Posted on 01/13/2011 9:42:06 PM PST by Nachum
In late December, we scored Joe Biden for putting his foot through the Administration's carefully designed Afghan diplomacy. The Vice President declared to much media fanfare on NBC's "Meet the Press" that U.S. troops would start leaving Afghanistan this summer and that "We're going to be totally out of there, come hell or high water, by 2014."
We're happy to say the Veep seems to be coming around. This week on a visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr. Biden reversed himself in a way that deserves as much attention as his earlier blunder.
"It is not our intention to govern or to nation-build. As President Karzai often points out, this is the responsibility of the Afghan people, and they are fully capable of it," Mr. Biden said at a press conference Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "We stand ready to help you in that effort. And we will continue to stand ready to help you in that effort after 2014.
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Obama-Biden are leaving in 2013.
Rhetoric meets reality.
From your lips to God’s ear.
??Queue Anti-War Protesters??
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Nah, everything is fine since we have the right party in the White House...
Back to drinking the kool aid
You noticed that too?
I guess Biden plans to roll out more of those pre-programmed voting machines...
What happened to hell or high water?????
What a buffoon. But then he is simply carrying the dunce’s dirty water.
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