Posted on 08/31/2021 1:27:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The 31 August deadline to evacuate troops was not "arbitrary" and was "designed to save lives," Mr Biden says, adding that America had "succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan more than a decade ago and we stayed for another decade". [snip]
It comes as details emerged of the last call between President Biden and his Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani.
During the call on 23 July, neither of the leaders appeared to be prepared for the Taliban's surge across Afghanistan and the collapse of its government 23 days later.
"We are going to continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives, but is sustained and grows," Mr Biden said.
President Biden also praised the Afghan armed forces, which collapsed amid pressure from the Taliban despite having been trained and funded by the US.
"You clearly have the best military," he told Mr Ghani. "You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they're clearly capable of fighting well."
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BuckFiden!
Instead, he listens to Omar, AOC, and Talib and panic withdraws in one of his classic Biden meltdowns.
This is Orwell’s TruthSpeak on steroids.
Mr Biden says, adding that America had “succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan more than a decade ago and we stayed for another decade”.
Hence it was ayatollah Obama and Zhao biden who effed up the situation and President Trump was right....again
“Designed to save lives”
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It’s not just his choice. The other side has a say too, and I don’t think they are going to stop.
I believe the effort in Afghanistan was just a campaign in the Forever War, not the whole thing.
He’s desperate to make this about him ending it. It’s not. It’s about HOW he ended it.
Total logical fallacy by the liar in chief. You can end the “forever war” without making a total screwed up disaster of it.
Even his master 0bama did a better job in his premature withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 then Biden did in Afganistan
I thought our departure from Afghanistan was BAD, but my God it's far worse than I thought. Hofman-Warner really lays it out and DETAILS what we could've done that we DIDN'T do, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR ABANDONED EQUIPMENT. UNBELIEVABLE.
Which, of course, is a straw man. Trump planned to pull out of Afghanistan too. Among the things Trump would have done differently was to pull the civilians out first.
Pulling the American military out first was like putting the toilet seat down before urinating. It was stupid beyond belief.
The Rear Guard is to protect those evacuating the area, and leave last. Biden pulled out the Rear Guard first, the told the rest “You are on your own! Bye!”
When we pulled out of Bagram, and the Afghan government forces that had counted on our air support for two decades found themselves alone, their morale plummeted and the rout was on. I can't believe that none of the professional military types considered the impact on morale of our withdrawal. Instead, they seemed focus on number-crunching troop strength, and concluded that the Afghanis would be just fine.
Obviously, they were very, very wrong about that.
“Clearly capable of fighting well”
Says a man who is clearly not capable of thought.
Biteme should NEVER use the word, “Clear,” or any form of the word. He is a man in a fog. The fog follows him, wherever he goes. He is in “0-0 conditions, zero ceiling and zero visibility, all of the time!
He was unable to honor the remains of the returning soldiers and made a sham of it by talking about his son’s death instead of the deaths of the men in the flag draped coffins. He actually engaged a “Gold Star” Mother and waved her off as not worth his time or attention. Checking his watch for the time was particularly crass.
I told my son, this afternoon, that “there must be an “over/under” bet to be made as to how many HOURS are left in Biteme’s illegal time as POTUS.
Biden was the guy that fraternities would not rush for membership. He is a loser, a fake, a plagiarist, and a liar.
Let’s get this embarrassment off of our stage in Washington!
Such arrogance to think he can put an end to a 14 century war.
Trump’s Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau
A tidbit never reported in the mainstream media for obvious reasons.
“Joe Biden's State Department moved to cancel a critical Trump administration State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul.
The "Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau" - which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Anthony Blinken's State Department earlier this year.
Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
"SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED," an official State Department document from the Biden State Department begins, before outlining the following move the quash the Trump-era funding for the new bureau.”
You can look this up and verify if you want to. I did. Then educate your friends and neighbors and anyone else.
Now it is time to keep US forces out of the sandbox for the next generation. We have spent to much in American lives, treasure, and reputation over there.
Killing hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens and many fewer terrorists has just galvanized the middle eastern people against the West.
Use the trillions of dollars saved to beef up security and infrastructure here in the USA, and worry more about what is happening in Southeast Asia.
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