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Critics slam Biden's long-weekend silence as Afghanistan falls to Taliban
2021-08-14
[NYPOST] Republican leaders are slamming President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?......
for taking a long weekend out of the public eye as major cities fall to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Afghanistan.

Biden on Thursday sent 3,000 US troops to Kabul to evacuate embassy workers as the Taliban seized Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest cities — but he hasn’t commented publicly on the crisis since Tuesday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
(R-Calif.) said Friday that Biden "must immediately focus all efforts on making sure there is a plan to safely extract all American service members and civilians still remaining in Afghanistan."

"He also owes the American public an answer on what he plans to do to make sure the region doesn’t turn into a breeding ground for more violent mostly peaceful extremism that will lead to large-scale global attacks of terrorism," McCarthy said.

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) told The Post, "this strategy of putting your head in the sand and not taking questions is a way to not get associated with his military debacle."

"I don’t think it’s gonna work," he said. "I don’t think that hiding from cameras is a way for him to not have the fall of Kabul and the fall of Afghanistan tattooed on his political legacy. "

Reschenthaler, an Iraq War veteran, said "the history books are going to remember that it was Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
who surrendered to the Taliban."

The president took no questions as he departed the White House on Thursday afternoon for a trip to his home in Wilmington, Del., and he’s expected to remain out of view for days.

Courtesy of Besoeker:
‘Desperate' situation erupts around US embassy to Afghanistan
[Whatfinger] The former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland discusses Biden’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the larger foreign policy ramifications.

Related:
KT McFarland: 2017-02-19 Senior White House Officials Support Bolton To Replace Flynn
KT McFarland: 2017-02-19 Ted Cruz: Why not John Bolton for national security advisor?


Related, courtesy of Skidmark: Biden State Department official DELETES Tweet 'thinking about all the Afghan women and girls' saying 'we empowered them to lead, now we are powerless to help them'

Trump blasts the 'tragic mess' Biden has left in Afghanistan as US embassy staff pack up, prepare to destroy papers and computers and move to a safe location with the Taliban surging towards Kabul
Posted by:Fred

#1  I noted with interest that the planned August Vacation in Delaware has now shifted to Camp David, where unlike Delaware, no press access can be mandated, and no listing of visitors from Mt Weather and other places can be tracked. Hiden Biden cannot be exposed to press scrutiny as his utter clueless-ness would be on display. This retreat to protect a fragile public mask for the cabal running the country only delays the inevitable for a moment. The cauldron of public anger and demanding issues is getting white hot, and DHS is prepping the domestic battlespace for the coming confrontations I suspect:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/dhs-issues-nationwide-9-11-terror-warning-from-domestic-and-foreign-terrorists/
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-08-14 14:04  

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