Her difficult journey contradicts President Biden’s assertion that anyone with an American passports would be allowed through checkpoints. Daily Mail
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Failing the test of events
New at the Belmont Club. Biden is a bigger strategic danger than the Taliban.
Biden doesn’t trust the Taliban but he’ll count on them
Biden makes a potentially huge and elementary mistake in the full view of America’s enemies. He is basing his extraction actions on his estimate of the Taliban’s intentions and what he perceives to be “their self-interest” rather than US capability. Time is working against him and for the enemy, and he seems not to appreciate …
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Next time lower the lifeboat before abandoning ship
He [Biden] wanted all American troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon. In the Oval Office, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wanted to make certain. “I take what you …
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Joe Biden is going down, taking America with him
He makes a blunder, denies it and doubles down. Some enormous character flaw and dysfunction is driving him to destruction. His current strategy, incredibly, is that people will forget all about it. That the media will cover for him. But it can’t. He’s causing real damage now to powerful interests. His insurance, the incompetence of …
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The media portrayed Biden as competent and caring
“I just had the feeling that he was so wrapped up in the decision itself that he forgot the basics of implementation,” said Leon E. Panetta.
Boris Johnson kept calling but Biden wouldn’t answer for 36 hours
President Joe Biden ignored British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempts to contact him for approximately 36 hours as the Taliban cemented its control over Afghanistan, a report said. Johnson tried to reach Biden on Monday morning, UK time, but wasn’t able to get him on the phone until 10 p.m. Tuesday (5 p.m. Washington time), …
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French deplore Biden surrenderism
According to the readout, Macron described the mission to evacuate allies as a “moral responsibility” and told Biden: “We cannot abandon them.”… The White House version, however, made no mention of a “moral responsibility” to evacuate Afghan allies.
The warning
In a way the Afghan catastrophe was God’s mercy; or if you prefer to put it another way, a stroke of luck. That might be a strange way of regarding a vast human tragedy, a monstrous betrayal and a sickening display of dishonesty and incompetence. But consider this: the world could have discovered the truth …
The sad record of the elites
Kamala sent to sooth Asia
Rahm Emmanuel appointed ambassador to Japan.
‘Greatest debacle that NATO has seen’
Biden stuns allies with Afghanistan mistakes expected of Trump
If elections were held today
Biden has lost support among surveyed voters of all ages, all races, all genders and all political affiliations
Biden vs Reality
Biden said there was ‘no way’ to leave Afghanistan without chaos ensuing, but six weeks ago he said a Taliban takeover was ‘highly unlikely’ Biden said US doesn’t have a military presence in Syria, but 900 troops remain The president took questions from the media for the first time in over a week on Wednesday …
Is Joe reeling psychologically?
I keep thinking of Hillary on the night she lost it all, except worse.
Can the hostages be freed?
In terms of conventional warfare the Taliban’s rapid, unopposed advance had the effect of encircling and cutting off 10,000 or more US citizens and upwards of 50,000 Afghans from friendly lines. They are in the “bag”. The best chance of relief lay in the first days when the situation was fluid and the “bag” was …
China trolls Taiwan: Kabul today is Taipei tomorrow Taipei
In an editorial published today, The Global Times suggested America’s abandonment of Afghanistan after 20 years was an “omen” for Taiwan’s “future fate”.
Trapped
The Biden administration said today that Kabul’s airport was open for military and commercial flights and that the Taliban had pledged to permit civilians to reach the airfield. But thousands of people trying to exit Afghanistan can’t get to the airport in the capital of Kabul and Taliban fighters are searching the homes and offices …
The Big Guy’s Restoration plan is over.
Don’t be surprised at how things have turned into a shit show. We’ve been swallowing ordure for a long time, ingesting lies by the bucketful. Men are women, math is racist, the UN can save the planet, money for nothing, mediocrity — nay incompetence — is justice and whatever you see with your own eyes …
#IStandWithBiden — the Big Guy is going to brazen it out
This will work well enough with political partisans but the hard rivals of America will see it for an exercise in trying to cast incompetence as resoluteness. They will note: He didn’t anticipate the outcome of his own orders; He spent a long time sequestered writing a speech; His ultimate reaction was to deny the …
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