If you’re not watching with attention you’re not watching at all. Try it: next time you’re playing video games, rewind the video by 30 seconds and try to predict what he’s going to talk about. You can’t, not because it slipped your mind but because it never entered it in the first place.

You’re arguing against something I didn’t say. The war wasn’t to be won. It was to be continued. Forever. If they won they’d have to leave.

I’m so sorry that this hurts your chauvinist pride.

OK I am done with someone who is deliberately distorting and misstating what I’m saying.

controlled the country within weeks of US withdrawal.

Again, the decision to withdraw was made in DC and not in Afghanistan. We don’t know why, and probably won’t for some time, but “forced out by the Taliban at the point of a bayonet” wasn’t it.

The generals and the DC blob were furious. They were adamant that the situation was fine and they could have maintained occupation for another 50 years. Those are the accounts that I read; maybe you can contribute some that said the Taliban have militarily defeated us and we must withdraw before there’s a wholesale loss of tens of thousands of soldiers like it’s Berlin 1945 or something.

Uh-huh. I would have heard about that. I don’t suppose you can supply some sources on this from the DC blob.

People who live out of the washer and dryer annoy the living crap out of me. Like, I just spilled red wine on my shirt, I have to throw it in real quick on a fast cycle…nope there is a huge load in there, still damp and smelling of mildew because they’ve been sitting there for a week. I’ll just move that to the dryer…oh woah there’s a huge load in there, too and they’re stiff from having been in there so long. I might as well just start folding for you, and by that time, the stain on my shirt will have set anyway. Never mind, I’ll just throw it away, not like I had to search thrift stores for months to find it or anything.

It’s easy to screw up when you use different kinds of rice like Thai or Chinese or Japanese and they all require different amounts of water, which may or may not be printed on the package.

This novel idea that the Taliban were about to evict the US from the country. Wasn’t going to happen without a plan out of DC.

Yes they were.

First I’ve ever heard of it, and I’ve followed it on and off since the invasion.

You’re going to be running for reelection in a couple years, what do you do?

I would have let Trump take the blame, since he was so adamant about ending wars by forcing America (DC) to lose them.

Useless in the US because we just don’t drink tea that much.

That’s it. That’s the whole reason. If you need hot water for instant coffee or something just use the microwave. It avoids taking up valuable counter space and won’t become part of the waste stream when it breaks after a year.