Sippy Cup Joe will come out of his basement in a few days.
Posted on 08/15/2021 7:22:08 PM PDT by conservative98
Twenty years…and for what?
With the fall of Kabul, the war in Afghanistan comes to an ignominious end, the country exactly as it was when we invaded in 2001: in the grip of fanatical Islamists who rape and persecute women, practice medieval punishment and harbor terrorists who plot to destroy the Western world.
The families of the 2,312 American military personnel who died there, and the 20,066 who were wounded have every right to feel bitterness and anger.
Yes, we killed Osama bin Laden (in Pakistan). But otherwise, over three administrations, we barely articulated a mission beyond the “defeat” of al Qaeda. The Taliban were never vanquished. The Afghan army crumbled. The democracy we helped build was ground into dust as the president fled the nation.
Afghanistan was the forgotten war from the start. The Bush administration quickly moved to Iraq. Obama didn’t care; Trump even less. Maybe it never would have worked, even with more resources, planning and leadership. If this century has taught America anything, it’s that Democracy cannot be imposed on others. But it is a tragedy that the glimmer of hope provided — particularly to the young girls who could finally go to school — is now gone. What was the point?
President Biden says he “inherited” President Trump’s withdrawal plans, but that is a lie.... we pulled out in the dead of night, so quickly we had to send troops back just to make sure our embassy was safely evacuated. It’s as humiliating an end as the rooftop scramble in Saigon in 1975.
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The world is less safe today, President Biden. That’s on you.
Sippy Cup Joe will come out of his basement in a few days.
9/11 was also planned out of Florida and Germany. That is the nature of terrorism. The jihad of migration has already taken over America and will continue to sweep thru.
The zips are already in the wire.
So glad I never voted for a Bush.
“I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable,” he said, noting that if he was still president, he would have focused on a “conditions-based” withdrawal.”
PDJT knew what he was doing, and how to do it.
The stolen election of 2020 has been an unmitigated disaster for America.
BREAKING: Jen Psaki reportedly taking the next week off— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 16, 2021
What did we hope to do there? Turn it into a Western democracy complete with I am Jazz and Desmond is Amazing? Launch an invasion into Iran from there to bring about The Rapture sooner? Kill Osama bin Laden? What was the goal? Was there ever a clear one? Maybe Liz Cheney or Kevin McCarthy can educate us on what the plan ever was. I guess John McCain no longer can. Did this thing ever make any sense after the first few months?
Assisted every step of the way by Assistant Democrats.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Hoeven, Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Crapo, Cramer, Barrasso, Risch, Sullivan and Collins are ALL Bush League Republicans.
It sucks when Democrats are right.
Ours started as a republic. People call it a democracy nowadays but I think it's becoming an anarcho-tyranny state.
only good thought is that Afghanistan is light yeas away from the U.S.A.
Course if Joe Dementia Joe lets the worlds garbage in, Who knows what?
At least no one can say we didn’t leave it exactly like we found it, except for all the weapons and improved infrastructure I guess.
I think if I controlled the taliban I would probably blow up the US embassy on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Freegards
Maybe the Taliban will destroy the poppy fields, like they originally intended.
Best Line of the movie.
Darrel Dye.
I guess it might depend on what China and/or Russia want to do with them. They might want to keep afghan heroin pumping into Europe and Canada.
Freegards
What difference does it make? She never answers a substantive question anyway, and her press conferences are pretty much ‘window dressing’
Both Bush’s are the most evil demented presidebts that we ever had.
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