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'F*** that. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it in Vietnam': What Biden told Obama's special representative for Afghanistan he thought of America's obligations to the Afghan people
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 17 2021 | DAVID AVERRE FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 08/17/2021 11:49:45 AM PDT by knighthawk

The rapid US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has left the gate open for the Taliban to surge to power may come as a surprise to some, but President Biden has been in favour of pulling out for years.

In 2010, Biden reportedly told Richard Holbrooke, then Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the US had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the cost for the Afghan people.

According to Holbrooke, when Biden was asked about America's obligation to maintain their presence in Afghanistan to protect vulnerable civilians, he scornfully replied by referencing the US exit from southeast Asia in 1973.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abandoned; afghanistan; biden; bideneffect; california; dailymail; davidaverre; demagogicparty; henrykissinger; leftbehind; mediawingofthednc; nancypelosi; pakistan; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; richardholbrooke; richardnixon; saigon; surrenderjunkies; vietnam; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/17/2021 11:49:45 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

VietNam’s “boat people” have been a positive thing for America.

Afghans maybe not so much.


2 posted on 08/17/2021 11:51:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: knighthawk

Biden’s not only a hack. He’s a stupid, offensive hack.


3 posted on 08/17/2021 11:53:02 AM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: knighthawk

“President Biden has been in favour of pulling out for years”

If I had a son like Hunter, I’d probably be in favor of pulling out too.


4 posted on 08/17/2021 11:54:47 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Are you here all week.

Is there plenty of free parking.

Could we be in a greater comedy paradise.


5 posted on 08/17/2021 11:56:54 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: knighthawk

And there ya have it. All he cares about is what he can “get away” with.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 11:56:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: knighthawk

Still plagiarizing......................


7 posted on 08/17/2021 11:56:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Army Air Corps

Ping


8 posted on 08/17/2021 11:58:07 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: knighthawk

I’ve seen a lot of people blaming Nixon for the “boat people’ and Saigon. He wasn’t in office. Ford was.


9 posted on 08/17/2021 11:59:05 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: knighthawk

Nixon said something similar when the post-Watergate weather started changing for him.

The Democrats, quoth he, get away with this kind of stuff ALL THE TIME! But it’s true. We don’t accept it from Republicans.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 11:59:49 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: knighthawk

There are some parallels but as far as execution goes this doesn’t really compare. Nixon negotiated while at the same time bombing the heck out of the north. In the end it was a failure but not for lack of trying.

Trump did draw the forces down, but the forces that remained kept the Taliban in check. When the Taliban broke their agreements they paid a price; often with military force.

Now there are people trapped all over that country. Americans, others, and Afghans who were are allies, aides, translators and so many others. What we see at the Kabul airport is the tip of the iceberg. No real effort appears to have been made to bring them in to a safe zone before letting the Taliban run amok.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 12:00:55 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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this is 10,000 times worse than Vietnam...Nixon and American combat troops were long gone by the time Saigon collapsed in 1975...South Vietnam fought by themselves the last 2-3 years and did a pretty good job...it was Biden and the Dems back then who cut off funding and stabbed them in the back..this situation here..there are thousands of Americans through out Afghanistan who cant get to the only way out in Kabul....if the Taliban wanted to, they could simply start executing them...never seen anything like this in my life...anywhere ever in any other war....all just to remove 2500 troops??....insanity.


12 posted on 08/17/2021 12:00:59 PM PDT by basalt
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To: BenLurkin

Those boat people have been a tremendous positive to the US.

Also, I am of the opinion that we.actually won the Vietnam war, it just took 50 years to do it.


13 posted on 08/17/2021 12:05:34 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: knighthawk

More chaos and a continuing horror story from the Kabul airport!

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2021/08/16/3953441767169608935/636x382_MP4_3953441767169608935.mp4


14 posted on 08/17/2021 12:13:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, China, Cuba, Canada, the UK, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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To: The Antiyuppie

“Those boat people have been a tremendous positive to the US.”
I have known several of them through the years, all of them have been very patriotic, hard working Americans very grateful to be here.


15 posted on 08/17/2021 12:14:08 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: BenLurkin

VietNam’s “boat people” have been a positive thing for America.
Afghans maybe not so much.


Educated Afghans, who, I’d like to assume would be the bulk of Afghans, being admitted (but with the bunch in DC you never know) could well be assets. Iranians who have fled Iran have tended to make pretty good citizens.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 12:24:31 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

I knew some Iranians in college. Fine people. They were all from Tehran.

Often wonder what become of them.


17 posted on 08/17/2021 12:28:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: knighthawk
You think this might have been an important piece of information before the election?
18 posted on 08/17/2021 12:36:20 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: liberalh8ter

There was no election.


19 posted on 08/17/2021 12:41:08 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: BenLurkin

No indeed. My local Iranian shop owners who are modern and little religions cannot stand their Afghan worker. They call him “another dumb Aluha Akbar”. Indeed, like an insecure klansman, this dude’s sense of pride only derives from his cult.


20 posted on 08/17/2021 1:18:35 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifie)
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