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Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
American Greatness ^ | 29 Aug 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/31/2021 6:41:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower.

Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented.

The more Joe Biden mutters “The buck stops here” or “I take full responsibility,” the more we know he will not—and not just because of his now reduced mental state, but because 1) he repeats the same opportunist messaging that he has for the last 50 years of his political career, and 2) the only true thing he could say was “I ordered a withdrawal in the most reckless manner in U.S. military history.”

When Biden then blames Donald Trump, it raises the immediate questions:

1) If the Afghanistan deal was so flawed, why did Biden stick with it, given his other radical departures from what he inherited on the border, on fossil fuels, on the Middle East—on just about everything before January 20, 2021?

2) So, was it good or bad to withdraw all U.S. troops? Was Trump wrong to have bequeathed him a policy of graduated withdrawal, but Biden was right to have continued it for a while—only to have accelerated it into surrender and flight?

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1 posted on 08/31/2021 6:41:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
We can look at this disaster in a number of depressing ways. One would be to compare this giveaway to military aid given to Israel over the last 70 years, which more or less has amounted to about an aggregate $100 billion. In other words, in one fell swoop, the Pentagon deposited into Taliban hands about 80 percent of all the military aid that we’ve ever given to Israel since the founding of the Jewish state. In terms of tactical and operational capability, the Taliban may now be the best-equipped terrorist force in Asia and the Middle East.
2 posted on 08/31/2021 6:46:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

‘Get your tanks for nothin’ get your chicks for free.’

Wonder if and/or when we’ll hear about the newest Rape Camps set up by our new Taliban Overlords.

*SPITTING MAD*

I hate, hate, HATE this stolen ‘administration’ with the white-hot intensity of a THOUSAND Suns!

This is SUCH an affront to ALL we ‘Normals’ hold dear! Lord Hear Our Prayers!


3 posted on 08/31/2021 6:46:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Rummyfan

“1) If the Afghanistan deal was so flawed, why did Biden stick with it,”


But Biden didn’t stick with Trump’s deal. Trump said we’d pull out by May and that if the Taliban didn’t behave, he’d blow the crap out of them. They knew enough about Trump to believe him.

Biden, to try and score points and be ‘historical’ told the Taliban that we’d leave by September 11, not May. Since he broke Trump’s deal, the Taliban saw no reason to honor their part of the bargain. And while Biden thinks of himself as a tough guy the world sees him as he really is, so the Taliban overran the country, which of course is everyone’s fault except Biden’s.


4 posted on 08/31/2021 6:56:56 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Rummyfan

Xiden reminds us:

“the thing is, ‘tanks for nothing, chicks for free’.”


5 posted on 08/31/2021 7:05:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Psalms 109 KJV

Righteous anger is good and perfect hatred better. Hating an evil such as we see in this biden administration is good. David makes the case.

Psalms 109 vs 8,9
“let his days be few, and let another take his office.”
“let his children be fatherless, and let his wife be a widow”.

David is described as a man after god’s heart.
Good enough for me and amen to your post.


6 posted on 08/31/2021 7:46:03 PM PDT by katie didit
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To: Rummyfan

Am I the only one here thinking Biden has just single handed destroyed NATO? The Five Eyes? Any and all mutual defense treaties we have?
Ask youself only one question. Do you trust the USA to keep their word and honor their promises?
I Do Not!
God help Us.


7 posted on 08/31/2021 8:13:13 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Rummyfan

I thought we were supposed to be re-equipping OUR military. Or did all that new stuff Trump authorized for OUR troops get secreted away to Afghanistan by officials who thought they knew better ways to distribute it?


8 posted on 08/31/2021 9:56:36 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum
Biden finished what was started in Benghazi.
9 posted on 09/01/2021 4:57:13 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I hate, hate, HATE this stolen ‘administration’ with the white-hot intensity of a THOUSAND Suns!

Me also.

10 posted on 09/01/2021 5:43:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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This is twice I've seen the usually correct Victor David write as if Biden actually received more votes than Trump. He's got to know better than to follow now-senile Pat Buchanon's line of thought.

He must also know the spookmaster went over and cut the deal of materiel for live bodies evacuated. Negotiation with terrorists. All carrot and no stick.

Treason.

11 posted on 09/01/2021 10:00:25 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: Rummyfan

That’s the best summary of what happened in Afghanistan, and what is yet to come, that I’ve read so far.

God save us from this senile horse’s ass who’s been installed as President of the United States.


12 posted on 09/01/2021 3:04:34 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (We are so screwed.)
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