US President Joe Biden

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I didn't realise that the Taliban had taken command of the Whitehouse and of the US forces.

No one knows it publicly yet!

[peanut]

Biden is well out of his depth. It's embarrassing and shameful to watch.

Originally Posted by Pierre

I didn't realise that the Taliban had taken command of the Whitehouse and of the US forces.

Originally Posted by Dude111

No one knows it publicly yet!

Well, they were going to visit Camp David…

[Pierre]

I don’t think the Taliban will tolerate anything….camp.

It’s a circle that can’t be squared, the left love Muslims as an oppressed minority, but nothing, I mean nothing, of the Islamic faith aligns with progressive leftist ideology.


Still I’ll wait until I hear from the Taliban spokesman ( and it will be a man) on LBGTQAI+* issues before I comment.

* yes they’ve added two more letters recently, it now no longer represents minorities and is just a bad Scrabble hand.

[Carth]

The LBGTQAI is breeding (somehow) and become LGBTQIAPK, so scrabble is out and we're approaching 'countdown' territory . . . a couple more vowels needed I reckon

BREAKING: U.S launches drone attack against 'ISIS-K planner' in Afghanistan, target apparently killed, Pentagon says

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mick

BREAKING: U.S launches drone attack against 'ISIS-K planner' in Afghanistan, target apparently killed, Pentagon says

They've probably killed some poor farmer just to save biden's ass

Well Biden will be keen to be seen doing something positive so I guess something like this was inevitable. But only the truly gullible will believe America can still contain the Islamist threat in Afghanistan via high-altitude drones.

BREAKING: Final U.S Plane leaves Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. Ending the 20 year war in the country.

Thanks to Joe Biden, a new era of Terrorism begins. Democrats always screw things up.

In this case, Democrats failed to reverse a Republican screw-up, then made it worse. But it’s academic now.

[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Chris

In this case, Democrats failed to reverse a Republican screw-up, then made it worse. But it’s academic now.

Actually Obama started the process.
Link

President Barack Obama had promised to end the war, so on Dec. 28, 2014, U.S. and NATO officials held a ceremony at their headquarters in Kabul to mark the occasion.
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In a statement, Obama called the day “a milestone for our country” and said the United States was safer and more secure after 13 years of war.
“Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion,” he declared.
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Obama had scaled back military operations over the previous three years, but he failed to pull the United States out of the quagmire. At the time of the ceremony, about 10,800 U.S. troops remained, a decrease of almost 90 percent from the surge of forces that he had sent to Afghanistan in his first term. Obama promised to withdraw the rest of the troops by the end of 2016, coinciding with the end of his term in office, save for a residual force at the U.S. Embassy.

Trump maintained the presence. Why didn't Obama fulfil his promise to withdraw all troops?

Originally Posted by nomadking

Actually Obama started the process.
Link
Trump maintained the presence. Why didn't Obama fulfil his promise to withdraw all troops?

I don’t especially care what Obama’s reasons were. The point is moot. You have however illustrated my point for me, so thank you for that.

Promises can be reneged upon when the facts on the ground change. Biden could have rowed back on the US commitment to get out of Kabul but chose not to so as to nod towards a date on the calendar.

Trump set in train a disastrous series of events by promising a group of armed religious fanatics that he would get American forces out of the country they wished to rule, giving them ample time to plan how to exploit the situation. Biden allowed those events to come to their inevitable climax because he was so fixated on the historic opportunity presented by associating his name with 9/11 he was deaf to all advice from well-informed people who only wanted to tell him things he didn’t want to hear.

Originally Posted by nomadking

Actually Obama started the process.
Link
Trump maintained the presence. Why didn't Obama fulfil his promise to withdraw all troops?

So as I said, Democrats always screw things up. Had Trump won, he will have departed but in not so gung-ho fashion. He would never have allowed the Taliban to bully and allow them to be calling the shots and Biden has chickened out like a sissy.

Think I agree with one of the mothers, of one of the 13 U.S Marines killed in Kabul, last week, “Joe Biden, is feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-attack.html?

[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Chris

I don’t especially care what Obama’s reasons were. The point is moot. You have however illustrated my point for me, so thank you for that.

Promises can be reneged upon when the facts on the ground change. Biden could have rowed back on the US commitment to get out of Kabul but chose not to so as to nod towards a date on the calendar.

Trump set in train a disastrous series of events by promising a group of armed religious fanatics that he would get American forces out of the country they wished to rule, giving them ample time to plan how to exploit the situation. Biden allowed those events to come to their inevitable climax because he was so fixated on the historic opportunity presented by associating his name with 9/11 he was deaf to all advice from well-informed people who only wanted to tell him things he didn’t want to hear.

Obama promised to get all the forces out, and reduced them by 90% before then. That reduction alone allowed the Taliban to flourish.

[Carth]

Question:

Do you think anyone will learn from this?