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Trump blasts Biden’s Afghan exit strategy as driven by 'weakness, incompetence’
Just The News ^ | Aug 14 | By John Solomon

Posted on 08/14/2021 6:17:21 PM PDT by RandFan

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening blasted his succesor’s strategy for exiting Afghanistan, saying it was driven by “weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”

“Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy, and many other issues,” Trump said in a statement issued by his office. “Everyone knew he couldn’t handle the pressure. Even Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much.”

Trump said his administration left behind a plan to keep pressure on the Taliban while U.S. troops withdrew, and that it was disregarded. He suggested the sudden surge by the Taliban across Afghanistan was due to that failure.

Biden “ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him— a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America,” he said.

Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel told Just the News on Friday that Trump’s plan included continuing U.S.air power to keep the Taliban in check and try to force them into negotiations.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; bidenadm; bideneffect; iran; jihadists; johnsolomon; obamanation; pakistan; trumpstatement; waronterror

1 posted on 08/14/2021 6:17:21 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

JUST IN - U.S. Army begins evacuations. Chinook lands at Kabul airport.pic.twitter.com/4wCJzHwbuj— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) August 15, 2021


2 posted on 08/14/2021 6:18:31 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: RandFan

Next up: the fall of Dien Biden Phu.


3 posted on 08/14/2021 6:18:33 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: RandFan

The Biden Crime Family will get a cut of the ransom paid to the enemy.


4 posted on 08/14/2021 6:19:19 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RandFan

The Biden Crime Family will get a cut of the ransom paid to the enemy.


5 posted on 08/14/2021 6:19:40 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RandFan

The Afghanistan disaster is the least bad thing the Biden admin has done. Why doesn’t Trump put a spotlight on the medical tyranny? Our constitution seems to be hanging by a damn thread.


6 posted on 08/14/2021 6:25:25 PM PDT by tatown
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To: RandFan; All

Meanwhile the foreign invasion continues on our Southern border. If y’all think the toilet paper shortage was a big deal, wait until we “go Venezuela.”


7 posted on 08/14/2021 6:29:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: RandFan
...driven by “weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”

I disagree. Sure, the plan (such as it is apparently) exhibits these qualities. I believe it is driven by stupendous incompetence. The people making the decisions apparently have no applicable knowledge, skill, experience, nor aptitude for this. Asking grade school kids to throw darts at a board would be just as effective if not more so.

Hey, leftists, if you're reading this and you think I just insulted your intelligence and integrity... Bingo. I did exactly that. Instead of getting angry or hurt, try to {censored} redeem yourselves.

8 posted on 08/14/2021 6:32:02 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: RandFan

Trump is right on the money, Biden is weak, Harris is even weaker!!! Everything these two losers Biden/Harris have touched, changed, or altered has gone down the drain or turned totally sour. Biden/Harris have screwed up the Virus campaign, the economy, gasoline prices, caused massive inflation, the USA border, illegal aliens, Afghanistan is a repeat of The Saigon horror. Neither of these two incompetents (Biden’Harris) has a functioning brain between them.

I actually believe that Biden is done and has taken this five day vacation to hide, do nothing and then announce he is resigning due to personal illness. I am praying to God with all my might to beg him to protect our Military Folks in Afghanistan as the Taliban marches in its murderous grasp of Afghanistan. Sadly our current Biden appointed, military leadership does not have one strategic brain between all of them that Biden appointed!!! Americans all, you were warned, you did not listen, now “Hell” has arrived courtesy of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the entire Democrat Party has failed you, your children, your families!!! SAD days ahead for the USA...May God Save us from these 100% losers, Biden & Harris, etc.!!!


9 posted on 08/14/2021 6:44:07 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: RandFan
Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel told Just the News on Friday that Trump’s plan included continuing U.S.air power to keep the Taliban in check and try to force them into negotiations.

Of course it did. Zero air power has been used - they literally just sat and watched the Taliban travelling from city to city. They would have been easily exposed to airstrikes prior to entering and this could have been pushed back significantly if not completely.

This is the same thing they did with ISIS - just literally watched the convoys travelling across the desert from city to city - watched them group and set up their siege plans outside the cities, and watched them go in. They could have been hit before that occurred and all of the ensuing death and destruction would not have taken place.

If this strategy isn't intentional - then it is in fact insane.

10 posted on 08/14/2021 6:46:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Alberta's Child

Yup


11 posted on 08/14/2021 6:48:10 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: RandFan

It’s hard being PedoJoe, there’s just too many little girls to grope, not enough hours before he runs out of energy, and this leading thing is just soooooo hard.


12 posted on 08/14/2021 6:49:31 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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13 posted on 08/14/2021 6:53:16 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: RandFan

This will get ugly, real fast.


14 posted on 08/14/2021 6:58:09 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Cobra64
wait until we “go Venezuela.”

That is completely possible given Biden's world view. Just this past week Biden was calling for lifting sanctions on Venezuela. I kid you not. Biden can't do a damn thing right. He's a walking/stumbling and mumbling Charlie Foxtrot.

15 posted on 08/14/2021 7:00:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: RandFan

Hanlon’s Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.


16 posted on 08/14/2021 7:09:46 PM PDT by MnRagman (I'm just guessing now.)
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Notice all these months into the Biden-Harris reign, they again “blame Trump.” Preposterous that the exit strategy had to be carried out in this way on this exact timetable in order to somehow follow Trump’s secret puppet master leadership. Biden could have said later this year or next year if it looked like the Taliban were gaining too much power too fast.

Will the American people blame Trump or Biden?
Yes, they may say “I seen it on CNN. Trump is to blame.” “Yeah, I seen that, too.”


17 posted on 08/14/2021 7:09:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Alberta's Child
Remember when, Biden was newly in Congress, he voted to not fund Vietnam and Vietnam fell.

Onyone see a pattern.

18 posted on 08/14/2021 9:06:52 PM PDT by Parmy
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