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**Chris** · 15-08-2021, 20:21

Biden has royally screwed up. Who cares that that preening fool Trump cut a deal with terrorists - what could the Taliban have actually done about it had Biden decided to keep troops in country? His NATO allies and his own generals were all warning him just how quickly the Taliban would start partying like it’s 1999 in the absence of western forces to stop them.

Give it 5 years and the whole country will be a jihadi boot camp; a couple more and western capitals will be on permanent security alert. The only way this ends is with a permanent external security presence in Afghanistan. The US seems to have managed it on the Korean Peninsula. They could have managed it here, and they wouldn’t have done so alone. I predict that this is Biden’s legacy, and time and history won’t easily heal it.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,928	Re: Parliament to be recalled re: Taliban in Afghanistan Biden has royally screwed up. Who cares that that preening fool Trump cut a deal with terrorists - what could the Taliban have actually done about it had Biden decided to keep troops in country? His NATO allies and his own generals were all warning him just how quickly the Taliban would start partying like it’s 1999 in the absence of western forces to stop them. Give it 5 years and the whole country will be a jihadi boot camp; a couple more and western capitals will be on permanent security alert. The only way this ends is with a permanent external security presence in Afghanistan. The US seems to have managed it on the Korean Peninsula. They could have managed it here, and they wouldn’t have done so alone. I predict that this is Biden’s legacy, and time and history won’t easily heal it.