Posted on 08/17/2021 6:37:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A new report suggests President Joe Biden was not only long a proponent of deserting the Afghan people, but he even pointed to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and how former President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger "got away with it."
The remarks come from a 2010 diary entry from Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
When Holbrooke asked then-Vice President Biden about the American duty to protect vulnerable Afghan civilians, Biden shot back with a four-letter word and a historical reference, the Mail reported.
"F*** that, we don't have to worry about that," Biden told Holbrooke just months before his death in 2010. "We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it."
Before his death in December 2010, Holbrooke was appointed special adviser to Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2009. His diary, turned over to biographer George Packer, suggested Biden was one of the administration's most vocal critics of the war in Afghanistan and a skeptic of America's duty to the Afghan people.
Biden defended his decision to withdraw Monday, even if the reality the Taliban quickly took control of the country as the Afghanistan government leader fled and the U.S.-trained military refused to fight the Taliban.
Despite warnings of that eventuality, Biden went over the advice of his military leaders to fully and unconditionally withdraw American forces from the country by Sept. 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the Taliban-trained terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"I am president of the United States of America, and the buck stops with me," Biden said from the White House on Monday, briefly interrupting his Camp David vacation.
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Joe, what will you say when you stand before the final judge, the one that knows the truth?
May God have mercy on your soul...
The Idiot Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy for the last 40 years.
I believe it was Robert Gates that said that originally, but it is true.
I am highly suspicious about this whole thing, I think the Chicoms paid off Biden. He pulls out the military before the US citizens? All those weapons are left behind? We have a domestic enemy in the Oval office, how long is this crap going to go on before something is done? There is NOTHING this guy has done that has been even a shred beneficial to the USA and we have to tolerate this for 3.5 more years possibly 7.5?
.... Too Bad it’s only a Report and not a soundbite .....
"Dear Diary, I am increasingly worried about letting Biden anywhere near young females, especially underage ones. This obsession with hair sniffing and running his hands over their sides is pathetic and I believe dangerous in its implications."
Above is my satire-----so far.
Excellent points.
What was the lying explanation for leaving tons of automatic weapons and ammo to the enemy when they knew for over a year that they were planning to evacuate?
And choosing Afghan insiders to live and Americans to be left behind surrounded on all sides by terrorists who “seem” to be conciliatory -—for the time being. But they are now in charge so who knows?
Kamala is his only impeachment or 25th amendment protection. It would not be trading up.
The first hand video of them riding on the side of the plane is wild. They are smiling and waving to those on the ground as the plane speeds up.
If they can afford phones with cameras you would think they would understand that they werent about to make to the US
We presume Biden’s aware of what he’s doing.
The REAL Loser.
He was right. We killed hundreds of thousands of them, thousands of our own died & we are bankrupt.
This was also Trump’s viewpoint. Defeat Al Qaeda and leave. That is the conservative (not NeoCon) position.
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