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Man, Hillary is a smart woman, the world really needed her in 2016. Best SoS in US history. Video in link from May 2021.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-afghanistan-video-kabul-b1903496.html
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)But all one had to do was pay attention to what's been going on to see this coming. The only things not obvious were the backroom deals that resulted in no resistance to the Taliban moving in so fast.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)misanthrope
(7,411 posts)Plenty of people in the world could have told you this was the inevitable finale of our Afghanistan campaign. That's why the can was kicked down the road for so long.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)And she was right.
crickets
(25,969 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)The same ones screaming into a TV camera & social media sites about Biden & Afghanistan right now were the screechers back in 2016.
None of them really gave 2 shits about this country.
Sec Hillary Clinton however, always did.
Always.
"I'm the only thing standing between you & the apocalypse"
HRC ~ Sept 2016.
betsuni
(25,486 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Rec.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I'm not sure that would be a better option. To a certain degree Trump's reduction in troops forced Biden's hand. But Biden could have played this out a number of ways. I like the ripping the band aid off approach that he took.
We spent too much money in Afghanistan. We fought a war with no clear purpose.
It was time to go.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)just our standing around the world. Joe's got a cleanup job of epic proportions.
bluedevil4
(305 posts)of what Clinton said ? Seems like there were lots of warning signs.