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This is what happens when the tefflon comes off
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

People who didn't give a rat's ass about Afghanistan for years now have a full day's worth of Twitter views on it.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

We wanted to understand what’s happening in Afghanistan. So we talked to three unvaccinated Trump supporters at an Arby’s in Harrisburg

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 14, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

We've been screwing SIV applicants for YEARS. Immigration and vets orgs have been screaming about evacuations for MONTHS. People aren't in danger because we withdrew, it's because our leaders didn't care about helping them.

— Max J. Rosenthal (@maxjrosenthal) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I deleted this because it was too short. I wanted to make the point even more directly, as I did here. A charlatan like Noem riding through a superspreader event with a flag while Kabul falls is America, 2021: Unserious, self-destructive, faux patriotic.https://t.co/ifW81iXXc4 pic.twitter.com/qqici10npx

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Afghanistan Meant Nothing by Laura Jedeed
Nixon wanted — and got — his decent interval between the United States pullout of Vietnam and the inevitable North Vietnamese takeover. Afghanistan’s interval was never going to be decent, but I…
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

On the call with @SecBlinken and @SecDef this morning I confirmed that had Biden decided to abandon the agreement negotiated by President Trump, the U.S. would have had to surge thousands of additional troops into Afghanistan. The 2,500 that Trump had left were not nearly enough.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

A lot of American political leadership is currently working overtime on the most urgent and pressing geopolitical question they face, which is:

"Which of our subordinates are we going to throw under the bus"

— Taliban Diversity and Inclusion Consultant (@Bugs_Meany) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I think David is right here, but I'll foot-stomp this again: They were trying to avoid "blame and shame" because there was no way to have an adult discussion with the American public - or its elected reps - that didn't involve partisan accusations of "losing the war." https://t.co/Yjz4DEfNXD

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Yes, I will take the inevitable fall of Kabul (since it's what the American people have demanded for years) over a president who tried to set the Constitution on fire, overturn an election, and sell out America to its enemies.
That's my choice? Then yes, I'll take that trade-off. https://t.co/BoKEnLljpv

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426990947720695816.html (threadreaderapp.com)
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

buddy this is the right https://t.co/JLbNeer2GY

— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

“Become” a thing on the right? They elected a guy who tried to implement a ban on Muslim immigrants and wanted him re-elected. https://t.co/I1tlunUSu5

— @ijbailey (@ijbailey) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

What a complete jackass. @mikepompeo you are one of the architects of this. We won’t forget you pompous fool.

Mike Pompeo Links 'The Fall Of Afghanistan' To Critical Race Theory | Crooks and Liars https://t.co/6okVAqpBjC

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Only in the U.S. can a former President crow about fast-tracking a vaccine to fight the pandemic while simultaneously encouraging people not to take it - for the sake of freedom of choice over what to do with your own body - while also opposing a woman's right to choose.

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 14, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

The thing that upsets me about the situation in Afghanistan isn't that it collapsed so quickly--that was a foreseeable consequence of the entire policy. Rather, it's that we didn't evacuate our allies first while we still had a robust security infrastructure to do it.

— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

They're telling us that they intend to fight us. They're being very clear. They've already begun. In Charlottesville in 2017. In Lansing in 2020. In Washington DC in 2021. Other places.

We should probably decide how we intend to address their intent. https://t.co/Bmbzcmw6un

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy by George Packer
Our abandonment of the Afghans who helped us, counted on us, and staked their lives on us is a final, gratuitous shame that we could have avoided.
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Incredible.

Pompeo went ahead telling us that the Taliban promised to cut ties with al Qaeda, meanwhile in 2019 (to Hamza bin Laden himself) & in 2020 (from Haqqani to al Qaeda right before Doha) the Taliban promised they’d never cut AQ loose https://t.co/ZcJSLfRL6E

— JoS. S. Laughon (@JoSLaughon) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

There should be no pretending to believe Republicans when they claim to be mad about this, and no credulousness when they try to exploit it like Benghazi in complete bad faith. https://t.co/FTZfV3KvKQ

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 15, 2021
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· 8 Elul 5781 (Monday 16 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Thread by @mikeyang on Thread Reader App (threadreaderapp.com)
Thread by @mikeyang: Urgent part 1st: my Afghan friend is stuck in Kabul and is at meaningful risk from the Taliban. If you know a way I can help get him out, I'd love to hear from...
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