...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......’s face as his eyes swelled with tears was painful to watch.
No doubt. But did he have any idea what he was crying about?
But his personal suffering cannot exonerate him from the responsibility for what happened in Kabul. Nor can his obscenely shameful effort to shift the blame to former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
and even his own military commanders be taken seriously. Biden says the buck stops with him, but he doesn’t really mean it.
When the enemy strikes with deadly results, it’s somebody else’s fault. That’s not leadership and it certainly isn’t presidential.
If he truly claimed the credit, Biden would own up to the obvious fact that his actions played a big role in this horrific outcome. Instead, his claim that every commander agreed with him on the withdrawal plan is a bald-faced lie.
We know for certain the military argued against his hasty exit. Officers gave him alternatives and he said no because, for 50 years, Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
has always known best.
Yet when things go off the rails, he dares to hide behind the generals.
That’s politics, that’s Washington. It’s not the mark of a trustworthy commander-in-chief.
The worst day for our troops in Afghanistan in a decade will never be forgotten by those Gold Star families who received that dreaded knock on the door from someone in uniform. But it is also a terrible stain on America that our brave men and women were put in such a vulnerable situation.
They risked their lives in a heroic effort to save the terrified civilians of many nations. They have been succeeding in large measure, but have now paid an unacceptable and unnecessary price.
The shock isn’t just that there was a successful terror attack against America during our last stand at the chaotic, overrun Kabul airport. The shock is that it didn’t come sooner and claim even more lives.
The president’s pain, which always seems to be attached to the loss of son Beau Biden from cancer, does not change the fact his arguments for his position remain what they have been all along — unpersuasive, dishonest and foolhardy.
He set the terms of the withdrawal, including the abrupt abandonment of the Bagram Air Base, and approved the security-sharing arrangement with the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, a terrorist organization. He proudly cites those decisions, but those and others carry the unmistakable stench of weakness. When tens of thousands of people converged on the airport, the chaos was an invitation for murder and mayhem.
The strongest military in the history of the world was a sitting duck, with our warfighters reduced to playing defense in an impossible situation.
Biden’s original sin was his determined rush to get out of Afghanistan on a fixed timetable. Risk-averse to a fault, he made the avoidance of more casualties his chief measure of success.
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