BIDEN’S DISHONEST DEFENSE OF HIS AFGHANISTAN PULLOUT

BIDEN’S DISHONEST DEFENSE OF HIS AFGHANISTAN PULLOUT
"...For his part, Biden declared “I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome.”
The dishonesty of this defense is breathtaking. 

Early this year, we had around 3,500 American troops in Afghanistan. 

In 2020, ten American troops died there. 

Only four were killed in action.
Thus, there is no question of “sending another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan.” 

Nor would maintaining our 2020 force level there put “thousands of Americans,” much less “daughters,” at meaningful risk.
...Certainly, the Taliban hasn’t been defeated. 

However, it had been thwarted in its effort to take over the country. 

Many millions of Afghans, especially women, enjoy freedom from the unspeakable Islamist oppression that prevailed before we intervened. 

Folks who courageously sided with the U.S. against the Taliban are (or were) largely safe from reprisals.
Moreover, as far as we know, none of the terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan — the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, and whomever else — has been able to export terrorism from there to the West....Read all.