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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   125,457 views  1,170 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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184   RC2006   2022 Jan 24, 8:22am  

We all knew chaos and war would break out under Biden. Biden's puppet masters know libs will be distracted from all of their fuck ups.
185   rocketjoe79   2022 Jan 24, 8:25am  

Patrick says


Why?

The vaxx does less than nothing to stop transmission. It enhances transmission of the virus.

Is this just more Biden corruption for the profit of Pfizer?


Except for illegals, of course. They get a free pass on vaxxing, and then get shipped to cities around the USA to spread the disease.
188   Patrick   2022 Jan 25, 8:03am  

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-just-called-fox-newss-peter-doocy-a-stupid-son-of-a-b-and-im-glad-we-have-returned-to-decency-in-the-white-house?source=patrick.net



Doocy asked a perfectly legitimate question and Biden called him an SOB.

Also, this is just incredible, here Biden is almost exactly a year ago, I believe in the same room, saying he'd fire anyone who was rude or disrespectful.


If you ever work with me, and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise I will fire you on the spot.

On the spot! No if, ands, or buts!

Everybody, everybody, is entitled to be treated with dignity and decency! That's been missing in a big way the last four years.


Everybody, that is, unless they work for Fox News, I guess?

I'm looking forward to Biden explaining how this doesn't fall into the "ifs, ands, or buts" clause of his statement.


Similar article:

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-mask-slipped-peter-doocy-sob/
190   Patrick   2022 Jan 27, 9:27pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/legacy-media-disinformation?source=patrick.net


A Trip Down the Misinformation Memory Lane, brought to you by Joe Biden:

"I wouldn't demand it (the vaccine) to be mandatory but I would do everything in my power. It's like I don't think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide." (Pres. Candidate Biden, 2020)

"I feel confident by summer we’ll be well on our way towards herd immunity and increasing access." (Early 2021)

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” (July 21, 2021)

“For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.” (Fall, 2021)
191   Patrick   2022 Jan 28, 8:30pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/lol--at-the-white-house-retirement-event-for-justice-breyer-biden-reaches-over-and-hands-his-mask-to-breyer-who-pockets-it-while-biden-walks-away-maskless?source=patrick.net


Did Sleepy Joe just confuse retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with his butler?

Watch as the perpetually confused Joe Biden ends the retirement event for Justice Breyer by handing his filthy mask to the elderly justice who sticks it in his pocket.
199   Patrick   2022 Feb 2, 1:20pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/omicron-did-not-slam-labor-markets/comments?source=patrick.net


omicron did not "slam labor markets." covid policy did. and it was entirely avoidable.
el gato malo 5 min ago

CNBC would appear to wish to have us believe that the drop in jobs was caused by “the variant” as though this was some act of nature instead of an act of government.

it is not. this is a deeply misleading framing intended to obscure causality rather than reveal it. ...

we’re living though needless damage to no useful effect at.

this is NOT the virus.

it’s the predictable and unavoidable output of deeply stupid public health policy.

the damage since this began has been acute and severe. “2 weeks to flatten the curve” was, as many of us were screaming right from the beginning, the commencement of the nastiest economic hit to jobs and small business per unit time in US history and probably in global history. ...

it’s really very simple: places that locked down harder got no better outcomes on covid. but they got much, much worse outcomes on economic and societal damage.

this was all known and knowable.

the base prior for pandemics was to never, never do this. ...

at this stage of the game and with this much clear data at one’s disposal, it’s pretty absurd to still be trying to blame upon a virus that which’s fault lies with public health response.
200   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 2, 6:12pm  

*Breaking***

Biden underqualified Georgetown Grade Millenial Bourgeois Bureaucrats were STILL arguing about fundamental steps to evac civilians 24 hours before Kabul Fell.

Intel & Military advisors were routinely shunned and mocked by State and Biden WH operatives in the previous months.

It's on Studio 6B right now... Real America's Voice.

Here's from Warroom:

https://rumble.com/vtwfre-leaked-biden-memo-exposes-his-absolute-failure.html
201   RWSGFY   2022 Feb 2, 7:21pm  

It's worse than anyone could imagine.
202   Patrick   2022 Feb 2, 7:51pm  

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/24/covid-vaccine-stocks-biden-conflict/?source=patrick.net


BIDEN’S INNER CIRCLE MAINTAINS CLOSE TIES TO VACCINE MAKERS, DISCLOSURES REVEAL
As concerns grow about a global “vaccine apartheid,” watchdogs worry that the Biden administration is primed to favor profits over people.
Lee FangLee Fang
March 24 2021, 11:18 a.m.
208   Bd6r   2022 Feb 4, 11:47am  

Bidet has been senile for 30 yrs now, try to understand what the hell he is talking about in Thomas nomination:

https://nitter.dark.fail/bennyjohnson/status/1486733302245453829?source=patrick.net#m
209   Patrick   2022 Feb 4, 9:16pm  

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-feb-4-2022?source=patrick.net


A Faction of Karens

Biden is failing because his policies are designed to appease the hypochondriac wing of the Democratic Party rather than the median voter.
214   Misc   2022 Feb 12, 9:40pm  

It's been over 6 months since the Afghanistan fuck up.

Have they gotten around to firing anybody over it?

Remember Trump had negotiated the Taliban's surrender.
223   Patrick   2022 Feb 22, 7:12am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537337/Biden-picks-BLM-board-member-CRT-promoter-help-SCOTUS-pick.html?source=patrick.net


Biden's choice to help with his SCOTUS pick is a BLM board member, CRT promoter and defund-the-police supporter – NONE of which he mentioned when he announced her
Minyon Moore, 63, was tapped by Biden to help him pick the first black woman justice on the Supreme Court
She sits on the board of Black Lives Matter Global Foundation, which touts defunding the police
Biden has tried to distance himself of that movement
Moore is a close friend and promoter of Kimberle Crenshaw one of the founding architects of critical race theory
She has been a political consultant for Jesse Jackson, Kamala Harris, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
She will suspend her political consulting and work with BLM whiles she advises on the top court pick

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