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I am skeptical of the claim that we had any credibility to lose in respect to our dealings in Afghanistan. Plus, our negotiations weren't with the Taliban, they weren't in control of the country until we extracted. Our dealings were with the former Afghan government who weren't in favour of the expedited process.
And knowing that the Biden administration still rammed through the pull out. It's not like delaying the pull out of Afghanistan didn't already have a precedent.
What do you think makes us look worse on the global stage....? A slight and understandable delay in moving our troops out, or completely abandoning our partners to a regime that everyone knew was going to hunt them and their families down in retribution?
You are pretending as if geopolitics is completely devoid of nuance.
Again, I fail to see how that makes the Biden administration seem competent if they chose to proceed with something they knew was going to be a shit show.
My point was that it was a shit show, and that both administrations are in some way responsible for it.
You lost credibility with all your allies, who came for help when you called NATO, article 5, lost hundree s of soldiers during a couple of decade, and then were left alone in the chaos with no warning.