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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   117,721 views  1,138 comments

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The shambolic unravelling of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan comes from a yet to be written textbook of "how to lose at everything". Warnings hadn't been heeded, intelligence was clearly totally inadequate, planning was lamentable, execution woeful.

Let's just focus in on one thing - although there are any number that are worthy of examination.
The withdrawal came during the "fighting season" - a phrase I have to say I have always found rather odd. But in Afghanistan there is a fighting season which starts in spring - and then in winter, when the country freezes over, there is a time when the Taliban go home to their tribal homelands. Did no-one think that it might have been better to have ordered the withdrawal for the dead of winter when Taliban forces weren't there, poised to fill the vacuum?

The end result might have been the same - a Taliban takeover - but it would have almost certainly led to a more orderly drawdown. Yet the Biden administration wanted an eye-catching date. They wanted the withdrawal completed by 11 September. Twenty years on from 9/11 - an artificial, self-imposed deadline.

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Biden's election campaign could be boiled down to three messages to distinguish himself from Donald Trump. First, he would be more empathetic. He would be more competent. And instead of "America First", it would be replaced by the mantra "America is back".
But in his address yesterday, there wasn't a whole lot of empathy towards the thousands of Afghans who've helped Americans these past 20 years. On competence, even his biggest cheerleaders would struggle to say the withdrawal of American troops has been anything other than shambolic.
And after the bewildering events of the past few days, how exactly is America back?

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But on the policy itself, Joe Biden is utterly defiant. He summoned up his inner Harry Truman and made clear in his speech that the buck stops with him. He was, however, happy to distribute blame in much the same way that a muck spreader disperses manure in all directions. The Afghan leadership weren't up to it, the Afghan armed forces had no fight in them; Donald Trump had negotiated a bad deal.

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A fascinating nugget from a briefing that's just been given by Joe Biden's National Security Adviser. Since the fall of Kabul, Jake Sullivan revealed, Biden hadn't spoken to another world leader. Wasn't that just a bit surprising, given that there were a lot of other nations - including Britain - who'd committed vast resources to Afghanistan?

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When the G7 gathered in Cornwall and the Nato nations met in Brussels the sense of relief was palpable among the prime ministers and presidents that a more outward looking American president was in charge. But given what has unfolded - how America has been humiliated, how Joe Biden embarked on a policy he was cautioned against by these leaders - there is now a good deal more wariness.
And who will feel they have gained most from America's departure - apart from the Taliban, of course? Why, three countries near Afghanistan - Russia, Iran and China. I'm not sure that is what Joe Biden had in mind when he said after his inauguration that "America is back".



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58252174?source=patrick.net

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417   richwicks   2022 Jul 29, 12:44pm  

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/new-poll-shows-75-of-democrats-dont-want-sleepy-joe-to-run-again



New CNN poll shows 75% of DEMOCRATS don't want Sleepy Joe to run again



I want him to run again and I want him to "win" again.

That will get it through people's thick skulls what has to be done.
418   HeadSet   2022 Jul 29, 7:18pm  

Patrick says

Mr. Auten will have to answer for all this,

Not likely.
419   Patrick   2022 Jul 30, 5:28pm  

https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-hires-this-is-fine-dog-as-new-press-secretary




WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing the candidate's qualifications at assuring everyone that everything is fine even when entire rooms are burning down around him, the White House has hired the This Is Fine Dog as its new press secretary.

While Karine Jean-Pierre has been doing a "fine" job of deflecting questions and telling everyone things are great when they are clearly not great, the White House said they wanted to make sure their press secretary "just straight-up lies about things being fine 100% of the time." The obvious choice was the This Is Fine Dog of internet meme fame.

"Mr. Dog, what about record inflation with no end in sight?" asked Peter Doocy at the This Is Fine Dog's first press conference earlier this afternoon. "What are Americans supposed to do when they can't afford basics like food, housing, and gasoline?"

"This is fine," said the This Is Fine Dog in response. He immediately received a standing ovation by the reporters gathered. He raised his paws to settle down the crowd and then said, "This is fine."

At publishing time, the This Is Fine Dog was fired after it was discovered he is not a gay woman of color. He has issued a statement assuring everyone this is fine.
426   Patrick   2022 Aug 2, 9:40am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-drone-strike-accidentally-kills-terrorist-leader-instead-of-car-full-of-children




KABUL — Biden is demanding answers after a precision drone strike in Afghanistan actually killed a real terrorist leader named Ayman al-Zawahiri instead of a car full of innocent children, as is tradition.

"Come on, folks, we all know what drone strikes are for," said the angry President to an LOL Surprise Doll he mistook for a member of the press. "We conduct drone strikes to kill civilians in the Middle East in hopes of stirring up multigenerational hatred for the U.S. which will lead to endless war and help feed the military-industrial complex! How on earth did this actual terrorist get caught up in the mix?!"

Sources in the CIA revealed they briefly deviated from the standard procedure of killing innocents with Hellfire missiles to kill a terrorist, as Biden's poll numbers are down and people like it when presidents kill terrorists.

"The death of this austere religious scholar, while tragic, could produce a 3 to 4 point bump in Biden's approval ratings in time for the midterms," said Fitch Biggenslimes, a columnist for the Washington Post. "That's what really matters here."

Government officials assured the president they will return to their normal business of blowing up chai tea cafes and busses full of aid workers this week.

UPDATE: New reports confirm Ayman al-Zawahiri is still alive and the precision strike actually killed a busload of orphans.
429   Patrick   2022 Aug 4, 9:38am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/great-white-house-jettison-biden-harris/

I like it when I can endorse the other side. It makes me feel like I’m part of the big happy family of man instead of just another snarling partisan. So it was with gratitude that I absorbed David Axelrod’s recent observation about Joe Biden on CNN. Pay attention now: Axelrod was the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and what he doesn’t know about the emotional weather of the left is not worth knowing. “There is this sense that things are kind of out of control,” quoth Axelrod when asked about the Big Guy™, “and he’s not in command.” Right you are, Dave! My only question is: what took you so long?

Of course, Axelrod’s devastating admission was not a disinterested or impartial judgment. Nothing Obama’s main men say is that. Every word is calculated for political advantage. But the question is, whose advantage? I am not entirely sure. I am confident, though, that Axelrod’s breathtaking admission was part of the next step in resetting the political chess board. It was another stage in the emergency effort at damage control that the shadowy cadre of people who actually run the United States have been undertaking ever since the full magnitude of Joe Biden’s incompetence became manifest.

Back in March, I predicted that the Democrats were prepping to eject Biden. One sign of that, I said, was the fact that elements of the regime-propaganda secretariat — in this case the New York Times — had suddenly gone off the reservation by admitting that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was not “Russian disinformation” as they and all their cohort had insisted, but was, in fact, the real deal. And not just the salacious stuff about Hunter’s “private” life, but also all the possibly criminal stuff about Chinese involvement with the Bidens’ finances and, especially, Joe Biden’s personal involvement with various schemes involving millions of dollars.

Why would the Times admit such a thing? For the same reason that David Axelrod would make his admission about things spinning “out of control” and Biden being “not in command,” i.e., bonkers.

One of the big problems for the Dems is that before they can do something about Biden himself, they will need to do something about his cackling number two, Kamala Harris. It was the same sort of problem they faced when the regime decided to jettison Richard Nixon. The junta could easily mount televised congressional hearings and cashier Nixon. But then Spiro Agnew, his vice president, would slide into the top spot. That was unacceptable. So the first task had to be to nobble Agnew. Agnew made this easy because there were pictures of him accepting paper bags of cash in exchange for political favors. It will not be so easy with Harris. Her corruption is of a more systemic but less obviously criminal sort.

In one sense, alas, it doesn’t really matter who is tapped to star in the roles of chief and adjutant puppets. As things are constituted now, any likely successors to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be just as beholden to the deep-state regime narrative as they are.

We got a little glimpse into the engine room of that operation when Brian Deese, Biden’s director of the National Economic Council, defended the administration’s disastrous energy policy. So gas is $5, $6, $8 a gallon. What’s the administration’s response to that, a CNN reporter asked Deese? “This is about the future of the liberal world order,” Deese replied, “and we have to stand firm.” The “future of the liberal world order”: what would that be? Why, that would be the Davos-approved global world order in which national sovereignty is diluted and the world’s self-appointed elites are in charge of… well, everything.

Yes, the green, sexually fungible, racially-obsessed agenda will hurt a lot of people. Among other things, it will lead to what one of Obama’s chief science advisers called the “de-development” — that’s Newspeak for “impoverishment” — of the United States. But here’s the thing to appreciate. Factota like Deese are not troubled by the suffering of ordinary people. Indeed, they approve of a certain amount of suffering. Suffering produces dependency, and dependency is an insurance policy for those who cater to it: the bureaucrats who fill the troughs that feed the populace.

The point, of course, is never to end the dependency. The point is to manage in such a way as to perpetuate and expand it. Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, in the metabolism of this great act of political legerdemain. I suspect that Biden has outlived his plausibility and will soon be retired. Maybe Loopy Liz Cheney will switch parties and run for the Democratic nomination. Maybe she will contrive some way to have the January 6 Committee simply appoint her president. After all, she has already told us who cannot, must not, be president: Donald Trump. If she can do that, who’s to say she cannot have herself appointed by acclamation?

You scoff. But just wait: there are a lot of surprises in store.
430   Eric Holder   2022 Aug 4, 10:52am  

Some say that Biden's admin glaring incompetence in Afghanistan showing complete military ineptitude and lack of coordination within NATO was one of the major bits of information which convinced Putler that he could get away with taking over Ukraine. But there was one tiny and almost obscure bit of info which should've give him a pause: when US and the rest of NATO forces were covering inside Kabul airport and telling their citizens to try to make it there on their own, Ukrainian SOF stationed there were actively going out and bringing back Ukrainian citizens to the airport. Looking back that was a sign of things to come, but Ruscist either didn't know it (I doubt it, as it was reported at the time) or discounted it as insignificant.
434   Onvacation   2022 Aug 5, 2:44pm  

At least he's not trying to kiss one of those tweenage girls on the lips. Pervert of the US.
437   Patrick   2022 Aug 9, 8:36am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/SteveGuest/status/1557011318175047680#m

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All it takes is like 5 seconds for Joe Biden to forget he shook Chuck Schumer’s hand.

Scary.


440   Patrick   2022 Aug 9, 4:47pm  

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/03/biden-admin-grant-botswana-lgbt-social-acceptance/



The people of Botswana would be justified in burning down the US embassy there (if we have one) because the US is clearly trying to endanger their children and to spread disease.
441   richwicks   2022 Aug 10, 3:03am  

Eric Holder says

Some say that Biden's admin glaring incompetence in Afghanistan showing complete military ineptitude and lack of coordination within NATO was one of the major bits of information which convinced Putler that he could get away with taking over Ukraine. But there was one tiny and almost obscure bit of info which should've give him a pause: when US and the rest of NATO forces were covering inside Kabul airport and telling their citizens to try to make it there on their own, Ukrainian SOF stationed there were actively going out and bringing back Ukrainian citizens to the airport. Looking back that was a sign of things to come, but Ruscist either didn't know it (I doubt it, as it was reported at the time) or discounted it as insignificant.


What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?

I'm reading what you say, and you put in a noun which means NOTHING to me, which isn't in any dictionary and only has meaning to you.

Your emotions over-ride your thinking centers to the point that, at least I, can't understand what you're even trying to say.

I don't think Afghanistan had anything to do with Russia's decision to invade Ukraine. The United States has repeatedly showed itself to be a paper tiger and our military as ineffective. What caused Russia to invade Ukraine is that they were hosting NATO weaponry and ceased being neutral. I think it's quite obvious that the US is full of shit, it starts wars it cannot finish, don't even have mission objectives or goals, doesn't even ANNOUNCE why it's attacking a nation or outright lies about them. Russia just sees the US as a nation filled with short term thinking criminals and a population that hates them and the entire house of cards is based on a fiat currency standard that was printed with no backing to the tune of $5 trillion dollars for "covid relief" for which more than 90% of the money went to corrupt corporations - mostly the banking system.

We have incompetent asshole cannon fodder dupes presented as our "leaders" to blame shit on, but I don't think the people who pull the strings are actually stupid. Our "leaders" are not our leaders, they are just the dumbshit assholes the vast majority of the population will blame things on. We're probably going through a controlled demolition.
443   Misc   2022 Aug 10, 3:04pm  

Looks like the rest of the military came up with how many volunteers we got for the new Woke military.

The calendar year for government accounting ends September 30. So far the military has about 40% of the recruits they were looking for.

That's what trannies in charge and forced vaxxes will get you. With Biden promising student loan forgiveness, it takes the wind out of the GI bill where people actually have to work to get the benefit.

I was just in Oceanside where they were doing a radio fundraiser for military kids' back to school supplies. Gotta accept the charity from the community to just get by.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americas-all-volunteer-force-is-in-crisis-%e2%80%94-and-denial/ar-AA10wDcm?li=BBnb7Kz
444   Eric Holder   2022 Aug 11, 10:25am  

richwicks says

What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?


Russian fascist, of course. Russia is a fascist regime - ticks all the boxes in the definition.
445   Eric Holder   2022 Aug 11, 10:27am  

richwicks says


The United States has repeatedly showed itself to be a paper tiger and our military as ineffective.


LOOOOOL. Compared to what?

Our "ineffective army" took Saddam's army out in 22 days. Your "effective" army is bombing civilians for 6 months while continuously losing ground to an adversary 20 ranks down from it while posessing literally 10x more of anything - tanks, artillery pieces, planes.... Lost a fucking flagship to an adversary who has no navy to speak of.
446   richwicks   2022 Aug 11, 3:41pm  

Eric Holder says


richwicks says


What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?


Russian fascist, of course. Russia is a fascist regime - ticks all the boxes in the definition.



How is Russia a fascism regime?

I can see how the United States is. Julian Assange is in prison and is going to die there, we have obvious criminals running the presidency, we have a two-tiered justice system, our president OPENLY accepts bribes, we have at LEAST 800 political prisons with no bail or representation for protesting a stolen election, and we're in several wars that aren't even talked about.

Did you know the Syrian war is still ongoing - what's the fucking mission of that war?

The land of the free and the brave, what utter bullshit.
452   Patrick   2022 Aug 17, 8:50am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PrisonPlanet/status/1559670928547745792#m



Pedo potatus Bidet doesn't know what planet he's on.
455   RC2006   2022 Aug 17, 11:58am  

WTF clown world IRS. I showed this to cop friends and they laughed and said they wouldn't last a week as a street cop.

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