[Hoot Gibson]

Funny that we never saw these posts attacking the Afghanstan War while Biden and Harris were taking credit for its success. I wonder why that was? Village idiots being partisan idiots - that's why.

Quooter didn't know how big of a disaster this war was after 20 years and all the money wasted arming and training the Afghan Army it's a total waste of money and time. After being told they was ready to take control of their country 2 weeks all it took every for the Taliban to take it over somebody has been lying to us. Americans should be mad at this and think real hard the next time we want to start nation building again. Know nothing about President Biden bragging he campaigned on getting out of this disaster and he did. When President Biden campaigns on something you better take his word for it. I guess we got used to the empty promises from the last guy.

Biden delayed the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. Then, he withdrew so many troops that he could not safely extract American citizens from the country. He also allowed the Taliban to capture billions of dollars in American weapons. Screwing up the withdrawal from Afghanistan is a separate issue from the trillions of dollars that were wasted trying to mold Afghanistan into an American-style republic. I oppose nation-building and I have always opposed it. Our military is at its best when blowing things up and killing enemies and we should never try to rebuild countries that were never properly civilized.

Following World War II, it made sense to help rebuild Europe and Japan because this country needed trading partners to buy our products. In most cases, we should only go to war to punish nations for attacking American interests and there should be no rebuilding the nations who provoke us.

Didn’t Trump cut us to 2500 troops before he left office?  Which is the count we had before Biden sent in support troops. 

Are you lying on purpose or just don’t know what you’re talking about?

YES Quooter is lying he and TRT like to throw in some extra goodies hoping you might not catch them

I don't think that anybody knows what the troop level was when Biden took office or what it was a week ago. The Trump administration stopped publicizing troop levels long before Biden took office and as far as I know, the Biden administration has not resumed publishing those levels. It is stupid to let an enemy know how many troops are deployed during wartime. When troops are deployed, they are given a range of possible deployment dates for the sake of operational security.

My understanding is that Biden drew down the number of troops, but obviously, if we were forced to surrender either Bagram AFB or the Hamid Karzai International Airport, then more troops were needed to ensure an orderly withdrawal from the country and handover of power to the Afghan government.