Ironically he seems to be one of about three or four of us here who actually measure Biden against our expectations of a President rather than the actions/rhetoric of the former President.
I just watched a decent segment with Ari Melber and Michael Moore. Which is a pretty high bar for those two to clear, Melber is a constant interrupter and Moore is a bit of a loose cannon.
But when you get down to it, Moore was 100% right on this one the whole time. We invaded the Middle East and not only did we get nothing for it, the region is arguably worse off than before. What's the positive? Bin Laden is dead? If we threw 20 billion into special forces, we could have got that guy anyway, hell just bribe a bunch of Al Qaeda people, eventually one would do the deed.
Moore was slobbering all sorts of praise onto Biden, noting he campaigned against Biden in the primaries. Pulling out of Afghanistan was a tough call, and as Moore points out, there was gonna be an attack or two and some soldiers and civilians would die. And the optics of that are terrible.
We lost 13 in that suicide bombing at the airport. But... when you are the GM at the top, it comes down to wins against replacement. Had we not pulled out, we would have already lost a couple soldiers, and if we stay there another year, we lose a lot more than 13. The tough spot for the guy at the top is that this is no solace to the families of the 13 who died, nor will you get any credit from the families of the soldiers who turn out to not die in the first place. Pulling out was sick and messy but in the years to come we'll be better off.
They also go into the cost, and what we'd do with all that money, which is a bit of sleight of hand, because the shareholders and CEO's of the defense companies don't keep every dollar, the money does funnel down into jobs/etc.... but we probably get more long term value from paying soldiers to do hand work on wildfires here or do relief efforts in New Orleans.
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