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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI bet Putin is celebrating today knowing that his agent orange, tRump, fulfilled one of his missions
by creating the perfect storm making our departure from Afghanistan as painful & demeaning as possible. I do believe President Biden will use his true leadership skills to get through this the best we can. I just hope that as a country we have finally learned that you can never successfully occupy a country no matter how good or bad your intentions are.

dalton99a
(90,565 posts)2/15/1989: Soviet Troops Leave Afghanistan
mahatmakanejeeves
(66,970 posts)the remark, as I had not yet, at that point in the day, sat down to watch "Charlie Wilson's War" again,
"we'll see."
comradebillyboy
(10,876 posts)a long, costly and unpopular war. The fact that the ending was messy will be forgotten since only the tiny neo-con fringe wanted to stay. The Beltway press will have moved on to another shiny object by then.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Trump was selected, by hook or by crook, for a reason.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,343 posts)Look at the condition of the country today compared to the way Obama left it.
And some of MF45's minions like DeJoy are still there causing damage.
Mme. Defarge
(8,792 posts)could there really be something to the Russian bounty story?
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-bounty-story-falls-apart-192123174.html
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)puts that smirk on sPUTIN's Fascist Face.