Just before the weekend, the Biden administration dropped their report on the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Reporters were furious that it was dropped in classic “dump” before the holiday weekend, indeed 10 minutes before their press briefing with National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
Kirby’s response? It was the “responsible thing to do.” He then went on to shamefully say Joe Biden was “proud” of the withdrawal and the purpose of the report wasn’t “accountability.” It never is with Biden, and they don’t want to hold anyone involved in their horrible decisions accountable, especially Biden.
Instead, they tried to blame former President Donald Trump and the Afghan army. Kirby said that they were restricted by the timeline that Trump had put in place. That wasn’t true, since they changed the timeline that had been in place from May to Sept. 11 for the withdrawal. He also denied there was chaos in the withdrawal, in an incredible denial of reality. Fox’s Peter Doocy nailed him repeatedly during the questioning.
But there was also a great question from Newsmax’s James Rosen that I didn’t want you to miss. It says a lot about the conflict, in what they are trying to sell us here. As we noted, they want to sell the fiction that this was somehow a success and something to be proud of, while at the same time blaming Trump for the very real disaster. So, which is it? It doesn’t add up. Rosen grills him on blaming Trump and just decimates him here.
“Let Me Finish My Question, Please.”
👉@JamesRosenTV , NewsMax, questions Kirby and it’s 🔥. pic.twitter.com/aqy1kKUmvB
— strawberrygirl (@Strawberygirli) April 7, 2023
Rosen said they blamed Trump for bad policies. “Bad outcomes,” Kirby responded. But there weren’t “bad outcomes” under Trump; the bad outcomes were all under Biden. When Trump was in office he worked a deal where no one was killed by the Taliban, while keeping a minimal number of troops in Afghanistan. Biden managed to wreck that.
Rosen said, according to Kirby’s remarks, Biden was holding Trump, the Afghans, and the intelligence community all at some fault for Biden not knowing how to respond properly in this situation. Rosen concluded, “You’re describing him [Biden] as a figure almost helpless, and shaped and buffeted by individuals and forces and entities that are beyond his control.” As Rosen explains, Biden had every option to increase troops. He did change the date, so he didn’t care about changing the timing with the Taliban in that respect. He also made it a point of tossing under the bus all kinds of Trump decisions, so this was just nonsense and it wasn’t Trump’s decisions that caused this. Rosen said he didn’t understand why Kirby was willing to depict Biden as “so helpless.”
Now, that was a great question, and it put Kirby completely on the spot. The reason is a simple one. Because they would rather blame anyone else and make Biden appear helpless than admit not only was he incompetent, but 13 Americans and more than 100 Afghans were killed because of him. Our adversaries took all kinds of notice of this, and that’s part of the reason they’re on the move now.
But there’s something even worse. As I wrote two years ago in August 2021, the debacle may have been—on some level—intentional. Biden has been wanting to pull out for years, long before he came into office. He reportedly did it against the advice of his top military commanders. What he said in the past reveals that he didn’t give a darn about leaving the allies hanging out in the wind, and he didn’t feel he had any obligation to them.
As we noted at the time, citing to a report from The Atlantic:
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In 2010, he told RICHARD HOLBROOKE, Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the U.S. had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the consequences for women or anyone else. According to Holbrooke’s diary, when he asked about American obligations to Afghans like the girl in the Kabul school, Biden replied with a history lesson from the final U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia… ‘F**k that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.’”
Then let’s go back to that time and what Biden did at the end of the Vietnam War, when Ford went to Congress and said he needed some money to help get the allies—who we had committed to and had helped us during the war—out. One of the strongest voices against that was Joe Biden, who said, “I do not believe the United States has an obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals.” Within a couple of weeks, Saigon fell, the helicopters were on the roofs, and our allies were left to be butchered by the North Vietnamese. Some escaped but many others did not, and Joe Biden was once again wrong.
You can tell how aggrieved Biden was during the withdrawal debacle that anyone would dare to criticize him. After all, “Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.” How could anyone now be attacking him? That’s why I wrote at the time he seemed sociopathic, repeatedly insisting he was right.
He didn’t fail to plan. It sounds like the plan was always just to leave, whoever was left.
But helpless, incompetent, and/or deliberate—they show a man who endangers us all. Voters should show him the door for any of those reasons, and so many more.
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