Military advisers have told the White House that the decision must be made by Tuesday in order to have enough time to withdraw the 5,800 troops currently on the ground, as well as their equipment and weapons. If the President agrees, the military anticipates “a few more days” of trying to evacuate as many people …
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Her difficult journey contradicts President Biden’s assertion that anyone with an American passports would be allowed through checkpoints. Daily Mail
New at the Belmont Club. Biden is a bigger strategic danger than the Taliban.
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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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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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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“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.
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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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.
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 …
Rahm Emmanuel appointed ambassador to Japan.
Biden stuns allies with Afghanistan mistakes expected of Trump
Biden has lost support among surveyed voters of all ages, all races, all genders and all political affiliations
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 …
I keep thinking of Hillary on the night she lost it all, except worse.
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 …
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”.
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 …
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 …
