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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

This says it all:

“September 11 was a total failure of our immigration and visa processes, which allowed some of these jihadists to operate within our nation, and train for the attacks extensively within our borders, for *well over a year* before they conducted the operation. September 11 was a domestic security failure, not a foreign policy misstep.”

Now GW BUSH, who is a homegrown terrorist in his own right, is stupid enough to come out and declare the US needs to accept large numbers of Afghan refugees. Only if we send them to Crawford Texas!

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Alex Eckelberry's avatar

This article is callous and disappointing. Even though what you're saying has the ring of truth.

But it ignores the current situation. I keep seeing articles and discussion about "well we shouldn't have been in there in the first place". Fine, argument taken, but who the hell is holding these politicians accountable for a humanitarian disaster? Biden and his team seriously fucked up. People will die because of our Commander in Dementia and his merry band of yes-people.

Iraq, as a war, was far worse than Afghanistan. I mean - there really was NO reason to go in there at all. But at least we handled the exit better.

In this article, you basically told all those gold star mothers to fuck off. No, you can do better than this. Put some more heart and empathy into recognizing the many dynamics of the situation.

And you know what? As a human being on this planet, I do give a fuck about these people now that we went in. There are things done to people over there that you don't even want to know in your darkest imaginings. We had it under control... for a while. Oh well.

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