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Trump calls on Biden to ‘resign in disgrace’ over crisis in Afghanistan
NY Post ^ | August 15, 20 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 08/15/2021 5:48:18 PM PDT by conservative98

Former President Donald Trump Sunday called on President Biden to “resign in disgrace” over his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and other issues.

“It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,” the former president wrote in a statement.

The Taliban has rapidly taken control of most of the country as insurgent forces enter the capital city of Kabul, where U.S. troops have been sent to evacuate the embassy.

Mobs of panicked people can be seen at the Kabul airport frantically trying to flee the city on Sunday.

Trump’s administration had negotiated the terms of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1. Trump even considered withdrawing troops from the region before leaving office.

When President Biden announced that he planned to fully withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, he was slammed by Trump who insisted Biden “keep as close” as possible to his own goal of getting the troops out on May 1.

“I made early withdraw possible by already pulling much of our billions of dollars of equipment out and, more importantly, reducing our military presence to less than 2,000 troops from the 16,000 level that was there (likewise in Iraq, and zero troops in Syria except for the area where we KEPT THE OIL),” he said in an email to supporters in April.

Republicans have blasted Biden for the current crisis in the country, where the U.S. had maintained a presence for 20 years.

Biden was also criticized by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who told Fox News the situation would not have happened if Trump was still in

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To: montag813; All

Media is already pointing out the Trump wanted us out in May, and that 2 Republican and 2 Democrat presidents have all been involved in this 20 year problem. I have not yet heard the complaint that Cheney and Bush 2 going into Iraq meant we lost focus on Afghanistan. Personally, I am pixxed that my son in Special Forces lost 3 years with his young family because of 2 Afghan deployments and 1 Afghan focused deployment to the Middle East—2006, 2013, and 2020.


141 posted on 08/16/2021 10:17:50 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: RummyChick; All

I think I heard the phrase “shelter in place” used. I imagine they are running out of food and water at the airport. Hope the incoming plains will be loaded with these supplies.


142 posted on 08/16/2021 10:23:46 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: CraigEsq; conservative98; All

News reports are saying that when we withdrew the air support and other help to the Afghan Army, they panicked as soon as the Taliban attacked. I imagine President Trump would also have had to remove those supports when he closed out in May. Why wasn’t the Afghan Army trained enough to not need this kind of help??


143 posted on 08/16/2021 10:29:49 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: conservative98; CraigEsq; All

Like people with sense actually think the Taliban would have kept those promises. There would always have been some excuse they could have used to default on the promise. Actually, Taliban will be smart to not harbor terrorist groups for their own safety, either from those groups, or from Western retaliation if they go out and perform more terror acts in US and Europe.


144 posted on 08/16/2021 10:36:05 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Westbrook; Fury; All

How besides military action would Trump have been able to pay hell to the Taliban who are not much plugged into the 20th Century, much less the 21st?


145 posted on 08/16/2021 10:48:01 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: garjog

Hey, but at least we know how to mask and social distance. Hard to catch Ebola that way.


146 posted on 08/16/2021 10:51:18 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: conservative98

People dropping off a C-17 at 500ft isn’t a very good look.


147 posted on 08/16/2021 11:04:40 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: gleeaikin

President Trump would have designed the civilians to leave first.

Boots and armor would not have moved.


148 posted on 08/16/2021 11:11:54 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: gleeaikin

Money and supplies.


149 posted on 08/17/2021 6:35:24 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: sheehan

Hubby likes their platform:

1. no gynocracy
2. no in your face LGBTQ, preferred pronouns
3. abortions banned
4. patriarchy re-established

LOL (doesn’t like the part about gun grabbing from civilians)

I have always asserted that although the Moslems have been a warring, tribalistic lot intent on controlling and converting the world (not unlike CCP China), they did not ramp up their efforts in the 1950’s when western culture was sane.


150 posted on 08/17/2021 10:27:24 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportiongte tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: CraigEsq

Sometimes timing (and other factors) are crucial. Like not getting stuck part way into Russia in winter.

Here is one analysis:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3985912/posts

Now, that said, the Taliban had Pakistan and China behind them, so, in the long run I believe the Afghan military needed at least air support and intelligence from the West, as well as us making it quite painful for Pakistan’s ISI, in particular, to support the Taliban. Kabul also needed a sort of intangible: a 20 year younger General Dostrum.

Just my 2 cents worth.


151 posted on 08/17/2021 11:47:38 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: eyedigress; Fury; CraigEsq; conservative98; Westbrook; All

The airplane tragedies certainly show just how desperate the people were regarding Taliban rule. Today there have been reports emphasizing the Taliban’s conciliatory attitude and reassuring other Islamic oriented countries of their good behavior. One difference to the Taliban now versus 20 years ago is that even Taliban have had 10 or more years of access to the internet and social media, also the “Arab Spring” and the many complexities of those events. Presumably Taliban should be much more aware of world opinion and perhaps be concerned about some of it. Anybody know how many cell phones and Chromebooks Taliban actually have.

I listened to a man today who is the ranking Republican on a Congressional committee dealing with military and security, He expressed concern that we never did anything about obtaining the rare earth minerals from Afghanistan and which China is so eagerly grabbing throughout the world. He also spoke about how long it takes to process the papers for the Afghan translators and families. What I want to know is if these things were so important why weren’t they being done during the last administration, especially if we were leaving in May. The ranking Republican was very concerned that we had not done a good job of caring for the people who helped us as translators, etc. Is this similar to the way we did not honor our commitments to the Kurds several years ago because it was more important to have the Turks happy? Pretty soon nobody is going to trust it is safe to help us. He also mentioned that we should have gotten bin Ladden when he was at Tora Bora and nipped a lot of this trouble in the bud. My question is how did the CIA manage to loose the maps they had made of Tora Bora? Did this happen so that lots of money could be made on military efforts. Cheney and Halliburton certainly cleaned up in Iraq. What kind of exposure did they have to US money in Afghanistan, and who else were major beneficiaries in executing projects that were not very effective for the Afghan people, but sure cost a lot of our tax dollars?


152 posted on 08/17/2021 9:32:14 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: EQAndyBuzz; All

But, but, but, the Taliban said they would eliminate the drug trade, or not?


153 posted on 08/17/2021 9:37:24 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

I see you fail to mention 8 years of Bronco.


154 posted on 08/17/2021 9:40:38 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: CraigEsq

Trump would not have pulled out completely in the middle of the night leaving 40,000 American civilians behind enemy lines. He wouldnt have 1000s of allies behind enemy lines. He would not be begging the Taliban to do the right thing but holding them to benchmarks that would have teeth. He would reverse the pull out if the Taliban violated the benchmarks.


155 posted on 08/18/2021 2:50:00 AM PDT by joegoeny ("Nuts!")
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To: montag813

🔝


156 posted on 08/18/2021 2:51:45 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: conservative98

Once again I agree with President Trump.


157 posted on 08/18/2021 9:51:57 AM PDT by Parley Baer (go trump )
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To: eyedigress; All

Since this thread is about the Afghan situation, I was focusing on Afghanistan issues. If the CIA maps had been used, the next president might not have had serious issues in Afghanistan.


158 posted on 08/18/2021 12:58:03 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: ConservativeInPA

We need to make them, and no one wants to make them.


159 posted on 08/20/2021 4:50:23 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think that means Blinken would become President?


160 posted on 08/21/2021 5:11:48 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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