The rest is an incoherent word salad that only psychiatrists, highly trained medical doctors, and cryptologists can make any sense of.
The Obama administration blamed all its messes on George W. Bush. Biden is just as determined to blame everything on Trump. But it’s really pathetic that Biden was using Afghanistan as his ‘Mission Accomplished’ victory lap, and is now blaming President Trump for making him pull out the troops.
President Joe Biden had no “viable option” other than to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, according to a senior State Department official who suggested that former President Donald Trump’s team tied their hands with a flawed agreement with the Taliban.
“It was preordained,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters while defending the withdrawal. “It’s a deal that this administration probably would not have made, certainly not in all the detail. But it’s the deal that we inherited.”
Price has no original ideas. This is the same false argument Obama’s people were making for why he had to pull out of Iraq.
Obama, like Biden, turned a fake pullout from Iraq into a victory lap, before then trying to blame the Bush administration for forcing him to pull out of Iraq as the ISIS jayvee team began to roll over the country.
The Taliban would be taking over Afghanistan no matter what the deal was. Biden promised all along to pull out of Afghanistan. So why complain now? Oh right, because the collapse is happening much faster than Milley told Biden it would and so now there’s panic in needle park.
“The idea that the United States could have maintained a significant military presence in Afghanistan … that was just not tenable,” Price maintained. “It was not in the cards, because according to that agreement that was negotiated by the United States, not this administration, but the previous one, if our forces remain there in great numbers after May 1, they could have become the targets of violence.”
American forces would have remained the targets of violence either way. Nor did Biden want to maintain a military presence. Now Biden’s toadies are acting like they wanted to stay, but Trump made them leave?
The rest is an even bigger trainwreck of gaslighting and dumb lies.
Price demurred repeatedly when asked if the Taliban is keeping their end of the bargain — “levels of violence are too high,” he repeated throughout the briefing — and argued that the Taliban’s decision not to attack U.S. forces at least vindicates their efforts to broker a deal.
“I think there’s also a misconception that in order for negotiations, peace negotiations, to take place, there is the requirement that there be peace on the ground,” Price said. “In fact, if you look back through history, very rarely have peace negotiations taken place when peace is present on the ground. What we’re seeing is levels of violence that are of grave concern. They’re certainly not within the spirit of the U.S.-Taliban agreement. But we know that diplomacy is the only way that we are ever going to achieve a durable solution.”
Diplomacy isn’t going to work with Islamic terrorists.
The Obama admin amply proved that. The Taliban have every reason to negotiate, to allow Biden to save face, and no reason to negotiate in good faith, because both sides understand that they’re going to win and that Biden won’t do anything to stop them.
All that’s left is figuring out who to blame when the Taliban are beheading women who took off their burkas in Kabul.
And the Biden admin, its media and its cronies are going to blame President Trump. They’re going to wave away the withdrawal that a few weeks ago they had been triumphantly celebrating, and blame it on the previous administration.
The Afghanistan withdrawal was a huge Biden success and a Trump failure, they will insist.
gravenimage says
Biden Admin Blaming Trump for Making Them Leave Afghanistan
………………..
A number of savvy posters here already saw this coming…
Keith O says
Yup, who am I to say “I told you so”.
This would be almost comical in it’s predictability if it wasn’t so serious.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden doesn’t even try to be a competent American President. Still Biden puts much forth effort ,to shift all the blame on Donald Trump.
To put this another way, .Biden isn’t man enough to admit that he lacks good judgement , wisdom and common sense to he ties to :pass the buck . A Harry Truman that creepy old Joe is ,for sure , is not
As the the first sentence of this posting . which is that “Joe Biden doesn’t even try to be a competent American President” In all fairness maybe Biden is just too feeble and weak and minded to even attempt to be a competent US President .
For example, once when giving a short lecture Biden declared “The same stable Jesus said that the biggest problem we had in the Revolutionary war is that we didn’t have enough airports.”
Wow ! The USA is a much brain for her Chief Executive . Poor America , how I pity her now
Kelly says
What is stopping Jihadi Joe from starting the War rolling again if that’s what he wants to do. He is supposedly the commander-in chief. 5,000 US Troops are there. Nothing is stopping him, Just asking for a friend, isn’t joe in charge ? (I personally liked the Eric Prince Plan but what do I know)
Infidel says
He had no issues reversing other Trump policies, be it the Keystone Pipeline, Fracking, ANWR drilling, re-opening the borders, rejoining the WHO and the Paris Climate Accords, and so on. If he’s so opposed to leaving Afghanistan, why doesn’t he just tell his generals to stop? Send a legion of CNN, MSNBC, NYT and WaPo reporters to accompany the new troops, and have them scattered all over Afghanistan – Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Bagram, Jalalabad, Khowst, Ghazni, Kunduz, Mazhar e Sharif, et al? In fact, no one from these companies should be left in the US
wpm says
News flash
Biden blames Trump for Biden,s winning the 2020 election and all the bad choices he made in the last 8 months.
Trump the unseen hand that controls the democratic party proclaims CNN !
Trump has mind control on senile old man in charge of America ?
Hunter Biden signs new deal opening an art studio in Afghanistan selling many of his works of “art” to Taliban leaders for millions of dollars.
Doctor Jill Biden proclaims she has found the cure for cancer!!!
mortimer says
The argument that ‘we inherited these problems’ won’t work anymore. The approval rating of Bribed-man dropped a whole 1% in one day on Thursday. I predict that his approval rating will drop in the next week by more than 3% points, while bad news continues to come in from Afghastlistan and from the border. CNN cannot defend this disastrous presidency anymore.
Bribed-man is now seen as a total failure on every score … economy, covid, border and Afghastlistan.
GreekEmpress says
Am I the only one who thinks he looks like a Vulcan in that picture?
Sorry, it’s been a long day. Time for a shot of ouzo—
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Anyone in public life for many years will generate a wide selection of photos that editors can choose from. Here, Joe Biden’s head is within a sanctifying halo, and sports cute pixie ears.
Siddi Nasrani says
Looks like Satanic horns to me !!!!
john smith says
I don’t believe you are, It’s the first thing I also noticed.
mortimer says
The Taliban has come out in the open. This is the best time for NATO to enter Afghanistan and shoot every Taliban dead. Consider this a mouse trap. The mouse has taken the cheese of coming into the open. So spring the trap now and get them all.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, you seem to be convinced that the Taliban represent only a tiny percentage of Afghans, and that ordinary Afghans have nothing in common with them, but this simply is not so.
*99%* of Afghans want to see the imposition of brutal Shari’ah law:
https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/
There has been almost no resistance to the Taliban.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
You are 100% correct.
All readers should click on your supplied link…
Wellington says
Seconded.
gravenimage says
Thank you, James and Wellington. I wish I was wrong–but we have to know the truth.
Infidel says
Why did Pew not cover India in this survey? They could have asked the same questions they asked in Russia and Thailand. Actually, in India, muslims, if they were honest, would say that they want shariah in all of India, not just muslim areas
gravenimage says
Infidel, here is some information re India:
“Majority of Indian Muslims support Islamic courts: Study”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/majority-of-indian-muslims-support-islamic-courts-study/articleshow/84062710.cms
Of course, it is not pretty…
Daniel Triplett says
That’s right, ALL Afghans are Muslim, and deep down inside, they know the Taliban are divinely righteous and are doing nothing wrong, because they are in fact perfect Muslims, and are most ideally emulating Muhammad’s example of the “Sunnah” (the path). To criticize the Taliban is to criticize Muhammad, and no one will ever do that.
The fundamental flaw with ALL our efforts since 9/11 is that we aren’t identifying our true enemy: Islam. All of it. And all of its 1.8 Billion adherents. Unless and until we confront this grave sobering truth, we will continue losing the 1400-year zero-sum Global Islamic War.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Daniel.
Rethmann says
So, let’s play down the blame game if we can and see if the new Trump administration takes us to the right place.
Vann Boseman says
What an appropriate picture of Biden for me, as I am subject to his rule. It is easy to imagine the picture revealing Biden to have elven ears. Then, in looking at the picture that way, when you look at his eyes, he seems to be in pain. Perhaps because I consider him sleazy at best, and more likely just plain evil, I find this picture reveals something of his nature in this respect too.
Leonard Dunnet says
How can he do so much damage with only one working braincell. He’s unmitigated failure from day one the world is on the brink of distruction and he sits and shuffles paperclips and mumbles “its Trumps fault”.
Crusades Were Right says
Trump dunnit?
C’mon, man!
lol
Crusades Were Right says
A new twist to an old saying?
Success has a “diverse” parentage…
… failure has ONE father: Donald Trump!
lol
Red Bee says
Does Daniel Greenfield really think he can scare me with that photo?
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@Gravenimage: I still am of the opinion Shamima Begum should be allowed back in the UK.
gravenimage says
This photo is just funny–or silly, depending on your point of view. You do not say what you think of the article itself.
And I know that Red Bee has expressed his opinion before that committed Jihadist Shamima Begum, who has sneered at those discomfited by bins full of the heads of decapitated victims, whom she condemned as the “enemies of Islam”, should be welcomed back into Britain with open arms. She in fact has said that ISIS beheading hostages was one of the things that led her to join the Islamic State. She then justified the murder of little girls in Manchester in “revenge” for British oppostion to the Islamic State.
She is also reported to have part of the vicious “morality police” in the Islamic State, and she justified the use of Yezidi grils as slaves and sex slaves.
She has not changed her views, and she is now almost 22–hardly a child as you like to claim. In fact, she is a *threat* to actual children in the UK if she returned, by her own words.
I know Red Bee has claimed that Britain in trying to protect her citizens from this Jihadist has “succumbed to mob rule” and is as bad as the Jihadists. I also know that he is enraged with me for disagreeing with him–so much so, that you are ranting about this on a thread on a different subject.
He has also claimed that poor little Shamima Begum cannot be a threat, because she would be monitored if she returned. He clearly hopes we are unfamiliar with cases like this one:
“UK: Senior policeman says surveillance of Streatham jihadist ‘incredibly successful,’ he only stabbed two people”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/uk-senior-policeman-says-surveillance-of-streatham-jihadist-incredibly-successful-he-only-stabbed-two-people
And Red Bee has lied about me many times here now, claiming that my not wanting Jihadists to return to the UK means that I want to “hang” Shemima Begum and “burn her as a witch”–both things I have *never* said–utter calumny.
Here is Red Bee’s rant and my reply from 2019:
“Syria: Islamic State brides “unleash reign of terror,” slaughtering babies, dousing people with petrol”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/syria-islamic-state-brides-unleash-reign-of-terror-slaughtering-babies-dousing-people-with-petrol#comment-2167387
Red Bee used to be an Anti-Jihadist, but now his main issue here is importing Jihadists into the west. I have no real idea why–save that he thinks if we don’t that we are morally to blame. Seemingly no problem with the Jihadists themselves, though–very troubling.
gravenimage says
Does Red Bee consider this more reason to bring Shemima Begum back to the civilized world?
“UK: ISIS bride’s lawyer hails return of Taliban: ‘The boys are back in town’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/uk-isis-brides-lawyer-hails-return-of-taliban-the-boys-are-back-in-town
Red Bee says
Akunjee is the lawyer of Shamima Begum’s family; she does not have a lawyer. Shamima Begum should be brought back to the UK and have a lawyer who has the backbone to point out that all she did is elope and join IS when she was underaged.
Where is the evidence she was a member of the “morality police” or of other crimes? I asked the question before and got no answer.
Crusades Were Right says
Re that pic:
WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE BEAM UP MR. SPORK?
Remember those Star Trek episodes in which the transporter went on the blink, and the guy was “lost in the fourth dimension” or whatever? Well NOW would be a perfect time for such a malfunction! lol
Rooster says
Its astounding to me how terrible Demoncratic Predidents have become. Of course, I’m a Patriotic Conservative so therefore the Demoncrats will always look ominous and stupid to me. Beijing Biden is nothing less than a Benedict Arnold like most Demoncrsts and many Retardicans. Both parties overall are egotistical and all about self riches. They do not care about their job or the citizens that they are to represent. I pray God dispenses on them their just co sequences, damnation! May all Patriots keep their powder dry!
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden totally refuses to be honest with the American public or with himself and accept the responsibility of the reality that he completely lacks good judgement which resulted in the victory of a vicious enemy in Afghanistan.
Of course the vicious enemy is the Taliban who ,are not only are enemies of America and Americans but also the enemies of the people of Afghanistan because the Taliban has in the past and soon will in the near future brutally oppress them with their hash cruel rule bu Sharia law.
Biden is not only a national disaster for the United States but he’s also an international disaster as well.
OLD GUY says
Biden is a puppet for Nancy and Schumer who pull his strings, what a joke.
David M says
I think the one behind all of them is Barack Obama, who is getting his orders from the globalist elites.