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Historic NY

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4. They knew this was coming, no one expected the Afghan army to surrender 300000 men..

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Mon Aug 30, 2021, 12:26 AM

Aug 2021

and equipment. If the army was in place, things most likely would have been different. What disorder more than 115000 people have been evacuated from the country.

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Biden faces Dem defections [View all] brooklynite Aug 2021 OP

What a bullshit headline. Defections? Disagreeing with someone isn't a defection, it is a JohnSJ Aug 2021 #1

exactly iemanja Aug 2021 #2

yep. and that's exactly what i was expecting to read nt orleans Aug 2021 #9

The Taliban and ISIS K would immediately attack the airport and our troops if we renege Arazi Aug 2021 #3

They knew this was coming, no one expected the Afghan army to surrender 300000 men.. Historic NY Aug 2021 #4

repubs love it when dems do their work for them nt msongs Aug 2021 #5

This is how we lost so badly in 2010 vercetti2021 Aug 2021 #6

THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 While we see maga run TOWARDS sympathizing with 1/6 terrorist dems ran away from uponit7771 Aug 2021 #7

Exactly vercetti2021 Aug 2021 #8

Yep, this feels like the border story all over again. Where people were unjustifiably putting blame uponit7771 Aug 2021 #10

Well I don't believe he's extending and they need to STFU! Piratedog Aug 2021 #11

A number of those "extend the deadline" criticisms were from before the Airport suicide bombing Tom Rinaldo Aug 2021 #12