Biden's Family Considers Potential Exit Strategy from 2024 Campaign

[EVENKEEL]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

"No more copy and paste please." = "No more facts please."

Fact = Biden dropped the ball on the withdrawal. You only offer deflection.

[placeholder]

Just now, EVENKEEL said:

Fact = Biden dropped the ball on the withdrawal. You only offer deflection.

What is a fact is that you your statement is an assessment not a fact.. Biden was dealt a bad hand thanks to the previous administration's capitulation to the Taliban. It can be argued that he made the best choice out of all the miserable feasible ones. 

[Yellowtail]

8 hours ago, placeholder said:

What is a fact is that you your statement is an assessment not a fact.. Biden was dealt a bad hand thanks to the previous administration's capitulation to the Taliban. It can be argued that he made the best choice out of all the miserable feasible ones. 

Yes, he (like Obama) was able to undo everything his predecessor did, until it came to Afghanistan (Iraq for Obama) and then his hands were tied and he had to flush twenty years of blood and treasure down the toilet. 

 

"Truth is not a left-wing value." 

[candide]

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Yes, he (like Obama) was able to undo everything his predecessor did, until it came to Afghanistan (Iraq for Obama) and then his hands were tied and he had to flush twenty years of blood and treasure down the toilet. 

 

"Truth is not a left-wing value." 

And if he had undone it, the MAGAs would have called him a war monger! 😁

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, candide said:

And if he had undone it, the MAGAs would have called him a war monger! 😁

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[illisdean]

14 hours ago, placeholder said:

It can be argued that he made the best choice out of all the miserable feasible ones.

Biden, as usual thinks he's the smartest of the smart morons in the room full of his bretheren.He's so smart, he just got bushwacked by his esteemed bretheren who showed him the door, except the dor was a window on the 48th floor. . Never mind that though, Biden botched Afghan because he refuse to take advise from his military leaders and then he proceeded to cock everything up like he does with EVERYTHING.

 

1. The failure lies not in the decision to exit Afghanistan but in the way the U.S. went about leaving. Indeed, the decision to leave—made initially by Trump and ratified by Biden—remains strategically sound. But as the tragic events of the past week have shown, making the right decision is one thing, carrying it out well is an entirely different story.
2. The only alternative to withdrawal, committing more troops and money, had no political buy-in
3. Politically, Biden owns the crisis. Denying there was a failure at all, as he did on August 18, makes him look weak and out of touch. This is evidenced by the steep drop in his approval rating. However, if the U.S. manages to evacuate all Americans safely, this debacle shouldn’t weigh heavily on the president’s agenda moving forward. Tragic as it may be, insofar as the victims continue to be largely Afghan, any violence is unlikely to drastically shift U.S. opinion about a war that has long since faded from the public interest.
4. Having said that, the (proverbial) day isn’t over yet. There are still up to 15,000 U.S. citizens in Afghanistan, plus about 7,000 troops sent in to evacuate them. Until these Americans are out safely, Biden will remain vulnerable. If more chaos ensues and there’s an Iran-like hostage situation or American casualties, it could critically damage his presidency. This looks low risk, but entirely plausible.

https://time.com/6091745/bidens-decision-to-exit-afghanistan/

 

 

Edited July 23 by illisdean