Posted on 08/15/2021 3:23:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan as Taliban fighters began entering the capital, Kabul.
In a series of interviews on Sunday talk shows, Blinken said the US succeeded in its mission of bringing those responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to justice and argued that remaining in the country was not sustainable.
“Remaining in Afghanistan for another one, five, 10 years was not in the national interest,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
While many have started comparing Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan to America’s flight from Saigon during the Vietnam War in 1975, Blinken pushed back against that comparison.
“This is manifestly not Saigon,” the Secretary of State said on ABC’s “This Week”, adding that Biden had a “tough decision” to make after the Trump administration established a deadline of May 1 to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
“If the president had decided to stay, all gloves would have been off. We would have been back at war with the Taliban,” Blinken said, adding the US would likely have had to send tens of thousands of additional troops to the country to fight.
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Wow ... they do lie when their lips move ... it manifestly is sir ... actually worse.
Yeah....we can tell from the 46s and 47s carrying people from the embassy, and from everyone in an absolute panic at the airport, and from the local leaders fleeing the country.
Idiot.
And this guy is the reincarnation of Baghdad Bob.
Al Qaeda. Not quite the same thing. I guess we got involved in a war with the Taliban because we couldn't find al Quaeda for all those years.
The Joelitburo and their Senile Puppet fumbled this one a that goal line.
“This is manifestly not Saigon,” = “This is manifestly Saigon,”
Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod. We are screwed. The #JihadJunta is in full control.
No WinkenBlinkenNod - its far worse - this time you abandoned US citizens to the mercies of the Taliban.
They did but weren’t allowed by higher ups to say it.
Much worse!
Not Saigon, no. It is remarkably much, much worse.
Saigon was a rainy Sunday afternoon in the park in comparison.
Let the Chinese Communist Party go in and bust their horns there.
Wouldn’t be the first foreign expeditionary force to be drubbed and repulsed. The various tribes of Afghans are a hardy people, and they stay sharp by regularly beating up on each other, thereby eliminating the weak early on. Natural selection for truculence has been going on for centuries, millennia even.
STFU, pencil neck.
Oh, and Joe's spending the weekend at the Presidential retreat and resuming his summer vacation in Delaware next week. I sure feel safer.
Yes its a harsh ultimatum not to cross that line of there will be many sternly worded letters from Susan Rice and her buddy 0bama - doesn’t get much worse than that. Muhammed Arif Mustafa will be pissing in his boots again if he harms Americans, just you watch!
Cue the Charlie Daniels song.
No, it’s WORSE you idiot.
Perfect. This is EXACTLY like Vietnam.
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