@Dex Stewart
Too tired to gather all the links for a long post on this, but I will say, Trump negotiated the treaty with the Taliban and I considered how he characterized his handling to also be stupid (I could believe his people not abandoning a strategic airbase as quickly, but no way they would be able to get all the equipment out like he confidently claimed). My negativity on Biden is based more so on, even if I take his word that it was all set in motion by Trump and he had no intelligence on Afghanistan falling so quickly the way he and his administration handled it was the opposite of every thing that was supposedly good about him.
An attempt at illustration of what I mean
One close Biden foreign policy ally, who is in regular contact with the White House and the State Department, said the president’s team would never have let him leave for Camp David had they known just how quickly Afghanistan would implode amid the president’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops by Sept. 11.
The administration planned fro every possibility. We had contingency plans in place for any eventuality–including the quick fall of Kabul. That’s why we had troops per-positioned in the region to deploy as they have done
Some little conflicts in the story are understandable really, politicians are human after all and can be caught off guard, but imagine it happening again and again and again and then ignoring it.
Now I will stress, Trump, I don’t let off scot-free and one could argue that it was Bush and Obama who really made this a mess and set us up on this course, (and better yet, chronic issues with our military leadership) but I was really put off by some of his moves there even when I try to give him benefit of the doubt with things out of his control.
@RD8K
I consider the Marxism aspect of our contemporary ideology over emphasized compared to the “postmodern” influence (which, though they can mix, are
not the same). It being Wikipedia perhaps doesn’t make it the “gotcha”
some would present Still interesting to see them having a formal article on it without any mention of it being a conspiracy theory. Might be interesting to click through the evaluation of the page and the talk page and see the gradual reasoning for changing it.