ISIS bombing at Kabul Airport, 13 US casualties

[HisGrace]

The title of this thread is really telling, isn't it? A large number of Afghans are dead, but that isn't important: what matters is that some American soldiers have been wounded. Disgusting.

That's the whole argument for the withdrawal. Thousands of Afghans getting killed after we leave the country are worth less than the light casualties amongst the small number of soldiers we had there. So not a surprise.

[HisGrace]

I'm starting to think we're going back to Afghanistan 😒

Really doubt it, that would just look worse. Pull the troops out, let the Taliban take over the country, and then go back in to fight to take it all back again with heavy causalities.

[HisGrace]

This wasn't the Taliban though. You know that ISIS has been gaining strength in Afghanistan since 2017, right? Everyone points fingers but no one has a solution. Give me a solution.

Keep 10-15k troops there as a token force to keep the country under control? Even if you want a withdrawal it should have been done slower, as Woodbury alluded to, with the troops staying until we got everybody we needed to get out. Really have no idea what the thought process behind allowing ourselves to be pinned down at the airport was. A lot of the motivation here seems to be doing it as quickly as possible to reach the 9/11 deadline for political theatrics, which should not have any role in making policy.