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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,813 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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380   Patrick   2022 Jun 26, 11:48am  


Another problem is that these noble endeavors often end up making life harder for the minorities they are meant to support. In March of this year, Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a plan to force “home appraisers” to increase their valuations of black-owned properties.

Exhibiting a relationship with reality that is at best detached, Harris said this equity measure would improve “intergenerational wealth” among minorities. Would it also not mean that black people end up poorer because they would be paying more in property taxes on their higher-valued homes? Nobody seemed to care. Equity is about gestures not results.

As part of its multi-trillion-dollar Build Back Better infrastructure agenda, the Biden administration has also suggested destroying interstate highways, not because the roads are bad infrastructure but because they were built by a racist society in the 1960s.
381   HeadSet   2022 Jun 26, 1:38pm  

Patrick says


Biden administration has also suggested destroying interstate highways, not because the roads are bad infrastructure but because they were built by a racist society in the 1960s.

Biden would know, as Biden was quite the blatant racist in the 60s and 70s.
382   Patrick   2022 Jun 26, 2:20pm  

https://gettr.com/post/p1fiy21f777


@Arnie1974
Jun 24
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Joe Biden Brags About Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired That Was Investigating His Son

In 2016 Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, in his investigation of corruption involving Burisma Holdings, a natural gas company, identified Hunter Biden as the recipient of over $3,000,000 from the company.

Not wanting this corruption exposed, Joe Biden swung into action, using us loan guarantees as hostages while demanding Skokin be fired.

Amazingly, Joe Biden brags about his actions in this matter.

In 2022 Biden says this: "I think the greatest sin anyone can commit is the abuse of power." the irony of the sentence is of charts!
383   Patrick   2022 Jun 29, 10:42am  

https://thedrilldown.com/newsroom/he-knew-voicemail-explodes-joe-bidens-know-nothing-narrative-on-hunters-dealings/


He Knew: Voicemail Explodes Joe Biden’s Know-Nothing Narrative on Hunter’s Dealings.
JOE CALLED HUNTER AFTER A NYT ARTICLE ON HIS CHINESE BUSINESS DEALINGS.
384   tomtomtom   2022 Jun 29, 1:29pm  

It is amusing to see how all the blame goes solely towards Brandon. Brandon is just a puppet (I refuse to believe he makes any decisions). To make him behave they keep reminding him that there is enough dirt on him to put him and his family in jail. Whoever makes the decisions is incompetent and should be blamed first.
386   RWSGFY   2022 Jun 30, 6:21am  

LOL, the FSB fuck who started the fake "dumb ass uprising" in 2014 actually thinks that Biden's Afghanistan covfefe was a brilliant and devious move to entrap poor defensless Mother Ruscia: https://wartranslated.com/igor-girkin-with-conspiracy-theory-about-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

At least somebody thinks Biden is brilliant...
390   Patrick   2022 Jul 1, 5:00pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/wh-press-corps-turns-on-biden-demands-joe-take-unscripted-questions-the-administrations-continued-efforts-to-limit-access-to-the-president-cannot-be-defended/


The Washington D.C. liberal media is turning on Joe Biden after growing tired of limited access to the Democrat president.

The White House press corps is now demanding President Biden take real, unscripted questions from the media.

They want Biden to start taking legitimate questions from reporters who are not pre-selected by staff, arguing that denying this access “cannot be defended.”

Reporters say they are left questioning who is answering the president’s questions when he is reading pre-prepared answers from a script.

Tonight, 68 White House journalists asked @PressSec to end the mysterious prescreening of reporters let into President Biden’s events, calling it ‘antithetical to the concept of a free press’ https://t.co/X5CN1qBL3m pic.twitter.com/v2SqOoBazQ

— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) June 30, 2022


Of course they don't want that corrupt and senile pedophile actually answering any real questions.
391   Patrick   2022 Jul 1, 5:01pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/americans-believe-bidens-government-corrupt-poll/


A majority of Americans said Biden’s government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” including two-thirds of Republicans and independents, and about half of Democrats.
398   Onvacation   2022 Jul 11, 7:16pm  

Patrick says

the Biden administration has also suggested destroying interstate highways, not because the roads are bad infrastructure but because they were built by a racist society in the 1960s.

Did they really say that?
405   Patrick   2022 Jul 25, 7:02am  

https://www.ntd.com/gen-mark-milley-china-becoming-more-aggressive-in-pacific_813916.html

Of course China is becoming more aggressive. It's hard to imagine a weaker or less competent president.
407   HeadSet   2022 Jul 26, 11:15am  

Patrick says

https://www.ntd.com/gen-mark-milley-china-becoming-more-aggressive-in-pacific_813916.html

Of course China is becoming more aggressive. It's hard to imagine a weaker or less competent president.

Gee, Milley, maybe we should de-woke the military and remove the jab mandate.
410   Misc   2022 Jul 28, 12:52am  

Well, the Army was the 1st branch of the armed services to come out with how badly its recruiting has been this year. Looks like they are gonna be about 33k soldiers less than they want by years end, and this is with the highest recruiting bonuses on record.

I figure the other services are about the same; down about 10% of the numbers they want. Guess the tough guy attitude gets lost when you realize that some trans is gonna order you around. Who would volunteer for that crap?

They are scaping the complete losers of society to get someone to serve,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-army-plans-new-pre-boot-camp-training-program-for-recruits-who-don-t-meet-standards-as-alarms-sound-on-recruitment/ar-AA102vzL?cvid=1ed730d699e84448af997f8d7bd1544c

Biden in his excellent skills as commander is gonna kick out about 40k troops in the Guard and Reserve for not taking the vaxx. --- Brilliant
411   Patrick   2022 Jul 28, 7:45am  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-met-14-hunters-business-associates-vice-president


Joe Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates while vice president
President Biden has repeatedly denied discussing business with his son


Biden was selling influence over US government policy.
413   Patrick   2022 Jul 28, 3:10pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/new-poll-shows-75-of-democrats-dont-want-sleepy-joe-to-run-again


New CNN poll shows 75% of DEMOCRATS don't want Sleepy Joe to run again
415   Patrick   2022 Jul 29, 10:00am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/playing-chicken-with-the-fates/


Who is surprised that the US government’s war on the American people is not going any better than its sponsored war in Ukraine? The only thing the government is really good at is covering up its crimes, which mainly requires them to do nothing — don’t investigate anything, don’t furnish documents to anyone, don’t answer official letters, slow-walk every required action, and otherwise dodge, duck, deny, deflect, and dissemble.

Now, even that game-plan is falling apart. Some senior officials in the FBI turned whistleblower this week, perhaps desperate to preserve their self-respect, and finally cleared up one of the great mystifications of our time, namely: How is it that the Hunter Biden laptop, stuffed with incriminating memoranda of bribery, treason, and diverse felonies, and in the FBI’s possession for two-and-a-half years now, just sat gathering dust in some sub-sub-basement cubby-hole — while “Joe Biden,” the putative president (or, more likely, the enigmatic claque behind him) was allowed to carry out a demolition of America’s economy and culture?

The answer is one Brian Auten, FBI Senior Analyst, who engineered a scheme to label Hunter’s laptop “Russian disinformation,” which allowed FBI Director Christopher Wray to throw a switch that turned off any further inquiry in the matter beginning in August before the 2020 presidential election. In turn, other senior FBI officials had all the documents pertaining to the decision process on that matter locked up in a special file that would never see the light of day. ...

Turns out that Agent Brian Auten was also involved in favorably vetting the Steele Dossier when it was used to justify FISA court warrants against figures in Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, part of the RussiaGate operation that disordered and disabled President Trump’s entire four-year term. Well now you know. Perhaps Special Counsel John Durham knows this, too. (If he didn’t before, he must now.) Eventually, Mr. Auten will have to answer for all this, maybe after the mid-term elections. We must imagine that he will implicate many other familiar figures in the process who were on-the-scene at the time, including Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and James Comey, comfortably sitting on the sidelines lo these many years enjoying their book royalties and cable news salaries.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, says he will hold hearings about this. When? ...

All of this is going to blow open, of course, and all at the same time that two other big things blow up: 1) the realization that the government lied about everything in the Covid-19 story, including especially covering-up the harmful effects of their vaunted mRNA shots, and 2) deepening US economic chaos, including the implosion of markets, derivatives, banks, and the US dollar.

Some observers say that “Joe Biden” has nothing left except to shove the USA into a hot war. Kind of looks like he’s trying — sending US Special Forces to Ukraine’s border, and all. I don’t think he’ll dare cross that line, though. To me, it’s more likely that our government will summon, shall we say, a special sort of doctor from the Intel Community to administer a permanent sleeping med to the Big Guy. Did you see how bug-eyed he was on video the other day? Didn’t even blink for the longest time. Looks like he badly needs sleep… a big sleep… the biggest sleep there is. Wait for it.

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