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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,304 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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606   Patrick   2022 Nov 18, 7:22pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/house-gop-announces-investigation-of-the-president-this-committee-will-evaluate-whether-this-president-is-compromised-or-swayed-by-foreign-dollars-

Joe Biden got the Ukrainian special prosecutor fired who was investigating his son's involvement on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian energy firm.
Hunter Biden's laptop is a treasure trove that implicates the president ("The Big Guy") in numerous financial transactions with shady foreign entities that have benefited the Biden family over decades.
Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, who helped set up the shell companies the Biden family used, has publicly detailed his conversations with Joe Biden and his brother Jim Biden, as well as Hunter Biden.
Joe Biden claimed he had no involvement with any of these family dealings, but voicemails and messages counter that claim.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Unfortunately, a House GOP investigation means nothing without the Senate. Because Republicans failed to take control of both chambers, their ability to do anything to hold Joe Biden accountable will likely have to wait 2 more years.

In the meantime, what they need to do is blow the lid off this sucker.
607   Patrick   2022 Nov 18, 7:25pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/pentagon-audit-decries-afghanistan-as-a-145-million-vietnam-level-failure


Pentagon audit says Afghanistan war was $145 BILLION "total, epic, and predestined failure"
609   richwicks   2022 Nov 23, 9:41pm  

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/pentagon-audit-decries-afghanistan-as-a-145-million-vietnam-level-failure



Pentagon audit says Afghanistan war was $145 BILLION "total, epic, and predestined failure"



$145 billion? I think they missed at least 1 zero in there. That war cost over a trillion dollars, easily. It went on for 20 years.
616   Patrick   2022 Nov 28, 6:59pm  

Patrick says


https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/06/doe-employee-requests-opm-investigation-into-sam-brinton/





https://www.westernjournal.com/man-charged-felony-theft-identified-gender-fluid-biden-official/


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. ...

But, on Sept. 16 there was a complaint at the MSP airport from a female that her bag was missing when she went to pick it up at baggage claim, Alpha News reported.

Law enforcement checked surveillance video which reportedly showed Brinton taking the bag and removing the luggage tag and then returning to the airport two days later with the bag.

Later, surveillance video also reportedly showed Brinton with the bag yet again on Oct. 9 at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, Alpha News reported.

The woman to whom the bag originally belonged to, claimed that the bag and her belonging in it were worth over $2,000, Alpha News noted.


See also:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479159/DOE-spent-fuel-chief-Sam-Brinton-charged-felony-theft-Minnesota.html
617   HeadSet   2022 Nov 29, 7:59am  

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.
618   richwicks   2022 Nov 29, 8:16pm  

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 think this is a bit over-blown.

Remember how WORTHLESS our "news" is. I have heard everything from he took the bag, emptied the contents and put his stuff in it, to he picked it up, went to wherever, and returned 2 days to the airport to return it and apologized that he picked it up accidentally.

Who knows what is true? If he emptied the contents, yes, obviously he stole it. If he just picked it up and returned it once he realized what he did, stupid embarrassing mistake, but a mistake.

Really don't feel too badly for woman that is so vain that she has a $2,000 bag anyhow. Don't feel too much sympathy for a dude that wears lipstick and promotes his personal fetish AT WORK, either. It's just a dispute between 2 assholes, and if he stole a handbag, fuck him. Are all the contents still there? If so, well, he's just a stupid asshole.
619   Misc   2022 Nov 30, 12:58am  

So, how is that inquiry into "What went wrong in Afghanistan" going?

I mean, I'm sure we're spending billions on the investigation.
621   richwicks   2022 Nov 30, 3:47pm  

Patrick says








Let me fix that:



or it could be this:

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.

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