287 posts)Find another gig Dick.
Takket
(21,625 posts)How much money has the USA saved? (Hint, billions)
How many has American society collapsed since the withdrawal? (Hint, it hasn't, at least not because of Afghanistan!)
How many Taliban or al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the USA since the withdrawal? (Hint: zero)
How many troops spent Christmas with their families instead of basically being peacekeepers in a war accomplishing nothing anymore? (Hint: all of them)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That ship has sailed. Now go fuck yourself.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)He obviously has made many friends and contacts throughout the years and is sympathetic to their plight. To the point that he looks at it as a betrayal.
I remember discussing Afghanistan on this board 20 years ago and there was a consensus that this attempt to graft our AMericanized system of socio-economic-political values would be fruitless.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)No more war!!!!
RockRaven
(14,997 posts)those forever wars continuing... Forever.
Diablo del sol
(424 posts)1. Fuck him another biased report with video clips aimed at slamming Biden.
2. MSNBC then went to Dems in House mid term disaster.
Changed to Sports Center. Dont look up, friggen media idiots.