I watched Biden\u2019s speech and a little bit of the press conference just because of the gravity of the situation and wondering what he would say.\u00a0 He started out by saying it was a tough day.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think anyone will contradict him on that.\u00a0 But then he went right back into his \u201cwithdrawal is hard\u201d schtick.\u00a0 He wants us to believe that this was the only way that a withdrawal could have been done.\u00a0 The fact that this is a ludicrous statement doesn\u2019t seem to matter to Biden.\u00a0 The media doesn\u2019t know how to make all this Donald Trump\u2019s fault so they\u2019re kind of stunned.\u00a0 It was like one of those George H. W. Bush press conferences where he just kept repeating, \u201cstay the course,\u201d like it was some kind of mantra.\u00a0 I think at this point there will be some Americans taken hostage by ISIS and the horror of that can only be imagined.<\/p>\n
Until to day I wasn\u2019t convinced this would be a downfall event for Biden.\u00a0 Now I think it will be.\u00a0 I think the bleeding from this will go on and on.\u00a0 Something like a thousand al Qaeda fighters have been released from prison and it doesn\u2019t take much imagination to guess how much mayhem and damage they will do.\u00a0 This operation was botched in a way that almost seems deliberate.\u00a0 I\u2019m starting to think this was the Deep State\u2019s revenge for pulling the plug on Afghanistan.\u00a0 How do you not at least make sure that all the civilians who need to get out aren\u2019t already gone when you draw down the troops for the exit maneuver and how do you announce that it will be happening in the middle of the Taliban\u2019s fighting season?\u00a0 Were these generals that stupid?\u00a0 Is it even possible?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve agreed for the last five years that we needed to put an end to the Afghan occupation. Once it was clear that we were trying to make the Afghans into something they don\u2019t want to be it was obvious that the only thing propping up their government was our army.\u00a0 \u00a0Once the Taliban had the upper hand in Pakistan it was only a matter of time before they did the same in Afghanistan.\u00a0 But to retreat as we did it is like some kind of disaster movie plot.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a junior officer with no practical experience in war was put in charge of a battle against a hardened enemy.\u00a0 Actions are taking place out of order and opportunities are lost and chaos ensues.\u00a0 At this point I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if something really horrible happens as the last troops fly out.\u00a0 It\u2019s just too much like amateur hour.<\/p>\n
To be honest it\u2019s too grim to take any pleasure in Biden\u2019s misfortune because it\u2019s the military that\u2019s doing the bleeding.\u00a0 But I think if any good comes out of this fiasco it\u2019s that no Congress is going to sign off on this President sending troops anywhere.\u00a0 And I guess the other silver lining is that the CIA and NSA may decide that instead of pursuing red state Americans as domestic terrorists maybe they should shift their attention to keeping ISIS out of the US at the borders.\u00a0 After all, if those guys walk in the way everybody else does, they might take it into their heads to come to Washington DC and then Joey boy and the Capitol Police might find out what terrorists really look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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