Joe Biden told a nationwide TV audience yesterday that the horrifying scenes in Kabul, with desperate refugees fleeing the rule of a resurgent Taliban, isn’t his fault. He also says he won’t “shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today.” Look up cognitive dissonance in the dictionary.
The problem, Biden explained, is that the Afghan army that we and our allies stood up, fell down the moment the U.S. troops pulled back and the Afghan government hightailed it out of the country. Fair enough: How can we fight their war if they won’t even fight it themselves?
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But what Biden fails to face candidly is why the withdrawal had to be so chaotic, so seemingly haphazard, risking the lives of those who helped America fight its longest war. That was transparently a failure of planning and intelligence and leadership.
It’s not that we left Afghanistan. It’s the grossly incompetent way we left!
– President Donald J. Trump
In making the broader case against staying in that dysfunctional land for another five or 10 or 20 years, Biden could have cited one of his predecessors on a different war: “We are not about to send American boys nine or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” Of course, Lyndon Johnson said that two weeks before his 1964 election, then soon enough sent huge numbers of American boys to Vietnam to fight.
Laura and I have been watching the tragic events unfolding in Afghanistan with deep sadness. Our hearts are heavy for both the Afghan people who have suffered so much and for the Americans and NATO allies who have sacrificed so much,” – George and Laura Bush.
But like Vietnam, the Afghanistan war is ending, and in much the same way with us closing our embassy and flying away, leaving terrified people to the mercy of the conquering enemy. For that it’s impossible to blame the weak will of the Afghan forces, or Ashraf Ghani, who was Afghan president before he skipped out. Ghani wanted to avoid the fate of Najibullah, the Soviet-installed Afghan president who didn’t escape when the Taliban conquered the country the first time in the 1990s. Najibullah was caught, tortured, castrated and dragged to death behind a Jeep.
America is right to leave. “The buck stops with me,” said the president. Hold him to his word.
Biden is going back to Camp David after this speech. pic.twitter.com/JSvhHZBr3d
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 16, 2021
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that picture says it all biden has turned his back on america and afghan people.
When Our Seal Teams had Bin Laden in their sights for capture or elimination, Remember it was BIDEN who tried to disuade Obama from pulling the trigger. How much did his Biden Crime family bank account go up after that one? DO we have to see our own American citizens being hauled off in chains or beheaded to figure out Biden has sold us out?,,,,,,Oh,,, Just turn on the TV. Even the MSM cannot refute this crime against huanity and crime against MAGA.
AND for all we know, IT WAS HIM< who leaked the names OF THE TEAM members, TO THE TALIBAN, who took revenge, a few months later.. iirc at least.
Is that photo showing Biden in time out? Frankly, he’s out of time—he has proved beyond any doubt whatsoever his inability to serve as President of this country. It seems our military commanders have proved their worthlessness, as well.
There are a lot of points to reconsider now that should have been given more thought at the beginning. Should we have been there at all? Did the Military want to drag it out like Vietnam? Why did it take 20 years to see the senselessness of being there? What got accomplished? Why are we so inept in situations like this? Our soldiers who survived and made it back home—what do they think of their sacrifice?
We desperately need leadership—militarily and administratively—who has the intellect, aptitude, and common sense to do the job and stop making this country look like a bunch of fools. Biden makes yet another blunder—what a surprise—but how it reflects on this country is inexcusable. The whole world has been watching—and still is—and there are those who are celebrating our failure and there are those who share our disbelief and disappointment.
“It’s not that we left Afghanistan. It’s the grossly incompetent way we left!”
– President Donald J. Trump
Joe…“Our only interest today in Afghanistan to day is preventing another attack on our homeland” as the Taliban take over now even better armed and financed than before 911, with American made weapons taken from the Biden reconstituted Afghan military. I’ll bet those newly enslaved Afghan women wished he was just happy sniffing their hair, instead of selling them out to the Taliban men who will use them like property and chattel.
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being
moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome .” -Winston Churchill.
Joe just leveled the scientific playing field. Add in a few homemade Pakistan nukes, and get ready for WWIII with a lot different results.
WE supposedly have a few hundred pages of “LESSONS LEARNED FROM NAM” that OBVIOUSLY NO one in govt read…
Is there really any question any more of how this pathetic Obama puppet got into office? This senile figure head executing a strategy to take down America and install a western hemisphere communist state is totally apparent. He and his minions who rode the coattails of his party’s election crimes are all guilty of treason. And now there are hints that his previously controlled ministry of propaganda are actually reporting the truth of his staged incompetence that passes as deliberate policy. Maybe there is hope after all. In the mean time Joe Tali-Biden’s remaining apostles are resorting to the “at least Hitler was good to his dog Blondie” line of support and defense of their marxist-messiah.
The Buck Stops Here alright,,,,after passing through various international Banks and Hunter’s Swiss bank accounts. This President is either so corrupt, or so Stupid, he deserves to be impeached, removed from office, and given the death sentence for betraying our military, or else he is so mentally age depleted should be arrested, put in an assylum and a straight jacket to prevent his Crime family from using his name and getting even richer. Follow the money. MAGA turned into MBFRA,,,Make Biden Family Rich Again.
“this did unfold quicker than we anticipated”,,,,,so my family lost a lot of potential bribe and kickback money, and hunter lost all his Afghan poppy growing real estate, and heroin investments before we could sell them for a profit like we sold out the USA and our allies..
MAGA, became FOAA.. Flip over america again!
Hey Joe, “the problem” is that you are “the problem”. Corrupt criminal communist dictators are “the problem” and this defines you, Joe and your family!
Our country has no leader, the person sitting in the Oval Office is the titular head of the Democrat conglomerate running the country. He in no way inspires confidence, even in his prior speech about Kabul would not fall there was no expectation that would really happen, it defeatist even then. His turned back says all that can be said, that needs to be said ablout this administration. Whoever is really in charge better get cracking before there is a real insurrection when the citizens patience and ardor for Democrats runs out!
ANd one wonders, WHAT ALL THE RANK and file troops, who SUPPORTED this dunce, and the DOD upper echelons, are thinking about all of this.
At THIS time we do NOT have a real President ! All we have is a “Figurehead” who has been grossly incompetent his entire career . Every single decision that this man has made over the years has been WRONG. If we don’t get this entire administration OUT OF OFFICE quickly, we are LOSING AMERICA !
A sock puppet would be better qualified, than JOE is.
The Taliban Islam terrorist group are the “Some people who did something” as immortalized by Ilhan Omar, just one of the many members of the bipartisan Traitor & Tyrant Caucus now in the US Congress that includes all the Dems & notable Benedict Arnold style GOP turncoats Romney & Cheney.
Must have missed when US govt & military leaders decided the Taliban, a militarily insignificant Islam terrorist guerrilla warfare group known only for butchery, inhumanity & a maniacal hatred & desire to kill everyone who doesn’t bow down to them, suddenly became ” okay Islam terrorists”.
Seems US govt & military leaders are now too “woke” & polite to confront & defeat any mortal US enemy of US, even a small armed force like the Taliban, before they start the predictable slaughter to come in Afghan & in US with Islam terrorists likely being infiltrated with the thousands of Afghan “refugees” US govt is dumping in US while obviously lying about guaranteed vetting & allegiance to US.
This is just more govt criminal malfeasance & betrayal like the millions of other unidentifiable & unvetted foreign illegal aliens being dumped here that US citizen taxpayers are being forced to pay $400 Billion year to support.
Once again Sleepy Joe Biden-hiden has done it now to the Afghan people. Next will be the American people. But as they say that is what socialist democrats want for America and the world. The have’s and the have-not’s.
We all knew this would be the results of a Biden Admin.
You can fake an election, but you can’t fake leadership.
I am not, nor have I ever been, in the military. The closest I have been is one year of ROTC in college. But even I have far superior military expertise than the current Commander in Chief.
IF it becomes necessary to go to war, have a great plan to WIN. The way to win is to target the upper executive and military personnel FIRST. Then carpet bomb. Then mop up any resistance with heavy artillery. NEVER send in ground troops until ALL hostilities are neutralized.
Note that the risk to our people is at or near zero.
Install a puppet government then execute any who are disloyal in any way.
Do NOT provide massive foreign aid; just minimal law enforcement support.
Meet any / all rebellion with more carpet bombing.
MORE AND more, i’d just love to own a few starships, so i could park them over afgan (and iran/china)< AND JUST OBLIDERATE THEM WITH laser fire from space!!
Fodder for many new books to be written by the “experts” – can’t hardly wait, can you?
WHAT EXPERTS?!?!?! Not one of these sick schmucks in govt, or the heads of the Dept of Defencelessness, are even qualified to be a LAY Person, let alone an expert.
This is a war that could never be won. We had objectives set for our military that were unattainable. If We maintain a military presence in that country forever, we will still not accomplish our military objective. This is George Bush’s fault. He demanded the Taliban apprehend Osama Bin Laden and turn him over to us, so we could punish him in our country. The Taliban tried to reason with us, but we were unreasonable. They offered to allow us to send prosecutors with the evidence we claim linked Bin Laden to the 911 attacks, and they were going to allow us to try him in their courts. Nations do not usually allow other nations to prosecute people in their courts. We will not allow the Ukraine to put Biden on trial for Bribing their president with $1 billion to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. We will not arrest Biden and turn him over to the Ukraine to stand trial in their country for his crimes. We refused their offer and disdained their objections to us accusing Bin Laden for being responsible for the 911 attacks when they knew he had been with them in Afghanistan for a couple years. We invaded Afghanistan in order to remove the Taliban from power, and to replace them with someone who will obey our commands. If we are going to have such short sighted foreign policy objectives, we may as well forgo fighting wars with conventional weapons and start using nuclear weapons.
I see a bigger problem is biden is removed from office; and the biggest disaster will follow if the next two in line come into full power. The next one is just as incompetent as biden but the other one is so power hungry, the whole USA will become a third world country.
How do we know, THEY ARE NOT ALREADY IN POWER< and just leaving Joe in, as the 'face'…