Quote (fender @ Aug 24 2021 01:13pm)
gotta love the selective outrage. do you guys honestly believe this would have gone any differently if a republican had won the election (except from maybe staying a couple more years)?
maybe look at all the other failed US wars, they always leave heaps of equipment behind.
the "funniest" part about the current spin - suggesting it was just left behind for the taliban to pick up, when the US rather "should of [sic] bombed" it - is that it was intended for the afghan army to use and defend against the taliban, and not just abandoned in perfect condition for anyone who wants to grab it.
really amusing to see how easily ignorant americans are fooled by such lazy propaganda. was it (the whole campaign, obviously including the withdrawal) a massive failure and "miscalculation"? obviously, but the attempt to spin this into a "evil joe biden is actively arming the taliban / chinese / russians while simultaneously grabbing guns from righteous americans" narrative is blatantly stupid, partisan hackery - but the usual suspects are uncritically eating that shit up - hook, line, and sinker...
You know what you could have said? You could have just said "is that it was intended for the afghan army to use and defend against the taliban" and left off all the rest. Instead, you posted all the rest, acting like the insufferable douchebag that you are. You have a serious character defect. Try working on it.