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In Book, Biden Said He Made Right Choices on Afghanistan
Newsmax ^ | 17/2/24

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; brandon; dementiajoe; fjb; kabul; lyinbiden; lyingsos; nomistakes; worthlessjoe
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Yup. Those Talibanis made great middle-men for siphoning American armaments to China and Iran for reverse-engineering. As for those Afghan allies, well, that's what you get for trusting America, the most evil country that ever was./sarc
1 posted on 02/17/2024 1:45:49 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Withdraw the military before withdrawing the civilians they are supposed to protect. Oh hell yes.


2 posted on 02/17/2024 1:51:38 PM PST by TChad
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To: TChad

Don’t inform NATO allies until it’s already done, too. Brilliant, that.


3 posted on 02/17/2024 1:55:00 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Well apparently his only purpose as president is to destroy America, so for him it’s a success.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 2:05:36 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Rule number one as an American politician:

Never admit you did anything wrong except after >51% of your own voters know and believe it to be true anyway. Then pretend to be humble and publicly admit you made a mistake but learned from it. If it’s especially damaging, declare you didn’t know what what an element of speech every 4 year old uses meant when being interviewed.

Examples: after the DNA from the cum dribbles on the dress came back as Clinton’s, he declared he didn’t know what the word “is” meant. https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/politics/tbt-clinton-grand-jury-testimony/index.html Until that point, deny everything, make counter accusations, engage in character assassination...


5 posted on 02/17/2024 2:05:42 PM PST by Red6
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Those Talibanis made great middle-men for siphoning American armaments to China and Iran for reverse-engineering.

What we left for the Taliban is a fraction of what we will leave in Iraq when we finally pull out.

6 posted on 02/17/2024 2:05:43 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: TChad

It was a complete disaster. The Biden regime saying “no one made a mistake” is ridiculous.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 2:16:45 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Eleutheria5

Talmud: “Never tell a fool that he is a fool. All you’ll have is an angry fool”


8 posted on 02/17/2024 2:20:12 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Eleutheria5

How would Joe know what his decisions were?


9 posted on 02/17/2024 2:24:11 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: antidemoncrat

I never saw that particular passage of the Talmud, but there are 3,000 huge folio pages in the Babylonian Talmud, and I don’t know how many in the Jerusalem, and I’ve only learned a fraction of the dense Aramaic texts, so I’ll take your word for it, because it makes sense.


10 posted on 02/17/2024 2:26:51 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Charles Martel

What an old fool?,,,,6 soldiers dead and 85 billion dollars in top notch equipment given to the radicals for resale plus the CCP got Baghram.


11 posted on 02/17/2024 2:27:36 PM PST by chopperk (e )
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To: Eleutheria5

The loss of our 13 is terrible.

But let’s not forget the loss of the whole damn country and Bagram, which we needed for dealing with China.

Democrats are unfathomable disasters, which is why I get so frustrated with the idea that Biden is a warmonger planning attacks on Russia and China.

He’s a clear sell out to China, and will crumble to Russia as well.

Leftists are dangerous idiots.


12 posted on 02/17/2024 2:28:30 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Charles Martel

He didn’t make any of them.


13 posted on 02/17/2024 2:28:41 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Could/should we have kept Bagram AFB to the North of Kabbul? And kept it in perpetuity for strategic location purposes?
Perhaps some here have an informed opinion what that would have entailed and if it would have been worth the effort needed to keep and protect it.


14 posted on 02/17/2024 2:30:04 PM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: Williams

“He’s a clear sell out to China, and will crumble to Russia as well.”

Of course. They paid the main bribes. All he got from Burisma in Ukraine were a few mil. Pocket change as graft goes.


15 posted on 02/17/2024 2:30:52 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: desertsolitaire

Definitely. It could have been the Okinawa of middle Asia.


16 posted on 02/17/2024 2:32:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

What a cluster f*ck Biden has been. As bad as our long, overly long stay in Afghanistan was. Biden (Obama) still found a way to make it exponentially worse for us.


17 posted on 02/17/2024 2:34:23 PM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: desertsolitaire

Trump had threatened the Taliban if they exploited our withdrawal, so Bagram wouldn’t have been sitting in the middle of a totally hostile country.

And when they double crossed us, Bagram would have been the platform to bomb them from.

What Biden did was total idiocy.


18 posted on 02/17/2024 2:36:11 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: desertsolitaire

Sure. a 20-year cluster-f@## condensed into a few days of hell.


19 posted on 02/17/2024 2:39:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: TChad

Right choice if you are rooting for terrorists Iran and russia


20 posted on 02/17/2024 2:41:46 PM PST by genghis (Cathinkngact only re check ason go after e puthatn 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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