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Some Questions About Afghanistan
Which only seem to raise other questions…
Who “owns” it?
Biden. Period. Because he’s President. Now. About 80% of my Twitter feed is literally littered with spin trying to place blame elsewhere. And that blame may lay elsewhere. For me, if you’re looking for the “original sin”, it was in President Bush opening a second war in Iraq after already invading Afghanistan after 9/11, thus forcing the U.S. to fight on several fronts, diluting our presence in the region, vs. negotiating terms of surrender with the Taliban — who at that time would’ve been the ones surrendering — and being done with it. But at this point, that, and anything Obama and Trump or any of his cronies may have subsequently done is no more than a history lesson now, and a waste of breath and a waste of time as some very crucial minutes and seconds and days tick by. And as “success” is measured these days by whether we can help people escape from their own country? Instead of having helped them find a way to be able to remain in their homes? Yet so much breath and time is being wasted. Whatever you though of Biden’s impactful speech at the time the realities of the current situation really started to take hold, one thing he said is absolutely true: “the buck stops with me”. No one else. He’s president as this is happening so whatever happens — bad or good — is…
