Column: Accepting unconditional defeat in Afghanistan is a choice — and a bad one (via latimesopinion)
, that an ugly civil war is almost assured and the toppling of the Kabul government is likely. The reason we are permitting these Afghan immigrants to come to America is that everyone knows they’d be slaughtered if left behind because they helped Americans.
Because the withdrawal from Afghanistan has bipartisan support, and because the military never likes to admit a loss, few people are using the word “defeat” — and most of the critics who do hint at using the word lack credibility since they didn’t oppose Donald Trump’s desire to bug out even earlier.Of course, there are people who will be all too happy to use the “D” word — the Taliban and the terror groups it remains affiliated with.
To the extent he was right — and I think he was — our abandonment of Afghanistan was indeed our choice. In the five years prior to Biden’s announcement, casualties in “America’s longest war” had been reduced to a relative handful, and combat deaths had
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