Biden to speak on Afghanistan again today
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@aqua-letifer said in Biden to speak on Afghanistan again today:
PBS News Hour, asking the tough questions! Props, PBS.
No definitive answer about how we're helping those who are stuck and can't get to the airport. None. Just retreating to his initial decision to pull out.
Joke.
He should admit that he should've have a much stronger and more organized evacuation (etc) plan to get personnel and resources out. Instead he thinks people are criticizing the decision to leave, he's missing the point (as Jolly would tell me
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That ended very interestingly. "Why do you continue to trust the Taliban, Mr. President?" Just walks off.
He looked like freaking Nero.
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@catseye3 said in Biden to speak on Afghanistan again today:
You mean, like a solution?
As the Defense Department continues to stick to its plans of not reaching out into Kabul to assist U.S. personnel and Afghan helpers evacuate, British and French forces have done so to rescue their citizens, multiple outlets report.
The Daily Mail reported that London deployed an additional 300 troops to Kabul specifically to extract trapped British nationals earlier in the week. Within hours of touching down in Kabul, the British troops retrieved some 200 British nationals from around Kabul, the Telegraph reported. Prompting the mission were reports of Taliban hunting down former Afghan government officials, along with Britons stuck behind a web of Taliban checkpoints lining the route to the airport.Additionally, France 24 reports that the French military has been conducting similar operations since Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron thanked French security forces on Twitter for executing a âsensitive operationâ which evacuated more than 200 French and Afghans.
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If there werenât 15K Americans and how many other foreign nationals and friendly Afghanis, this would be a hell of a time to surround that city with a whole bunch of special forces and tanksâŚ
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@aqua-letifer said in Biden to speak on Afghanistan again today:
No definitive answer about how we're helping those who are stuck and can't get to the airport.
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Excerpt from Frank Bruni:
"Talking last month about the planned American exit from Afghanistan, President Biden prophesied an orderly retreat and scoffed at the idea that a Taliban takeover was inevitable.
"The Taliban takeover was swift. It caused harrowing scenes of chaos.
"As a soothsayer, Biden stinks, and that has been noted ad nauseam over the past few days. But itâs worth looking beyond his cracked crystal ball to the cracked mind-set that explains it.
"I donât mean his. I mean our countryâs. The United States â including many and probably most of our presidents â is routinely overconfident. We perpetually overreach. And while Biden obviously didnât think we had the might to fix Afghanistan for good, he thought we had the muscle to flee Afghanistan without mortification. Call it a humbler strain of arrogance. Itâs arrogance nonetheless."
More: "In a cleareyed and sobering analysis published in The New Yorker early this week, Robin Wright charted our comeuppances in Vietnam, in Lebanon, in Iraq and now in Afghanistan. âThe repeated miscalculations challenge basic Washington policy-making as well as U.S. military strategy and intelligence capabilities,â she wrote. âWhy wasnât this looming calamity â or any of the earlier ones â anticipated? Or the exits better planned?â
"The answer to that is the principal reason for Bidenâs bad fortunetelling. He gave us false assurances because he was falsely assured â by the stubborn image of America as a country with super, even magical, powers. No matter how many times that image is contradicted, it lives on, propelling us to achievement but also setting us up for catastrophe."
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@Improviso An entire fucking thread that you missed. Read my responses, jackass.
