it's neither. He's so damn arrogant that he thinks he can heap on the same bullshit over and over and eventually, we'll all come to believe that it WAS all about leaving or staying, and not the way that leaving was undertaken. I promise you his spin machine will outlast Biden's and CNN's and even Jill's. I'm stubborn as hell in my convictions, but I will admit being wrong when I am and try to preserve some credibility. This guy's DNA doesn't give him that kind of gumption.
I'm just citing things directly from the report which was the basis of that opinion piece. Same report.
Those numbers are not nearly as bad as the numbers of illegals crossing the border.
Hard to plan when Intel sucks.
Who knew, Jenn Psaki is on the OOTB message board...........3 star general who was there during the final months has some interesting takes, he goes into detail on these three:
First, former President Donald Trump’s February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban in Doha doomed us. It put an expiration date on American interest in the region. Second, we lost contractor logistics and maintenance support critical to our combat operations. Third, the corruption endemic in Mr. Ghani’s government that flowed to senior military leadership and long crippled our forces on the ground irreparably hobbled us.
Opinion | I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed. (Published 2021)
It pains me to see President Biden and other Western officials blame the Afghan Army for collapsing but not mention why that happened.www.nytimes.com
And for those that hate my opinion, it says "Biden ignored conditions on the ground".
IMO Biden's only option would've been to keep us there longer, with no actual guarantee that any eventual withdrawal would've been any less messy.
different meaning of fudge. You're talking about the kind of fudge that's on the paper when I wipe my @blazers
well, certainly you would want a guarantee where no guarantee is possible because otherwise you'd have to employ common sense, a commodity in very short supply in the Biden presidency.. I love how you apparently don't understand how transparent and weak your whiny justifications are.3 star general who was there during the final months has some interesting takes, he goes into detail on these three:
First, former President Donald Trump’s February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban in Doha doomed us. It put an expiration date on American interest in the region. Second, we lost contractor logistics and maintenance support critical to our combat operations. Third, the corruption endemic in Mr. Ghani’s government that flowed to senior military leadership and long crippled our forces on the ground irreparably hobbled us.
Opinion | I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed. (Published 2021)
It pains me to see President Biden and other Western officials blame the Afghan Army for collapsing but not mention why that happened.
And for those that hate my opinion, it says "Biden ignored conditions on the ground".
IMO Biden's only option would've been to keep us there longer, with no actual guarantee that any eventual withdrawal would've been any less messy.
I could definitely see this being the plan all along. Although I'm not sure exactly how left Kamala really is, but she certainly wouldn't have been able to win on her own. If they wanted to get someone very left that also had 0% chance of winning they would have shoehorned Bernie or Warren in there. I think by shoehorning Kamala they figure they can "play the hits" on the identity politics game to keep the establishment control.
I hadn't heard this yet. Holy sh-t! Armageddon foreign policy disaster.
Exactly. In a pool of options who will never reach even mediocre level (Warren, Bernie, Kamala) - Kamala checked the most identity, woke, equity boxes.
I think I see Jill edging toward the door, but @blazers is still spinning away.
13 and counting....sick....as a father of three....I just am almost sick to my stomach thinking about this loss for those families of US servicemen....
He has used up his blame DT tokens. This withdraw thing has went longer than anticipated for them. With covid not dominating as top story, they have nowhere to turn, except on Biden.
You flatter me too much. I can't predict the future. I mean, it's possible he could die. That's true for anyone, however.
Nobody knows where Joe is right now, including Joe himself.
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
2017 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
2020 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
The sight of trailer trash getting hard ons over American servicemen getting killed protecting their sorry ass makes me sick. Any of you ever served your country or do you think only suckers serve, like your leader does? Of course you know more about how to do this than the generals on the ground who are getting it done.
