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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Biden Can’t Escape Blame For Afghanistan Fiasco
The Daily Caller ^ | August 19,2021 | Victor David Hanson

Posted on 08/19/2021 11:35:01 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul.

Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern United States — despite its powerful diversity training programs.

Forces more powerful than the Taliban, in places far more strategic, will now leverage an ideologically driven but predictably incompetent administration, a woke Pentagon and politically weaponized intelligence communities.

Why not, when President Joe Biden trashes both American frackers and the Saudis — only to beg the kingdom to rush to export more of its hated oil before the U.S. midterms?

Why not, when Biden asks Russia’s Vladimir Putin to request that Russian-related hackers be a little less rowdy in their selection of U.S. targets?

And why not, when our own military jousts with the windmills of “white supremacy” as Afghans fall from U.S. military jets in fatal desperation to reach such a supposedly racist nation?

Biden keeps repeating that he was bound by former President Donald Trump’s planned withdrawal.

Really?

A mercurial Trump repeatedly demonstrated that he was willing to use air power to protect U.S. personnel and to bomb an Islamic would-be caliphate. The Taliban knew that and so struck when Trump was gone.

Biden claims he was bound by Trump’s decision to withdraw and thus cannot be blamed for his reckless operation of a predetermined departure. But all Biden has done since entering office is destroy Trump pacts, overturning past agreements on energy leases, protocols with Latin America and Mexico on border security, and pipeline contracts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistandebacle; biden; bidensfault; blame; escape; vdh; victordavidhanson
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Now is the TIME to end the #ComDem Destruction of our Great Nation.

No excuses, Accountability.

Account for:

For a 4 year ongoing Coup, by almost everyone in DC.

For 2 impeachments of a President who's only crime was to act in the interest of our Nation's greatness.

For Pearl Harbor II on November 3-4, 2020.

For Destroying our Justice System.

There is not enough water in the Atlantic Ocean to wash all of these stains away.

It's TIME to DownSize DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

1 posted on 08/19/2021 11:35:01 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

First you have to replace ALL of the Assistant Democrats.

Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Hoeven, Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Crapo, Cramer, Barrasso, Risch, Sullivan, Moran and Collins are ALL Bush League Republicans

And that’s just the Senate, there are 145 House members that voted for Liz Cheney in Feb. to lead them (away from MAGA)


2 posted on 08/19/2021 11:39:21 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yes, he can.

Just watch.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 11:40:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OK, I wait.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 11:44:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern United States — despite its powerful diversity training programs.

Yep. We offered them LGBTQ and CRT training and this is what we get in return?

5 posted on 08/19/2021 11:44:05 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Yes.

Still More #ComDem_Insanity!


6 posted on 08/19/2021 11:45:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Billthedrill
Yep. We offered them LGBTQ and CRT training and this is what we get in return?

Not to mention free trans surgery.

7 posted on 08/19/2021 11:45:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes.

Including all of them.

Almost everyone in DC is in on it.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 11:46:25 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think this was on purpose. Because none of the departments kept a list of who we had over there. It was incomplete. They don't know what our Americans look like. They have no idea where they are. They cannot answer those questions. That's why Biden didn't bother getting them out first.
9 posted on 08/19/2021 11:50:00 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Texas Fossil

Love the comments: “Just wait till ‘22 when we take back the House and Senate!” “We’ll make the Libs pay then!” “We’ll impeach Biden then!”

Yeah, right.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 11:50:15 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: TornadoAlley3

The entire destruction of America is on purpose.

I take cold comfort from the fact that the people who made it happen are going to be devoured by the monster they unleashed.

Too bad we get to be devoured by it too.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 11:51:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes, he can.

Just watch.

They have two basic strategies to choose from, although they can choose both:

  1. divert attention with a bigger disaster, whether real or imaginary, or
  2. the "memory hole, or"
  3. a combination of the two.

12 posted on 08/19/2021 11:53:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Texas Fossil

NEVER underestimate the democrats (and their Media) ability to lay blame on Republicans.

nor the republicans ability to accept it.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 11:54:05 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: TTFlyer

Thinking of an old Bill Cosby routine.
Every time he made a statement, he answered in a very drawn out Right. R i i g g h h t


14 posted on 08/19/2021 11:55:19 AM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Tired, Cranky and Disgusted)
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To: Steely Tom

Or just lie and say what a success the Afghanistan withdrawal was.

The people who get all their information from Chuck Todd and “fact check” sites will believe them.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 11:55:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Some comfort in us FReepers knowing in advance and being correct.
16 posted on 08/19/2021 11:55:53 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
And Kamala


17 posted on 08/19/2021 12:04:31 PM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: spokeshave

Not to mention that not ONE of our elected OR appointed would stand for the Constitution when the Kenyan from Indonesia was sworn in in direct violation of the Constitution.

She would not be in that position if ONE of them had stood up and defended the Constitution before Usurpation Day.

Anyone born with more than ONE nationality is NOT NATURALLY an American.


18 posted on 08/19/2021 12:09:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cableguymn

Unfortunately, somewhat true.


19 posted on 08/19/2021 12:09:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: TTFlyer

I did not read those.

The Daily Caller is not a right of center website.


20 posted on 08/19/2021 12:10:43 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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