“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.
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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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When trouble comes
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You were expecting something?
After days in seclusion at Camp David, a politician gives a speech. Now it’s time to move on to a future which will be just like the now forgotten recent past. Back to climate change, intersectionality. Now where was I?
OPEC rejects Biden call to produce more ‘fossil fuels’
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration urged the producer group to boost output to tackle rising gasoline prices it sees as a threat to the global economic recovery.
WH talking points circulated
Revealing a double down, CYA and petty mind.
The finger pointing begins
American intelligence sources say they correctly predicted the fall of Kabul. … “This is a crisis of untold proportions,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told NBC News Sunday as Taliban militants swept into Kabul. “This is an intelligence failure. We underestimated the Taliban and overestimated the resolve of the Afghan Army.” But numerous U.S. officials tell …