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Originally Posted by Frownland
The media is full of warhawks because war is an excellent content farm that they don't want to lose.
jwb's right that Biden's poll numbers are dropping in response to this, I just think that its relevancy is outweighed by the positive of ending what's universally recognized as a pointless war. The fact that the pull out went to **** so quickly is just an affirmation of how useless prolonging it was.
If you want to talk horse races, I feel like this was a pretty good move to court the progressives in his party that oppose him.
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100%.
In addition to warhawks in the media, we've also got the warhawks in the military. Guaranteed that most of them didn't want to get out - at least the upper-ranks didn't. I would bet money that this had a negative effect on the success of the withdrawal efforts. i.e. the idea of "managing up" in a corporate environment