Horror and humiliation: Biden’s Afghan withdrawal one year later

[SugarDaddy1]

On the anniversary of the last American C-17 transport plane leaving Afghanistan , images of that shameful day still haunt President Joe Biden and taint his legacy. They will do so in perpetuity.

Recall some of these appalling events. Men who had stowed away on the aircraft undercarriage in the hope of fleeing Taliban barbarisms fell to their deaths from the sky. Children were passed from hand to hand over the airport's barbed wire in hope that they would be flown to safety. Taliban fighters were armed with American weapons and clothed in American uniforms abandoned by the Biden administration in its panicked retreat.

These images, which dishonor Biden, were the result of his terrible decisions in the spring and summer of 2021. They were, however, not seen by Americans alone, which makes matters much worse. They were broadcast around the world for all of America's friends and allies to see. Biden made our country look weak, incompetent, and unreliable — because it was being weak, incompetent, and unreliable. This naturally unnerved allies and emboldened enemies. The United States is far more vulnerable today thanks to Biden’s Afghanistan policy.

Biden had been failing in office before the Afghan debacle, but it was that fiasco of a withdrawal that ripped the veil back on his incompetence, cynicism, and shallowness. It shone a light on many of his administration’s ineradicable traits: its inability to accept responsibility for anything, its use of Trump as a scapegoat for all Biden's own mistakes, its refusal to let observed reality change ideological preconceptions, and its inability to admit mistakes and change course. Whether the issue is COVID, immigration, or inflation, Biden has been a disaster for the nation.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ation-bidens-afghan-withdrawal-one-year-later

 

[ll74]

That would be 45's Afghanistan....since he gave the Taliban credibility when he refused to allow the afghan govt to participate in withdrawal talks.

 

[oggbashan]

Give up. there would have been no withdrawal if Trump hadn't announced it first and left Biden and US servicemen to sort out the shambles Trump had created.

 

[phrodeau]

It’s obvious that the Republicans never wanted to leave Afghanistan. It was a big cash cow, and career opportunity for their kids. Nobody was calling to bring home the troops, and nobody was wearing yellow ribbons. Now they whine because Biden took away their sandbox.

 

[Veroe]

No the humiliation is on the bush/Cheney admin for thinking that we could jump into Afghanistan get al Qaeda and remodel an entire foreign society to one that mirrors our own. The humiliation is on every neocon warhawk because it proves after 20 years of wasting our military might and countless millions of our taxpayer dollars that regime change Is a stupid strategy for war.

Biden gets credit for pulling the cord on the meat grinder that's been chewing up an entire generation of our service men and gdp.

 

[Sugar Baby Wanted]

Give up. there would have been no withdrawal if Trump hadn't announced it first and left Biden and US servicemen to sort out the shambles Trump had created.

Wrong. Trump would have cancelled the planned strategic withdrawal when they violated the agreement. Then he would have done it safely and REMOVED THE BILLION IN ARMAMENTS Biden left there. idiot.

 

[ll74]

Wrong. Trump would have cancelled the planned strategic withdrawal when they violated the agreement. Then he would have done it safely and REMOVED THE BILLION IN ARMAMENTS Biden left there. idiot.

No, he wouldn't have.

 

[oggbashan]

No, he wouldn't have.

Once Trump had announced the withdrawal he had effectively surrendered to the Taliban and the timescale was too short to do anything properly - and he DIDN'T tell his allies that he was going to set a withdrawal date. They and the Afghan Government were left in the dark until it was too late.

 

[ll74]

Once Trump had announced the withdrawal he had effectively surrendered to the Taliban and the timescale was too short to do anything properly - and he DIDN'T tell his allies that he was going to set a withdrawal date. They and the Afghan Government were left in the dark until it was too late.

It was done deliberately and horribly..
.and like everything else he does....had no intent of lasting longer than a press release

 

[Veroe]

Wrong. Trump would have cancelled the planned strategic withdrawal when they violated the agreement. Then he would have done it safely and REMOVED THE BILLION IN ARMAMENTS Biden left there. idiot.

There's no way to assert that since he never got the chance to.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Wrong. Trump would have cancelled the planned strategic withdrawal when they violated the agreement. Then he would have done it safely and REMOVED THE BILLION IN ARMAMENTS Biden left there. idiot.

*chuckles* prostrating yourself like the Trump whore you are....you and Ican't should split the room bill next time and blow Trump together.....( then again ican't is bluesdriver, so whats to say he isn't also you???

 

[lovecraft68]

Dems 'women's rightssssssss!"

Also dems.....who cares an entire country full of women have been dragged back into the dark ages?

Then they squeal about R v Wade....rape isn't even a crime in many muslim countries, but they can't suck up to them enough, can they?"

Leave women's rights to people who care about them.

 

[PaxNurgle]

^Which is...who, exactly?
Certainly not the party who thinks if a woman is raped, then the government should force her to carry her rapist's baby to term?

Domnccoast=icanhelp1=babyboomer50=Ramone45...and I'm missing a couple; that guy has more active usernames than Rightguide, which is a pretty noteworthy accomplishment. Though, kind of a sad one, if that is his only claim to fame; certainly nothing to be proud of.

 

[lovecraft68]

^Which is...who, exactly?
Certainly not the party who thinks if a woman is raped, then the government should force her to carry her rapist's baby to term?

Domnccoast=icanhelp1=babyboomer50=Ramone45...and I'm missing a couple; that guy has more active usernames than Rightguide, which is a pretty noteworthy accomplishment. Though, kind of a sad one, if that is his only claim to fame; certainly nothing to be proud of.

I've said it before and will again.

These are women's choices for voting.

A party that wants them back in 1950 and on the other side a party that now refuses to answer what is a woman and don't want to use the term female. They cry about women's rights....yet want to eradicate the gender

Good times, no?

 

[phrodeau]

I've said it before and will again.

These are women's choices for voting.

A party that wants them back in 1950 and on the other side a party that now refuses to answer what is a woman and don't want to use the term female. They cry about women's rights....yet want to eradicate the gender

Good times, no?

No idea what you’re talking about. Where do you hear this shit?

 

[BluesDriver66]

These foreign wars of choice is like fucking a woman with a chastity belt. Sure you can stick your dick in. The problem is pulling out. It's going to be messy and if you don't like that, you should have thought about that before sticking your dick in, in the first place.

 

[phrodeau]

How many of those classified documents did Trump fax over to the Taliban while he had them?

 

[PaxNurgle]

No idea what you’re talking about. Where do you hear this shit?

He's saying that both extremes are equally fucked.

Republicans take away women's rights and their personal body autonomy.

Democrats (And we're talking the extreme left here basically) want everyone to be gender-neutral, and do away with gender in the traditional sense altogether.

I agree that while neither of these things are particularly beneficial to society, I am all about protecting personal freedoms and liberty, and find the Republicans attack on female freedom of choice to be more appalling.

 

[BluesDriver66]

He's saying that both extremes are equally fucked.

Republicans take away women's rights and their personal body autonomy.

Democrats (And we're talking the extreme left here basically) want everyone to be gender-neutral, and do away with gender in the traditional sense altogether.

I agree that while neither of these things are particularly beneficial to society, I am all about protecting personal freedoms and liberty, and find the Republicans attack on female freedom of choice to be more appalling.

The gender neutral crowd are pretty much restricted to teenage girls with purple hair and nose rings posting on Twitter. The anti-abortion crowd are mainstream Republicans in Congress and the Senate with corporate donors supplying them millions of dollars in campaign contributions. The gender neutral crowd are unemployed students living with their parents. The comparison is laughable.

 

[JohnnySavage]

It came 17 years too late.

 

[oggbashan]

It came 17 years too late.

And after too many US and allied deaths and thousands of Afghans.

 

[SugarDaddy1]

During a report on the CBS News Streaming Network on Tuesday, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reported that the Biden administration is pursuing an Afghanistan policy of “off the front page, that they don’t want Afghanistan to be a top or front-page news story” due to how badly the withdrawal went and how terrible the situation in the country is now.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...stan-policy-is-to-keep-it-off-the-front-page/

 

[SugarDaddy1]

Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz reported on Monday citing an original report by Fox News.

"Christians who remain in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover face routine torture and persecution from both the [Taliban-occupied] government and their own friends, families and communities, according to humanitarian and watchdog groups,” Fox News Digital reported on August 29 citing a recent interview with the CEO of the anti-Christian persecution organization Open Doors USA.

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/08/30/taliban-engaging-routine-torture-afghan-christians/

 

[oggbashan]

How terrible Afghanistan is now? Blame Trump, not Biden. Trump decided to withdraw. Biden had to clear up the result of Trump's unilateral decision, as did all the US's allies. Trump MADE the disaster and left little time for any country to organise it properly..

 

[ll74]

I'd blame GW for getting us there in the first place. We did not have a strategy from the start.

It was never on course to end any differently, regardless of President.