At the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009 I had the pleasure of a long chat with a USA pilot, still on active duty and at the time assigned to the USA Antarctic operation.
The timing is specific because it was the transitional time between G W Bush and Obama.
The pilot advised me that the USA was withdrawing from most activity in Iraq and shifting it's forces to Afghanistan - up until then the USA Afghanistan presence had been basically a search and destroy mission aimed at Al Qaeda and their allied Taliban
The intention had, quietly, already been conveyed to the USA Airforce, officially, by the incoming Obama Administration.
Obama had decided the USA would succeed where the Soviet Union had recently failed and militarily take over Afghanistan.
I write this because the slime, as usual, are attempting to re-write history so they can blame G W Bush (Republican) instead of the war-mongerer, Obama (Democrat) for the Afghanistan debacle.
Obama, of course, was part of a, slightly broken by Carter, line of seppos that also include Kennedy/Johnston and Clinton - warmongerers the lot of them.
You should add Bush for Iraq but not for Afghanistan and notably not add the peacemaker Trump.
These facts don't fit the Republican - bad, Democrat - saint-like narrative the slime are so keen to push and are therefore ignored.
As a New Venezuelan Zealander I, of course, have no say in this matter except, upon noting the current USA presidency, to be concerned whether the current racist, communist government of New Venezuela Zealand will destroy my country before the upcoming, Biden created USA-China war does.
