Posted on 02/17/2024 1:45:49 PM PST by Eleutheria5
President Joe Biden is insisting that he made the right decisions on the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, despite the deaths of 13 service members during a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport as the evacuations were taking place, according to a new book.
"No one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn't believe anyone had made a mistake," Politico's Alexander Ward wrote in "The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump," reported Axios. "Ending the war was always going to be messy."
After the withdrawal, Biden told his top aides, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, that he "stood by them and they had done their best during a tough situation," Ward wrote, quoting an unnamed White House official. "There wasn't even a real possibility of a shake-up."
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It is well known retreating troops are supposed to destroy equipment left behind. Biden’s was a “cut and run! Devil take the hinder most!”
So, supplying enemy we will probably have to face in the future, he demands Americans give up their guns.
So who interview “Doctor” Jill for this book? Certainly no one sat down with Tater.
I agree. What history about a colossal empire would be complete without a a section dedicated to its painful period of epic failure?
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