An orderly evacuation with honor.

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Curly1918 18386 posts Joined: Aug 30, 2017

Posted 7:52 am on Aug 15, 2021

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Optics is everything.

Link: https://news.yahoo.com/helicopters-evacuating-staff-us-embassy-091916173.html

Replies 33

• An orderly evacuation with honor.Link – Curly1918 7:52am · 8/15/21
  • Pray for the Afghanis who will be raped, beheaded and slaughtered.NT – Aragoto 9:14am · 8/15/21
    • They never told Joe there would be times like this when he signed upNT – ColeyO 9:17am · 8/15/21
  • Only weeks ago, Biden dismissed the prospect of the Taliban taking back control of the country as .. – CC72 8:57am · 8/15/21
    • And he will be rightly criticized for those statements. – Frank L 11:38am · 8/15/21
    • I don’t think anybody expected this collapse – Chris94 9:38am · 8/15/21
      • Then just say and own that. Blinken and the prez are looking like weasels on this. – Frank L 1:39pm · 8/15/21
        • They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do. – Chris94 1:47pm · 8/15/21
      • Everyone except Biden and his Intel people expected itNT – CC72 10:32am · 8/15/21
        • Oh sure. Everyone did.NT – Chris94 10:57am · 8/15/21
          • Yes, everyone except those of you with your heads up your asses.NT – CC72 11:01am · 8/15/21
            • I did pick the under... – TakethetrainKnute 11:29am · 8/15/21
              • So did I. I said by thanksgiving.NT – Frank L 11:39am · 8/15/21
                • I did not know that it would fall this fast...but the WH should have better info than I and should – TakethetrainKnute 11:58am · 8/15/21
                  • That’s easy to say and he does own that failure. – Frank L 12:07pm · 8/15/21
      • We trained them to fight like us, with our military intelligence and our air support. – Curly1918 10:31am · 8/15/21
      • Nuking Kabul & Tora Bora was always the best optionNT – MarkHarman 9:49am · 8/15/21
    • Weeks? More like week. That was August 8.NT – Iggle 9:00am · 8/15/21
      • Blame it on whoever authors his humongous teleprompter script.Link – Curly1918 9:12am · 8/15/21
      • Baker: Joe has been wrong on every foreign relations – ColeyO 9:09am · 8/15/21
  • Et tu, CNN?NTLink – Curly1918 8:01am · 8/15/21
    • Own your vote. Think the press will ask him a hard question? Think he will speak gibberish?NT – BaronVonZemo 8:59am · 8/15/21
      • The potential genocide seems to excite our president. – Aragoto 9:19am · 8/15/21
    • Means it’s botched so badly they can’t cover for him…NT – TakethetrainKnute 8:14am · 8/15/21
      • Nonsense. Time to don the bomber jacket, chains and aviator sunglasses. – Aragoto 9:23am · 8/15/21
    • A complete failure of leadership. – Iggle 8:08am · 8/15/21
      • At least Biden threw away our energy independence to the Arab countries before all of this.NT – BaronVonZemo 9:00am · 8/15/21
      • It is President Biden’s clusterfuck. He will have to own it.NTLink – conorlarkin 8:57am · 8/15/21
        • He’s not owning it. No one ever has or will. I said it would happen by thanksgiving. – Frank L 10:52am · 8/15/21
          • Biden is responsible for the execution of the withdrawal. – conorlarkin 11:55am · 8/15/21
            • That is obvious and he should acknowledge it and take his lumps. – Frank L 12:17pm · 8/15/21
        • World wide unraveling FP, resurgence of defeated Al Queda on way,& gave away our energy independence – BaronVonZemo 9:12am · 8/15/21
          • But there's always Barry O to remember. He was the greatestNT – ColeyO 9:19am · 8/15/21
            • Obama reprised LBJ's Viet Nam surge in AfghanistanNTLink – Curly1918 10:34am · 8/15/21

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