Posted on 08/14/2021 1:35:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
President Joe Biden announced in a statement on Saturday the deployment of an additional 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, “to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance.”
Biden is also announcing a series of actions aimed at deescalating the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, including directing the intel community “to ensure that we will maintain the capability and the vigilance to address future terrorist threats from Afghanistan,” tasking Secretary of State Tony Blinken with supporting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, conveying to Taliban representatives in Doha “that any action on their part on the ground in Afghanistan, that puts US personnel or our mission at risk there, will be met with a swift and strong US military response,” and tasking Ambassador Tracey Jacobson with efforts “to process, transport, and relocate Afghan special immigrant visa applicants and other Afghan allies.”
“When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor— which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019—that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces,” Biden wrote. “Shortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500. Therefore, when I became President, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict.”
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One of the many reasons the dems couldn’t have him do a second term...Too many things they wanted destroyed ,he would have fixed....
Yup, this could turn into Vietnam in a hurry...
Bidet could be the next LBJ.
We are just sending the Taliban more targets.
Leftist protesters better update the old signs:
“Biden is a baby killer....”
I pray for the men and women in the military who are being sent to Afghanistan by someone who is NOT qualified to be commander-in-chief.
“... tasking Secretary of State Tony Blinken with supporting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani...”
..are these troops in addition to the 3,000 troops Loopy Joe said they were sending to that sh*thole of a country....?
can you say “Saigon, 1975...?” boys and girls....except this will be worse....far worse.....
More dead or maimed/injured troops ...
I thought it was 3,000 needed. Escalating already?
Imagine what the spouses and children of these Troops are going through.
First this, then that, then this too, maybe, after my vacation. Emotional whiplash.
...fall of Saigon.....
Which troops ? What weapons and transport ? What RoEs ? Does a list of Afghan evacuees exist ? Is the airport secure ? Are enough aircraft available to evacuate all ? Can we be sure the are no shoulder SAMs in Taliban possession ? These questions and more need to be answered or at least asked before committing forces. Hopefully contingency plans have been prepared in the past and are now being addressed.
War is what the deep state wants. President Eisenhower warned us of the “Military Industrial Complex” in 1962 and we have not paid attention. The deep state needs the heron to enslave the people and fill their pockets.
Trumps fault
Fixed it for you....
Pumped up on that C-19 sauce. Who knows what that might do? I hope nothing.
By that time, ‘24 or so, a Republican should be president. The left will then blame everything on him/her..and Trump, of course.
When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor
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... that would have WORKED
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ya incompetent or complicit moron !!!
But no ,
if Americans have to die to satiate the evil left ,
..then that’s the price the left is happy to spend.
Spit.
A whole lot too late. By the time the faggots in the pentagon drag their feet, A’stan ceases to exist.
‘23 min ago Biden announces he’s authorized 5,000 troops to Afghanistan to ensure “orderly and safe drawdown”’
Six months and 23 minutes late Joe.
Most Americans struggle just to survive and pay their GD bills and these globalist assholes waste trillions in foreign lands, only to have it backfire in our faces. Over and over they’ve looted the American treasure.
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