Posted on 08/19/2021 2:39:34 PM PDT by Schatze
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is standing firmly by his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, despite chaotic scenes of the Taliban rapidly seizing control and the U.S. rushing to airlift diplomats out of the country.
Behind his confidence is a political bet that a war-weary U.S. public will stick with him and enable him to weather a firestorm of criticism, not just from his Republican opposition but also from Democratic allies who promise to investigate failures surrounding the withdrawal.
Public support for the withdrawal has fallen from earlier this year, but pluralities still want U.S. forces out, according to two new surveys.
A Yahoo News poll found that 40 percent support the pullout, while 28 percent oppose it. (In July, 50 percent favored the pullout.)
A Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 49 percent support the withdrawal, while 37 percent oppose it. (In April, 69 percent backed withdrawal.)
The criticism has been heaviest over the execution of the withdrawal, including the failure to evacuate U.S. personnel and partners in time for the rapid Taliban takeover. Republican lawmakers, and some Democrats, have compared it to the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1975.
Biden needs all the political capital he can muster — to spend on signing an infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion social safety net package at the core of his domestic agenda, which his party is counting on to survive a difficult midterm election cycle next year.
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Try demented.
Arrogant and stupid. Can’t believe this blowhard dunce is President.
This whole thing is beyond stupid, Biden owes stupid people an apology. I ran across an article that says the US is buying jet fuel from the Taliban.
C'MON MAN!
That was not the way to leave. Unless his intent was to arm the Taliban, without regard to American lives that might be lost.
I’d like to give him a reward alright. The biggest dunce on the planet reward followed by a Nuremberg trial.
The Whitehouse is no place for a senile retard...
He’s trying to fall back on what didn’t happen to Nixen and Kissinger after the fall of Saigon.
He’s betting on our short attention spans.
He’s betting the Taliban won’t hold thousands of Americans hostage in exchange for the release of all GTMO detainees and others world wide.
He’s betting Al Qaeda won’t reform and behead the same thousands of American hostages.
He’s betting everyone, but him, is an idiot.
Yeah, he’s leaving and bringing hundreds of thousands of Afghani refugees with him.
All of the above.
NBC is such a farce.
He exists in a cordon sanitaire where he doesn't see or hear anything his handlers dislike, and every person he speaks to tells him how wonderful he is, how smart he is, and how everyone loves everything he does.
The rare times when he is confronted by unpleasant realities are easily ignored and soon forgotten. All he has to do is read what is on the teleprompter, sign what's stuck in front of him, and he gets all the ice cream he wants.
I don’t know if they’ll reward him but I also don’t think that a year from now it’ll be an issue for the midterms. Inflation, COVID, crime, and the border will be the big issue.
I will be surprised if they kill all the “Americans.”
And sadly enough, he may be right given most of the media will either ignore this story or not report it properly AND the fact that a sizable % of the American voting public is low info and has short memories.
“Biden bets war-weary America will reward him for leaving Afghanistan”
Sure, Americans are going to reward you for going full tard. No chance vegetable head, we have a long memory.
It depends -- if we have another big terrorist attack, it will still be an issue.
Or when people start getting attacked by their new Afghani Neighbors.
Nothing
But
Crap
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