If I were American, I would be ashamed of the whole Afghanistan affair. Certainly not America's finest hour. But granted, once the decision had been made to intervene in "the graveyard of empires", all subsequent presidents were inexorably placed in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I suspect that nothing was learned.
Telmo Am Mo, 5. Sep 2022, um 01:37, schrieb Brent Meeker: > And you forgot that Biden got us out of America's longest war. Something > Trump negotiated but was to cowardly to do on his watch. > > Brent > > > On 9/3/2022 4:18 AM, John Clark wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:08 PM Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.net> wrote: >> >>>> >> Biden lacks showmanship but he is not crazy nor is he cruel, and if he >>>> >> is not brilliant he is at least reasonably competent. >>> >>> *> He is a non-entity. Which is better than being Trump, I will grant you >>> that.* >> >> Biden may be a non-entity, he's certainly not showy, but you could argue he >> has had the most productive 2 years of any president since Linden Johnson. >> Biden faced intense opposition from Republicans about everything but >> nevertheless he managed to pass the first real gun control legislation in 30 >> years, and a 280 billion dollar industrial bill to counter China, and a bill >> to reduce health costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices by >> allowing the government to negotiate prescription prices from the drug >> companies saving the government 300 billion dollars over 10 years, and a >> bill to reduce greenhouse gases by 40%, and a bill to raise taxes on >> corporations and the ultra super mega rich, and a bill to expand medical >> benefits for veterans and September 11 first responders who were exposed to >> toxic chemicals. Oh and I almost forgot, Biden also prevented an ignorant >> cruel megalomaniac from becoming dictator of the USA, or at least he delayed >> that sad day by 4 years. >> >> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis >> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> >> rry >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv05fOG0qLiJV%2BXHDK6f8C1RgmFqTGa0T6mPdqbX2Y%2B2_A%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv05fOG0qLiJV%2BXHDK6f8C1RgmFqTGa0T6mPdqbX2Y%2B2_A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b0390850-01ed-6eae-cbbd-975708f3a720%40gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b0390850-01ed-6eae-cbbd-975708f3a720%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d41fb6e1-18b9-4f88-a65b-b6313e389251%40www.fastmail.com.
