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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   117,381 views  1,137 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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310   Patrick   2022 May 9, 10:29am  

https://patriots.win/p/15HuxdwsRN/stock-market-has-officially-drop/c/?source=patrick.net

Stock Market has officially dropped below where TRUMP left it in Nov. 6, 2020 FJB
313   Eric Holder   2022 May 11, 11:45am  

Patrick says

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-former-ukraine-ambassador-slips-admits-putin-wouldnt-have-invaded-under-trump?source=patrick.net


Corpse of NATO? He was fucking pushing it into the direction it had to go (and IS going now) after decades of neglect - more military spending, beefing up individual member's militaries instead of always relying on the US Military, etc.
316   Eric Holder   2022 May 12, 1:19pm  

BTW, same Gen Milley who planned Afghanistan withdrawal assessed that Russia will be able to take Kyiv in 72 hours.

The guy is a beacon of military competence, on par with famous General Gerasimov (who, apparently, made the same assessment).

Did these two talk on the phone often?
318   Patrick   2022 May 13, 9:13am  




Of course the true number of deaths from Wuhan Virus is much less than anything published by the government, but most of those who actually died from it could have been saved with simple cheap drugs.

Those drugs don't make profits for the people bribing the government, so the government promotes only the dangerous and utterly ineffective vaxx.
320   Eric Holder   2022 May 13, 10:48am  

Patrick says








Yes, but at leaset we are not a one-trick pony like that fucking "gas station with ICBMs".
321   Patrick   2022 May 13, 8:20pm  

https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-shares-misinformation


Yet while the White House shared bogus info itself on Thursday about vaccines, Twitter has yet to note the inaccurate message to many users.

"When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. In the last 15 months, the economy has created 8.3M jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President's term ever recorded," the White House’s verified Twitter account wrote.

Observers were quick to point out the COVID-19 vaccine was, in fact, available when Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021. The same Twitter account even shared a video of then-president-elect Biden getting his second dose a week before Inauguration Day.


Not that the vaxx is a good thing. It's dangerous and utterly ineffective. But Biden is just flagrantly lying to the public, again.

Remember him looking right into the camera and saying something like "If you get this shot, you won't get sick"?
338   Patrick   2022 May 22, 7:57pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/watch-biden-wear-a-mask-as-he-walks-alone-down-the-steps-of-af1-only-to-take-it-off-to-greet-everyone-face-to-face


Hilarious: Watch Biden wear his mask as he walks alone all the way down the steps of AF1, only to take it off to greet everyone face to face

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