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Crisis management in full swing at the White House
BBC News ^ | August 24, 2021 | by Tara McKelvey

Posted on 08/24/2021 7:54:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In the White House today, senior-level staffers are locked in meetings behind closed doors and the corridors are nearly empty.

The president has joined an emergency G7 meeting through a video link.

Meanwhile, aides are trying to sort out what he wants to do now, and whether he will keep troops in Kabul longer to allow the evacuation of US citizens, as well as those in Kabul who were promised a safe passage to the West.

The president and his aides are also trying to come to terms with searing criticism from US allies that the US can no longer be trusted, a response to the way that Biden decided, on his own, to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in a sudden manner.

The liberal “fiasco”, as his Afghanistan policy is now known in Washington, continues, while he tries to save people in Kabul, and his own reputation.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; election2020; taliban
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1 posted on 08/24/2021 7:54:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 08/24/2021 7:56:00 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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Meanwhile, aides are trying to sort out what he wants to do now, and whether he will keep troops in Kabul longer to allow the evacuation of US citizens, as well as those in Kabul who were promised a safe passage to the West.

BS, aides are trying to sort out what to tell demented Biden to do based on his puppet masters desires.

3 posted on 08/24/2021 7:56:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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The biggest problem with lying is that after you told hundreds and thousands of lies, it starts to get difficult to keep all the lies straight.

Fortunately, these days the sociopaths have computers to help them manage this.

;-)


4 posted on 08/24/2021 7:58:14 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Must be a hoot working at the Pentagon these days.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 7:59:00 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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Hey, turtle said BUYdung should just ignore the 8/31 deadline. Could give new meaning to “DEAD line”.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 8:01:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Are troops helping evacuations now ? Last I heard it was virtually impossible to reach the airport under any condition.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 8:01:30 AM PDT by erlayman
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They have no idea what to do and no will. What they are doing is political spin and damage control.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 8:01:32 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Fox News and weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy, who over the weekend said Jill Biden had failed the country by letting her husband run for president. Campos-Duffy also criticized President Biden's "mental state" in commentary criticizing the exit of troops from Afghanistan and the administration's struggles to evacuate people from that country.

Jill Biden owes America an apology.

9 posted on 08/24/2021 8:02:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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This from the backstabbing ally that helped our Deep State install the POTATUS...


10 posted on 08/24/2021 8:03:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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The UK owes the US an apology.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 8:04:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Crisis! A Democrat growth industry.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 8:04:33 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana )
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Biden isn’t deciding anything. The man’s mind, what little he had, is shot.

The media is keeping a lid on this, the average American still has internet access on their phone, uber eats, and reality tv. The public doesn’t care, at least the public around me doesn’t.


13 posted on 08/24/2021 8:07:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
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BBC Headline yesterday was that most of American stands behind Biden and supports his leadership in the crisis.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 8:14:47 AM PDT by EC Washington
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The UK owes the US an apology.

How so?

15 posted on 08/24/2021 8:15:10 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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They should be doing some crisis management in Congress, to wit: rise up and demand the immediate resignation of Joe Biden. And they don’t need hearings or a year of investigations. It should be done at once. He’s unfit to serve, period.
No “impeachment hearings.” There’s no time to spare. The legislators must demand his resignation and keep demanding it until they get it.
Yes, it will result in a President Harris, but if she continues the damage she should understand she’ll get the same treatment.
The situation is unprecedented. We’re in unknown territory. Understood. But he simply cannot be allowed to remain in office for another three years and five months. And we cannot afford to wait a year and a half for the (possible but not guaranteed) election of Republicans to turn things around.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 8:18:23 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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This is like Jimmy Carter Part 2.

When you have clowns in DC, every day is a new crisis.

(same principle works in the corporate world as well—idiots in the executive suite guarantee crisis after crisis)


17 posted on 08/24/2021 8:31:51 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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How do we knock this out of the news cycle?

How do we tell the Allies whose citizens we put in peril being splashed all over their news cycles to shut up?

How do we stop Joe from grinning ear to ear while everyone knows the executions are happening 24/7?

How do we censor pictures and video coming out of Afghanistan?

Honestly, there is NO WAY to spin this.


18 posted on 08/24/2021 8:32:49 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules)
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Honestly, there is NO WAY to spin this.

Yep, it's spinning out of control is what it is.

19 posted on 08/24/2021 8:34:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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The “crisis”, according to the WH staff and Democrat machine, is a “crisis” only because the American people are too dumb to realize how wonderfully perfect the BideMe Administration is handling everything.


20 posted on 08/24/2021 8:37:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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