# The Biden Administration - the first 1,500 days \[NOT an Afghanistan discussion\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057 "2020-11-08T15:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1106
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/1106 "2021-08-22T12:07:08Z")
## MODNOTE: No more on Afghanistan, this is official. Start a new thread if you like. See Modnote above. **Two current Afghanistan Threads:** > [@To honor and respect 20 yrs of sacrifice by our troops, we must stay in Afghanistan forever!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-honor-and-respect-20-yrs-of-sacrifice-by-our-troops-we-must-stay-in-afghanistan-forever/949308): > > With the withdrawal from Afghanistan, I see a lot of statements by conservatives, military veterans, armchair generals, etc., basically stating that the withdrawal dishonors the servicepeople who fought there for the past 20 years, Yeah, I get it that they would want to chalk this up in the “win” column, but “dishonor”? It’s not like the ref called the game at the last minute just before we were going to score the winning run. Is the intent that we should fight in Afghanistan forever until we… > [@Have we morally failed Afghanistan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-morally-failed-afghanistan/948636): > > Geopolitics and 9/11 vengeance aside, have we failed our own sense of freedom and democracy? We are walking away from a 20 year war, leaving the Afghani’s to the Taliban. The Taliban that stands against everything we as Americans, left or right, hold dear. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057)._