Granted, Biden is not our entire problem. He is merely a symptom of our nation’s problems – plus the cause of the immediate Kabul debacle he failed to address during his August 16, 2021 speech to the nation.
Biden blamed the Afghan government and military for not taking the baton of self-defense upon the expected US drawdown.
Yes, he said “the buck stops with me.” Pure lip service – words easy to say.
Biden claimed that removing the capabilities of the US air force and US intelligence apparatus disheartened the Afghan military.
Questions: Over the past 20 years hadn’t the US provided capable air assets and training to the Afghan military? Over the past 20 years hadn’t the Afghan military developed its own capable intelligence capabilities? If not, why not? If not, why did the US appear to be unaware of their incompetence until last week’s Taliban blitzkrieg? Why did it take the US 20 years – no, why did it take the US actually pulling out – to learn about the Afghan’s unwillingness to fight without big daddy’s presence?
Biden deflected from the question at hand: It wasn’t about our ultimate and overdue withdrawal. It was about the ill-planned, sloppy, inhumane, disaster our withdrawal turned out to be.
Biden failed to address the reasons for the utterly embarrassing troop pull out fiasco. He failed to address the thousands of US workers and Afghan allies who are stuck at various distances from the Kabul airport or how they will be rescued and removed. It appears he doesn’t know.
He failed to address the blow to US credibility among other nations, both allies and adversaries.Overall Biden tried to make us believe there were only two options: Remain forever or pull out in the mismanaged fiasco he alone forced upon both the US and Afghanistan allies.
And now, we’re planning on ferrying twenty to thirty thousand Islamic Afghans for immediate citizenship in the US to our cities and countryside towns – the same ones who deceived us about the Afghan government’s capabilities? The same ones who in the end wouldn’t fight the Islamic Taliban (potentially because of their underlying allegiance to them)? Will they be vetted or would that be “Islamophobic?” More about this HERE.
What this disaster demonstrates to the American people is this: The Biden administration, and several administrations prior, cannot be trusted with telling the American people the reasons for our military deployments, successes, failures and withdrawals. Spins, misdirects and lies are all we get.
Biden outright lied last week about the status of Afghan security. Neither can we trust anything at all that he said in his speech today or in the future.
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