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Taiwan, Israel, Japan will get the message behind Biden’s neglect of US allies in Afghanistan
New York Post ^ | August 21, 2021 | Michael Barone

Posted on 08/21/2021 2:14:04 PM PDT by TBP

Historians aren’t actually sure that Nero caused or neglected a fire that consumed much of ancient Rome. Historians, however much they’d like to, won’t be able to deny that President Biden bears full responsibility for America’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, and our neglect of the tens of thousands who aided us and now face torture and death from the Taliban.

“The drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way,” Biden assured Americans on July 8. A Taliban takeover of Afghanistan “is not inevitable,” he said, pledging to “continue to provide civilian and humanitarian assistance, including speaking out for the rights of women and girls.”

Asked if there were parallels with the American abandonment of Saigon, he saw “zero.” “The Taliban is not the South — the North Vietnamese army,” he said. “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; Japan; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; antonyblinken; biden; california; china; israel; japan; nancypelosi; russia; taiwan; ukraine; waronterror
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Our border is being overrun in a massive invasion. Our cities are dying in disorder and blood, we are experiencing a disaster in Afghanistan, and neither the lying, senile, racist girfter credibly accuse of sexual assault who pretends to be a president nor his death cult appreas to care about any of it. They never have. They ONLY care about themselves.

Bye, bye, Taiwan. Bye, bye, Israel. And then beye, bye, America -- unless we #resist.

#BugOutBiden #ImpeachThemBoth #NotMyPresident #ItsAboutPower #NotTheirProblem #DemocratsDontCare #TheLeftHatesYou #TheyWantYouDead #TheyCallItCompassion #AllSocialistsAreTheSame

1 posted on 08/21/2021 2:14:04 PM PDT by TBP
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Big clue: BAGRAM AIRFIELD IS ONLY 400 MILES FROM CHINA.


2 posted on 08/21/2021 2:16:40 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Absolutely. “The Big Guy” has put *all* of our allies on notice that they’re on their own in the hour of need.


3 posted on 08/21/2021 2:16:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Our border is being overrun in a massive invasion.

************

No country respects any country that will not defend its own borders. Period.


4 posted on 08/21/2021 2:19:01 PM PDT by Starboard
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If Barone believes this he’s a fool. Afghanistan would have gone over to the Taliban no matter who won last November. Even if there were similarities between Afghanistan and Taiwan then the flack Biden has been taking on one would make him dig in on the other.


5 posted on 08/21/2021 2:22:12 PM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Our allies see 3+ more years of U.S. weakness which leaves them vulnerable. They have to be making their own plans to defend themselves and/or find other countries to ally with. The U.S’s reputation has been damaged beyond repair by the Biden administration and those countries know its only going to get worse..


6 posted on 08/21/2021 2:22:36 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Do we want the Chinese to get mired in that quagmire or not?


7 posted on 08/21/2021 2:22:51 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Gay State Conservative

I hope Americans are getting the message too.


8 posted on 08/21/2021 2:28:34 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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"Quagmire"? More like a CAKE WALK for China, after what we've seen in Afghanistan exit..

DOESN'T MATTER what our capabilities are, or how great our fighting forces are IF WE HAVE A BRAIN DEAD, CHINA-PUPPET PRESIDENT WITH 'HEAD UP THE ARSE' WOKE MILITARY LEADERSHIP WE ARE TOTALLY SCREWED, AND QUICKLY.

Mark Milley will be too busy 'daddy bearing' his secret daddy bear lover.

9 posted on 08/21/2021 2:30:50 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Japan should immediately make nukes.


10 posted on 08/21/2021 2:50:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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It’s been said that Japan is just a few hours of assembling from having their own nukes.

I can see the Japanese PM telling their military to get their screwdrivers out.


11 posted on 08/21/2021 2:52:07 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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The Japanese defense budget it about to grow.


12 posted on 08/21/2021 2:52:24 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden and pray for his downfall.)
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Afghanistan would have gone over to the Taliban no matter who won last November.

Trump would have done a better job getting US citizens out first.

13 posted on 08/21/2021 2:53:57 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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Trump would have done a better job getting US citizens out first.

He would. Biden made the mistake of thinking the Afghan government had a chance to survive. Trump said the other day that he would have withdrawn every American, taken back all the weapons we gave to the Afghan army, and leveled the bases before completing the withdrawal of troops on May 11. That would have prevented all the problems going on now...but would also have made taking the country easier for the Taliban. If that was even possible, given the Afghan collapse.

14 posted on 08/21/2021 3:03:07 PM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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Trump likly would have went to the hand over.


15 posted on 08/21/2021 3:04:58 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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Trump likly would have went to the hand over.

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16 posted on 08/21/2021 3:07:35 PM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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It would have been a nice event. Afghans getting there country back. Trump would have ushered in a new Era. He likely would have rode into the ceremony on a white horse. The world would have seen a peaceful transfer of power in Afghanistan.

Miss him yet?


17 posted on 08/21/2021 3:15:12 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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It would have been a nice event. Afghans getting there country back. Trump would have ushered in a new Era. He likely would have rode into the ceremony on a white horse. The world would have seen a peaceful transfer of power in Afghanistan.

To the Taliban? It was never going to be a peaceful transfer of power.

18 posted on 08/21/2021 3:16:55 PM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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Miss him yet?

Yep.

19 posted on 08/21/2021 3:17:40 PM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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I wouldn't write off Israel so quickly....they have nukes.

It'll be interesting to see if Tiawan moves to get them.

20 posted on 08/21/2021 3:18:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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