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When you’re a Leftist politician and you’ve lost the Washington Post, what’s left? The Post editorial board chided Old Joe Biden and his henchmen on Tuesday for blaming their catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan on their all-purpose whipping boy, Donald Trump. “Instead of admitting errors,” the Post wrote about the White House assessment of the withdrawal, “the 12-page document mostly repeats familiar talking points and shifts the blame to Mr. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.” This wasn’t Fox News or the Daily Caller. This was the Washington Post. And whatever implications the Post’s editorial may have for Old Joe’s 2024 chances and the overall survival of this misbegotten regime, one thing is certain: they’re right.
Emblematic of the mishandling of the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan was the fact that the Islamic State jihadist who murdered 13 American service members and numerous Afghans in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in August 2021 had just been released from prison at Bagram Air Base, the center of American operations in Afghanistan until the U.S. precipitously and irresponsibly abandoned it in July of the same year. That release took place on Biden’s watch, at the orders of his military, which also ordered Marine snipers not to take out the same jihadist when they had him in their sights.
Abdul Rehman Al-Loghri had been held in the Parwan prison at Bagram Air Base, along with around 5,000 other prisoners, including several hundred members of ISIS, as well as Taliban and al-Qaeda jihadis. In July 2021, according to the Associated Press, “the U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left.” Did Trump tell Biden’s handlers to do that?
This was a catastrophe that was brought on by a lack of planning and foresight. On August 30, 2021, then-Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) tweeted: “As the Afghan government fell, the Taliban gave US officials the option to take control of Kabul. They PASSED and instead opted to willingly surrender the city to the Taliban and control only the airport till 8/31! HOW MANY MORE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED?!?”
We’ll never know. Yet before the disaster, the Biden regime assured us that it had matters well in hand. In June 2021, CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie gave an interview to Military Times in which he declared confidently: “We have workable plans to evacuate any scale of people that we would be directed to do. That’s one of the things that we have done. I’ve talked to the secretary about it.” Given the chaos of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, however, either no such plans ever really existed, or they were never implemented.
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stephen says
Shades of Vietnam perhaps?
Phil Copson says
It wasn’t the “Jan 6th” protesters who attempted an insurrection – it was Mark Milley together with his Leftist colleagues from Obama downwards who have set out to overturn the Constitution and undermine the security of America and the West.
In Afghanistan, the US military simply switched sides – betraying their allies and arming the Taliban.
Iraq has been handed over to Iran – how long before President “Bow-down” hands Taiwan to China?
What would the grisly fate be of any Chinese general who boasted that he had promised to forewarn the enemy of their battle-plans – as Milley did when Trump was in office?
James Lincoln says
Phil,
To your point, if China wanted to invade Taiwan, now would be the time.
We have a thoroughly corrupt administration – and the US military has been VERY seriously weakened since bedpan Biden has “occupied” the White House.
David M says
Agreed, China won’t get a better time to invade Taiwan than now.
Keith O says
This story brings back memories of a certain POTUS who stated that “your a failure when you blame someone else for your mistakes”.
Barry Sitoro, aka Obama, knew it and now even the leftist media is remembering this.
David M says
Agreed, China won’t get a better time to invade Taiwan than now.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden isn’t even man enough to accept that he is the one responsible for the calamity he made in Afghanistan, so he to shift the blame on Donald Trump
The catastrophe that Joe Biden created in Afghanistan, it’s worse than terrible.
Just think of all those Americans and out good Afghans friends he abandoned in Afghanistan to be encountered captured tortured and murdered by the bloodthirsty Taliban.
To make matters even worse Biden admitted many unchecked and unvetted “refugees” into and throughout the United States , a number of them , not doubt are criminal and secret jihadists scheming and waiting for the time they consider to engage in murderous violence.
The innocent people who will be murdered by them will guilty and likewise Biden will also then have their blood on his sinister wicked and destructive hands.
All that evil in Afghanistan would never have happened if that President Pretender, Joe Biden just threw away and totally destroyed nearly twenty years of progress accomplished by the blood sweat and tears and even the deaths of many Americans as well as those blood, sweat and tears of America’s allies.
Also Biden threw away more than trillion of the American taxpayer’s money that was invested in for the betterment and development of Afghanistan.
This tragic scenario didn’t actually have to had happen in Afghanistan because the generals of the Pentagon who are strategic military advisers to the President strongly counseled Biden not to have a sharp, sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan but instead have and start a gradual drawback of the US armed forces after September 11, 2021.
The problem was that the arrogant conceited and stupid Joe Biden refused to heed or listen to the wise council of the intellects of the Pentagon. Therefore is this complete disaster with the Taliban total takeover of Afghanistan, because of Biden
In the ancient but wisdom filled book by Sun Tzu entitled THE ART OF WAR, it is written “He will win who has the military capability and is not interfered with the sovereign.”
That awful incompetent and probably even treasonous villain, Joe Biden, ruined everything.
Walter Sieruk says
Cowardly Joe Biden completely refuses to the responsibility for the disaster he created in Afghanistan therefore he attempt to place the blame and guilt on Donald Trump
Biden is playing the “pass the buck” game and is fooling thinking and intelligent person.
For that despicable pseudo – US “President” Joe Biden not only gave away Afghanistan to the America’s enemy , the Taliban, then to make matters even worse he let them have American taxpayer paid for State of the art high quality military equipment military equipment .
Now that fiend ,Biden, want’s to further support and uphold the enemy of the United State and brutal oppressor of the Afghan people by sending those Taliban millions of dollars , taken for US citizen taxpayer, under the guise of “humanitarian aid.”
Only the most naïve and gullible person would actually believe that this “aid money” would to help the poor poverty-stricken people of that land. For the thieving Taliban will talk a lot of the “aid’ for themselves and the rest of the so called “aid” will go the further strengthening that Sharia based Taliban tyranny.
Joe Biden should have to be held accountable for all that horrendous evil he has done.