Posted on 08/21/2021 1:38:39 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“We look like a deer caught in the headlights,” says Mathew Burrows, a former senior CIA officer now at the Atlantic Council. “It is one more chink gone in the American empire.”
The scenes of chaos at the Hamid Karzai International Airport will supply anti-American propagandists with years of footage. America’s failure after two decades of fruitless nation-building has many authors, starting with George W Bush and including Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
But as the president on whose watch the concluding fiasco took place, Joe Biden’s name will be indelibly linked to it. The question is whether he can extract any foreign policy gains in what one analyst described as Biden’s “Ides of August”. Since he was partly elected on a promise to restore competence to the White House, there is also concern that the fall of Kabul will wound Biden’s ability to push through his domestic agenda.
“It will be hard to separate Biden’s strategic decision to leave Afghanistan, which may ultimately prove to be right, with the hasty and sloppy and panicked way in which it has been executed,” says Steve Biegun, former US deputy secretary of state. “This comes as something of a body blow to Biden’s ‘America is back’ message. Everyone thought he was going to be different to Trump.”
In addition to closing Bagram first, there are three additional questions about Biden’s competence. The first is the volume of US military equipment that has been left behind for the Taliban, including aircraft, hundreds of military Humvees and tens of thousands of rifles, rockets and night vision goggles.
The second is whether Biden ignored intelligence estimates suggesting the Taliban could recapture power on a far more rapid timeline than the six to 18 months the White House was saying.
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This was a Trump hating newspaper
Who’s “we”?
No, the deer looks a lot smarter.
Chink?
Racist.
The situation was created intentionally. Afgan and southern USA border.
Good must conquer evil
It is he that looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
We?
No, YOU!
Biden is different. Far, far worse than Trump could ever be.
Deer in the headlights? I suppose it is admirable to remain somewhat calm, but that is a pretty trivializing metaphor.
Slow Joe was always a Washington lightweight. Didn’t matter so long as was just a senator from Delaware. I mean how do you mess that up? But now he can and is doing real damage.
What he meant to say.
LOL!
How can anyone in uniform have any respect for this clown and the position he holds onto after this fiasco?
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You and your ilk have allowed the chinks and towelheads to plunder the American empire.
Gropin' Joe said that? Who would know? Jill in the basement?
Saw this article today: “Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that ‘see’ light
Let’s get up a go fund me page to donate this for a replacement for Joe’s worn out brain.
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