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Biden’s take on chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘No picture book’ ending
NY Post ^ | 09/24/2021 | Callie Patteson

Posted on 09/24/2021 11:36:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

More than three weeks after the United States completed a chaotic and deadly troop withdrawal and evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan, President Biden summed it up by deflecting blame — saying there was never going to be a “picture book” ending to the 20-year war.

Taking questions from reporters after a speech on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program on Thursday, Biden was asked about the public’s growing concern over his handling of the withdrawal as well as the threat of a government shutdown as even his own party is split on his economic priorities.

He said he will be discussing Afghanistan at the Quad Leaders Summit with leaders from India, Japan and Australia later Friday, calling it a “legitimate thing that we want to talk about.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; dereliction; picturebook; rout; surrender; withdrawal
Picture book? He is confusing the Goodnight Moon book he gets read to before his nap. Scum bag.
1 posted on 09/24/2021 11:36:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This isn’t going to sell. The public is pretty unanimous in the opinion that the withdrawal was badly managed. Trying to pass it off this way merely makes him look weak.


2 posted on 09/24/2021 11:37:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It went down exactly the way obama wanted It to


3 posted on 09/24/2021 11:39:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sure it is - it’s a picture book straight out of Bosch...


4 posted on 09/24/2021 11:48:23 AM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
No plan could have been worse.

Read the link I'm going to post. It's the chaos that gets to me.

Notice also the reference to an 1839 storm nailing the NE....global warming?? LOL

5 posted on 09/24/2021 12:01:27 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Is this the US’s, ‘Suez Canal’ moment? There’s rumblings in foreign corridors that the US has lost it’s gravitas. I don’t see anyone following us into a ‘disturbance’ for quite a while.
There are consequences which ‘Progressives’ don’t consider.


6 posted on 09/24/2021 12:05:23 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FU Blow Biden


7 posted on 09/24/2021 12:10:13 PM PDT by albie
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To: Sacajaweau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Hesperus


8 posted on 09/24/2021 12:17:32 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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President Trump had a Plan to get out....with stipulations...the chief one being...If you break the peace...you won't know what hit you.

Biden watched as the Taliban rumbled through city after city...and the order was OBVIOUSLY....stand down.

9 posted on 09/24/2021 12:20:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: griswold3

I remember the Suez Canal Crisis...I was 12...there was a big headline in the newspaper. The only thought I could remember was the possibility of war.


10 posted on 09/24/2021 12:24:38 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

The USA has been in decline foreign policy wise since the end of WWII. The Communists and Socialists have been infiltrating the government ever since.


11 posted on 09/24/2021 12:33:35 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deflecting blame for sure the buck stop there and there and there......................................................


12 posted on 09/24/2021 12:36:03 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Sacajaweau

the incident was the end of the British empire. Could we suffer the same fate with Afghanistan?


13 posted on 09/24/2021 1:55:30 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Actually, it was picture book...

...for the Taliban 😆


14 posted on 09/24/2021 3:00:13 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Picture book?

See Spot Run


15 posted on 09/24/2021 3:05:01 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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It was never going to be pretty regardless of who oversaw the withdrawal. But it’s hard to believe that it could have been worse than the Biden fiasco.


16 posted on 09/24/2021 3:10:28 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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President Trump had a Plan to get out....with stipulations...the chief one being...If you break the peace...you won't know what hit you.

Part of the plan was to take back all the arms and equipment we gave to the Afghan army. Hard to understand how the Taliban would have been prevented from rumbling through city after city under those circumstances.

17 posted on 09/24/2021 3:12:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

It was never going to be pretty regardless of who oversaw the withdrawal. But it’s hard to believe that it could have been worse than the Biden fiasco.

It certainly could have been worse. Biden put our troops in a deadly trap. The Taliban let us get out.


18 posted on 09/24/2021 7:22:49 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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