Posted on 08/15/2021 9:49:05 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Richard Engel has described himself as "basically a pacifist." But when it came to telling it like it was regarding the Afghanistan fiasco, NBC News' chief foreign correspondent was taking no prisoners Sunday.
When on his MSNBC show this morning, Ali Velshi asked Engel whether it is surprising "not that it is happening, as much as how fast it is happening," Engel flatly rejected the notion.
"No. Everyone keeps saying that. I've been listening all day: "oh my God, we're shocked at how fast" -- I'm not shocked at all! I thought Kabul was going to fall about now. And lots of people I spoke to believed that . . . It was well known that the security forces were collapsing, a month, two months, three months ago. So this feigned surprise--maybe it's genuine surprise but if it is I don't understand what it's based on—it was quite clear that it was going to come to this."
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Richard Engel basically calling BS on Biden’s claim they couldn’t foresee this happening so fast.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Monday morning quarterback. But then is there ANYTHING Biden and crew haven’t ffff’d up?
Yet, did anyone challenge the Biden Narrative? NOOOO!
I have it on good authority that Richard Engel wipes his behind with the Koran.
The Taliban has had 20 years to plan the retaking of the country. The speed to with which they executed the plan should be of no surprise to anyone.
Well the Chinese are working with the Taliban so I assume MSNBC staff would know more than our trillion dollar ‘intelligence’ sycophants....
Afghanistan? America is crumbling at an alarming rate under Biden!
He needs to show the quotes of when he predicted the quick fall.
At least there are no more Buddhist monuments to destroy now! Taliban theocrat ordered destruction of the 170 ft statue in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan in July of 2001!
Now the Taliban can return Afghanistan to the ungovernable country that it has been for centuries. At least they will be killing each other rather than us! If there is another ISIS, just unload the B-52s in the future please!
I'm sure that Captain Renault (played by Claude Rains) was likewise not "shocked at all."
Regards,
Nobody with any IQ is shocked. Biden did not think before the soft-brained act of withdrawing. Any smart person knew exactly what would happen.
All the gov’t alphabet services failed to notice this.
But they can arrest people here in the US if they are conservatives for a peaceful protest that turned deadly thanks to the gov’t agents.
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