Posted on 04/10/2020 7:58:19 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Vice President Joe Biden decided to make one more last-minute push to convince President Obama that the advice his generals were giving him was disastrously wrong. It was Thanksgiving weekend 2009, and Obama was on the verge of committing 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan.
Biden was in Nantucket, Mass., with his family for the holiday. He pulled out a legal pad and began writing a memo for Obama in longhand that he hoped might limit the damage from the president’s decision.
The memo summarized the arguments he had been airing for months to the growing irritation of the military’s top brass. The Pentagon’s strategy was too broad, too expensive, and too focused on the Taliban insurgency, instead of al-Qaeda.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Thx for WaPost as its good to see what real morons read and believe.
Go Joe .... yeah, you’re brilliant /s
Shoulda used tactical nukes on the Tollybon right off the bat.
The best strategy for anything is to do the opposite of what Joe Biden wants to do.
Let’s give Obama credit for that, even if he was otherwise a similar failure.
Now that the war in Afghanistan is winding down (hopefully), Slow Joe pipes in with something irrelevant that will inevitably denigrate America and our Armed Forces...
Just what the country needs is a Commander In Chief who has no faith in his troops.
I think this whole story is made up garbage. More AstroTurf campaign hogwash.
Interesting article. Even the WaPo says he has repeatedly flip-flopped onto every side of every issue. This is a NOT flattering article for Biden.
I skimmed the first 25 comments and they are all unanimously against him. That was shocking. Of course, that was back when he looked like a losing also-ran.
How convienient-—now!
How convienient-—now!
Well the “Never forget” has been forgotten and lost by every president since. It sux that President Trump has to be in the same seat as Nixon. It is a disgrace. Biden can FOAD. The N-Kenyan was responsible for more deaths and the pissing gas on Afghanistan and the Mideast.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should have shattered the military’s and the people’s faith in politicians and diplomats. ALL of them. Biden is much more to blame for the lack of resolution than the military is.
Actually the lack of resolution of the wars in Korea and Vietnam should have shattered everyone’s faith in politicians.
US military power is fine. It is the weak kneed, jelly spined commanders and politicians at the highest levels who will not unleash the shock and awe of that power.
We have a military that spends its time trying to remove an enemy's ability to wage war, not their will to wage war. Removing the will is when victory comes.
The fact that Joe Biden's caretakers created this "dear diary" story and that the Washington Post ran with it means they're trying to distance Biden from the Obama record.
Not sure why they're using this strategy, but there are several possibilities. Maybe Obama isn't as popular as the press makes out and they know it. Maybe Obama isn't going to endorse Biden and they need to make a break before Obama does. The DNC may want another candidate, but the Biden team doesn't want him replaced.
I never had faith in Joe Biden or any other Democrat, so I never had any faith to shatter.
#13. well said. If you cripple or destroy an enemy’s will to fight and win, or cripple the faith that leads them to nothing but death, then you take out the underpinnings of their reasons to fight for a losing cause.
Meanwhile you keep bombing the hell out of them but add Napalm into the mix. You can run from it, but you can’t hide.
Crispy critter time!
Where’s the BARF ALERT?
Bidin is one of these politicians that supports the use of U.S. military forces and then changes his mind after they have handcuffed them so they can’t do their job.
There is no reason that this Afghanistan fiasco should have taken over 10 years or the Iraq fiasco as well.
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