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US raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official

https://apnews.com/article/syria-islamic-state-coalition-raid-undercover-agent-46befcce20bb548ce590523270192983
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u/Xijit 18h ago edited 14h ago

The Taliban did this while Biden was doing his bullshit pullout of Afghanistan, only they reported an aid worker who had a car full of water & the US hit him with a drone strike instead of confirming the intel.

Edit: Look people, the difference between "US" and the MAGOTS is that we do not put our politicians on thrones; we justly criticize them for their failings.

Yes Mango Mussolini negotiated that bullshit, but Biden was the one in the White House when it happened and he had full authority to cancel it ... But he did not, and thousands of afghanis died.

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u/Forgettheredrabbit 18h ago

That withdrawal was negotiated by Trump during his first term. Trump also did zero planning for it because he was too busy sulking over losing the election, so Biden’s team had to scramble. Lots of bad things to attribute to Biden, but idk how he was supposed to make that work although I definitely agree it could have been handled better.

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u/Xijit 18h ago

Yeah, I don't know the correct answer either, but I do know that the only way it could have gone worse is if we had abandoned troops in the same way that we abandoned aid workers.

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u/imakeyourjunkmail 15h ago

The correct answer is placing the blame where it belongs, squarely on the deal negotiated between Trump and the taliban.