Posted on 08/31/2021 3:08:20 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
(CNN)America's chaotic, humiliating -- yet, at times, heroic -- final retreat from its defeat in Afghanistan will resonate for years after the last military jet lifted off from Kabul at 11:59 p.m. local time on Monday, ending the country's longest war.
The departing troops left somewhere between 100 and 250 Americans, tens of thousands of Afghans entitled to protection from former US comrades and an entire nation to their fates under fundamentalist Taliban rule -- along with an even more extreme faction of ISIS. For them, the "forever war" is far from over.
But any sense that the US is free of consequences of a war in which it bled for 20 years is belied by the history of a country that exacts a fierce price from its former occupiers. And the trauma of the two weeks since the fall of Kabul have already left an indelible mark on Joe Biden's presidency, Washington's bitter politics and the reputation of America among its disappointed allies.
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But the pandemonium of the US retreat -- a humbling exercise that confounded everything Biden promised about a stable, honorable US exit -- stained the aura of competence he sold to the country in the last election and raised questions about his leadership, candor and capacity going forward to quell the nation's multiple crises.
While his defenders claim he was being unfairly blamed for two decades of strategic failures in Afghanistan, the President surely authored his own postscript of incompetence and didn't predict the shockingly rapid collapse of the Afghan state and army.
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Messy? 🙄
Disastrous beyond belief 😱
This is one of the few things I've ever read in the MSM that is both nauseating and comical.
Someone actually suggests that there are questions about Biden's "leadership, candor and capacity?" LMAO. This guy was a corrupt, incompetent loser for his entire adult life ... and he spent almost five decades in Washington demonstrating it.
Now he's a corrupt, incompetent loser who is also losing his marbles right before the world's eyes every time he shows his stupid face on national television.
This is what every fraud pedojo bidet supporter wanted. All of them, even if they are so incredibly ignorant they didn’t know it. They supported and enabled this. May they directly suffer for it before any innocent does, but that hope is dashed before it’s set to print.
I’m guessing the author of this article no longer has a job at the Chicken Noodle Network.
His leadership raises questions?
The guys a walking nightmare, late stage dementia and they say his leadership raises questions.
CNN is a big part of the problem.
The coup plotters at CNN now realize the Frankenstein monster they created.
Jihad is coming to America. The coup plotters are going to face justice. When the massive, whole sale slaughter begins, it will start with the traitors at CNN and MSNBC.
“America’s messy retreat raises questions about Biden’s leadership” - REALLY? Wow! Who knew?
Pulling troops off the battlefield does not end a war, and I'm certain that the Taliban and its terror networks fully plan on continuing the fight.
Finally??
No, he did not sell an aura of competence. You,CNN, and all the willing accomplices in the propaganda media and big tech sold Biden’s (fake) aura of competence. He demonstrated nothing but incompetence during his entire campaign. The propaganda media hid all of his demonstrated incompetence while creating soundbites and pictures to make him look competent.
DC white trash ‘elites’ reinagine the United States with a permanent ruling class propped up by a violent angry black underclass. A ruling class that controls with the same fist we see in North Korea and other commie hellholes.
It’s time to shun liberal ‘friends’...
I had “concerns” about his er, um “leadership” before the election.
This absolute CLUSTER is a confirmation of those fears. It is actually worse than what I expected.
A college course on propaganda could highlight this article for its multiple examples. For my serenity, I will return to my previous position of not reading what the propaganda media puts out. I don’t watch CNN. Did I read this hoping for honesty after the headline?
I would bust out laughing over this headline, except that it came from the Commie News Network.
You are spot on with your opinion and assessment of the author.
Questions? Somebody still has questions?! He sucks. He always sucked. He will suck even worse in the foreseeable future. Article 25 him before he sets off a nuke or something.
Stepehen Collinson at CNN wrote this, which means its just more talking points. If you thought the 2020 fraud was a coup, just wait...
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