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David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Bencjacobs: University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with vaccine requirement https://t.co/ccz0lvY5at — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @ashtonpittman: A lot of Mississippians are trying to treat COVID with cow deworming meds. MSDH: "At least 70% of the recent calls (to… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jamisonfoser: another one for the "yes, vaccinated people should care that other people refuse to get vaccinated, this is not complicat… — PolitiTweet.org
Dave Puglisi @DavePuglisiTV
The city of Orlando is asking residents to reduce water consumption IMMEDIATELY. Liquid oxygen used to treat water… https://t.co/KyEaFnHfxe
David Frum @davidfrum
Re-upping a long thread — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
ICYMI I wrote this on the origins of Biden's Afghan dilemma (thread coming) https://t.co/JIgmuK4994
David Frum @davidfrum
If the spoon *doesn't* adhere to you, does that prove you got the placebo version of the vaccine? — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Kramers @alexkramers
This is an actual person who spoke at our school board meeting. Please take two minutes and listen to what we have… https://t.co/qAyIZCFHg7
David Frum @davidfrum
Useful insights here — PolitiTweet.org
RUSI @RUSI_org
There are several reasons for the collapse of the #Afghan army, but a duplicitous US negotiation with the #Taliban… https://t.co/TSrhieWAqV
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @ShaneGoldmacher: A majority of the NYPD remain unvaccinated, in other words https://t.co/oi44b1cd9M — PolitiTweet.org
Craig McCarthy @createcraig
A police spokeswoman said Friday the current vaccination rate for the NYPD is 47%. The department has just under 3… https://t.co/rrjCSFhoNq
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @hameedshuja: DO YOU KNOW WHO IS LEAVING AFGHANISTAN? Majority of those risking everything to leave are the nations's brightest. They… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JohnJHarwood: Biden says US has evacuated 13,000 people from Afghanistan over last 6 days — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The most terrible burden of the presidency is the inescapable obligation to balance life against life. Power can never be exercised innocently in this guilty world. END — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
As powerful as the US is, it cannot do everything/be everywhere. Only one thing at a time can be the top priority. Obama's 2009 Afghan surge limited Obama's options w/r/t Russia, China, Pakistan. Biden's tough and cold Afghan decision widens US options in the world. 17/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Nobody can ever know the hazards of the road not taken. Had Biden opted to renege on the Trump-Pompeo deal, that would have had costs too. Maybe those costs would have been worth it. But maybe it's also the job of a president to face ugly truths and accept bad outcomes. 16/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Biden had attended this particular movie before. He had seen the beginning, middle, and end. So it's unsurprising that he had his own strong views about what to do. 15/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Whatever you or I or the people on cable TV would have personally advised Biden, there was no escaping the threshold question: honor Trump's deal and surrender Afghanistan - or renege on Trump's deal and recommit more or fewer US forces to defend Afghanistan. 14/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Or else honor the Trump-Pompeo deal and exit Afghanistan - risking that local Afghan power-holders would rush to reach their own accommodations with the Taliban, capsizing the Afghan state faster than the US could extricate itself. 13/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
He could renege on the Trump-Pompeo deal himself, igniting a new round of fighting that would demand a new surge of US forces - repeating the experience of 2009, but this time with even more dependence on an even less friendly Pakistan (linked thread) 12/x https://t.co/0zWFiOpHzf — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
More thoughts on how we reached this grim outcome in Afghanistan. For the first dozen years of the Afghanistan war… https://t.co/JRX3DEcq4U
David Frum @davidfrum
Whether the excuse described reality or not, however, mattered little to the situation faced by the incoming Biden team. The Taliban had upheld their end of the Trump-Pompeo deal. Biden's choices thus became quite stark. 11/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's a strange thing that the best excuse that Trump supporters can offer for the Trump-Pompeo deal with the Taliban was that Trump-Pompeo were negotiating in bad faith. But that's the excuse. 10/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
But Trump made very clear: he wanted out of Afghanistan at any price. He cared nothing for Afghan lives and freedoms. Maybe *Miller* hoped to renege on Pompeo's deal - but Miller's hopes tell us little about what a re-elected Trump would have actually done in Afghanistan. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Trump's last secretary of defense Chris Miller now justifies this deal by arguing: Trump never intended to honor it, it was just a ruse, Trump would have reneged had he somehow won the 2020 election. 8/x https://t.co/CQ84Bb797u — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Only Biden's predicament was much worse! The Trump administration - led here by SecState Pompeo - had struck a deal with the Taliban: give us low US casualties through the 2020 election, we'll surrender Afghanistan to you after the election. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
All this was observed and witnessed by Obama VP Joe Biden. And when Biden reached the presidency in 2021, he was confronted with the same predicament that faced Obama in 2009: deteriorating security situation, weak Afghan state, etc. etc. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The Obama administration did not respond to this stark exposure of Pakistani duplicity, in part for the reasons in the thread you can read starting below. 5/x https://t.co/0zWFiOpHzf — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
More thoughts on how we reached this grim outcome in Afghanistan. For the first dozen years of the Afghanistan war… https://t.co/JRX3DEcq4U
David Frum @davidfrum
Meanwhile, US intel confirmed what had long been suspected: the man who started the war, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding for years not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan - surely with the connivance of at least some important people in the Pakistani state. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Those forces hard and well through the first Obama term. But they failed to achieve the thing most needed: the construction of a stable Afghan state, supported by security forces that could best the Taliban without massive foreign backing. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
When President Obama took office in 2009, he faced a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. After much deliberation, he ordered a surge of troops that ultimately deployed 65,000 Americans, as well as substantial contingents of NATO allies. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
ICYMI I wrote this on the origins of Biden's Afghan dilemma (thread coming) https://t.co/JIgmuK4994 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @AmbDanFried: Sobering reflections by @anneapplebaum. I've never liked the trite phrase, "There is no military solution" to whatever pro… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Only4RM: Scenario: When the Rolling Stones have a concert, somehow 1000s of fans know when, where, how to attend and why. Those concert… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
"C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est un faute," in the famous quip to Napoleon — PolitiTweet.org
