Yeah, don't know why you're catching down votes. The withdrawal was a rushed shit show. It was always going to be a mess, but literally announcing a complete withdrawal with a wholly inflexible timeline was just handing anyone who cooperated with the gov a death sentence.

I volunteer as a healthcare provider with an NGO that helped settle a lot of translators who worked with the military from Afghanistan to the US. Hearing about their last days escaping Kabul is always harrowing and they all left family behind.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

Yeah, don't know why you're catching down votes.

Because the person he's replying to didn't say anything to warrant that response. They never commented on how it went just pointing out the person this guy was protesting isn't the one who made the withdrawal plan and took over too late to do much about it.

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

To armchair quarter back the problem, they needed to just be at bagram AFB and tell the Taliban (or whatever group they were) to stop coming toward the capital til it was over, and take away the weapos if they were never going to fight for their country. I think that would have done it.

[–] horsey@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's directly above in the reply chain:

who started the withdrawal and left only 2500 troops in Afghanistan by the time Biden took office?

But kind of like Republicans blamed Obama for not ending the wars they started, the blame is now all on Biden.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I don't think anyone here is trying to blame Biden for the totality of withdrawal of Afghanistan. But it appears that most people in this thread are trying to deflect any sense of responsibility from the president.

He could have slowed down the time table, he could have pulled more troops to give families and allies more time. We shouldn't have a knee jer reaction to valid criticisms of politicians. That just gives cover for all the invalid criticism to sound more credible.