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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,971 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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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.
877   Patrick   2023 Jul 11, 11:53am  




Lol, even the extreme left NYT recognizes Pedo Joe's hypocrisy.
878   richwicks   2023 Jul 12, 1:16am  

Patrick says




Lol, even the extreme left NYT recognizes Pedo Joe's hypocrisy.


True:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opinion/hunter-biden-child.html
879   Patrick   2023 Jul 12, 7:48pm  

https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/biden-calls-zelensky-vladimir-during-nato-remarks/


Biden calls Zelensky ‘Vladimir’ during NATO remarks in latest gaffe


Bidet is a deep embarrassment to America.
880   Patrick   2023 Jul 18, 6:56am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/known-facts-monday-july-17-2023-c


Ironically, the same day as Auntie Kamala talked about reducing population — for the kids — Sniffy Joe tried to eat a terrified baby on camera:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1680209371429519360

Don’t miss the final hair sniff. Whatever Joe has, it’s getting worse.
882   richwicks   2023 Jul 18, 12:17pm  

Patrick says

https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/biden-calls-zelensky-vladimir-during-nato-remarks/



Biden calls Zelensky ‘Vladimir’ during NATO remarks in latest gaffe


Bidet is a deep embarrassment to America.


This is the least of his mistakes. Volodymyr and Vladimir are easy to confuse. Biden talked about enjoying kids pet his leg hair in the pool, and enjoying kids jumping in his lap, and that was before he was elected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbE2SmV2bs

The man was fucking out of his mind before he was "elected". I have the full video if you need it.
884   Misc   2023 Jul 24, 2:23am  

So by now they should have tracked down, and demoted all those officers that made the $6.2 billion dollar mistake on the amount weapons we sent to the Ukraine.

There are repercussions for making that big of a fuckup, right?????

----- Government employees giggle at that.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagons-ukraine-accounting-error-revised-up-62-billion-2023-06-20/
890   Patrick   2023 Jul 28, 11:03am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/no-way-out/

Podcaster Scott Adams spun out an elegantly macabre possible scenario about how this works out which is worth repeating here: The House moves to impeach… Joe Biden retaliates by threatening the entire Deep State Blob with revealing a whole lot of dark info on their dastardly secrets, their sexual proclivities and adventures (think: the Epstein client list), and other incriminating deets-and-receipts that would, theoretically, bring ruin to scores of political celebrities. In which case, the Blob just up and offs dumb-ass “Joe Biden,” using their cunning ways of arranging for him to die in his sleep… because, he was old… and it was his time…. Salutes to you, Scott, for that one! (And then, of course, there is all that follows that).
897   richwicks   2023 Aug 1, 9:06pm  

Patrick says






If those are the companies being killed, I support Bidenomics.

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