The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal issued a forceful rebuke of President Biden’s response to the crisis in Afghanistan, a calamity that Biden over the weekend suggested is partly the result of former President Trump’s policy toward the war-torn nation.
Biden and his handlers behind the curtain did this, not Donald Trump. No one believes he would have left like this.
Biden’s Afghanistan Surrender
The President tries to duck responsibility for a calamitous withdrawal.
President Biden’s statement on Saturday washing his hands of Afghanistan deserves to go down as one of the most shameful in history by a Commander in Chief at such a moment of American retreat. As the Taliban closed in on Kabul, Mr. Biden sent a confirmation of U.S. abandonment that absolved himself of responsibility, deflected blame to his predecessor, and more or less invited the Taliban to take over the country.
With that statement of capitulation, the Afghan military’s last resistance collapsed. Taliban fighters captured Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country while the U.S. frantically tried to evacuate Americans. The jihadists the U.S. toppled 20 years ago for sheltering Osama bin Laden will now fly their flag over the U.S. Embassy building on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
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Our goal all along has been to offer constructive advice to avoid this outcome. We criticized Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban and warned about the risks of his urge to withdraw in a rush, and we did the same for Mr. Biden. The President’s advisers offered an alternative, as did the Afghanistan Study Group. Mr. Biden, as always too assured of his own foreign-policy acumen, refused to listen.
Mr. Biden’s Saturday self-justification exemplifies his righteous dishonesty. “One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country,” Mr. Biden said. But the Afghans were willing to fight and take casualties with the support of the U.S. and its NATO allies, especially air power. A few thousand troops and contractors could have done the job and prevented this rout.
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Did they get the teleprompter programmed for Uncle Joe or did he make it to the next level of Super Mario Kart?
Jen Slacki should circle back around and turn off the video game.
Remember Savage saying the America you know will cease to exist under Biden.
This isn’t even the end of the beginning of the Fundamental Transformation and they don’t care about optics.
You are on your own and the jobber wing of the Uniparty, the Grand Old Politburo will sit there with their thumb up the ass just like the irrelevant SCOTUS (CCP).
It is so predictable that the junk media source WSJ, a fake conservative source, which supports mass immigration of any type, huge budgets deficits, socialist spending, and the election coup, would fall into line and support this obvious trap that Intel/DOD set to involve the USA in an escalation. They of course will not go after the corrupt Intel and DOD for what has happened. So then let’s blame Biden and go off to war. That’s the goal.
Hiden Biden is going to address his mess with Afghanistan at 3:45 pm est, it will probably more “Its Trumps fault”