JB should be absolutely embarrassed with the way this went down. I don't think there is any way around that. We weren't prepared and the lack of plan A to Z embarrassed us in front of the whole world. People need to held accountable and people's jobs should be taken from them over the next 3 to 6 months as we debrief on what happened.
With that being said, I've realized that I am not necessarily mad at being embarrassed (although I'm greatly disappointed by it), because I truly believe there is no reasonable scenario where the end result is any different. After we left, the Taliban was going to take that country back, no matter what. The speed of that take over sucks and I hope it doesn't cost the US anymore causalities, but IMO it is inconsequential.
I am absolutely infuriated because I have fully realized that the last 20 years was for nothing. Thousands of soldiers dead. Trillions of dollars wasted. Resources gone. 2/3rds of my life watching, listening to, and reading news about a war across the world, all for nothing. I can't even begin to comprehend what it must feel like to be the parent of a solider that died over there. Knowing your child laid their life on the line for this...
Think about how much we could have improved our schools with all that money. Our roads, our transportation system, our healthcare. We could have invested in jobs, in clean energy, in manufacturing. We could have invested in limitless things that would have kept the US on pace with the likes of China. But no, we sent trillions of dollars to a fvcking desert with no real end goal in mind. All to defeat a faceless ideology that we stood no chance of actually defeating.
I'm pretty upset fellas. And I think we all have a right to be. And yes, Biden screwed up the end game (and he'll suffer politically for that), but just remember next time our leaders want to send troops into a never ending hell scape, where that decision will most likely lead us.
With that being said, I've realized that I am not necessarily mad at being embarrassed (although I'm greatly disappointed by it), because I truly believe there is no reasonable scenario where the end result is any different. After we left, the Taliban was going to take that country back, no matter what. The speed of that take over sucks and I hope it doesn't cost the US anymore causalities, but IMO it is inconsequential.
I am absolutely infuriated because I have fully realized that the last 20 years was for nothing. Thousands of soldiers dead. Trillions of dollars wasted. Resources gone. 2/3rds of my life watching, listening to, and reading news about a war across the world, all for nothing. I can't even begin to comprehend what it must feel like to be the parent of a solider that died over there. Knowing your child laid their life on the line for this...
Think about how much we could have improved our schools with all that money. Our roads, our transportation system, our healthcare. We could have invested in jobs, in clean energy, in manufacturing. We could have invested in limitless things that would have kept the US on pace with the likes of China. But no, we sent trillions of dollars to a fvcking desert with no real end goal in mind. All to defeat a faceless ideology that we stood no chance of actually defeating.
I'm pretty upset fellas. And I think we all have a right to be. And yes, Biden screwed up the end game (and he'll suffer politically for that), but just remember next time our leaders want to send troops into a never ending hell scape, where that decision will most likely lead us.
