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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,976 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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832   RC2006   2023 Jun 16, 6:30am  

Don't worry I saw on morning news Joe is tackling junk fees for concerts, it's one of the most pressing concerns of the country right now. So ridiculous even the morning news guy commented is this what our government should be working on.
842   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 2:23pm  

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/20/joe-biden-is-not-ok/


There is nothing unique about being a scatterbrained 80-year-old. But a scatterbrained 80-year-old should not be president.
843   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 9:44pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/festival-joys-tuesday-june-20-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=129706419&isFreemail=true


Biden’s Monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis interviewed on MSNBC over the weekend and said some remarkable things. You’re going to think I made it up.

Daskalakis says the Biden administration’s goals are to “support peoples’ joy” as opposed to stigmatizing them as “risky.” He explained, “One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or a Friday night.”

Festivals! Well, Demetre would know. Here he is at a festival with his puppy. He doesn’t look very joyful though. Maybe he keeps it locked inside.




It’s Biden’s best and brightest! Remember, this is your modern democrat party, the grand experiment to give political power to people who historically would have been shunned and kept as far away from the wheels of influence as possible, if not locked away.

It’s kind of like handing out permanent markers to a pre-K classroom, except the stakes are even higher. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.
852   Patrick   2023 Jun 28, 10:30am  

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1674062124245549056


@disclosetv
NOW - Biden: Putin "is clearly losing the war in Iraq."
853   richwicks   2023 Jun 28, 12:08pm  

Patrick says


https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1674062124245549056


disclosetv
NOW - Biden: Putin "is clearly losing the war in Iraq."





Good thing our intelligence agencies got rid of that mentally unstable, mentally incompetent Trump!!
854   Onvacation   2023 Jun 28, 12:20pm  

HeadSet says

Patrick says


https://notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-just-cant-keep-his-hands-off-of-womens-midriff-and-its-still-creepy-no-matter-how-many-times-i-see-it-happen

It does not look like Eva was bothered by it at all.

She's been dealing with perverts since she was a little girl. Getting real good at deflecting unwanted advances.
855   RWSGFY   2023 Jun 30, 3:33pm  

Another report out, this time on State Dept: https://apple.news/AUJbJc55ZTsSItJFi0C_CLQ

Not pretty.
856   RWSGFY   2023 Jun 30, 3:36pm  

Patrick says






... or Vlad Pukin:





Sorry,I mean OUR GREAT UNTIPEDOGLOBOHOMO CHRISTIAN LEADER!
857   Patrick   2023 Jun 30, 9:24pm  

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/30/state-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/


State Department Finally Admits In Heavily Redacted Report That Biden Botched The Afghanistan Withdrawal
861   Misc   2023 Jul 5, 4:06am  

Let's see...Trump had negotiated a surrender from the Taliban. They were to take part in a democratic form of representative government in Afghanistan.

Biden fucked that up.

The report issued Friday on the SNAFU didn't really say who was responsible for the fuck up, nor was anyone demoted, fired, etc for fucking up Afghanistan and leaving about 15 million women as effective slaves.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/04/biden-administration-released-afghanistan-report-day-before-holiday-in-attempt-to-bury-it-republicans-say/
865   richwicks   2023 Jul 7, 10:36am  

Patrick says






We did NOT have world peace. We were bombing Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia at that time, and Ukraine was in civil war.
866   Eric Holder   2023 Jul 7, 2:35pm  

richwicks says


Ukraine was in civil war.


Nope. It was cross-border incursion from the day one (which is Feb 20, 2014). Pukin confessed to his troops first starting shit in Crimea and then Dumbass long time ago.
867   Patrick   2023 Jul 7, 2:46pm  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/father-of-our-country/


Consider for a moment, and be grateful for, how perfect “Joe Biden” is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state.

As a criminal enterprise, for instance, the Biden family influence-peddling operation among foreign powers reflects exactly the racketeering character of corporate America today — which is to say, making money dishonestly, and often for doing nothing. In America’s biggest industry, finance, this is absolutely the case. You may have forgotten what finance is, and what it’s supposed to do: namely, to lend money for activities intended to produce things of value, useful things that people need and want, sometimes even public works that benefit everyone in society. ...

The Biden business model also applies nicely to medicine and higher education, two endeavors saturated in prestige and pomp, like the doings in the White House, but which, similarly to that hotbed of policy and action, in the case of medicine, produces shocking amounts of unnecessary death (est. 251,000 a year from iatrogenic treatment errors), and in the case of higher ed, the production of specious and harmful Big Ideas — while both endeavors expand like turbo-tumors within the dying body of an expiring manufacturing economy.

As in the Biden model, dishonesty is now the keystone in both “Meds” and “Eds.” Our public health officialdom hasn’t stopped lying about the Covid-19 episode since it began, and in every aspect from the origin of the disease (if that’s even what it was), to the deaths statistically attributed to it, to everything about the “vaccines” cooked up to stop it. In turn, those officials coerced America’s doctors into withholding the best treatments (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine) while applying deadly protocols (remdesivir plus intubation) guaranteed to kill hospital patients — which the government then rewarded with gargantuan bonus payments.

Higher ed has now turned its energies from learning to political activism, meaning the performance of morality preening stunts for acquiring status under the pretense of addressing social problems that boil down to bad behavioral choices and mental illness. Higher ed is now in the business of generating more of both those things in the form of manufactured racial antagonism and sexual torment (in partnership with the medical establishment). All fields of study in college are now racialized and genderized, and all at the expense of organized knowledge, which gets burdened with fatuous theory and spurious crypto-religious missions. The price of admission to this carnival of fakery multiplies at a faster rate than the generalized annual dollar inflation, abetted by federal loan guarantees that “Joe Biden,” in his munificence, seeks to abridge with a jubilee for student debt.

Of course, it’s the fantastic psychodrama within the Biden family that presents the most arresting model for America. “Joe Biden” tells us over and over that he loves his son, who he calls “the smartest man I know.” A father’s love is a wonderful thing, for sure. And yet, is there anything that Hunter Biden has not done to destroy “the Big Guy,” short of, say, driving a number nine knitting needle ear-to-ear through the old man’s skull?

Look at what Hunter has loosed on his loving dad: a photo archive of amateur pornography (including sex acts with children), drug crime, and bribery deal memos so vast and clear-cut that a first-year law student could write them up into a federal criminal case and / or a bill of impeachment. Hunter went and got a pole-dancer pregnant and lately tried to weasel out of paying to support the daughter he refused to acknowledge until DNA testing pinned it on him. He only just wriggled out of tax evasion and handgun charges due to his father enlisting the US DOJ as a private protection service, thus befouling the agency and destroying the public’s trust in it. Now Hunter’s suspected of leaving a bag of cocaine in a West Wing cubby, where White House security was sure to find it.

What we’re witnessing is an order of magnitude greater than Greek tragedy: the implacable drive to destroy not just the father, who happens (by the sheerest electoral subterfuge) to be president, but to take down the nation with him. And it’s working. The Biden family is crashing into smoldering wreckage, and so is the USA — as acted out in the sad-sack nation of Ukraine, a festering hub of Biden family moneygrubbing going back more than a decade, now being needlessly sacrificed as part of a massive criminal cover-up, with America’s geopolitical prestige on-the-line.

I know, the complexity of this melodrama is overwhelming. How can one bumbling political idiot wreak so much havoc? It’s a wonder, all right. But it’s all playing-out before us in real time. “Joe Biden” — who (let’s face it) is only partly there — Hunter, brother Jim, and the rest of this sorry clan are all going down. We won’t miss them, when they’re gone. Everything about them is ignoble, which you can’t exactly say about our country itself. One way or another, they will be thrown overboard, and then we’ll see if we can get this ship righted and under sail again.


I suspect that Hunter is doing these things to get back at his pedo father for abusing him as a boy.
868   richwicks   2023 Jul 7, 2:54pm  

Eric Holder says


richwicks says


Ukraine was in civil war.


Nope. It was cross-border incursion from the day one (which is Feb 20, 2014). Pukin confessed to his troops first starting shit in Crimea and then Dumbass long time ago.



No, it's in civil war:


original link

I do my fucking homework. CNN will report the truth when it doesn't matter, otherwise they are pure propagandists.

Civil war began in 2014:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas(2014%E2%80%932022)

You can go through the history of that on wikipedia, first entries were in June 2014. I do my fucking homework before I make a statement.

The civil war in Ukraine began RIGHT AFTER the US coup, and it was a coup:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM

That's Victoria Nuland deciding on the next government of Ukraine. That was posted on February 4, 2014. Viktor Yanukovych fled office on February 22. 2014:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych

I obsessively check this shit - to no avail. I am up against a MOUNTAIN of people, like you, that just deny reality - will ignore it. You know how common you are? You don't know anything about this, but you'll step in and tell me what CNN or Fox told you. There's no news, there's only propaganda. They will report the truth ONCE then lie and lie and lie for years after that.

Here's what will happen in Ukraine. Ukraine has infinite amounts of arms and money from the United States, but they don't have infinite people. The nation will be destroyed. We are watching a modern genocide.

Regard how many links I have, why do you think that is? I record important history, and can readily find it. I don't repeat propaganda, to the best of my knowledge. I'm careful about that. You aren't.

I think you're genuinely a propagandist - not a person. You are paid to get people murdered. I think that is your job. I couldn't do what you do, it would destroy my soul, perhaps you don't have one?
869   Patrick   2023 Jul 7, 8:56pm  

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/interpreter-us-afghanistan-killed-working-rideshare-driver-dc-rcna93017


A father of four who worked as an interpreter for U.S. special forces in Afghanistan before fleeing the country for safety in America was fatally shot while working as a rideshare driver in Washington, D.C. this week, relatives and authorities said.

The Metropolitan Police Department said it was looking for suspects in the fatal shooting Monday of a man identified as 31-year-old Nasrat Ahmad Yar, of Alexandria, Virginia.

Officers were initially called for reports of an unconscious person just after 12 a.m. that day. When they arrived, they found Ahmad Yar inside a vehicle with at least one gunshot found, police said. The 31-year-old was taken to a hospital, but was pronounced dead "after all life-saving efforts failed," police said.

Relatives of Ahmad Yar told NBC Washington that he was a father of four who had risked his life working with U.S. special forces in Afghanistan for a decade.

“He was alongside shoulder to shoulder helping American soldiers,” said his cousin Mohammad Ahmadi.

After U.S. forces pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021, Ahmad Yar went on the run and eventually made it to the U.S.

“Then he came here. He was so happy,” Rahim Amini, described as his best friend, told the outlet.

Ahmad Yar had initially started his life in the U.S. in Philadelphia but he felt it was too dangerous, so he moved to Northern Virginia, NBC Washington reported.

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