From an American friend;
After an initial military-advised troop-surge, President Obama began the final drawdown of troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
We were leaving them in good shape.
We had been there 13 years.
We had spent billions training and arming the Afghan Army.
On May 27, 2014, President Obama announced America’s combat involvement would totally cease by the end of the year, with a residual force of 9,800 troops remaining in the country.
And then…
October 28, 2014…
The United Kingdom and the United States handed over all bases to the Afghan military and ceased all military operations.
On October 28, 2014.
SEVEN YEARS AGO.
We’re not “just up and leaving in the dark of night.”
We’re not “abandoning our Afghan allies.”
We’re not “breaking promises to those who helped us.”
Why in the HOLY FUCK didn’t they get their asses on a plane during the last SEVEN FUCKING YEARS?
The same thing that’s happening now, started happening seven years ago.
So what did President Obama do?
When all of the armchair quarterbacks who got their military science degrees from the same seat over the shit hole that present Trumpers got their degrees in immunology, caught a collective case of the vapors and commenced clutching their pearls and weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth over the poor little allies who we were “abandoning,” President Obama paused the drawdown and left more troops there to give our allies more time to leave.
So why the fuck didn’t they?
They have had seven years.
Why is everyone acting like we handed control of the country over to the Afghans just yesterday?
They’ve had SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.