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Re: I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it

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Post by withinboredom » Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 11:54 PM UTC

quantified wrote: post #9

withinboredom wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all know when it happened, but it was ordered and scheduled by Trump. Biden actually stayed around six months past that point. By the time Biden took office, there was only a token force left there (in fact, Biden sent more troops). Source: I was in the military and had friends there.

Smells like both. Trump made a bad deal, perhaps knowing he was able to leave a poisoned chalice behind. Once Biden came in, he should have reviewed it thoroughly and not gone along with it.

What do you think the consequences of breaking a valid treaty “because he felt like it” would be? What do you think the US’s allies would do? You can’t just renege on something because there was a changing of the guard. Not if you want to be a “world leader”.

Anyway, under international law, you can’t exit a treaty so it wasn’t even an option. Where are you getting this nonsense?

Re: I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it

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Post by fields » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 4:22 PM UTC

quantified wrote: post #10

ccTLDs are really for the country, vanity use is, well, vanity, which sometimes gets crushed. Caveat emptor. The more less stable the country the greater the chance of problems. I wonder what happens to .tv if Tuvalu goes under the waves.

That's the entirety of my point. ccTLDs being the only way to get "nice" domain names that don't end in .com is a global snafu.

Re: I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it

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Post by quantified » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

withinboredom wrote: post #11

quantified wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smells like both. Trump made a bad deal, perhaps knowing he was able to leave a poisoned chalice behind. Once Biden came in, he should have reviewed it thoroughly and not gone along with it.

What do you think the consequences of breaking a valid treaty “because he felt like it” would be? What do you think the US’s allies would do? You can’t just renege on something because there was a changing of the guard. Not if you want to be a “world leader”. Anyway, under international law, you can’t exit a treaty so it wasn’t even an option. Where are you getting this nonsense?

I suppose the Iranian nuclear deal wasn't a treaty.

Under international law lots of things aren't supposed to happen. Remember Iraq? Oops. How did the US's allies respond to leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban? "Because he felt like it"? Where are you getting this nonsense?

If you were active military, and you were there, Afghanistan sucked. Sorry you got drawn into that.

Re: I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it

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Post by tomohawk » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 10:14 PM UTC

withinboredom wrote: post #11

quantified wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smells like both. Trump made a bad deal, perhaps knowing he was able to leave a poisoned chalice behind. Once Biden came in, he should have reviewed it thoroughly and not gone along with it.

What do you think the consequences of breaking a valid treaty “because he felt like it” would be? What do you think the US’s allies would do? You can’t just renege on something because there was a changing of the guard. Not if you want to be a “world leader”. Anyway, under international law, you can’t exit a treaty so it wasn’t even an option. Where are you getting this nonsense?

A "valid treaty" would require Senate approval - it did not have that. It was an agreement, and the US was not bound by it after the Taliban violated it. They wouldn't have been bound to it in any case, because it was never approved by the Senate.

There is no international police force or authority that the president is required to obey.

Biden overruled his advisors and pursued this. His hands were not tied. He's proud he took this action, and has stated so many times.