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Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek's avatar

It took me a while to get around to responding. With the bombings and deaths and then Biden's bizarre statement and responses to the press, especially Peter Doocy (it's never a good idea for Biden to go off script) well, it's just been heartbreaking. Thank you everyone for your comments. I'm working on my next "wandering" essay.

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Phin Stubbs's avatar

Great essay on many levels, thanks. During the period of 2016-2019 and the issue of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan per Trump’s campaign promise the Pentagon, namely the Dept of Defense stepped up its efforts to meticulously detail the exit strategy. Ultimately Trump embraced the conditional draw-down coupled with peace talks.

Withdrawing from Afghanistan has been a hot topic since 2015. Exit plans were in place. There is no way a POTUS would give a withdrawal order without the long-embraced exit strategy. This was clearly orchestrated. Perhaps to feed long term war machines. For sure though, Biden does as told.

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