Posted on 09/04/2021 11:16:17 AM PDT by nuconvert
A furious war of words between the US and UK over the chaotic troop withdrawal from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has seen a British cabinet minister call President Joe Biden "doolally" and the US president ignore the prime minister's calls.
It exposes serious fault lines in the two countries' "special relationship" at a time when the growing threats of China and radical Islam mean international cooperation is more important than ever.
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And according to The Sunday Times, Johnson had started referring to Biden as "Sleepy Joe" - reviving former President Donald Trump's favorite nickname - and sees Biden as "lightweight and inward-looking."
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“Lord Robertson, who was secretary general of NATO when its member forces entered Afghanistan in 2001, described the withdrawal in a Thursday Policy Exchange event as a “hasty, crassly handled surrender to the very people that we fought and defeated 20 years ago.”
“NATO and the West, whatever we like to think, have been weakened, that remarkable solidarity of 20 years ago has been damaged, and the mighty United States of America has been humiliated,” he added.”
Trump was a SOB. But he had your back. Now you realized it. Too late.
We are going to have a hard time recovering from this so-called administration that stole the 2020 election...
A very hard time...
What he said...
Bump!
The Xiden thievery cabal has been humiliated. Not the US which is a wholly different country
Perhaps if they want to avoid this level of incompetence going forward, UK leaders should join in the effort to ensure US election integrity.
What’s a “doolally”?
The leftists running the US now have someone else in mind for allies. Someone other than Western countries. China and Moslems with China being the new superpower.
Not without a civil war, and the right doesn't have the stomach for it.
Not only that, the Brits were quick to blame President Trump when the evacuation disaster was first unfolding. F them- they deserve everything they are getting.
It means out of his mind. It was named for a town in India that had a Insane Asylum.
doo·lal·ly
/ˌdo͞oˈlälē/
adjectiveINFORMAL•BRITISH
temporarily deranged or feebleminded.
“Uncle Orville’s gone doolally again”
Poor Uncle Orville........LOL!
Sometimes you gotta tell a little white lie to get where you want to go.
Won’t work:
UK phone operator: ”The Prime Minister wishes to speak with you, sir.”
Biden: (hangs up)
Will work:
UK phone operator: ”A British pudding vendor wishes to speak with you, sir.”
Biden: “Put him through!”
After August, 2021, I cannot help but wonder how it would feel to be an “ally” of the United States. I know from friends & and news reports from both GB & Australia, they feel abandoned and disabused. I hear Europe & NATO are worried. I can only imagine what the Taiwanese, South Koreans and Japan feel. Especially Taiwan.
Wow, It is bad when Business Insider is criticizing the #JihadJunta!
That’s a new Britishism for me, too. But it is quite old:
doolally (adj.)
“insane, eccentric,” British slang, by 1917 in the armed services and in full doolally tap (with the Urdu word for “fever”), from Deolali, near Bombay, India, which was a military camp (established 1861) with a large barracks and a chief staging point for British troops on their way to or from India; the reference is to men whose enlistments had expired who waited there impatiently for transport home.
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