Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair bemoaned "abandonment of Afghanistan and its people" and said the decision by the U.S. and its allies to withdraw troops was "driven not by grand strategy but by politics."
"We didn't need to do it. We chose to do it. We did it in obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending 'the forever wars', as if our engagement in 2021 was remotely comparable to our commitment 20 or even ten years ago, and in circumstances in which troop numbers had declined to a minimum and no allied soldier had lost their life in combat for 18 months,"
This is likely the closest to the truth criticism so far. While everyone pretty much agrees that the amount of incompetence is staggering, most are arguing that there was good intentions. Blair points out that even the intentions are flawed. I suppose to some degree if the plan was based on a legitimate good governing intentions (rather than politics) perhaps we would have had a better plan in place.
But because the intentions were flawed, the ultimate strategy was flawed as well. As a Senator who accomplished very little, politics drives everything. The buck "never" stops with a Senator as there are always at least 50 other Senate members who share blame is something goes awry. Also, the Senate votes on what other people do. They don't really offer up much in terms of executing something.
Biden basically thought... "well the public wants us out, it will help my ratings if we leave". He probably never considered that it had to be done right.
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Breitbart news robotics team
During a Sunday press conference in which President Joe Biden addressed Hurricane Henri and the Afghanistan pullout, a reporter confronted him with a poll showing a majority of Americans now question the president’s ability to serve.
As the reporter asked the question, Biden visibly became uncomfortable as he smiled and laughed when hearing the data relayed back to him.
“A new poll out today shows Americans wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan, but they disapprove of the way you’ve handled it,” the reporter said to Biden. “The poll also found that based in part on what’s transpired in the last week, a majority of Americans, and forgive me, I’m just the messenger, no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective in the job.”
“I haven’t seen that poll,” Biden responded.
“It’s out there,” the reporter responded, prompting Biden’s laughter as he shook his head. “What would you say to those Americans who believe you are not up for the job.”
WASHINGTON — As President Biden watched Kabul descend into hell, did he think of his beloved Yeats?
He is the poet Biden recited as a teen to conquer his stutter. And Biden has quoted Yeats before while talking about the Middle East.
“The Second Coming” eerily sprang to life in the president’s helter-skelter exit from Afghanistan, a land that still prizes falconry and falcons flying in widening gyres.
When Yeats writes about darkness dropped in the sands of the desert and a slouching “rough beast” with “a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,” he could be describing the Taliban. Anarchy loosed upon the world, a blood-dimmed tide, and the worst, full of passionate intensity.
Biden did the right thing getting us out of there. But he did it badly.
You criticized his behavior, but you don't disagree with him because you have SLDS.
This is likely the closest to the truth criticism so far. While everyone pretty much agrees that the amount of incompetence is staggering, most are arguing that there was good intentions.
SLDS
I can't imagine how many times you said I have TDS.
A Rough Beast Returns https://nyti.ms/3y0FNOE
She's a great conservative Republican
She actually predicted you.
Allies expressed their furious sense of betrayal, with British lawmakers raging against Biden in Parliament. Biden’s abrupt unilateral path was “throwing us and everybody else to the fire,” said one. It was another hard lesson about getting tied up with the Americans for the British, who enabled George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to execute their spurious, attenuated occupations of Muslim countries.
A British neo con
Swing-District Democrat Brushes Off Afghanistan
August 22, 2021 at 6:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Republican efforts to saddle the Democrats with fallout from the fall of Kabul won’t necessarily fly with voters — or instill fears in midterm candidates,” Axios reports.
“Axios traveled to Virginia’s 7th District last week, where Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) is running for re-election in a bellwether district. She focused solely on selling President Biden’s stimulus package and the bipartisan infrastructure deal still working its way through Congress.
“In conversations the congresswoman had with her Richmond-area constituents, Afghanistan didn’t come up.”
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And the Brits will get over it.
Scott, I watched him live up close using my Kindle Fire. He looks like a normal older man. He does stutter, but he has been doing that since he was a kid.
That doesn't mean that he's not sane.
This guy is a member of the Great Britain government parliament, not a man who has contact on a daily basis.
Scott will never get over it.
Foxnews
President Biden, as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, should be court-martialed for "betraying the United States of America and the United States' armed forces," the former commander of British military forces in Afghanistan said in an interview airing Sunday.
Col. Richard Kemp, CBE, made the pointed recommendation on Sunday's "Life, Liberty & Levin," telling host Mark Levin that Biden humiliated both the American military and its citizens.
Another British man hates Biden.
Years ago I listened to Mark Levin on KABC radio in Los Angeles.
He is fucking crazy
Biden Plans No Firings
August 22, 2021 at 5:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“President Biden isn’t inclined to fire any senior national security officials over the chaos in Kabul unless the situation drastically deteriorates or there’s significant loss of American life,” Axios reports.
“Dismissing national security advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin or CIA Director William Burns would be tantamount to admitting a mistake, and the president stands by his decision.”
Said Biden:
“Let me be clear: The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul was going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago — or a month from now. There’s no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. It’s just a fact.”
Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., has admitted more than 450 children with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Ninety-six admissions were in July, nearly double the hospital’s worst month previously, in January. August is on track to be just as bad, according to Mobeen Rathore, Wolfson’s chief of infectious diseases. About 55% of admissions have been children under 12 years old, he said; of those over the age of 12, none was vaccinated. Four children admitted with Covid-19 during the pandemic have died. The mix of children who were otherwise healthy and those who have underlying issues hasn’t changed markedly, he said.
Dr. Rathore and his colleagues fear an uptick in MIS-C will follow the rise in Covid-19 cases among children and adolescents. “I suspect the number will be much larger than before,” Dr. Rathore said of MIS-C cases.
As of the end of July, there were more than 4,400 cases of MIS-C reported among children in the U.S. during the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Rathore and his colleagues over the past few weeks have made sure medical staff know exactly how to recognize MIS-C and undertake best practices for management, which can include the use of intravenous immune globulin or corticosteroids.
Medical staff caring for pediatric Covid-19 patients say they worry that a lack of enforcement of the CDC’s guidance for everyone in schools to wear masks this fall will drive up case loads where Delta is spreading rapidly.
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-kids-are-hospitalized-with-covid-19-and-doctors-fear-it-will-get-worse-11629624602?st=l10794bewdw4ya8&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Even the conservative Wall Street Journal reports on masking.
Even if the state government has the right to refuse to wear masks, but they should allow the city and county governments should be able to require masking equipment.
WASHINGTON — A planned rally next month on the U.S. Capitol grounds that organizers say is intended to peacefully demand “justice” for hundreds of “political prisoners” charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection is raising law enforcement alarm and plans for beefed-up security measures.
Among measures being considered for the rally planned for Sept. 18 is re-installing some of the recently dismantled fencing around parts of the Capitol grounds, though no decision on that has been made, according to a person familiar with the planning.
The protest, “Justice for J6,” is being orchestrated by a group called Look Ahead America, directed by Matt Braynard, who was part of the data team for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“What we are looking for is pure patriotism. It’s American flags, American clothing, T-shirts that sort of thing. And I invite you to make your own signs demanding justice for these political prisoners — demanding justice for Ashli Babbitt,” Braynard said in a video posted this week on Twitter.
Babbitt was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she climbed through a broken window in a door to the Speaker’s Lobby, which leads to the House chamber, during the Jan. 6 riot. Her death has been a rallying point for former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who falsely claim the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.
More than 600 people have been arrested on a variety of charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which a mob coming from a Trump rally overran police and stormed the Capitol. The riot interrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the electoral votes from the election.
In a telephone interview, Braynard said the rally is meant to be peaceful and that the group has gotten approval from Capitol Police. He said the expectation is for “several thousand” people to attend.
Braynard said that “this is not about any candidate or campaign,” but about seeking justice for the arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot, who he said have been treated unfairly, as well as for Babbitt.
Braynard said in the video that his group will have its own security force and lawyers present to respond and work with police agencies to get quick responses to individuals who try to cause problems.
Law enforcement planning is still in the early stages. Details of security measures were not immediately available. No official notice has gone out to rank and file Capitol Police officers.
An officer in the U.S. Capitol Police office that handles permit applications for special events on the grounds referred questions Thursday to the public affairs office. That office did not respond to answer whether a permit application has been filed, how the event is described, or its estimated number of participants.
Security officials at the Capitol, as well as federal agencies and Washington, D.C.-area police departments, have been monitoring conspiracy theories on social media and elsewhere that Trump could soon be reinstated. Some of that speculation is pegged to some unspecified activity happening as early as this week. The Department of Homeland Security last Friday warned state and local authorities about increasing calls for violence online tied to election-related conspiracy theories.
Every post by Roger or James. Get a life guys. Lol.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Every post by Roger or James. Get a life guys. Lol.
And C&P’d
It’s drivel
The Republicans are scared of the majority of Americans.
Many observers have interpreted support for Trump, even among those unlikely to concretely benefit from his policy positions, as a gesture of resentment: They are angry at someone (elites, liberals, the government, the establishment) for telling them how they ought to live. Trump might not materially improve their position, but he’s willing to stick it to those groups—and if that requires antidemocratic means, so be it. The current countermajoritarian resistance to masks and vaccine mandates emanates from the same feeling. Many conservatives are tired of being told how to live by the majority, and they want to live exactly as they please, even if that means they may die—and even if that means making other people sick along the way.
BLAIR PILES ON!!!! Ch gleefully reports with multiple exclamations.
Reality:
Afghanistan is likely not to matter here in 2022.
Biden basically thought... "well the public wants us out, it will help my ratings if we leave". He probably never considered that it had to be done right.
VDH wrote an interesting column offering several possible scenarios to explain the disaster that is Biden:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/22/the-drossy-touch-of-joe-biden/
What's most troubling to me is the prospect that this dumb fuck is just getting warmed up, and we may not have yet seen the very worst he has to offer.
I'm not exactly sure who's more fucked in the head - Biden, or the imbeciles who are cheering this shit.
Get a life guys.
They each have a life and you're looking at it in all it's mentally ill splendor.
We aren't cheering. We're just saying if Trump had been in office, this would have been his waterloo.
Biden can survive it.
The more I learn about the Trump deal with the Taliban.....the more troubled it becomes!!!!! Seems Trump and Pompeo relegated the Afghan gov't to a non entity status while making peace with a group of terroirsits that kill women and children for fun!!!! Me thinks as more and more people realize this travesty, the more Lil Schitty and his minions biden smashing will come to an end...Nikki Haley in an Op ED today in the Post basically blasts the trump deal questioning any recognition of the rag heads should not occur by Biden.....!!!!!! What took her soooooo long to state that publicly as That is what trump did!!!! Once again, the GOP a day late and a dollar short!!!!!
Don’t see the humor of thousands of Americans left to the nonexistent mercy of the Taliban? Kamal Harris does. Mind your ears as she shrieks with laughter when asked about Americans left behind, before launching into meaningless duckspeak:
https://moonbattery.com/the-lighter-side-of-americans-left-to-die-in-afghanistan/
The pederast:
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Biden can survive it.
Politics is all that matters. Party over country every fucking time.
I watched this VERY brief video. At the beginning she was laughing at being mobbed. Then she got serious. The comment at 6:27 is BS. Typical rrb BS. So is 6:32.
6:22 demonstrates intelligence.
Kputz, the FDA says don't take the cow pill.
The FDA is urging people to stop taking horse and cow deworming medication to treat or prevent COVID-19.
LMAO at people like you.
Roger, I will have you know that Kputz is now worm free!
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
6:22 demonstrates intelligence.
What it very clearly demonstrates pederast is
1) Your insatiable fixation and obsession with Trump
and
2) Your singular focus is on Biden's political survival, ignoring all those who would suffer and/or die to ensure it.
That's disgusting.
The FDA is urging people to stop taking horse and cow deworming medication to treat or prevent COVID-19.
Leave it to a useless government agency to address a problem that does not exist.
Fucking brilliant.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
We need nothing less than a 40% housecleaning across all federal agencies. This grift of the US taxpayer must end.
Taxation without representation. We addressed that once. Perhaps we need to address it again. In the exact same fashion.
Heard on the news that all the feed and grain stores in Southern Alabama have sold out of horse dewormer....I also saw clips of Faux news hosts Laura and Sean pushing the drug as a cure.....WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE.....who believe in BS and don't believe in vaccines?????? Me thinks the boo's trump got in Ala yesterday when mentions vaccines speaks volumes of the lunacy that exists and will cause this crisis to continue because people are just too stupid for societal norms!!!!!!
Leave it to a useless government agency to address a problem that does not exist.
Hey Rat Try to keep up with GOP lunacy as I posted above....people are taking the drug because like you they are too stupid to think for themselves!!!!! Sorry sport, its your people.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
I recommend getting this kputz
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop taking veterinary drugs to treat or prevent Covid-19 after receiving multiple reports of patients who have been hospitalized after "self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses," according to the federal agency.
"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it," the FDA tweeted from its official account on Saturday, alongside a consumer update detailing why the drug can be unsafe for humans.
Ivermectin, which is not an anti-viral drug, is generally used to treat or prevent parasites in animals.
"These animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than" a human, the FDA update reads. "Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans."
Patients who overdose with ivermectin can experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, dizziness, problems with balance, seizures, coma and even death, according to the FDA.
The agency clarified that the FDA-approved ivermectin tablets meant to treat people with certain conditions caused by parasitic worms as well as topical formulations used for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea are different from the drug used on animals. Ivermectin tablets and topical formulations for humans have "very specific doses" that are significantly smaller than the doses meant for animals.
Moreover, "many inactive ingredients found in animal products aren’t evaluated for use in people," the FDA warned. "In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body."
Heard on the news that all the feed and grain stores in Southern Alabama have sold out of horse dewormer....
Sure you did BWAA.
Fox news recommended
U.S. FDA
@US_FDA
You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.
Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19
fda.gov
4:57 AM · Aug 21, 2021
Patients who overdose with ivermectin can experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, dizziness, problems with balance, seizures, coma and even death, according to the FDA.
That's nice.
At some point I'd like to see the FDA clowns who are fixated on this problem that doesn't exist to return to the job we fucking pay them to do.
There is nothing so worthless and so disposable as a federal government employee.
Sad story
Don Everly, star of the rock ’n’ roll duo the Everly Brothers, died Saturday. He was 84.
Everly died Saturday at home in Nashville, Tennessee, his attorney and family spokesperson, Linda Edell Howard, told The Associated Press.
“Don lived by what he felt in his heart. Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams ... with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother,” the family said in a statement.
That's nice.
At some point I'd like to see the FDA clowns who are fixated on this problem that doesn't exist to
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! At some point when you finally pull your head out of your ass and realize the group you support are fucking morons and as dumb as rocks......!!!!!! Suggest you use the google machine if you can and see who the idiots the FDA is trying to save....IMHO......keep taking it assholes and thin the GOP herd some more!!!!
Sure you did BWAA.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sad you are such a dumb fuck!!!!!!!!!
What is truly amazing, rat, you believe trump won, the election was stolen, don't believe in science and have doubts people in Al have cleared out Ivermectin from stores.......Try to keep up.....your bias has taken over!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
Here you go asshole....
https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/ivermectin-covid-cure-farm-supply-stores.html
MoreAnytime
Ivermectin for COVID-19: How farm supply stores are dealing ...
slate.com › technology › 2021
Aug 10, 2021 · Farm stores are selling out of the horse worm drug, Ivermectin, after Fox News promoted it as a miracle COVID cure… many people have already died after taking it due to liver toxicity
All thanx to faux news spreading the misinformation!!!!!!
Slate.com
The place where pasty white liberal soi boi's stay on top of the rural distribution of veterinary medicine.
LOL.
Next up on Slate.com -
"Why wife beatin' an' car racin' go together on Sunday's like peas an' carrots."
I'll give them credit for imagination. Using horse de-wormer to distract from the epic fail that is Biden's Afghanistan.
Well played, Slate. No one could've ever predicted you went where you did.
Good God...
Blinken: "This is an incredibly emotional time for many of us, & including allies & partners who have been shoulder-to-shoulder with us in Afghanistan for 20 yrs at high cost to themselves as well as to us."
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1429474010081996802
These fucking assholes are sitting around weeping like a Kinzinger.
We're fucked.
Rat again resorts to the only thing he has Ad hominem BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I give you credit for being a dumb fuck trump supporter who never let a fact get in the way of his opinion!!!!! LOLOLOLOL You win again rat!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL
slate.com › technology › 2021
Aug 10, 2021 · Farm stores are selling out of the horse worm drug, Ivermectin, after Fox News promoted it as a miracle COVID cure… many people have already died after taking it due to liver toxicity
As a regular viewer of Fox News, I've never seen them push this particular therapy as a miracle cure. But I don't doubt the slate story is a fabrication.
The US sent “gender advisors” to the country; they attempted to integrate women into the Afghan army; training centres, housing, child care centres, gyms, dining facilities, and bathrooms were all built for women. And Afghan men were enlisted to the gender mainstreaming cause — US programs gave “trainings to 1,105 Afghan men in which they could discuss their own gender roles and examine male attitudes that are harmful to women.” One initiative was called the “National Masculinity Alliance”.
https://unherd.com/thepost/how-feminism-failed-in-afghanistan/?=frpo
We sent 'gender advisors.'
Fucking gender advisors???
More data for dumb asshole rat who has trouble finding his own ass in the dark......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Ivermectin sales surge at pharmacies, feed stores despite ...
cdispatch.com/news/2021-08-21/ivermectin-sales...
Ivermectin sales surge at pharmacies, feed stores despite inconclusive studies on effectiveness against COVID-19 By Slim Smith • 9 hours ago
Ivermectin sales surge as consumers chase unproven Covid ...
www.horsetalk.co.nz/.../ivermectin-sales-surge-covid
Despite health warnings against its use in humans, farm supply stores in the US report increased demand for non-prescription invermectin products intended for animal use.
“In conversations the congresswoman had with her Richmond-area constituents, Afghanistan didn’t come up.”
I don't doubt her Democrat "constituents" didn't mention Afghanistan
“In conversations the congresswoman had with her Richmond-area constituents, Afghanistan didn’t come up.”
Neither did horse de-wormer.
How Biden gave Away America's Standing around the world in just a few months is stunning.
Inflation continues to get worse.
These fucking assholes are sitting around weeping like a Kinzinger.
We're fucked.
I think Biden's Afghanistan plan was to send over some CRT teachers next
Or hold a hearing on male privilege
Not any more ridiculous than what he has done so far
CNN: ‘There Is No Access To The Airport At The Moment…That’s Been The Case Now For Many Hours’…
https://youtu.be/vtFwjST_KUs
I think Biden's Afghanistan plan was to send over some CRT teachers next
Well, that's one way to get rid of some useless assholes.
Well, that's one way to get rid of some useless assholes.
and with the ridiculous amount of money they get paid it will help close the income inequality gap too
Maybe we'll need a few less mansions here
News, I've never seen them push this particular therapy as a miracle cure
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Laura and Sean both pushed the cure, cramps....can't help if you missed it LOLOLOL
Suggest you watch this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_FR7lJLWcA
Glenn Greenwald
IMAGE:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1429545844823494657
George Bush and Dick Cheney's former CIA/NSA Director -- and current CNN favorite -- endorsing the idea that people who wear MAGA hats and aren't vaccinated should be forcibly shipped to Afghanistan.
The US intelligence community has always been led by sociopaths.
I guess my "idea" wasn't so ridiculous.
At least not to people like Hayden
"Rational and logical evacuation "
Biden
He is wrong.
Goat fucker on the wrong side of history again!!!! BWAAAAAAAA!!!!
Joe has ordered the "Macron" lecture scrubbed .
Changing history , hiding from the facts.
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