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Trump rips Biden's Afghan actions: 'Our country has never been so humiliated'; 'blows Vietnam away'
Fox News ^ | 8/18/21 | Charles Creitz

Posted on 08/17/2021 9:32:21 PM PDT by conservative98

President Donald J. Trump strongly condemned President Joe Biden and the catastrophe unfolding in Kabul, Afghanistan since the weekend, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday.

Trump told "Hannity" that Biden has humiliated the United States more than any other president in history, explicitly eclipsing fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter's Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979.

"It is a terrible time for our country. I don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated. I don't know what you call it – a military defeat or a psychological defeat, there has never been anything like what's happened here: You can go back to Jimmy Carter with the hostages,"Trump said.

Trump considered whether Biden will in one aspect cause an exponentially worse hostage crisis, as the Taliban currently has Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul surrounded by checkpoints–at which there have been reports of beatings and other violence.

"You are dealing with thousands and thousands of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously…in Afghanistan. So it's something that you can't even believe."

Trump said the scenes from the weekend where desperate Afghans clung to the side of an Air Force cargo plane's fuselage and later fell to their deaths when the aircraft reached altitude makes the U.S. Embassy airlift evacuation in Saigon in 1975 look small.

"I looked at that big monster cargo plane yesterday with people grabbing the side and trying to get flown out of Afghanistan because of their incredible fear – and they're blowing off of the plane from 2,000 feet up in the air, nobody has ever seen anything like that," he said. "That blows the helicopters in Vietnam away. That is not even a contest. It has been the most humiliating period of time that I've ever seen."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; bidenforeignpolicy; california; nancypelosi; pghbaldy; saigon; trump; vietnam; waronterror; wediditjoe
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1 posted on 08/17/2021 9:32:21 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

All to Demoralize
This Great Nation.


2 posted on 08/17/2021 9:38:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger ("You Vaccinated?"---Me, "Am I Jewish ?")
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To: conservative98

Not to be too apoplectical, but what Biden has done, is a crime against humanity, and he should be impeached and tried in the Hague. This kleptocrat should have long ago been put out to pasture, but it’s time to round up the ruling cabal, and see to it they’re ridden out of DC on a rail. Impeachment talk should be all the rage among republicrats and the demsheviks in a just world. Kamala deserves to be canned too, even if Pelosi gets the presidency, as nobody could do a worse job as president, Pelosi included.


3 posted on 08/17/2021 9:43:11 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: Big Red Badger

I DESPISE Demoncrats! I pray that God’s judgement arrives while Biden is still in office!


4 posted on 08/17/2021 9:43:25 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: krogers58
Kamala deserves to be canned too,

NOT "canned"....caned!!!

Google "caning" + Singapore.

She needs a REAL "Singapore sling"!

5 posted on 08/17/2021 9:48:01 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: krogers58

Agree. Every word.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 9:48:54 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: conservative98

We’ve been there longer than Vietnam, right? At least in large numbers.

From the time Johnson escalated until the fall of Saigon was about ten years, wasn’t it? We’ve been in Afghanistan about twenty.


7 posted on 08/17/2021 9:49:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: conservative98

The main villains are the military brass who decided to close Bagram air base too early. There is hardly a punishment severe enough for whoever gave that order - and I doubt Biden was lucid enough to formulate it himself.


8 posted on 08/17/2021 9:51:42 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: krogers58
Not to be too apoplectical, but what Biden has done, is a crime against humanity, and he should be impeached and tried in the Hague. This kleptocrat should have long ago been put out to pasture, but it’s time to round up the ruling cabal, and see to it they’re ridden out of DC on a rail. Impeachment talk should be all the rage among republicrats and the demsheviks in a just world. Kamala deserves to be canned too, even if Pelosi gets the presidency, as nobody could do a worse job as president, Pelosi included.

What's especially remarkable to me is how they — and their "willing accomplices in the media" ;mdash; screamed and cried and shouted about how they could do a much better job if only they were given power, how they would rectify the "numerous" mistakes that were being made by President Trump.

So they get power (by whatever means) and what happens? Disaster after disaster, with endless rivers of denial and obfuscation and blame-shifting. Re-definition of words like "success," constant hair-splitting and sophistry and re-framing.

9 posted on 08/17/2021 9:52:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: conservative98

I’m watching a recorded Hannity show with Trump on. He’s a real dude. Miss him. Hopefully he gets elected again.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 9:52:55 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: conservative98

I looked at that big monster cargo plane
/\
\/

Is it just me ?

Or has anyone noticed that the photos of folks,
well, men,
in those planes

having just left certain torture and death
.
and flying to the richest country on earth
.
who you would think would be wearing expressions
of giddy relief and extreme happiness
and gratitude to the point of tears

instead
.
look sullen , maybe even angry ??

Hmmm.

Allies
Or
Tallies ?

Ymmv.

.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 9:53:41 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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I’m sure there are more than just a few jihadis in that crowd of men. But isn’t that the plan for a “new” America?


12 posted on 08/17/2021 10:03:49 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: conservative98

So what did the American people expect to happen when they either elected a demented, corrupt career politician or allowed that demented corrupt career politician to steal the Presidency?


13 posted on 08/17/2021 10:04:40 PM PDT by allendale
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The damage the Marxists have done since they stole the election is un-#ing-believable.


14 posted on 08/17/2021 10:05:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: princess leah
" I pray that God’s judgement arrives while Biden is still in office!"

It appears to me that it is in progress.

15 posted on 08/17/2021 10:09:00 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: conservative98

Today I heard it claimed that in the past seven years, 100 American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, and at this time, we only had a residual force of 2000 there.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 10:17:43 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: conservative98

bookmark


17 posted on 08/17/2021 10:22:18 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Big Red Badger

Trump is not doing it on purpose. He can’t help himself. He really should stop talking, and let Biden keep diggin his hole. Trump is not being productive by making this about him.


18 posted on 08/17/2021 10:26:56 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: conservative98

I think he’s correct.

There’s still 10,000+ americans there.


19 posted on 08/17/2021 10:37:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PghBaldy

Trump is making this aboutBiden and the stolen election.


20 posted on 08/17/2021 11:37:19 PM PDT by stanne
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