MSNBC’s Reid: Afghanistan Shows America Is Not ‘Superman’ — ‘Can’t Even Make Our Own Democracy Fully

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MSNBC’s Reid: Afghanistan Shows America Is Not ‘Superman’ — ‘Can’t Even Make Our Own Democracy Fully Work’

Pam Key 30 Aug 2021

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Monday on her show “The ReidOut” that the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed the United States was not “Superman.”

Reid said, “War is messy. I’m going to talk to the veterans like yourself, those who served. At the end of the day, very few Americans participate in our military and bear the bloody burdens of tearing out our political policies like the one in Afghanistan. Speak to those veterans and how are the folks feeling.”

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said, “I think hope and heartbreak are the right words. Heartbreak in that tens of thousands of Americans and Afghans died over the last two decades in a counterinsurgency that had no political endgame. And that was this president’s key insight – was that while we can win every battle, we were still gonna lose the war because there was no political partnership in Kabul and no organic nationhood on which to build in Afghanistan.”

Reid said, “I think America is doing some growing up this week and learning that we are not Superman. We are not Captain America from the comics. We can’t change and solve and remake the world. For God’s sake, we can’t even make our own democracy fully work. We can’t get even get our own population to accept being vaccinated. Our democracy is teetering as well. And so we might want to do a little inward-looking and try to fix the one that we have here, lest we lose it. A cautionary take for all.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/30/msnbcs-reid-afghanistan-shows-america-is-not-superman-cant-even-make-our-own-democracy-fully-work/

[Kamaji]

"Bloody Hands" Biden had no key insight.

It was President Trump who planned and negotiated the exit - President Trump who had the key insight - and "Bloody Hands" Biden who f**ked it up royally.

[PeteS in CA]

Obama's, Trump's, and Biden's foreign policies has one goal in common, putting the US in its "rightful" place.

[skeeter]

For four year it was Trump's fault. Now, when its clearly Biden's screw up, its AMERICA that failed.

Gotta love the way these progressive clowns' brains work.

[Free Vulcan]

Biden had 100% control over the withdrawal. The Left is trying every maggoty little spin to smokescreen that fact.

[Absalom]

Stooges, Curley Obama, Moe Trump & Larry Biden's idea of foreign affairs
involves putting their hands all over immigrant females.

[cato potatoe]

Yes, it's tough to accomplish anything on the international stage, when people like Joy Reid are destroying the country from within.  She probably wore a smirk when she heard about the airport.

[PeteS in CA]

When in 2001 GWB chose between overturning the Talibanders and nation-building, letting Afghanistan be a base for terrorists who would hit the US again and again and ... again, or reducing Afghanistan to the Stone Age, he should have let the terrorists hit the US again and again and ... again or reduce Afghanistan to the Stone Age?

Maybe, 20 years in retrospect, he should have done the latter, but absent the past 20 years' experience the world-wide consequences for doing that would probably have been pretty awful.