the reason we’re leaving afghanistan is because of 20 years of shit like what happened today so blaming what happened today in afghanistan on us leaving is some fucking galaxy brain war pig logic
— John Cole (@Johngcole) August 27, 2021
Cable news hosts decided to flood the airwaves with the ass-covering rationizations of the people who spent twenty years in Afghanistan wasting soldiers lives and billions of aid on a policy catastrophe while lying about it relentlessly to the American people. https://t.co/RwYvJewj5f
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 27, 2021
Nobody is making them do this. @jaketapper just woke up and thought to himself “in this moment of peril, what America needs is for me to help Ryan Crocker lie to the public to salvage his own reputation.”
Weeks of this shit.
How many American troops died in Afghanistan during Crocker’s tour as top civilian there? For what? What did he and Petraeus achieve during their surge?
For some reason the question “why are Americans dying in Afghanistan?” was not considered an interesting or important question until someone decided to end the war.
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Counterpoint: we don't, actually https://t.co/EkpjgfgGex
— Mike Black (@MikeBlack114) August 26, 2021