There are people on MSNBC who haven’t been buying the childish expectations of a clean withdrawal. This is an excerpt Lawrence O’Donnell on the 23rd:
“ When you hear people calling the evacuation from Afghanistan a debacle, ask them compared to what? When has any country ever evacuated from a foreign war that they lost, in a way that is …
There are people on MSNBC who haven’t been buying the childish expectations of a clean withdrawal. This is an excerpt Lawrence O’Donnell on the 23rd:
“ When you hear people calling the evacuation from Afghanistan a debacle, ask them compared to what? When has any country ever evacuated from a foreign war that they lost, in a way that is better than what we are seeing now? The answer is never. This is the best version of an evacuation from a lost war that the world has ever seen.
That doesn`t make it good. That doesn`t make it orderly. That doesn`t make it safe for everyone involved. But it does mean that nothing else was realistically possible.”
Then there is this contrast with how the press behaved back when we withdrew from Vietnam:
“No one in the White House press corps then asked why President Ford did not publicly say it was inevitable that the side we had been fighting for would surrender before they surrendered. BECAUSE ALL OF THE REPORTERS WERE ADULTS THEN, who understood that the president of the United States, even if he believed it, could not publicly predict the surrender of the weak government we had been fighting for.”
There are people on MSNBC who haven’t been buying the childish expectations of a clean withdrawal. This is an excerpt Lawrence O’Donnell on the 23rd:
“ When you hear people calling the evacuation from Afghanistan a debacle, ask them compared to what? When has any country ever evacuated from a foreign war that they lost, in a way that is better than what we are seeing now? The answer is never. This is the best version of an evacuation from a lost war that the world has ever seen.
That doesn`t make it good. That doesn`t make it orderly. That doesn`t make it safe for everyone involved. But it does mean that nothing else was realistically possible.”
Then there is this contrast with how the press behaved back when we withdrew from Vietnam:
“No one in the White House press corps then asked why President Ford did not publicly say it was inevitable that the side we had been fighting for would surrender before they surrendered. BECAUSE ALL OF THE REPORTERS WERE ADULTS THEN, who understood that the president of the United States, even if he believed it, could not publicly predict the surrender of the weak government we had been fighting for.”
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-last-word-lawrence-o-donnell-8-23-21-n1277511
(22:20:37 minutes in)
I couldn’t believe O’Donnell basically called his colleagues a bunch of babies. It was epic!
He has a way about him and his comments. Must be from all the years in Congress listening to bs, day in and day out. He calls it as he sees it.