• CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Of course I could do better, give a map to a toddler and they could have done better. Think about it this way, which would you chose to try to defend, an airport in a city of 4.5 million (semi-hostile) people, or at an AFB that they put billions of dollars into 1 hour north surrounded by desert?

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        I mean this response is indicative of a lack of critical thinking about what it means to head up the entire US army

        Not that I have a hard on for Harris, the military industrial complex or neoliberalism, but I do recognize that overly simplistic solutions like this are extremely ill-considered at best.

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          I am confused is it hard to realize how bad of an idea it was to exit in the middle of a huge city?

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            You don’t even know the granular logistics of what happened there for them to take such a decision. And the fact you’re incapable of coming up with any proves that you’re just a clown.

            The Bagram Airfield was not well-suited for a large scale evacuation regardless of how close it was or how well-protected, because they needed stealth over making noise due to how quickly the government collapsed.

            You’d easily have gotten them all killed