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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,987 views  1,308 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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622   stereotomy   2022 Nov 30, 4:24pm  

richwicks says

Patrick says










Let me fix that:




or it could be this:


Maybe all the deliberate (?) misspellings are an indication of glowie posts?
623   richwicks   2022 Nov 30, 4:45pm  

stereotomy says

Maybe all the deliberate (?) misspellings are an indication of glowie posts?


So? They are easy to fix, and they're pretty good.
626   Patrick   2022 Dec 2, 6:02pm  



Democrat elitists hate nothing more than the working class.

They despise the working class and show it constantly.
627   richwicks   2022 Dec 3, 12:23am  

HeadSet says


Patrick says


Sam Brinton, who originally made headlines for being “gender fluid” and receiving a position in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, made the news again for being charged with a felony after allegedly stealing luggage at the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport. ...

It is not a stretch to say that a person who thinks he has a right to someone else's luggage would think he/she has a right to sell nuclear secrets.



I'm wrong. I was giving the freak the benefit of the doubt, but he apparently stole the luggage.


original link

That is, if everything said there is true. It's CLAIMED it was fired, but let's see. What an asshole. If it intentionally stole the bag, emptied the contents, and then used the bag for several weeks, fuck it. What an asshole. What a dick.

If I picked up luggage by accident, not only would I be mortified, I'd return it immediately with a written apology and probably some money for their trouble. I've picked up luggage that wasn't mine ONCE, but I realized my mistake within a minute and returned it to the carousel, I still felt badly about opening the luggage only to realize it wasn't mine. It was an invasion of privacy not that I saw anything weird or upsetting, it was just not my stuff. Also, I wasn't called out.

However, if I brought it to a hotel, that's a different story. The inconvenience I would have caused, I'd feel very badly about it.
628   HeadSet   2022 Dec 3, 8:24am  

richwicks says

If I picked up luggage by accident,

That implies that you had your own bag that was similar to the one taken. This clown did not even check a bag at all.
632   Ceffer   2022 Dec 4, 10:46pm  

Wow! There are as many of these Twitter propaganda minister bitches for Biden as there are Biden Actors playing Biden.
633   Patrick   2022 Dec 4, 11:31pm  

Patrick says

Sam Brinton, who originally made headlines for being “gender fluid” and receiving a position in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, made the news again for being charged with a felony after allegedly stealing luggage at the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport. ...


635   Patrick   2022 Dec 9, 8:43pm  

Patrick says

Patrick says


Sam Brinton, who originally made headlines for being “gender fluid” and receiving a position in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, made the news again for being charged with a felony after allegedly stealing luggage at the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport. ...






https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-accused-in-second-luggage-heist/

A second one, this time in Vegas. First theft was in Minneapolis.
648   Patrick   2022 Dec 23, 10:39pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/afghan-refugee-deported-sexually-abusing-3-year-old-girl


Afghan refugee, brought to U.S. by Biden, has been deported after sexually abusing 3-year-old girl
649   HeadSet   2022 Dec 24, 12:32pm  

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/afghan-refugee-deported-sexually-abusing-3-year-old-girl



Afghan refugee, brought to U.S. by Biden, has been deported after sexually abusing 3-year-old girl


Deported to where? Wouldn't such refugees be considered traitors and killed by the Taliban id f they return to Afghanistan?
651   Patrick   2022 Dec 30, 11:31am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2023-get-out-of-the-way-if-you-cant-lend-a-hand/


The long emergency I talk so much about finally got up to cruising speed, with the ectoplasmic “Joe Biden” revving our country into economic, political, and cultural collapse — a hat-trick of calamity — and he did it more swiftly and directly than any emperor managed in late-day Rome, with policies and actions 180-degrees contra to America’s public interest — cheered on by a thinking class that had obviously lost it consensual mind.

Was the governing strategy simply to do the opposite of what the loathed and detested Mr. Trump would do? Could it be that simple or that automatic? The thinking class’s eyes have a zombified glaze these days. It’s obvious, you might agree, that “Joe Biden” is not in charge of anything, really. He’s an animatronic figure programmed to read a teleprompter and not much else. Half the time, he can’t even find his way off-stage after doing that one trick. The claque pulling his strings just may be the crew you see around him (you know, WYSIWYG): Susan Rice, Ron Klain, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and company. Ms. Rice has kept herself completely hidden backstage at the White House for two years. Nobody ever hears about her or sees her. Weird, a little bit, for the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Or else, are there puppeteers deeper in the shadows, say, “JB’s” former boss Barack Obama, Der Schwabenklaus and his WEF retinue, Bill Gates and other tech billionaires, the “systemically important” bankers, George Soros…? Or some coven of super-elite warlocks we’d never heard of? The US leadership dynamic is truly mystifying and has been for two whole years. Will mysteries be revealed in 2023? Personally, I think so. Things are lining up in that direction, though who knows whether the damage can even be reversed at this point. And now onto the shape of things to come….
652   stereotomy   2022 Dec 30, 12:15pm  

Patrick says

Der Schwabenklaus

That's funny - I remember when I was in Germany that the kids would call Santa "Der Nikolaus." Nice perverse word play.
653   Patrick   2022 Dec 30, 4:07pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/home-depot-co-founder-says-joe-biden-is-the-worst-president-in-the-history-of-this-country/


Billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus reached his limit with President Joe Biden and the woke socialists who he says are ruining capitalism. Marcus lashed out at Biden calling him the ‘worst President in the history of this country.’ ...

“We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it.

“The woke people have taken over the world.

“You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me.

“I’m 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?”

“I give money to them because I hope they’re going to do the right thing,” he says of donating to the GOP.

He said he will avoid the Republican primary race to see who will take on Biden in 2024 before calling Joe Biden “the worst president in the history of this country.”

He said Trump’s policies were “spot on, but it’s going to be very interesting in 24 because I think that DeSantis will challenge him. And may the better man win.”

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