Posted on 08/26/2021 8:59:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden declared that the Islamic extremists behind the Kabul attacks that resulted in dozens of American and Afghan deaths will be brought to justice.
Muslim terrorists launched two attacks in Kabul aimed at people trying to flee the country, killing 13 U.S. Marines and one Navy Corpsman and at least 60 Afghan civilians, as well as wounding scores of others.
The White House remained silent for several hours after the terror attacks, with Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki canceling the noon press corps briefing until after the president's speech at 5:25 p.m. Eastern time.
At a press conference held in the East Room of the White House on Thursday evening, Biden directly addressed those behind the attacks, believed to be an Islamic State group known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K).
The president declared: “we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
“We will not forgive, we will not forget,” said Biden. “I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command.”
“[Our commanders on the ground] made it clear that we can and we must complete this mission and we will," the president said. "And that’s what I have ordered them to do. We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission. We will continue the evacuation.”
Biden said he has ordered American military leaders to coordinate attacks on ISIS-K, stressing that “we will respond with force and precision." He added that “these ISIS terrorists will not win.”
The president also hailed the U.S. Armed Forces, holding a moment of silence for those who lost their lives. The Catholic politician quoted a line from the Old Testament passage of Isaiah 6:8, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.”
“American military has been answering for a long time. ‘Here I am, Lord. Send me,’” he continued. “Each one of these women and men of our Armed Forces are the heirs of that tradition of sacrifice of volunteering to go into harm’s way, to risk everything; not for glory, not for profit, but to defend what we love and the people we love.”
Biden also said the Taliban has a “mutual self-interest” in getting people out of Afghanistan and defeating ISIS. He said there is “no evidence of collusion” between the two groups, but many military experts disagree.
During a Q&A the president confirmed that the U.S. has indeed given the Taliban a list of Afghan allies, U.S. citizens and green card holders they want to be evacuated, a move that some defense experts fear will lead to the torture and execution of many Afghans.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber carried out the first attack near the Abbey Gate entrance to Hamid Karzai International Airport where Afghans and Westerners are boarding flights to flee the country. Over 104,000 civilians, mostly Afghans, have been evacuated by the U.S. and its allies since Aug. 14.
The second attack was a car bomb near the Baron Hotel, which is near the Abbey Gate and where British troops process Afghans before boarding flights out of the country. It's also where 169 U.S. citizens were rescued last week after they were unable to make it through the Taliban checkpoints.
For its part, the Taliban condemned the suicide attacks in Kabul that occurred because the terrorist group allowed ISIS-K suicide bombers to pass through their checkpoints, enabling them to carry out the mass killings.
“We strongly condemn this gruesome incident and will take every step to bring the culprits to justice,” said Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Many have been critical of the Biden administration’s handling of the evacuation of American personnel and Afghan sympathizers. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., chair of the House Republican Conference, claimed that “Biden has blood on his hands.”
“The buck stops with the President of the United States. This horrific national security and humanitarian disaster is solely the result of Joe Biden’s weak and incompetent leadership. He is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief,” tweeted Stefanik.
In a poll taken after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the Trafalgar Group found that nearly 70% of likely U.S. voters disapproved of Biden’s handling of the situation.
Yep- they went running for their caves and didn’t do squat for a long time- they were waiting for the time-line that obama threw out there for withdrawal, because they knew if they tried anything before then Trump would have sent them straight to hell-
I don’t know how his tongue didn’t burn out of his head with that quote.
I think he meant to say “We’ll hunt you down and pay you off.”
How does one make a homicide bomber pay for their atrocity?
Just like Obama Joe misquoted the The Bible...
I saw a scared old man clutching his leather folder to his chest hoping it would protect him.
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Right after pudding ...
that lone ranger comedy joke line :
“Whatum You Mean ***WE*** White Man ????”
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YAwwwwwn
Blowing smoke
Idiot, senile, ice cream cone licking Joe shooting his mouth off again. Which didn’t matter when he was a US Senator. He was just one of 100 and was not in a position to call the shots, to govern. Like an Andrew Cuomo for example.
When you think of Biden think of all the damage Cuomo did. All his lying. Lying his Cuomo azz off to the bitter end. Until NY State finally disposed of that fugly thug POS.
How does he plan to hunt down Isis in Afghanistan after our troops leave Afghanistan? Does he plan on hunting them all down before the August 31 deadline?
His words are empty and, from the perspective of Ιsis, laughable.
I’m so tired of hearing Joe remind us of his dead son. Beau was a JAG not a war fighter. He died from Brain cancer not in a battle. His loss is real. Enough already quit lying to people
“.Being the father of an Army major who served for a year in Iraq, and before that was in Kosovo as a US attorney for the better part of six months in the middle of a war, when he came home after a year in Iraq he was diagnosed like many, many coming home with an aggressive and lethal cancer of the brain and we lost. We have some sense, like many of you do, what the families of these brave heroes are feeling today.”
This was truly bizarre insinuating that brain cancer was a war wound and he understands. Usually Joe is quite clever when he invokes his family’s sacrifice of losing Beau. Yesterday he went a step further by alluding to Beau dying from a brain tumor “LIKE MANY, MANY COMING HOME WITH AN AGGRESSIVE AND LETHAL CANCER OF THE BRAIN”.
isis can contact hunter to arrange that payment.
He doesn’t mention how Hunter banged Beau’s wife and daughter on the casket.
The president also hailed the U.S. Armed Forces, holding a moment of silence for those who lost their lives. The Catholic politician quoted a line from the Old Testament passage of Isaiah 6:8, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.”
He’s not just a CINO (Catholic in name only), but it’s an AINO, too (American in name only).
Isaiah was describing his vision of the LORD, who commanded Isaiah to tell his own godless people that they should repent or be judged. The LORD also told Isaiah the people would not listen. Nonetheless, Isaiah willingly took on the commission, hence the “Here I am,” quote.
For Biden to compare that Biblical account to these bombing victims was appalling. Isaiah was commissioned to warn people like Biden to repent or be judged. Instead, Biden put himself in the position of God (the Commander in Chief) and the military in the position of his servants. True, the military are willing to die for our country, but to have this buffoon who recklessly ensured their death remind us of that fact was horrendous.
The man is just a self centered ass
B S
The president also hailed the U.S. Armed Forces, holding a moment of silence for those who lost their lives. The Catholic politician quoted a line from the Old Testament passage of Isaiah 6:8, Here I am, Lord. Send me.
American military has been answering for a long time. Here I am, Lord. Send me, he continued.
Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
What's key is that while the first word of the section of the verse is not included (Isaiah saying, "Then said I"), it was DPOTUS saying "Here am I; send me", as if a member of the American military (for a long time, not limited to presently active members) were saying (or continuing with), "Here am I; send me."
So in gathering all of those data points together, it pays to be observant to the phrasing (and the timing), because after all, what's in a name:
Then said I (and he said),
Here am I;
send me.
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