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Cui Bono? Who Benefits From the Afghanistan Withdrawal?

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Posted By: Judy W., 9/2/2021 9:44:01 AM

How does a leader decide what to do? The most logical response is: “Cui bono?”—”Who benefits?”—from the decision. If some policy benefits your country most, you should, within moral bounds, pursue it. If your enemies benefit most, you should avoid it. I’d be curious to learn what answer proponents of America leaving Afghanistan—conservative or liberal—would give to the question, “Cui bono?” I can say that until this moment, I have not read or heard a single cogent argument from proponents of American withdrawal as to how exactly it benefits America.

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We have hardly begun to list the evil consequences of this abandonment, but Prager does a good job at listing many of them.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 9/2/2021 9:53:51 AM (No. 901732)
China ? Rare earth minerals.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 9/2/2021 9:56:30 AM (No. 901734)
Biden the cheater's debacle in Afghanistan was intended to further weaken the United States of America in the eyes of the world. Job done.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 9/2/2021 10:27:00 AM (No. 901800)
Started to read....but then blocked by Epoch Times because I don't subscribe. OK, fine, bye.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RussZilla 9/2/2021 11:11:02 AM (No. 901847)
Prager's always worth reading, and the ad says $4 for four months, so if that's not worth it to you, find a friend who can read it to you. The Taliban may be the ones to save Afghanistan. Give is a thought, I'm not really an expert. I know we can't trust Al Qaeda or ISIS, so the Taliban are the least of the three evils. (That's what I am betting on.) ISIS has produced anarchy. And that is not the answer to the problem. Democracy is not the answer. We need to let the Afghans to solve their own problems. They are a country of tribes, and the idea of individual choice is not part of their ideology. They need to come up with a government that respects individual tribes. Well, surely trying to force democracy has been a miserable failure. Is that possible? Time will tell. Blame is lame. We know what Bush, Obama and Biden are abject failures. We can't be leaders of the world anymore if we keep repeating the same mistakes. We can't be manipulators to people who want to be free in their own way. We need to search our own souls and quit interfering with governments. We have enough problems of our own right in our own front yards. That's my take on it. Agree or disagree, we need to come to Jesus, or it'll only get worse.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MOBeef4u 9/2/2021 12:02:38 PM (No. 901923)
Shhh, don’t tell anyone but I have found that when I’m blocked by a paywall, clicking on the “reader view” icon in the address bar will often let me see the article. It worked in this case.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 9/2/2021 5:52:54 PM (No. 902298)
Thanks for the tip, #5. I had never paid any attention to that icon before.
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