PHOTO 2: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the PAVN & Viet Cong capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1975)
Bizarre concept to try to blame someone else for your own decisions that were yours - and yours alone.
There is much to debate about the United States’ involvement in a 20-year war in Afghanistan, but it should be clear to all that Biden botched the withdrawal. The only question remaining is exactly how badly.
If blame is to be spread out, W deserves more than Trump. inheriting something with a decade and a half of inertia is not easy.
Biden lied, heroes died.
He could blame Bush/Cheney.
And or he could also blame Obama, his boss Mr Nobel Peace prize recipient, and himself for 8 years of thumb twiddling?
And as fake President he delayed withdrawal.
And in general most of the same enriched political hacks that had 20 years to come up with a plan.
He will have to fire someone. Probably Blinken.
This turd is squarely on your plate, Joe. Progressives own this, 100%. From W till now.
Here is who I blame in order of most liable to least:
George W Bush
Biden
Obama
Military brass
Trump
PHOTO 2: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the PAVN & Viet Cong capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1975)
Biden’s plan for everything...
Step 1. Do the opposite of what Trump did.
Step 2. When everything falls apart, blame Trump.
But he will and his media will allow it
This is Biden’s bitch….thanks for giving all the military hardware to the taliban, Russia and China….you phucking commies…
Biden got his butt wiped - again. Naptime
REALITY CHECK-——NY Post Miranda Devine asked President Trump Sunday about the plan his administration had to get out of Afghanistan —which ultimately was obstructed by the same US generals who gave Biden a green light.
“We were going to not let people get slaughtered,” Trump said flatly. “I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect . . .
“We had all sorts of conditions . . . All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out . . .
“I was going to close this ridiculous embassy they spent a billion dollars on and move everybody out . . .
“I was going to blow up every military base [before we left]. I was going to take out every single piece of equipment. I said I don’t want anything left [apart from] leave each soldier a gun . . .
“Plus, I had a relationship with the Taliban where they knew they weren’t allowed to do this. They understood they were going to get hit very hard . . . What I had was conversations with the [Taliban] leadership where I said if you do anything we were going to hit them like they haven’t been hit before.”
Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who began negotiating with the Taliban in February 2020 to lay down conditions for a US withdrawal, has corroborated Trump’s version of events.
Pompeo was in the room when Trump warned the Taliban’s senior negotiator, Mullah Baradar, that if a single American was hurt or threatened the entire wrath of American power would rain down on them.
“We never trusted the Taliban,” he told Fox News Sunday. “We made abundantly clear . . . we weren’t going to allow them to just walk away from any deal that they had struck. We were going to go crush them, we were going to impose real costs on them. We weren’t going to let them take these provincial capitals. They understood that American power was going to come to their village, to their community, to their friends and family.”
You can bet the Taliban believed Trump would make good on his threat. (h/t Miranda Devine NY Post)
Yeah but he’ll still blame trump anyway because you know, orange man bad...
After we uprooted Al-Qaeda in 2003, that should have been it. When Bush decided to make them into little Americans because they love freedom, anyone with sense knew what was coming. In my case I was wrong about how long it took.
And we never went back to "normal" after 9-11. All the repressive emergency measures are still in place. The only normal we had since then (up to 2020) is a new generation grew up not knowing anything else.
The buck stops there!
See? Over there. That orange squirrel did it.
“Former President Donald Trump 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.”
