the justification was fumigation in an event of infestation? lol and here it was supposedly “oh if you evict people they will spread covid even if vaccinated”. makes it look even more insane to have the cdc interfering with millions of private contracts between two adult parties of sound mind

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957




They gotta be fucking kidding...

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 27 2021 12:40am

How much money do you think we're paying them not to kill them?

Jfc...

Kinda funny thinking about it in retrospect - for 4 years, Democrats and the media were railing about Trump's incompetence, unpreparedness and how he was a threat to national security and American interests. They argued 24/7 that we desperately needed to get someone like Joe Biden into the WH to facilitate a return to normalcy and, to paraphrase, "to have the adults in the room run the show again".

And this is how "the adults in the room" run things in practice - an administration headed by a guy with 30++ years of foreign policy experience and the largest military and intelligence apparatus in the world are making such horrendous strategic mistakes that you have to wonder whether they could win a sand castle war against a toddler at the playground.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 27 2021 01:49am

This surrender was negotiated at camp David by the previous administration. Biden didn't set the deadline. Our bloated military has been getting dunked in everywhere for a decade so I'm not surprised.

It is like you can't bring shit to a place constantly for 20 years and get it all back out in 3 weeks.

Most Americans are putting the blame for this on George Bush Jr.

This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 27 2021 06:07am

There is some great output of these 20 years like women alphabetisation%

But dont forget this is a 70 deads done by two Isis/Daesh kamikazes

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/11/15/us-state-department-claims-daes-was-created-to-protect-people-from-assad/

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:42%20section:264%20edition:prelim)

(a) Promulgation and enforcement by Surgeon General
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing such regulations, the Surgeon General may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.




's the actual code they were citing to claim that the executive branch could unilaterally stop evictions nationwide. It wasn't even a paper-thin pretense, it was some of the biggest crock of bullshit ever put into court by a sitting administration.
The scary part isn't that the Biden administration used such a desperate, obviously bogus measure- its that 3 liberal justices were willing to go along with it

This post was edited by Goomshill on Aug 27 2021 08:53am

arming rebels that turn to enemies that turn to rebels again to get rearmed, leaving soldiers behind, unnecessarily provoking people then bombing them, bungled pullouts, massive loss of arms and infrastructure left behind, and failed rebuilding of prop govts, etc, is exactly how the US has operated the entire time Biden has been in politics, or even as long as he's been alive.

it's all a failed attempt to relive WW2, come in, get the bad guys, invest in their economy under deals that favor us in the long term so we make money on it, and bounce back to the US for infrastructure upgrades with all of the sacks of gold teeth we confiscated.

we're just flubbing the investments, didnt get gold teeth, and "infrastructure" now means "make women feel pretty even if they're fat".

This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 27 2021 08:51am

The Afghanistan pullout has been mostly fine, just too slow. Biden shouldn’t have been allowed to extend the deadline for getting out past May. But you can’t blame Biden for ISIS bombing people. Trump claimed that he totally defeated ISIS. How could Biden have known Trump was lying?

mostly peaceful protest mostly successful withdrawal

But I agree, we can't directly blame Biden for yesterday's suicide attack. Something like that was inevitable once the situation at Kabul airport emerged two weeks ago.



Agreed. What the U.S. seemingly still doesn't understand is that the nation building efforts in the wake of WW2 only succeeded because the axis countries were all advanced, industrialized nations with strong institutions, an educated population and a strong civil society. Germany, Italy, Japan and so on were all first world nations in which all the conditions for democracy were in place, they had just got taken over by fascism by a series of unfortunate events and developments.

These examples absolutely cannot be compared with places like Afghanistan. I'm convinced that each nation will, in the long run, take its "rightful" place in the global pecking order, based on the country's economic, cultural and societal strength. This is why places like China, South Korea and Vietnam were able to eventually flourish in spite of authoritarian governments while places like Afghanistan or Somalia will still be shitholes 100 years from now.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 27 2021 11:42am