Posted on 08/17/2021 10:26:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ignored his own administration’s failures when he tried to explain why desperate civilians in Afghanistan’s capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban because of the swift U.S. departure.
While asserting “the buck stops with me,” Biden on Monday blamed Afghans in large measure for the chaotic evacuation at Kabul’s airport and conceded no missteps.
A look at his remarks:
BIDEN: “I know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghan civilians sooner. Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country. Part of it because the Afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence.”
THE FACTS: This is a misleading explanation that skirts the U.S. failure to anticipate and prepare for the rapid fall of the Afghan government.
While some Afghans may have wanted to stay in their country until the lightning Taliban takeover of the last several days plenty didn’t.
Many had waited years for the U.S. to finish processing their visa applications. Non-government organizations complained that the U.S. continued to cling to its intensive paperwork process that requires years, bundles of documents and often repeated tries to work through.
On Sunday, the State Department inbox for applications for those special visas for those Afghans was so full that it rejected them for some part of the day.
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That’s about as critical I’ve ever seen the AP of their incompetent ruler.
Reuters’ and AP’s “Fact Checks” are so #ing poncy.
On the teleprompter yesterday you can clearly see “LEAVE NOW” at the end of his speech..that is why he ran out the door faster than someone with diarrhea
The AP wrote this?
I think Walter would make a decent President compared to Biden. At least, his handler isn’t a communist!
The Idiot Biden is Obama’s meat puppet.
Old news. Nothing new there.
Visuals so bad with people so desperate being thrown off jets, even the commies know they can’t sell this one.
Dogs unleashed. Start the countdown.
Indeed, plus the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/58243158
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