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The True Meaning of the Afghan 'Withdrawal'


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Many of us have had a recurring nightmare. You know the one. In a fog between sleeping and waking, you’re trying desperately to escape from something awful, some looming threat, but you feel paralyzed. Then, with great relief, you suddenly wake up, covered in sweat. The next night, or the next week, though, that same dream returns. ....

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Originally posted at TomDispatch.
Shouldn’t we be amazed? After all, for almost 20 years, the U.S. military
has been supporting, equipping, training, and building up the Afghan military
to the tune of more
than $70 billion. The result: a corrupt mess of a force likely to prove
incapable of successfully defending the U.S.-backed Afghan state from the
Taliban once our troops are gone that is, by this September
11th.
I mean, what were the odds? All too high, I’m afraid, given the US military’s
record in Afghanistan and elsewhere in these years. (Think about the collapse ....

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Joe Biden faces the return of a recurring nightmare


Joe Biden faces the return of a recurring nightmare
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, second from right, with, from left, Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Vice President Joe Biden participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., March 24, 2015.
DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
TomDispatchMay 06, 2021
Many of us have had a recurring nightmare. You know the one. In a fog between sleeping and waking, you re trying desperately to escape from something awful, some looming threat, but you feel paralyzed. Then, with great relief, you suddenly wake up, covered in sweat. The next night, or the next week, though, that same dream returns. ....

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The true meaning of the Afghan "withdrawal"


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Will the nightmare of Saigon s fall return in Kabul?
Many of us have had a recurring nightmare. You know the one. In a fog between sleeping and waking, you’re trying desperately to escape from something awful, some looming threat, but you feel paralyzed. Then, with great relief, you suddenly wake up, covered in sweat. The next night, or the next week, though, that same dream returns.
For politicians of Joe Biden’s generation that recurring nightmare was Saigon, 1975. Communist tanks ripping through the streets as friendly forces flee. Thousands of terrified Vietnamese allies pounding at the U.S. Embassy’s gates. Helicopters plucking Americans and Vietnamese from rooftops and disgorging them on Navy ships. Sailors on those ships, now filled with refugees, shoving those million-dollar helicopters into the sea. The greatest power on Earth sent into the most dismal of defeats. ....

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