An orderly evacuation with honor.
Optics is everything.
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/helicopters-evacuating-staff-us-embassy-091916173.html
Replies to: An orderly evacuation with honor.
Pray for the Afghanis who will be raped, beheaded and slaughtered.
Posted at 9:14 am on Aug 15, 2021
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They never told Joe there would be times like this when he signed up
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Only weeks ago, Biden dismissed the prospect of the Taliban taking back control of the country as ..
Only weeks ago, Biden dismissed the prospect of the Taliban taking back control of the country as highly unlikely.
Where is the honor of running away after a 20 year stupid failure? Bush and every President after were morons on foreigan policy, especially in Afghanistan. Should have gotten the Hell out 18 years ago.
And he will be rightly criticized for those statements.
What should he have said in your view?
Whichever prez was turning out the lights on this clusterfuck was gonna take the heat for it.
I don’t think anybody expected this collapse
300,000 troops (at least on paper) with armor, an Air Force and 20+ years of training by the best alliance in world history that cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
They faced a motley group of 75K, no tech and no training.
Our efforts were totally wasted.
Then just say and own that. Blinken and the prez are looking like weasels on this.
Best thing JFK did was completely owning the Bay of Pigs fiasco even though it was sold to him under false pretenses and was the prior administration’s plan.
They are going to spin it. That’s what politicians do.
But the scale of the failure of the Afghan gvmt and army is breathtaking.
They spent twenty years pocketing our money and not paying their troops. Now innocent people are going to pay the price for their corruption and venality.
Everyone except Biden and his Intel people expected it
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Oh sure. Everyone did.
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Yes, everyone except those of you with your heads up your asses.
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I did pick the under...
Just sayin'...
So did I. I said by thanksgiving.
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I did not know that it would fall this fast...but the WH should have better info than I and should
...have prepared for it better and messaged more coherently.
The question wasn't should we get out.
That’s easy to say and he does own that failure.
I doubt it happens any differently no matter who is turning out the lights.
We trained them to fight like us, with our military intelligence and our air support.
Then we withdrew both and essentially neutered them.
We should have just enlisted local warlords and paid them to run the war in their own natural way.
Nuking Kabul & Tora Bora was always the best option
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Weeks? More like week. That was August 8.
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Blame it on whoever authors his humongous teleprompter script.
He just reads this stuff.
Link: https://twitter.com/i/status/1426710333264179214
Baker: Joe has been wrong on every foreign relations
decision he has made for 40 yrs. His record is intact
Et tu, CNN?
Own your vote. Think the press will ask him a hard question? Think he will speak gibberish?
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The potential genocide seems to excite our president.
Posted at 9:19 am on Aug 15, 2021
muslims killing muslims. Kinda like blacks killing blacks.
Good times for joe.
Means it’s botched so badly they can’t cover for him…
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Nonsense. Time to don the bomber jacket, chains and aviator sunglasses.
Posted at 9:23 am on Aug 15, 2021
Wear a white scarf and announce “I am calling in The Cavalry. Our dog faced pony soldiers”
Everything’ll be aaalll right.
A complete failure of leadership.
A gigantic setback for the United States. When Biden finally emerges from hiding, I hope the press retains enough self-respect to pin him to the wall until he answers for this colossal embarrassment.
At least Biden threw away our energy independence to the Arab countries before all of this.
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It is President Biden’s clusterfuck. He will have to own it.
He’s not owning it. No one ever has or will. I said it would happen by thanksgiving.
It’s been faster than even I thought. But everyone calling for a pullout including me has to own that this was inevitable. You think Bush, Obama and Orange will ever own their roles in all this?
He had zero options other than to pour troops in and continue the fight.
Biden is responsible for the execution of the withdrawal.
It is the President’s responsibility to safely remove US personnel, assets, and Afghan nationals who helped us.
The decision to leave Afghanistan was a reasonable one, even with the Taliban resuming power.
That is obvious and he should acknowledge it and take his lumps.
My point is that this or something like this was bound to happen whomever the prez was that was removing our presence.
World wide unraveling FP, resurgence of defeated Al Queda on way,& gave away our energy independence
You also have to own it. Own your vote.
But there's always Barry O to remember. He was the greatest
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Obama reprised LBJ's Viet Nam surge in Afghanistan
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/event/Afghanistan-War/The-Obama-surge