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Biden scrambles to limit damage to credibility from Afghanistan
reuters.com ^ | August 18, 2021 | Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle

Posted on 08/17/2021 10:04:19 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

When President Joe Biden appeared in the White House East Room on July 8 to stress that the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan was proceeding apace, he declared that a Taliban takeover of the country was not inevitable.

Five weeks later, the Taliban is in charge, scenes of chaos at the Kabul airport from the evacuation of Americans and U.S.-aligned Afghan citizens has transfixed the world, and Biden is scrambling to defend himself from a series of miscalculations that have damaged U.S. credibility.

While insisting that "the buck stops with me," Biden has doled out blame to others over America's humiliating end to the 20-year involvement in Afghanistan that included missteps by four administrations - two Republican and two Democratic.

He has assailed the Afghan military for refusing to fight, denounced the now-ousted Afghan government and declared he inherited a bad withdrawal agreement from his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; california; nancypelosi; patriciazengerle; presidentbiden; reuters; steveholland; taliban; trump; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/17/2021 10:04:19 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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2 posted on 08/17/2021 10:08:30 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Reuters!!!!! SPIT.


3 posted on 08/17/2021 10:08:40 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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how can soemone who lacks any credibility at all fight to maintain something they don’t have?


4 posted on 08/17/2021 10:10:20 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I think I met the people who think Biden is credible last week. I saw them again today and both of them are now on the fence.


5 posted on 08/17/2021 10:11:22 PM PDT by ManardG
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“Biden scrambles to limit damage to credibility...”

Biden is not scrambling, he can barely talk or walk. Rather his team of soy boys with man buns are scrambling to fix their mistakes. Biden is just a sock puppet.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 10:11:36 PM PDT by trailboss800
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The horse has not just left the barn, the entire herd has jumped the fance, is two counties away, and still going.


7 posted on 08/17/2021 10:11:59 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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Credibility? LieDUHn. I dont get it.


8 posted on 08/17/2021 10:19:05 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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bookmark


9 posted on 08/17/2021 10:21:50 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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“Scrambles?” The jackass cadaver can’t walk up to air force one without tripping. What an evil joke. We are so screwed....


10 posted on 08/17/2021 10:22:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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Afghan men refuse to stand up to the Taliban so they will allow their wives and children to be brutalized by the Taliban.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 10:23:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Damage to his credibility?? F that. How about limiting his damage to America?


12 posted on 08/17/2021 10:24:13 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Joe Biden, the stupidest man to occupy the office of president, is lower than whale sh!+. The only way this buffoon could have wrangled himself into that office is by bribes and trickery. Of course, he was assisted by a gaggle of power hungry buzzards.


13 posted on 08/17/2021 10:47:46 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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Fake News Mediums Scramble to Limit Damage to Biden.

There. Fixed it.

14 posted on 08/17/2021 10:50:10 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Coming back to the WH this evening, he flew into Ft McNair & motorcades to the WH. Too far to walk across the lawn from Marine One? Motorcade can pull right up to the door & avoid cameras?


15 posted on 08/17/2021 10:56:06 PM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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Joe doesn’t need.credibility. He is a throwaway president. He is disposable, expendable. He gave China a whole country. Once he has served his purpose or enough where he can do no more, he will be gone. They have a backup in place who is also disposable.

Is it a coincidence that Hunter Biden was recently seen in a leaked video telling a hooker his story? Interesting timing there. Make a precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan and everyone will say he is stupid. Just like a boxer taking a fall. What was most interesting in the video was that there was more where that came from. Do we know this came from the repair shop laptop? I wonder. We will certainly be told that.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 10:56:16 PM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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Schumer says: “Democrats Promise To Make Sure Every American Stuck In Afghanistan Receives A Mail-In Ballot”


17 posted on 08/17/2021 10:59:15 PM PDT by Singermom
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“Our heart goes out to the helpless Americans still stuck in Taliban-controlled Kabul,” said Senator Chuck Schumer. “We know they are eager to vote for us in the upcoming elections, and we will not rest until they receive the ballots they deserve. To our American friends overseas, help—in the form of easy-to-fill-out ballots—is on the way!”

The Air Force will conduct a daring airdrop at night to deliver hundreds of pallets of paper ballots into the waiting hands of American citizens, eager to vote for their favorite Democrat politicians.

To make things easy, Democrats have ensured all the ballots will be pre-marked for Democrats. S/O


18 posted on 08/17/2021 11:02:34 PM PDT by Singermom
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"Biden is scrambling to defend himself from a series of miscalculations that have damaged U.S. credibility"

If he wouldn't scramble from things and effectively plan, execute, and follow-up, he would regain credibility.

The problem is that the Washington Beltway mentality for so long has been about messaging and optics instead of the facts and what they must mean, that even understood problems and mistakes fall into the echo chamber messaging repair cycle. They don't get the look in the mirror and come to terms with the need for getting it right. Instead they just need to deliver a different meassage to fix something in their minds.

19 posted on 08/17/2021 11:05:47 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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So it begins again. We are stuck with a senile bumbling old fool as commander and chef and a hore for a Vice President. No honor and no integrity left and our nation is rudderless. We abandoned these people after shedding precious Amercian blood and who will ever trust us again. God help us and what we will receive in kind for our dishonor. These bastards in charge should all be fired.


20 posted on 08/17/2021 11:07:22 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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