Taliban leader was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 swap by Obama
When President Barack Obama released five Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange for an American deserter in 2014, he assured a wary public that the dangerous enemy combatants would be transferred to Qatar and kept from causing any trouble in Afghanistan.
In fact, they were left free to engineer Sunday’s sacking of Kabul.
Soon after gaining their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban Five pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan and made contacts with active Taliban militants there. But the Obama-Biden administration turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence reports, and it wasn’t long before the freed detainees used Qatar as a base to form a regime in exile.
This was disgraceful when it happens and it certainly hasn't aged well. But if Biden really wants to make someone the scapegoat, blaming his former boss is as good anything else.
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Indy's diagnosis is 100% correct.
Building the Taliban Back Better - Joe Biden
Biden actually used the plan between Trump and the Taliban militants
You should give Trump credit, instead of going crazy with Obama was born in Kenya and obsession
LMAO
Trump Rants to Sean Hannity
August 18, 2021 at 9:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Trump claimed
in a Fox News interview that the Taliban, which formed in 1994, has been “fighting for a thousand years.”
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And now Ch will tell us that Trump when he said that was just "hoping" it were true.
And Ch accuses Biden of naivete.
Afghan President Surfaces In United Arab Emirates .
August 18, 2021 at 10:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani,
who fled his country as its capital Kabul was being overtaken by Taliban fighters, is now in the United Arab Emirates, CNBC reports.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports the Afghan ambassador in Tajikistan says Ghani escaped with bags full of $169 million dollars.
ONLY 169 million?
Ch will hate this because I am in the front of the line!
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled plans to begin offering COVID-19 booster shots this fall for Americans who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, eight months after they become fully vaccinated, as cases of the delta variant continue to spread across the country.
Americans who are eligible can receive a third shot beginning Sept. 20, pending authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is expected in the coming weeks, according to a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services and other administration medical experts.
The initial doses will go to those who were fully vaccinated earliest in the vaccine rollout, including health care providers, nursing home residents, assisted living facilities, and other seniors. The administration plans to also begin delivering booster shots directly to residents of long-term facilities, according to the statement.
They will deploy the armed forces to distribute the vaccine booster
Sleepy Donald was on Fox news robotics according to James the pedo according to rrb and Cali
Ch will never credit Biden for anything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/18/covid-vaccine-booster-shots-coming-sept-20-biden-administration-says/8178505002/
SJDS
The National Guard troops like Trump did! But ch will never post it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/18/covid-vaccine-booster-shots-coming-sept-20-biden-administration-says/8178505002/
Anatomy of a Disaster In Afghanistan
August 18, 2021 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Nikkei Asian Review:
“The full narrative of what has just happened in Afghanistan is still emerging — with the blame-slinging just starting — in Kabul as well as Washington. Afghan military commanders now in hiding have said they were betrayed.
“What is clear is that the Taliban have just pulled off the most successful guerrilla campaign of modern times. Military strategists will be studying this one for decades.”
AND FOR DECADES WE WILL BE EXAMINING THE CULPABILITY OF OUR MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT, BUSH, OBAMA, THOUSAND YEAR TRUMP, AND BIDEN.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Indy's diagnosis is 100% correct.
Indeed alky.
It seems like only yesterday he called you A FUCKING MORON right here on this very blog.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Ch will hate this because I am in the front of the line!
Being old and infirmed is nothing to be proud of and certainly nothing us healthy folks envy alky.
You're weak and in need of round the clock nursing care alky.
They were very corrupt.
Kentucky Hospitals Near Capacity
August 18, 2021 at 10:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Issuing yet another plea
for Kentuckians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as hospitals fill with unvaccinated patients around the state, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said the state is nearing a tipping point,” the Lexington Herald Ledger reports.
Beshear said the state is seeing the “most rapid rise in cases that we have seen to date. We’re at an alarming point, and we’re rapidly approaching critical.”
U.S. Authorizes Booster Shots for All Americans
August 18, 2021 at 10:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments
U.S. health officials
recommended Covid-19 booster shots for all Americans to boost their defenses amid delta variant, the AP reports.
Beginning the week of September 20, Americans who received a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine will be offered a booster shot eight months after their second dose.
NBC News: “The plan does not yet include those who received Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, the rollout of which started several months after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.”
Taegan Goddard thinks that
Nancy Pelosi Once Again Has All the Leverage
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Biden actually used the plan between Trump and the Taliban militants
FACT CHECK: FALSE.
Trump was prepared to destroy every single military asset in the region.
Sloppy Joe chose to ARM the Taliban instead.
TREASON.
"little bubbles of false optimism"
Afghanistan’s Collapse Wasn’t Quick Really
August 18, 2021 at 8:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
David Ignatius:
“The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was like watching the collapse of the twin towers. In an instant, the edifice crumbled into a pile of rubble.
“But it didn’t happen quickly, really. The structure of the Kabul government has been rotting from within for all 20 years of the United States’ war. And every U.S. commander knew its weakness. They worried about the corruption and incompetence of the government, devised elaborate strategies to fix it, kept convincing themselves they were making progress.
"Hope is not a strategy, as every commander knows. In this case, it was.
“Too often, the generals brought the media along with them in this exercise of self-delusion. Looking back over a dozen years of my own reporting from Afghanistan, that’s one painful recognition.
"These columns often expressed skepticism about the larger enterprise, but they kept recording, year after year, the generals’ ambitions for success.
"It wasn’t a big lie so much as a series of little bubbles of false optimism.”
Thousand year Trump will not come out of this looking great.
This shit storm is a far cry from what Trump put together. You're embarrassing yourself saying it is. You really think Trump would've left 15000 U.S. citizens there to fend for themselves? This is a Biden blunder of historic proportions.
Lol. Sure James.
Trump said Biden was too slow in getting out.
Vaccines Offer Strong Protection Against Hospitalization
August 18, 2021 at 11:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Three studies
published by the CDC “show that protection against the coronavirus from vaccines declined in the midsummer months when the more contagious delta variant rose to dominance in the United States,” the Washington Post reports.
“At the same time, protection against hospitalization was strong for weeks after vaccination, indicating the shots will generate immune fighters that stave off the worst effects of the virus and its current variations.”
Trump Slams Booster Shots
August 18, 2021 at 11:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Former President Trump
in a Fox Business interview:
“That sounds to me like the money-making operation for Pfizer. OK? Think of the money involved… Let’s give them another shot. That’s another $10 billion of money coming in. The whole thing is just crazy.”
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Thousand Year Trump sounds crazy to me.
https://www.facebook.com/828064177/posts/10159248598169178/
He quit talking here because your not sane anymore
No one told Biden to find thr most inept, half assed way possible to do it. There's zero chance of this not hanging around Joe's neck for the rest of his life. Why dov you think Harris is staying ad far away from him as she can?
A guy who Trump fired disagreed with Scott Johnson schizophrenia.
Washington(CNN)Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that he was concerned that then-President Donald Trump "undermined" the US' 2020 agreement with the Taliban by pushing for US forces to leave Afghanistan without the Taliban meeting the conditions of the deal.
The Trump administration's "Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan" outlined a series of commitments from the US and the Taliban related to troop levels, counterterrorism and intra-Afghan dialogue aimed at bringing about "a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire."
But, Esper told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, "my concern was that President Trump, by continuing to want to withdraw American forces out of Afghanistan, undermined the agreement, which is why in the fall when he was calling for a return of US forces by Christmas, I objected and formally wrote a letter to him, a memo based on recommendations from the military chain of command and my senior civilian leadership that we not go further -- that we not reduce below 4,500 troops unless and until conditions were met by the Taliban."
"Otherwise," Esper continued, "we would see a number of things play out, which are unfolding right now in many ways."
Trump fired Esper in November 2020 in the wake of the presidential election.
The agreement between the Taliban and the US has come under fresh scrutiny in recent days after Afghanistan's civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters this weekend, almost two decades after they were driven from the city by US troops.
After years of negotiations, the Taliban and the Trump administration finally signed a peace deal in 2020. The US agreed to withdraw troops and release some 5,000 Taliban prisoners, while the Taliban agreed to take steps to prevent any group or individual, including al Qaeda, from using Afghanistan to threaten the security of the US or its allies.
But the deal didn't bring about peace.
So Biden is attempting to change the subject from how bad Afghanistan has become under his watch to how bad Covid has become on his watch?
Is that sort of the plan now?
Around whose neck is Covid and Afghanistan going to hang heaviest? Both Trump and Biden made mistakes, but one will admit and take responsibility and the other will not.
Americans will continue to trust Biden far more than they trust Trump.
The GOP is really screwing up, letting Trump still hang like a stinking dead albatross around their necks.
Bullshit because he did know exactly what you just said.
Harris has kept out of the spotlight for her own purposes...
If she is the next candidate she can distance herself from Biden
Smart politics
LOL I wrote and posted that last before I saw Ch's last.
Someone should tell james and roger that biden is president, not Trump. Only an idiot like biden would pull out the U.S. military before all the thousands of Americans are out.
As Obama once said, don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up
Scott, because it effects our country!
The Taliban isn't killing Americans but the covid-19 pandemic crisis is!
Dod James just claim that Biden is taking responsibility for his mistakes?? That's not the speech the rest of America heard.
The Hard Right Wing is blaming George W Bush and every other President since 9/11.
Twenty years of ruling class failure
The mission that the United States—or, to be more precise, the George W. Bush Administration—set for itself in Afghanistan was doomed from the beginning. It declared unrealizable goals, which experience quickly showed were unrealizable, and then instead of learning from that experience, doubled and tripled down over and over. And not just the Bush Administration but the entire bipartisan foreign policy establishment. If the hoary cliché is true that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then American policy in Afghanistan over the last 20 years is a textbook example.
While my foreign policy views have changed substantially since September of 2001, some points have remained constant. I believe, with the 9/11 Commission, that al-Qaeda committed the 9/11 attacks, with non-trivial (if hard-to-pin-down) levels of state support from America’s enemies. I believe that the attacks demanded a response. No great nation can suffer such an affront and remain great; great nations must avenge great insults.
And make no mistake, the United States in 2001 was still a great nation. True, the trends that have decimated and hollowed out heartland communities—mass immigration, financialization, deindustrialization, among others—were already powerful. But their effects were just beginning to be felt. There was time to correct course (though not that many beyond Pat Buchanan—certainly not George W. Bush!—were calling for that). The chasmic divisions which today make a coherent American foreign policy almost comically impossible, and all but a waste of time given urgent domestic priorities, had not yet opened up to their present degree.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/afghanistan-doomed-from-the-start/
They are basically an isolationist sector of the Republican party.
They opposed support for Great Britain and the other allies, until December 7th.
I just wonder if you support this philosophy?
The end result is a humiliation far greater than Vietnam, where America actually had some (mostly unheralded) success and which, at least in the context of the Cold War, could plausibly be defined as a vital interest. Studying that earlier conflict, one finds, in addition to the well-known manifest blunders, reasons for the decisions made, not all of them stupid. Surveying the Afghan war, one sees only debilitating and continuous folly at every stage, at every level. This should be the end of our rotten ruling class. That it will not be shows beyond a shadow of a doubt how corrupt our country is.
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They actually mentioned the Cold War.
From the end of World War two, both parties fought to col war and again we defeated the Soviet Union.
I remember graphically the Berlin Wall came down during George HW Bush was the President.
I think he is under rated as the President.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
They are basically an isolationist sector of the Republican party.
They opposed support for Great Britain and the other allies, until December 7th.
I just wonder if you support this philosophy?
Like Joe Kennedy?
THWAPP!
“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take that criticism than pass this on to a fifth president,” said Biden. “I am the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.”
“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take that criticism than pass this on to a fifth president,” said Biden. “I am the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.”
Sure... after he blamed Trump, bad advice, the Afghans themselves...
I am just not sure how you don't see someone literally blaming other people as someone blaming other people. Not sure what sort of brain freeze you have to have to simply ignore 95% of the speech and then go... oh he took responsibility.
Because Balls is 100% correct. Americans (not even my liberal friends) believe he took responsibility in that speech. The fact that he refused to take questions just rubbed salt in that wound.
Well it did for objective Americans.
Not people like you.
Just wait till RCP bumps that old Reuters poll at 51-43 down to what is is today (46%) - that should bring the Biden average down to 48% or so... If this gets any worse, you will no longer be able to even compare him favorably to Trump!
And it's only going to get worse. This guy just doesn't have the capacity to come back from this.
And don't look now... but the U.S. as a whole just went from a 7 day rolling average of 228 to 271. Some of biggest increases are coming from those blue states. Watch out, Reverend! Pretty soon you cannot blame it on DeSantis anymore!
He followed that by blaming everyone else.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Indy's diagnosis is 100% correct.
That you're a fucking moron?
I recall Indy saying that to you.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
They are basically an isolationist sector of the Republican party.
They opposed support for Great Britain and the other allies, until December 7th.
I just wonder if you support this philosophy?
If you read the British news papers they feel more than burned by Biden's sudden bug out. It's doubtful the Brits will trust the US again. (It is ironic that Biden was the guy they wanted to begin with. They may have not like Trump, but he was blunt and truthful. They knew his time table for getting out of Afghanistan.)
And if the Taliban launch an offensive you can bet Trump would resurge the Troops and rain fire from the sky on them.
Which is why the Taliban didn't try it when Trump was president.
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