Opinion | Joe Biden's speech on the Afghanistan withdrawal was Trumpian, in a good way. By jbarro.
There was only one good reason for our military to be in Afghanistan
There are non-crazy arguments to be had about the risk of terrorism activity from Afghanistan after the withdrawal, and if people want to make the case for an indefinite troop presence on terrorism-prevention grounds, I'm prepared to hear it. But that's not what you hear from most critics of the withdrawal.
These are the warnings we used to hear to justify our continued military presence in Iraq. In fact, these arguments can be used to argue against withdrawing from any military conflict at any time anywhere ever. They were the case against getting out of Vietnam. And losing that war was such a blow to the global fight against communism that the Soviet Union fell just 15 years after Saigon did.
whose work was important to the failed effort of state building and whose past affiliations put them at risk under the Taliban. But no matter how many visas we had issued in advance, there would be other Afghans without visas at the airport trying to get out, to the US or elsewhere. In other words, any scenario was going to lead to chaotic and sad images at the Kabul Airport.
— rather than on the substantive actions of their governments. The way he thought about trade was bizarre, treating it as a loss and a failure whenever foreign countries sent us valuable goods in exchange for US dollars. And Trump's excessive focus on trivial-but-tangible results of negotiations, like China's promise to buy more American soybeans, could lead him to neglect real American interests.
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