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There is only one message here that matters:
"We should have left long ago. It was a mistake to stay this long, and it was a mistake for me to delay evacuation until now.
But I am committed to correcting that mistake."
Whatever this is, it is not that.
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This is incredibly defensive. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
853
We went in to Afghanistan with clear goals? We were not there for nation-building?
This speech is already not going well.
854
Looks like the official Biden-Afghanistan livestream is going about as well as expected.
855
"Nous devons anticiper et nous protéger contre des flux migratoires irréguliers importants" twitter.com/margheritamvs/…
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Emmanuel Le Pen! twitter.com/FeizaBM/status…
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Wow, it's real. twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1…
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This can't possibly be right, can it? Is it a mistranslation? This sounds an awful lot like Macron's priority when the Taliban are in the midst of door-to-door reprisals is covering his flank for some election, not saving lives. twitter.com/AFP/status/142…
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There has been one constant across twenty years of occupation: the government lying to the people. twitter.com/queeralamode/s…
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Hopefully he's feeling nice and rested after that timely vacation. twitter.com/kaitlancollins…
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The human cost of the White House's choice to delay our withdrawal for political purposes is absolutely stunning. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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The @nytimes just reported that the White House, concerned about the appearance of a "domestically damaging" "Saigon moment," ignored "weeks" of warnings that the evacuation operation should be started sooner: nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/…
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Hard to believe the lowball figures DOD is reporting here when independent analysts are hearing 800(!) passengers successfully crammed on a single aircraft. Let's hope they outperform:
twitter.com/vcdgf555/statu…
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There have been thousands of Afghan civilians trapped and panicking on the civilian side of the airport with their commercial jets unable to take off all night, and DOD is crowing about flying out just 500 people?
People that could be on that other side stamping emergency visas? twitter.com/PeterAlexander…
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Brutal image. twitter.com/WhiteHouse/sta…
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afghanistan fell in like 10 days and here we are having used up our national quota of the word "insurrection"
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@magi_jay But I do agree: decades-long wars in foreign lands with no plan and for no benefit, followed by a disastrous pull-out that leaves everyone worse-off than they were before shows that "America"—as politicians understand it—is, in fact, "back."
Nothing partisan to that history.
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For what it's worth, leaving is the right choice—just made decades too late.
Terrorists are criminals, not states. Declaring a fruitless war when we had the sympathy of the world—rather than an international police action—will be remembered as an era-defining catastrophe.
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@JaredMGordon @JoeBiden If you think this is a Biden v. Trump thing, you're really missing the scale of this two-decade tragedy.
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"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." —@JoeBiden, July 2021 twitter.com/StefSimanowitz…
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"Our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion." — @BarackObama, 2014
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"By the end of next year, America’s war in Afghanistan will be over." — @BarackObama, 2013
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/t…
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Everything is under control. There's nothing to see here. Move along. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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