Posted on 08/29/2021 4:05:42 PM PDT by McGruff
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was vacationing in the Hamptons just hours before Taliban insurgents invaded Kabul and completed their retaking of Afghanistan 20 years after their ouster by U.S.-led forces, according to a new report.
According to a detailed timeline of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul compiled by The Washington Post, the actions by U.S. officials in the days leading up to the collapse suggested "no immediate cause for alarm," with many of them "surrendering to the customary rhythms of Washington in August."
Blinken, like other U.S. officials, had to be called back from his vacation once things started rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the report said.
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Knocking on his wooden head the Pinocchio
So the press was winkin’ while they watched Blinken nod?
Biden Tried to Send Pallets of Cash to the Taliban as Kabul Fell
Networking with the Clinton Crime Family?
The current regime are a bunch of devious, narcissistic, corrupt bastards. This is a “government?”
The country is in the very best of hands.
Question for Biden: Couldn’t you have thought ahead to refrain from letting the country fall to the Taliban until AFTER Blinken’s luxury vacation was over?
Set the deadline to the after vacation weeks.
Of course the beach mansion on the shore of Delaware was where Biden himself was headed until making a last second “circle back” when the bad military news got on the top of the news hours. They said aides told him the optics would have been bad showing Biden on the beach relaxing.
Biden White House can call this the war that ruined our vacation plans.
Good article. Thanks for sharing.
Biden’s got the vacation advantage.
0bama redux. Amateur Hour.
Blinking was probably in the Hamptons auctioning off some crack heads latest piece of “art” to the highest globalist bidder.
The Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Hollywood, it’s all about money and the sweet life it brings.
Sorry ‘bout your boy.
Has he resigned yet?
And he still does.
Where where Winken (VP) and Nod (Biden)?
Taliban Tony.
Great job Brownie...
Apropos.
***The country is in the very best of hands.***
My favorite song from the movie Lil Abner (1959)
Except for this little one...(modified)
“RIGHT! RIGHT! With a rah rah rah and a sis boom bah, and a hip hip hip horay!
What’s good for President BIDEN is good for the USA!”
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