Posted on 08/15/2021 11:34:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It is simply dizzying the speed at which events are unfolding – earlier this week US officials were cautioning that it would be months before Kabul might fall. It’s turned out to be days.
And now, for all the diplomatic window dressing, this is turning into a scramble by the Americans to get out.
Officials at the embassy were told to destroy sensitive documents, helicopters are ferrying staff to the airport. The Ambassador has left, the US flag lowered.
And it’s left the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, trying to put a brave face on events.
Arguments can be made about the US policy to pull out – there is a strong feeling that US involvement couldn’t continue ad infinitum.
But the manner of the withdrawal has been hapless, with a mass of miscalculation, warnings ignored, and – critically – a wild over-estimation of the capability of the American-trained Afghan armed forces.
The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.
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Joe Biden won’t accept this. He has made a career out of pointing fingers and will continue to do so.
It’s a disaster in every direction...Gas prices though the roof, food, material, prices of everything going up, wide open borders as Biden is seeds the country with tens of thousands of infected illegal foreigners, Afghanistan being over run after spending hundred of billions in that s**t bucket, now they want more lockdowns and forced madatory injections of very questionable concoctions....
On and on and on.
At least the price of heroin should come down (/s)
Cornpop talks big, but the Taliban have just dragged him behind the gym and they’re beating the crap out of him.
This whole Afghanistan thing brings back memories...
Jimmy Carter losing Nicaragua
Jimmy Carter losing Iran
History just repeats itself
Senile Biden doesn’t have a foreign policy, and neither do his non-senile cabinet members and advisers.
He’s already blaming Trump for this.
President Biden owns this unfolding chaos . . . not as long as he can blame Donald J. Trump.
“The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president...”
His MSM bootlickers are writing this. The globalists usually love defeats.
Officials at the embassy were told to destroy sensitive documents
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They may view their personal safety as a far more pressing concern than burning some documents. A lot of classified stuff will be left for the Taliban to peruse.
What a complete debacle this is. This is what happens when a corrupt person is installed in office: the country loses.
Jimmuh maybe can feel a little better about his abysmal record now.
He might go down to 48.6 percent in the polls with 30 percent against.
Why not? Trump is in exile, without a voice and the Republican party is useless.
May be not. Perhaps it was the plan all along. Create a crisis. Don't let the crisis go to waste. Be vigilant in the days to come. They will be coming for more of our freedoms and liberties. I've already seen the seeds planted today, with mention of increased risk of terrorism due to the fall of Afghanistan. Except Biden only classifies Trump supporters as terrorist. Heaven forbit if he speaks the truth about pedophile prophet worshiping death cultists. They are his friends.
Yeah. No way the MSM will allow polls that show what Americans really think. Heck, that hasn’t been the case for 30 years.
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