President Biden's first term in office

[Infidel144]

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is brushing off criticism of his administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal because he and his aides believe the political fallout at home will be limited, according to White House allies and administration officials.
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White House officials believe Americans’ horror over graphic images of the chaos in Kabul and pleas from Afghans who fear they will be killed by the Taliban will morph into support for the president’s decision to pull troops from the country by Aug. 31 after a 20-year war.
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They expect the Afghanistan story to recede from the headlines, replaced by the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the economic recovery and other issues, people familiar with the matter said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...ns-2021-08-20/

[Lord Thesaurian]

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is brushing off criticism of his administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal because he and his aides believe the political fallout at home will be limited, according to White House allies and administration officials.
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White House officials believe Americans’ horror over graphic images of the chaos in Kabul and pleas from Afghans who fear they will be killed by the Taliban will morph into support for the president’s decision to pull troops from the country by Aug. 31 after a 20-year war.
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They expect the Afghanistan story to recede from the headlines, replaced by the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the economic recovery and other issues, people familiar with the matter said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...ns-2021-08-20/

New corona apocalypse in 3…..2….1…..

[Infidel144]

Biden lied again, and was immediately contradicted by his own Sec Def. This is the Iran hostage crisis on steroids, and all this Administration can do is lie, deflect, and beg the Taliban for mercy while other countries send soldiers to escort their citizens to safety. #Impeach46

Can't mock the Frogs... er Cheese Eating Surrender Monk.... I mean French, anymore (for now)...

[Cyclops]

Biden is a fumbling goof. "Better than Trump" was enough to sway the US electorate but as we are seeing its a very low bar.

Can't mock the Frogs... er Cheese Eating Surrender Monk.... I mean French, anymore (for now)...

Its fun to mock the French but frankly the US has never been in a position question French courage. They made it to Moscow.

[Coughdrop addict]

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is brushing off criticism of his administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal because he and his aides believe the political fallout at home will be limited, according to White House allies and administration officials.
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White House officials believe Americans’ horror over graphic images of the chaos in Kabul and pleas from Afghans who fear they will be killed by the Taliban will morph into support for the president’s decision to pull troops from the country by Aug. 31 after a 20-year war.
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They expect the Afghanistan story to recede from the headlines, replaced by the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the economic recovery and other issues, people familiar with the matter said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...ns-2021-08-20/

He's right you know.

After the last American gets out (without the massacre the right has been salivating for), the Republican party is going to have a difficult time keeping their base on message ("You care about brown Muslims. You have always cared about brown Muslims. You want the war to continue. You have always wanted the war to continue.")

It will be easier to shift back to the reliable covid/vaccine disinformation ("Covid is a harmless cold and a Chinese bioweapon. Vaccines are Trump's greatest gift to America to fight the pandemic and also melt your DNA and allow Bill Gates to control your thoughts.") and good old fear-mongering about brown-skinned hordes from the border about to overrun us any moment.

Within a month you'll all be trying to credit Trump with the withdraw, if you remember Afghanistan at all.

[Heathen Hammer]

All they had to do was go along with Trump's plan, but Biden's administration did its partisan neurotic thing and decided to humiliate its own military leadership and intelligence community just to spite Trump. The embarrassing interviews, where mumbling president runs away from conference after journalist asked a question off-script is just demonstrating how incompetent whole leadership is. America is weak, disorganized and ruled by a gang of neurotic cowards who can't do anything but bleat about how bad Trump is.

[B. W.]

A 1 1/2 minute read shows just how badly the Afghan operation has been botched:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog..._in_kabul.html

This is what happens when you have wokester generals led by a wokester President and State Department.

[Gaidin]

This is what happens when you have wokester generals led by a wokester President and State Department.

So you're saying the US had a woke recruitment policy in...

*checks notes on average recruiting year of 4 star generals that run high level departements*

...1980? That's an interesting hot-take. Especially from you of all people.

I know you're never going to believe this BW, but the US, not just the DoD, but the US, has long had a vested interest in recruiting and hiring people who aren't straight white men.

[Heathen Hammer]

Democratic party is a political brothel, whose politicians and appointees change their political beliefs with every passing fad, going from clansmen in 1960s to woke equivalent of KKK in 2010s.
Its not that Milley is woke (when Democrats decide its time for ethno-nationalism again the Millley will zieg-heil at a drop of a hat), its the fact that he is a garbage general who lost to adversary easily dwarfed in numbers, training and equipment. I mean back in the day when things like "honor" meant something, if general ed up that bad, they used to commit suicide, but Milley will probably write a book instead lol.

[Gaidin]

I mean back in the day when things like "honor" meant something, if general ed up that bad, they used to commit suicide, but Milley will probably write a book instead lol.

Not sure where you're from but in this country we never took after feudal Japan. If you think we should, let me know when Flynn falls on his sword.

[Heathen Hammer]

Not sure where you're from but in this country we never took after feudal Japan. If you think we should, let me know when Flynn falls on his sword.

Generals and officers in many Western countries did that as well. Flynn didn't get BTFOd by a bunch of ragtag fundamentalists on mini-bikes.

[B. W.]

So you're saying the US had a woke recruitment policy in...

*checks notes on average recruiting year of 4 star generals that run high level departements*

...1980? That's an interesting hot-take. Especially from you of all people.

I know you're never going to believe this BW, but the US, not just the DoD, but the US, has long had a vested interest in recruiting and hiring people who aren't straight white men.

What are you babbling on about? 30 years or so is about the right amount of time to become a general, outside of warfare.

There are basically two types of officers in the military. There are those who make their careers on the Washington cocktail circuit (usually staff officers who specialize in logistics) and front line officers who make it in the trenches. You can usually tell them apart by who wears a CIB badge. Officers can't get a CIB badge if they are above the rank of Major so all those guys wearing it got when they were out in the ranks with regular soldiers; the guys who actually fight the wars.

[Coughdrop addict]

So you're saying the US had a woke recruitment policy in...

*checks notes on average recruiting year of 4 star generals that run high level departements*

...1980? That's an interesting hot-take. Especially from you of all people.

I know you're never going to believe this BW, but the US, not just the DoD, but the US, has long had a vested interest in recruiting and hiring people who aren't straight white men.

When the right says something is "woke", it's important to understand what the dog whistle really means.

Right-wingers know they can't openly call anyone they disagree with or who doesn't do what they want a "N-word lover" any more and expect decent Americans to not react with disgust. So they use terms like "Woke", along with "Socialist" and "Marxist" as the replacements. They're just newspeak epithets for the right.

[Heathen Hammer]

Nah, "woke" is a pretty good term for neoliberal support base, which is typically composed of politically immature and fiscally illiterate pseudo-educated urbanites, and whose beliefs are based on emotions rather then facts, kinda similar to evangelicals of 80s and 90s. Both groups are hilariously out of touch with reality, thankfully woke ideology is dying out now.

[B. W.]

Articles are already starting to appear elaborating how Chairman Xiden handed China a big win:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ster-is-china/

I wonder if we will ever find out just how much dirt the Chinese have on Xiden and his son Hunter?

[Cyclops]

Not sure where you're from but in this country we never took after feudal Japan. If you think we should, let me know when Flynn falls on his sword.

Hang if I recall correctly at Appamattox in '65 Robert E Lee made a lovely flower arrangement, wrapped a piece of silk with a truly beautiful haiku about his waifu around his photon wakizashi and committed seppuku. Just he died Jeff Davis ran in the room shouting "get in the gundam Ree-San!" And everybody clapped.

Teenage fantasies aside the military operation in Afghanistan has always even wagged by the needs of US domestic image making. The US has plenty going on but I'm sad we've bugged out so incompetently. It was never going to be easy though and the idiocracy of Trump once again generates cover for a Biden blunder. "It would have been worse if it was the Annoying Orange" will be Biden's talisman phylactery and mantra.

[Lord Thesaurian]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a discussion about the Taliban's role in the evacuation of Americans from Afghanistan that U.S. officials have to deal with the "reality" that the insurgent group is in control of Kabul.

"They are in control of Kabul. That is the reality. That's the reality that we have to deal with," Blinken said while appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation."

U.S. officials have said there is an agreement with the Taliban to guarantee the safe passage of Americans to the Kabul airport.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-...americans-they

Blinken was cornered and compelled to admit on live TV the US has to rely on the Taliban’s permission to allow Americans to get to the airport to leave the country, while other nations have dispatched soldiers to escort their citizens to safety. With friends like these, who needs enemies? The feckless incompetence and passive submission on display from the Biden Admin is an unprecedented indication of how far they are willing to go to protect themselves politically and maintain a facade of control at the expense of American lives. They’d rather leave Americans at the mercy of Islamist militants (Sec Def has confirmed that Taliban thugs are accosting and assaulting Americans at will) than send troops out to keep them safe, because that might risk escalation and further embarrassment, exposing even more thoroughly how disastrous Biden’s troop withdrawal has been. Congressional staffers and private organizations have been forced to try and fill the gap, but there’s not much they can do while Biden keeps our troops confined to the airport.

[Gaidin]

The US has plenty going on but I'm sad we've bugged out so incompetently.

You really need to read up on the US history if you want to see us bug out...

[Cyclops]

You really need to read up on the US history if you want to see us bug out...

I thought the exit from Desert Storm was pretty good. The forces left in the region (at the Saudi's request) proved an irritant for that **** Bin Laden and his cohorts, but that threat was was only one of many.

The eventual exit from Iraq was messy but a stable state structure was in place (albeit more Iran-friendly than we'd like).

My impression is the US is usually pretty good about getting in and out of Latin America, is that right? There's been a few interventions and they usuallygo smoothly (for every Bay of Pigs there's a bunch of Panamas and Grenadas).

We exited New Guinea in a bit of a rush, I am told a small majority of leaders in PNG agree Australia should have stayed a decade longer.

[Heathen Hammer]

If we look at the pattern of forever wars in last few decades, we can see that they were run with completely idiotic measures, and US lost geopolitically every time.
Desert Storm was a textbook example of pointless profit war, where millions of taxpayer funds were spent to protect some tinpot dictator in Kuwait with no direct benefits to people who funded this mess.
Second Iraq war actually removed the only adversary that kept Iran in check, as a result Middle East is taken over by Iran's coalition, while pro-Western Axis is limited to a couple of Gulf theocracies.
These wars were primarily run to create profit for military-industrial complex and chickenhawk politicians like Bush, Miller, Romney, etc; they simply don't care that they are essentially isolating US on a world stage.