Goodbye, Afghanistan, And Good Luck
“It is time to end America’s longest war,” Biden will say, according to excerpts released by the White House. “It is time for American troops to come home.”
Biden will deliver his remarks from the Treaty Room, the same location where President George W. Bush announced that the war in Afghanistan had begun in 2001.
“We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result,” Biden plans to say. “I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth.”
I didn’t vote for him, but I will say in all sincerity: “Thank you, Mr. President. It’s time.”
Not everybody feels this way:
I guess the Applebee’s franchisees of Kabul will have to figure out how to make it without the sons of America there to secure the joint.
Seriously, the place is going to go back to Taliban hell. But if American cannot fix it after twenty years, it cannot be fixed. So now, the United States follows the same path as the Soviet Union: withdrawal in defeat at the hands of Islamic hillbillies. Here’s a good explainer from The Economist about why the Taliban are undefeatable:
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