What to expect now that Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban, Americans’ reactions to the U.S. withdrawal of troops, and President Biden’s address underscoring his decision are analyzed by experts in conversation with Joy Reid.
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The final responsibility of the success or failure of an independent state is that independent state.
Yes, USA
@Artus So you’re saying the US should be responsible for the success or failure of Afghanistan?
The problem is that the United States under the Bush administration made a promise to the Afghan people they the United States was making itself responsible for guaranteeing a democratic Afghanistan. It would have been one thing if the U.S. had never gotten involved in the first place. That’s not the situation. We offered promises recklessly that we could not keep and made the situation worse.
War profiteering.
Yup.
Wasting money and propping up corruption
Q: “What were we doing for the last two decades?”
A: Making arms dealers even more rich.
Alsso protecting the drugs that Americans love so much .
Most of the politicians are in the back pockets of ‘defense’ contractors.
ashraf ghani fled in 4 cars and a helicopter filled with cash……this is the corrupt administration USA has created…and the corrupt officials given passage to USA
The last twenty years had been use by the US to show the world how great it was; especially its lapdogs. Now, this new and latest debacle exposes what the US really is.
@Michael Kelly Most of the politicians have invested plenty into their stock as well .
What were “we” doing? Making defense contractors and politicians in Afghanistan rich.
Exactly.
ashraf ghani fled in 4 cars and a helicopter into ubekistan (russia) filled with cash…thats americas greenbacks and dirty money
Tgon Mwort only in Kabul and some big cities. You are ignorant about the whole situation!
@Tgon Mwort should have trained the women to fight they would have done better than the men.
@Daniel Webster without air support it doesn’t matter how many soldiers you have on the ground with weapons
How many billions did military contractors siphon out of American taxpayer pockets under the guise standing up the Afghan army to protect us against the terrorists. (I’m posting here because Fox not accepting comments on this topic. Hmm, wonder why.)
ashraf ghani fled in 4 cars and a helicopter filled with cash……he went to ubeskistan russia and russia going to arrest him soon
The Taliban arose out of a civil war in the 1990s, after the Soviets were driven out. The Islamic militant group seized control of Kandahar in 1994 and the central government in Kabul in 1996, ruling most of Afghanistan until the U.S. invaded in 2001, so its not like the Afghani’s didn’t know what to expect and they still refused to fight to own their country.
There’s like, 15 years worth of Jon Stewart/Daily Show content stopping nay politicians from claiming they weren’t warned about where this was going while it was happening
Mess O’ Potamia
Making a select few individuals and military contractors literally truck loads of $$.
@ElDanoLectro I understand that but Biden Admin knew for MONTHS that these people (our Afghani allies) were in serious danger and should have been evacuated ASAP. They did NOTHING to facilitate that. They have database of interpreters and those afghanis that helped us. They know exactly who they are. It’s not like it was hard to identify them. The paperwork for visas could have been worked on later once they and their families were safe. It’s inexcusable that we did nothing to get them out of there. That is why I’m angry.
@J that is a nonsensical comment. The DNC has nothing to do with this.
@N K Um? How..? Old corp pop is directly responsible for this entire disaster.
@J the disaster as a whole, yes, but I’m specifically angry about something that was in Biden’s control and was completely ignored.
@N K Biden control? Nah….this is not on Biden nor Trump! I put this squarely in the hands of the Afghanistan people and Bush for going to war against Iraq instead of focusing on Afghanistan!! The world supported us until we started the Iraqi war!
Time to SHAME those AMERICANS WHO MADE MILLIONS & MILLIONS on this sad 20-year saga!!! Name & SHAME!
Shame for Afghanistan men for lying and not protecting the innocent.
More like billions
Cheney.
They were doomed from the beginning, how do you measure your success when you always have guns drawn???? You can’t!
Fighting a war in Afghanistan was a lost cause they don’t call it the graveyard of empires for nothing .
What Were We Doing For The Last Two Decades? Pretty easy answer: Making some elite richer. All the resulting dead and ongoing suffering? Meh – collateral damage
ashraf ghani fled in 4 cars and a helicopter filled with cash……this is the corrupt gov usa creates
Trump had already given up Afghanistan to the Taliban
I lost respect for our government during the Vietnam War and every war since then.
Remarkable: the enemy did something that made us look bad after we lost the war. How could anyone have seen that coming? /.
“What Were We Doing For The Last Two Decades?”
Giving billions of dollars to American companies who spent millions of dollars donating money to politicians.
not to mention the global kleptocracy leaving allied and aghan forces wanting
Its how its always worked since WW2
I think at least $ 2 trillion was lost….
Their must have been no money left to make there if Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal
Supporting Pakistan with money that trained the Taliban. Sheer Intelligence! 🙂
Thanks, Ms. Reid, the fact that Pompeo met with the Taliban was and is a fact that could not have been lost on the Afghan army.
Simple: lining the pockets of corrupt politicians and defençe contractors. Same as Iraq.
Making sure Purdue could keep flooding our streets with oxy’s and then heroin when their scripts ran out but were already addicted… the government and big pharma are the most vile, soul-less, morally bankrupt pos’s on earth right along with the epsteins and equally grotesque bankers they do business with. They’re all scum and the swamp is as full as its ever been…
Same as Vietnam. The Military Industrial Complex gets priority over all else and that has to come to a screeching halt. I’m including the fossil fuel industry in that too.
“The unpretty ending”. She got words good