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Biden's statement 'washing hands' of Afghanistan 'is one of most shameful in US history': Left and right-wing media unite in condemnation of America's 'chaotic retreat' and 'betrayal' of Afghan people
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 16, 2021 | Mark Duell

Posted on 08/16/2021 6:10:51 AM PDT by C19fan

Media outlets across the political divide in the US and Britain have united in their condemnation over Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan crisis amid what is being billed the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in 65 years.

Even Left-wing outlets such as CNN and The New York Times that would traditionally back a Democrat president have hit out at Mr Biden for his role in allowing insurgents to take Kabul after routing Afghan forces in just a week.

The Wall Street Journal condemned Joe Biden's statement 'washing his hands' of the situation, saying it should 'go down as one of the most shameful in history by a Commander in Chief at such a moment of American retreat'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; bideneffect; california; dailymail; markduell; nancypelosi; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorktimes; unitedkingdom; wallstreetjournal; waronterror
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Why anyone would ally with the United State is beyond me.
1 posted on 08/16/2021 6:10:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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Anyone will gladly take the US money—with the understanding that they may need to cut and run the other way at a moment’s notice.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 6:12:05 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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We have a lot of cash?

Taiwan has probably upped their alert status. I know I would.

3 posted on 08/16/2021 6:12:42 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: cgbg

China has the money now.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 6:13:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

maybe he confused it with COVID


5 posted on 08/16/2021 6:13:24 AM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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To: C19fan

We are broke and woke.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 6:13:55 AM PDT by Theoria
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I don't disbelieve this at all, but this is the first I've heard of Joe Biden saying this. If it's true he's toast, he's finished, he might not have the sun come down on him "at Camp David" tonite.

When, where, etc? Got a citation or a link?

Oh yeah, AND Kamala, AND Nancy and Chuckie and Steny. ALL OF THEM.

7 posted on 08/16/2021 6:17:31 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always say, "After the fair trial".)
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Nope, China is insolvent too. They just hide it.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 6:17:59 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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“Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis”

You can’t handle something if your doing nothing


9 posted on 08/16/2021 6:22:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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This whole thing going on in A’stan is no surprise to me. How would anyone be surprised or shocked with the king of the morons and all his creatures running things??

Their combined IQ’s, squared, could not make minus zero!


10 posted on 08/16/2021 6:23:26 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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“Why anyone would ally with the United State is beyond me. “

Because the United States is more than just Joe Biden and his team.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 6:25:37 AM PDT by cymbeline
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He will get back with everyone.

In just a few more days.

12 posted on 08/16/2021 6:26:15 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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It keeps getting worse under Biden, just like his progressive Dementia.


13 posted on 08/16/2021 6:27:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Biden crossed the Rubicon with this historic fiasco. For at least a generation, maybe more. Trump had begun to pull back some respect by defeating ISIS, after obama’s “ red line” BS. Peace was starting to break out all over the Middle East, Balkans, even a pause in North Korean belligerence,

But now?

America’s Suez moment.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 6:33:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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This whole thing going on in A’stan is no surprise to me. How would anyone be surprised or shocked with the king of the morons and all his creatures running things?? Their combined IQ’s, squared, could not make minus zero!

True.
Ol' Joe has been on the wrong side of every issue for 48yrs.
And he thinks he is a foreign policy genius. HaH !

15 posted on 08/16/2021 6:38:00 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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“Media outlets across the political divide in the US and Britain have united in their condemnation over Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis amid what is being billed the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in 65 years”

So what happened in 1956?


16 posted on 08/16/2021 6:38:09 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: silverleaf
Hidin' Biden says:

"Kabul's ice cream is so good, You'll jump at the chance to get it."


17 posted on 08/16/2021 6:38:10 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Michael Leroy Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt?)
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Those poor souls made a decision like the jumpers on 9-11.
I can’t smile about memes of it.


18 posted on 08/16/2021 6:40:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: C19fan

US now suspending all evacuate flights.


19 posted on 08/16/2021 6:40:15 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: silverleaf

I AM NOT BEING FUNNY.


20 posted on 08/16/2021 6:41:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Michael Leroy Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt?)
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