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Alleged President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. poo-pooed the criticism he received by functional people regarding the clusterfrack of the Afghanistan withdrawal that led to the deaths of 13 American service personnel.
His response to criticism on an interview Sunday was that "no one's come up with a way to indicate to me" how to withdraw "without anybody getting hurt." Had he even bothered to read "How to Pull Out of a Taliban Overthrown Nation for Dummies" he might have actually done a better job.
Usually when you have civilians and military in a foreign country where ongoing hostilities have been happening for decades, the smart move would be to evacuate the civilians first, including allies who helped our troops and all Americans and green card holders. You certainly would not have chosen Harmid Karzai International Airport, a single runway airport to withdraw from. Instead, you would have chosen Bagram airport which is much larger and easier to defend. And you would not leave in the middle of fighting season--you would wait until winter.
Next you would systematically withdraw the military along with the equipment and weapons and protect them as they leave. You wouldn't leave anything behind for the enemy to use against the Afghans who remain in country.
It's right there on page one of the "For Dummies" book.
During an interview with CBS News Correspondent Rita Braver, Biden mentioned Afghanistan, claiming that he opposed the war from the beginning and shifting responsibility for the horrendous withdrawal because he has never had the buck stop at his desk.
Not only has he opposed the war in Afghanistan, Biden also opposed the killing of Bin Laden, the funding of Israel's defensive Iron Dome system that helps thwart Hamas missile attacks on civilians, and the Gulf War.
"Afghanistan. Well, I've been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning," Biden said. "We're spending $300 million a week in Afghanistan over 20 years."
"Everybody says, ‘You could have gotten out without anybody being hurt,’" the house plant continued to mumble. "No one's come up with a way to indicate to me how that happens." [See "For Dummies" above]
Actually, Biden didn't oppose the invasion of Afghanistan--he lied.
As a senator from Delaware, he joined his colleagues, who voted unanimously in support of the 2001 authorization of military force against "nations, organizations, or persons" that then-President George W. Bush determined to have helped perpetrate the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The alleged President has repeatedly spoken about his opposition when he was Vice President under then-President Barack Obama. He touted his opposition to Obama's "surge" of additional troops into Afghanistan in 2009. But his opposition to the surge is not the same as him being "against that war . . . from the very beginning." He was for it before he was against it.
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Biden's argument about the criticism he received about the withdrawal was a misdirection of what the real criticism was: breaking his promise not to leave Americans behind, beside the unnecessary loss of lives and other matters.
"If there's American citizens left, we're gonna stay to get them all out," Biden bragged to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, on August 16. But on August 31, the ficus marked the end of the war in Afghanistan with a speech in which he lied that "about 100 to 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan with some intention to leave."
"What’s really troublesome and almost frightening to know is that we have a commander in chief who does not see the imperative of bringing the Americans home," Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William "Jerry" Boykin told Fox News in an interview on September 1. "That’s a longstanding ethos, not just of the military, but of America."
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After the clusterfrack of a withdrawal, Boykin and other retired military leaders called for the resignations of Biden's top military and diplomats, including national security advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
As Afghanistan insidiously deteriorates economically, the Taliban is begging for the U.S. and other of its enemies to send money aid in order for them to remain in power and suppress the freedom and self-determination of the people they have been allowed to conquer.
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