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CMV: Pulling out of Afghanistan was the right decision and the Taliban takeover doesn't change that.

I am 100% convinced that Biden made the correct decision. This is a war that has been going on for 20 years, and for what? Billions of dollars and thousands of lives wasted. I'm so tired of hearing the same old excuses about why we (the U.S.) needed to stay. Yes, of course, entering the war was a mistake and it would've been more ideal if we were never in Afghanistan in the first place.  But we can't change the past. Staying in the war even longer in the name of more "nation-building" would've only resulted in the same exact thing we are seeing right now, except a few years and many more taxpayer dollars and lives later. As the saying goes, "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

I find myself a little shocked at the negative reaction of even some of Biden's usual defenders. Yes, the optics are bad. There's no denying that. But pulling out of Afghanistan is something that both Obama and Trump campaigned on and never followed through with. Biden had the balls to finally pull the trigger, despite the potentials risks and warnings from his generals. And honestly, I've gained a lot of respect for Biden because of it. This may be Biden's "fall of Saigon" moment, but he still made the right decision, and I stand by that.
gpt
It’s not that pulling out of Afghanistan was the wrong decision. Bringing our troops home and trying to end wars is a good thing, but the issue is with how it was done, and how quickly all of our efforts were basically vacuumed up. We spent 20 years there. Thousands of troops back and forth, lives lost, and the Taliban take it back in less than 2 weeks? It leaves a sour taste in your mouth, especially for our veterans who risked their lives to try and help stabilize things over there. To have 20 years worth of time and energy crumble so quickly… it pisses you off. It makes you feel like it was all for nothing. That you risked your life and watched friends die for nothing. 


It makes you wonder **what** the hell we were even doing over there. If we couldn’t help the Afghani people stabilize their country enough to manage 2 weeks without us, it makes it all feel like it was in vein. That’s why people are pissed about it. If you spent years doing anything and it went up in flames within 2 weeks the first second you looked away… you’d be absolutely devastated, and a lot of people are feeling exactly that.