Especially liked "the buck stops here" bit. While not original, it's at least a faint acknowledgement that the President of the USA is responsible for something.
Not the actual loss of the twenty year war, though; that's on the Afghans themselves. After all we did for them, the feckless cowards just wouldn't stand up to the Taliban. Framed this way, Joe's point is valid; why should Americans fight and die for a country that won't stand up for itself?
This is where Americans miss the mark. The Afghan military understood that they were expected to fight and die, not for their country, but for a corrupt government imposed on them by an occupying power. Far from being feckless cowards, Afghans fought the occupying power for twenty years, and finally prevailed against a coalition of the mightiest Western militaries ever assembled.
Framed that way, the events of the past few days represent a great triumph for Afghanistan. The feckless cowards are the ones who cut and ran.
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