Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Aug 22 2021 01:00pm)
I know you guys are obsessed with a president's legacy ending the second they leave office, but that just isn't true. Biden doesn't have the power to totally rewrite our military infrastructure, including intelligence networks, in six months.
Trump's policies were not the thing holding back disaster upon our pullout. It was going to be a disaster no matter who did it, and that's one reason why we've been in there for so long. Nobody has wanted to do it and take the political heat. Probably why Trump didn't do it during his term and set the deadline for his second term honestly.
and just to be clear, I'm not saying that Trump's policies are bad. I'm not saying that the pullout shouldn't happen. I'm not saying that Trump's plans were inadequate. I am saying that Trump's policies were not the pin keeping us from "foreign and domestic disaster" as the picture depicts. If Trump had stayed in office we would be in much the same situation as we are now, because a president's legacy doesn't evaporate the second he leaves office.
The was nothing to rewrite lol. It was literally just a matter of logistically setting things up. That's not some herculean task, we're the fucking USA, read up on the gulf war and how in a manner of a few months we literally deployed 700,000k soldiers and in a matter of weeks repelled and destroyed an army of 300,000. Logistical feats like that can happen 30 years ago but planning flights for 50-60k afghan allies cant over the span of 7 months? What needed to happen could have been accomplished in literally a few weeks and from when Biden took office until August it could have been planned a dozen times over. This is a US failure, not a presidents failure, talking about the macro shit show in Afghanistan that is. Biden will go down in history as the face of it but like i'v said before the real fault lies with the hawks and our military.
You're right in saying that's it's not Trumps policies that held things together though that's just memery. Trump didn't do it on his term because the democrats and the military got together and basically congressionally handcuffed him from doing it, which is great to watch this blow up in their face now and them having to take ownership of the fumbling.
This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 22 2021 11:25am