Interesting tidbit showing ole Joey as he really is, and not the moderate, kind non foul mouthed persona the media hoisted on us during the election, and as a counter to those offended by Trumps alleged insensitive communications style.
In 2010, he told Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the U.S. had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the consequences for women or anyone else. According to Holbrooke’s diary, when he asked about American obligations to Afghans like the girl in the Kabul school, Biden replied with a history lesson from the final U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia in 1973: “Fuck that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
“Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it...”
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Welcome Scranton boy Joe to the new world of more scrutiny. It’s not a question of ‘if’ leaving Afghanistan... it’s the ‘how’....