Conservative voices showed why Afghanistan pullout was right idea
Initially, I disagreed with President Joe Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan. My mind was changed, however, by a tweet from former Congressman Joe Walsh, who is a Republican. Walsh acknowledged four hard truths about Afghanistan.
First, getting out after 20 years was going to be unforeseeably hard. Next, the Afghan military turned out to be useless. Third, former President Donald Trump started the withdrawal, met with the Taliban and signed a joke of an agreement with those terrorists. Walsh ended by admitting Biden did the right thing: “However & whenever we exited from this disastrous 20-year war, the exit was always going to be ugly, tragic, and chaotic.”
Another conservative, retired Gen. H.R. Mcmaster, one of Trump’s former national security advisers, called Trump’s treaty with the Taliban a “surrender agreement” and said that “The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”
Afghanistan retaught us a lesson we forgot after Vietnam: The U.S. should not fight for people who won’t fight for themselves.
Dick Graham, Worthington