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WATCH LIVE: President Biden Speaks About Ending the War in Afghanistan

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No Malarkey!8/31/2021 12:50:21 pm PDT

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I understand the politics of why he’s doing it, but Biden isn’t being completely straight about the rapid collapse of the Afghan military and government. There were many, many warnings about the corruption and waste and lack of real force discipline over the years - the Afghanistan papers published by the Washington Post make that VERY clear.

If it’s true that nobody advising Biden foresaw the collapse being this fast, there must have been a lot of wishful thinking going on. But I think he’s downplaying this for political reasons.

I’m sure that there was no-one at the Pentagon who wanted to tell the President that 20 years of nation building had been a complete and utter waste. Humans have vast powers of rationalization and wishful thinking.