Posted on 08/30/2023 5:51:02 AM PDT by SJackson
WASHINGTON – President Biden overestimated his own competence in foreign affairs ahead of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, making unhelpful and impractical suggestions while displaying a “swaggering faith in himself” that left his administration unprepared for the devastating chaos of the evacuation of Kabul, according to a forthcoming book.
In “The Last Politician,” due out Sept. 5, and excerpted by The Atlantic Tuesday, magazine staff writer Franklin Foer says the 80-year-old commander-in-chief “exhibited determination, even stubbornness, despite furious criticism from the establishment figures whose approval he usually craved” over his decision to end the US presence in Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, after two decades.
“For a man vaunted for his empathy, he could be detached, even icy, when confronted with the prospect of human suffering,” Foer wrote of Biden, who was caught apparently looking at his watch while attending the dignified transfer of 13 service members killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport and allegedly told the mother of one of the victims that her son’s death was just like that of his late son Beau.
“When it came to foreign policy,” Foer added, “Joe Biden possessed a swaggering faith in himself.”
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The president distrusted officials who warned him against ending the war too soon, and pushed past the apprehensions of the nation’s top military officials who cautioned about the risks of removing all US forces from Afghanistan just seven months after taking office.
“One aide recalled that he would say, ‘You foreign policy guys, you think this is all pretty complicated. But it’s just like family dynamics,'” Foer wrote of Biden, adding that in the president’s assessment: “Foreign affairs was sometimes painful, often futile, but really it was emotional intelligence applied to people with names that were difficult to pronounce.”
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My favorite from the head of a conspiratorial family.
Numerous links in the source article
Pride goeth before a fall........
“When it came to foreign policy,” Foer added, “Joe Biden possessed a swaggering faith in himself.“
Stupid people always do. It’s one of the Five Rules.
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BTTT
Two ice cream cones, one himself and one for his girlfriend the goat.
FJB is an arrogant fool?
SHOCKED!
SHOCKED! I tells ya.
At least he’s considerate.
Interesting that “establishment figures” followed the Dementard’s orders despite knowing better but these same people ignored President Trump at every turn. There has to be a reckoning.
>“Joe Biden possessed a swaggering faith in himself.”
Because Obama was running the show.
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‘sTaggering’ is more like it.....................
Family Dynamics...like a father showering with his prebuestent daughter, or a son who sleeps with his dead brothers wife then tells her to get checked out for Std’s?
FTA-—just seven months after the election steal, Biden overestimated his own competence in foreign affairs, making unhelpful and impractical suggestions while displaying a “swaggering faith in himself” that left his administration unprepared for the devastating chaos of the evacuation of Kabul.......where 13 American soldiers died needlessly.
No one in the Deep State would blame him at those hearings, and the RNC didn’t campaign on this at all in the 2022 Midterms.
“...where 13 American soldiers died needlessly.”
A local business, that was once plastered with TRUMP signs (and will be again, I suspect) have 13 flags displayed all in a row on their lawn. They have been up since the day that happened. If anyone has vandalized them, I’ve not noticed - or else they replace them every day.
As a Vet, it makes me FURIOUS with Brandon specifically, and with Mother Government as a whole. What an incompetent FOOL/TOOL!
Biden, adding that in the president’s assessment: “Foreign affairs was sometimes painful, often futile, but really it was emotional intelligence applied to people with names that were difficult to pronounce.”
He applied his own worldview and interpersonal dynamics to those of a completely different civilization. Arrogance, tone deafness and incompetence too often go together.
Malignant narcissism.
As a Vet, it makes me FURIOUS with Brandon specifically, and with Mother Government as a whole. What an incompetent FOOL/TOOL!
Thanh God this imbecilic dolt was not CinC when you were in the military protecting us.
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