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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Remember Afghanstan!
Date: 07/06/24 6:09 PM
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cowardly surrender of Afghanistan.

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However, for the tragically misinformed or the deliberately obtuse: at one point we had 100,000 troops in Afghanistan. When Biden took over Trump had reduced that to 2,500, had already negotiated with the Taliban to ensure our complete withdrawal, had closed two out of the three airfields that the US at one time used (meaning the Taliban knew exactly where the departure staging would take place), and had caused the Pentagon to draw down the number of defensive weapons that might have been used to help a more orderly withdrawal.

Biden had a choice to either increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, a nonstarter after 14 years of war and the druthers of the American people, or to continue and get the end that Trump had planned with his usual finesse over with.

The withdrawal was messy, as withdrawals of that sort usually are (see: Vietnam)
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