I guess this is as left-handed a compliment as I've ever seen.
But yeah, Bigga, the so-called "war hawk" (by your own assessment) dude now in charge of the USA actually pulled us out of Afghanistan... unaccountably different than the "exactly the same" dude previously in charge.
They had been drawing down for sometime with 2.5k left and many of the allies doing likewise for the past 2-3 years.
Support staff , advisors and local who had assisted the west for many years left to leave the country under Taliban rule with the Taliban holding all the right cards.
We in oz had closed our embassy months ago.
No military American deaths in battle for many months.
Trump signed the deal which put the second phase of withdrawal in motion but you never do deals with terrorists.
I wouldn't so much call it a withdrawal but a complete disaster in a way the " final " eviction was handled partly signalled by the previous administration.
No one comes out of this with any red badge to tell their children.
Biden has no time for the region or the people never did never will he was dead against the US being in the region in the first place and you find some merit in that view.
No major terrorist acts on US soil since Sept 11 might signal some positives in the early dispatch of western forces in the region but its been a lesson learnt the hard way and the fact its situation normal amongst the tribes again but now many more want to leave in a hurry doesn't bode well for Sleepy Joe.
While the polls don't mean much in American politics and these people have short memories and are more forgiving waiting for the next 24/7 PR soundbite set Joe and Kamala are not flavour of the month and rightly so at this stage of their ever fracturing partnership.
Economically if inflation goes gangbusters and new variants with resistance slip into country and fill up the hospitals and the southern border issue is not turned on its head its not a rosy picture for this so called democracy or for the Democrats.
I wonder what the US will do preytell if China invade Taiwan.
