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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 378: My name is FD(A), and I Approve this Topic.
Inviso 09/18/21 12:54:13 PM #483:	Corrik7 posted... Maybe, but I also think it is a bit defensive and unrealistic to think that there was literally no way to have done this withdrawal better also. So, while many people don't have a solution themselves how to have done it better, I don't think it's unfair for them to have wanted it to have gone better either. I agree that there is probably some way the withdrawal could have gone better, but at the same time, I've neither done the research, nor do I understand the complex geopolitical issues revolving around Afghanistan. So ,I don't feel like I have any business saying "You should've just done it better", because I don't know the constraints we're working with. Even the things I do know (twenty years of mismanagement and moved goalposts regarding the end goal of the war, Trump drawing down our troops after making a deal with the Taliban and releasing 5,000 freedom fighters, congress refusing to take any action that would give any hope of benefiting our Afghani allies) still leave a plethora of unanswered questions. I just feel like accepting this idea that "do it better" is a reasonable response to a complicated issue...brings up so many greater problems with our society. And yeah, there is a certain level of defensiveness, specifically because people are blaming Biden for not having an easy solution to an extremely complicated problem. It's this same backlash that caused us to stay in Afghanistan for nearly two decades in the first place. We should expect better of our population; we should be smarter than this. That's where my head is at. --- Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier. Inviso <cite>Inviso posted [p:958173657] in Politics C... [t:79627991]...</cite> <quote>Corrik7 posted... </cite> <quote>Maybe, but I also think it is a bit defensive and unrealistic to think that there was literally no way to have done this withdrawal better also. So, while many people don't have a solution themselves how to have done it better, I don't think it's unfair for them to have wanted it to have gone better either.</quote> I agree that there is probably some way the withdrawal could have gone better, but at the same time, I've neither done the research, nor do I understand the complex geopolitical issues revolving around Afghanistan. So ,I don't feel like I have any business saying "You should've just done it better", because I don't know the constraints we're working with. Even the things I do know (twenty years of mismanagement and moved goalposts regarding the end goal of the war, Trump drawing down our troops after making a deal with the Taliban and releasing 5,000 freedom fighters, congress refusing to take any action that would give any hope of benefiting our Afghani allies) still leave a plethora of unanswered questions. I just feel like accepting this idea that "do it better" is a reasonable response to a complicated issue...brings up so many greater problems with our society. And yeah, there is a certain level of defensiveness, specifically because people are blaming Biden for not having an easy solution to an extremely complicated problem. It's this same backlash that caused us to stay in Afghanistan for nearly two decades in the first place. We should expect better of our population; we should be smarter than this. That's where my head is at. --- Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier. Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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