Results for: Afghanistan debacle

WaPo’s Botched Hegseth Hit Job Proves the Pentagon Desperately Needs New Media
https://redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2025/12/02/wapos-botched-heg…job-proves-the-pentagon-desperately-needs-new-media-n2196731
– The timing for this debacle couldn’t have been more poetic, as it serves as a stark backdrop for why the Pentagon’s updated press-credential … reliant on anonymous intelligence sources, claiming Russia had paid Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill American troops in Afghanistan
Biden Admin Put on Blast After Trump Signs Afghanistan Proclamation on Abbey Gate Attack Anniversary
https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/08/25/biden-admin…istan-proclamation-on-abbey-gate-attack-anniversary-n2193213
– America deserves answers as far as what happened in Afghanistan. … America deserves answers as far as what happened in Afghanistan," Hegseth said. … "The military needs to answer for what happened in Afghanistan.…
Hegseth, Trump Open Up About Operation Midnight Hammer Impact, Offer Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse
https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/07/08/pete-hegseth…operation-midnight-hammer-impact-recruiting-numbers-n2191377
– It reversed what happened in Afghanistan. … You saw the debacle of what [former President Joe] Biden allowed to happen in Afghanistan, what that did to our image.""…
Sweden: A Cautionary Tale, and What's Being Left Out of the Discussion
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/04/13/sweden-a-cautionary-tale-and-whats-being-left-out-of-the-discussion-n2187819
– – posted online by gang leaders, offering bounties to anyone willing to carry out the hits.Yes, this is Sweden, not Gaza, not AfghanistanAfghanistan? … But Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, France, Italy - they are being overrun, and their governments have facilitated the debacle.…
CNBC's Joe Kernen Just Levels Chris Coons Over Dem Calls for Pete Hegseth to Resign Over Signal Issue
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/03/28/cnbc-host-and…r-pete-hegseths-resignation-over-signal-controversy-n2187211
– Chris Coons (D-DE) during a Friday segment where not only did he repeatedly have to press Coons for comment on the Afghanistan debacle … HXFS6afntc— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 26, 2025Let us also not forget that the lack of accountability over the deadly Afghanistan … central figure in the decision-making process, the "last person in the room" in her role as Joe Biden's second in command as the Afghanistan
Karoline Leavitt Unloads on Media, Jeffrey Goldberg: ‘Not Going To Be Lectured On National Security’
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/26/karoline-leavitt…dberg-not-going-to-be-lectured-on-national-security-n2187131
– a blistering attack on left-wing "journalist" Jeffrey Goldberg and excoriating a media that remained silent after Joe Biden's Afghanistandebacle, but now wants to see heads roll over a relatively mundane group chat.As readers are well aware by now, a Signal text group … debacle."…
Elissa Slotkin Gives Rebuttal to Trump's Joint Address Cementing Her Role As a Political Placeholder
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/03/05/elissa-slotkin-gi…ress-cementing-her-place-as-a-political-placeholder-n2186293
– Slotkin is a fabulist who worked for the CIA and was part of the Iraq War debacle. … address that they had captured the top terrorist responsible for the murders of 13 U.S. servicemembers at Abbey Gate during the Afghanistan
It's On: SecDef Pete Hegseth Taps Investigators for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/18/its-on-secdef-pete…ps-investigators-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-n2185721
– it right,” he said.Getting it right is essential, not only to bring accountability to the people who planned and executed this debacle … happens again.In July 2021, the Biden administration launched a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops and embassy officials from Afghanistan … Finding and dealing with the people responsible for the screw-up in the Afghanistan withdrawal is an important part of that.…
Shameless Biden Has Given $2.35 Billion to Ruthless Taliban in Aftermath of Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/08/08/shameless-biden…an-in-aftermath-of-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal-n789485
– Remember the heartbreaking stories, as shameless Joe Biden inexplicably withdrew all remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the … The last US military planes left Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. … This is maddening beyond perception, yet Biden’s Big Lie about his “successful” Afghanistan withdrawal continues.…
Gold Star Parents Call for Biden, Others to Resign as Liberal Media Ignores Their Heartbreaking Testimony
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/08/gold-star-parents…liberal-media-ignores-their-heartbreaking-testimony-n789184
– families who had lost their loved ones in the suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport during the withdrawal from Afghanistan … Incredibly, in the wake of the debacle, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, refused … Darin Taylor Hoover, Jr., tells Biden over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal: "Do what our son did — be a grown ass man.…
Biden's Creepy Comments About Kids and Ice Cream, Plus a Ton of Malarkey on Inflation Reduction Act
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/16/bidens-creepy-rem…rks-about-ice-cream-kids-bidenomics-and-being-irish-n2162700
– Biden, on the second anniversary of his botched Afghanistan withdrawal:"Name me a single objective we've ever set out to accomplish … RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 16, 2023 Two years ago on this date, Biden was just starting to publicly address the fall of Afghanistan … There was no recognition of the Afghanistan debacle in any official statements this week.…
Biden Had to Be Shamed Into Recognizing Troops Killed at Kabul Airport on Second Anniversary of Attack
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/27/biden-had-to-be-s…amed-into-recognizing-troops-killed-at-kabul-airpor-n2163112
– Saturday was the anniversary of the terrorist bombing at the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai Airport in Kabul during the Afghanistan … Two years ago today, we tragically lost 13 brave servicemen and women in Afghanistan. I have directed the flags at the U.S. … They're a reminder of what a debacle he made of the withdrawal. That's disgusting.…
WATCH: Biden Gets Loudly Booed, Yelled at in Lake Tahoe
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/26/watch-biden-gets-loudly-booed-in-lake-tahoe-n2163066
– We've seen that now, again and again, most notably when it came to Afghanistan where he refused to take any responsibility for the … debacle and how shamelessly he treated the Gold Star families. …
WATCH: Gold Star Moms Rip Into Joe Biden's Phoniness in ABC Interview
https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2023/09/03/gold-star-moms-rip-into-joe-bidens-phoniness-in-abc-interview-n2163381
– speaks with three Gold Star family members of Marines who were killed in the Abbey Gate bombing during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan … He also talked about the Afghanistan debacle and Joe Biden's phoniness: [My son] will never have the chance to get married.…
More Disturbing Revelations on Kabul Bombing, Biden Admin Response on Not Taking out Suspect Is Shameful
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/02/pentagons-respons…ot-on-the-kabul-airport-bombing-suspect-is-shameful-n2163349
– There were so many failures by Joe Biden during the debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan.  … Marine Corps sniper, tells Congress that he was denied permission to shoot the suicide bomber in Afghanistan that killed 13 service … Unfortunately, this is emblematic of the Biden administration, in general, which caused this debacle and now doesn't want to answer…
Taliban Now Says They Want to Join in Hamas' Fight Against Israel
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/07/taliban-wants-to…ess-where-weapons-we-let-behind-in-afghanistan-went-n2164799
– Because the withdrawal from Afghanistan was such a debacle, there were all kinds of U.S. weapons left behind in Afghanistan after the … Reminder: There was reporting earlier this year that said US arms left in Afghanistan reached Gaza. https://t.co/pmi12fUYUk — Steve … US arms left in Afghanistan have been smuggled to the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, Sama News Agency reported on Friday.…
Biden Shows Full-on Cluelessness During '60 Minutes' Interview About Israel
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/15/biden-shows-full…uelessness-during-60-minutes-interview-about-israel-n2165095
– "Nothing we can't do" -- this from the guys who brought us the Afghanistan debacle, who can't even evacuate our people safely -- who…
Meanwhile, Shameless Biden Has Handed $2 Billion to Taliban Since Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/10/15/meanwhile-biden…ion-to-taliban-since-afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle-n2165088
– list of the disastrous effects on the United States caused by Joe Biden's precipitous 2021 withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan … administration has sent roughly $2 billion in aid to the Taliban-controlled Afghan government in the aftermath of the withdrawal debacle … The United States is the single largest humanitarian donor in Afghanistan, providing nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance for…
Watch: Tucker Carlson Destroys 'Elites' and Liberal Media Over Fake Russia Bounty Story
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/04/17/watch-tucker-car…ites-and-liberal-media-over-fake-russia-bounty-story-n363061
– Vladimir Putin’s Russia was placing bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. The liberal media went crazy. … “Obviously there was no leaving Afghanistan, now.” “Anyone who suggested leaving Afghanistan would be bowing to Vladimir Putin. … As a matter of principle, American troops had to stay in Afghanistan. And they did stay — they’re still there, today.”…
Move Over, Jeb! Get Ready for Chris Christie to Bounce Into the 2024 Presidential Campaign
https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/04/22/move-over-jeb-get-re…ristie-to-bounce-into-the-2024-presidential-campaign-n366996
– The prior Bush presidencies were hardly a roaring success, with the latter delivering us such gems as a 20-year war in Afghanistan  … He threw a couple of his top aids under the bus on the “Bridgegate” debacle.…
Watch: Ron DeSantis Rubs Salt in 'Brandon' Biden’s Deep Political Wounds in Possible 2024 Preview
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/06/02/watch-ron-des…idens-deep-political-wounds-in-possible-2024-preview-n574065
– Cuba issue, the “woke” push for CRT implementation and gender identity instruction in public school classrooms, Biden’s deadly Afghanistandebacle, his handling of the Wuhan virus outbreak, and more.…
WH Brings in More Help for Briefing, but It Still Turns Into a Dumpster Fire
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/15/wh-brings-in-more…for-briefing-but-it-still-turns-into-a-dumpster-fire-n579196
– You may remember how awful Kirby was during the debacle of the withdrawal in Afghanistan and how he virtually never had answers–and … worse, when it came to the number of Americans left in Afghanistan.…
Stunned Karine Jean-Pierre Laughs off CNN Question About Biden's Stamina and Mental Acuity
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/06/14/stunned-karine-j…cnn-question-about-bidens-stamina-and-mental-acuity-n578373
– Biden Afghanistan Debacle In addition to betraying America’s closest NATO allies, Biden jerked the remaining U.S. … Forces out of Afghanistan, literally abandoning without warning the strategic Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night.…
Biden Gets Embarrassed at the G-7, as His Numbers Tumble to Lowest Ever
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/27/biden-gets-embarr…ssed-at-the-g-7-as-his-numbers-tumble-to-lowest-ever-n584922
– situations like this — we’ve seen it across the board when it comes to Biden’s reactions to a range of policy problems — from the debacle … of the withdrawal from Afghanistan to his failure to acknowledge inflation for a long time or how his actions contributed to it.…
THE BUZZ CUT: Biden’s Military in Crisis
https://redstate.com/buzzpatterson/2022/07/08/the-buzz-cut-bidens-military-in-crisis-n590813
– The debacle in withdrawing from Afghanistan, in addition to the in-your-face implementation of command directives that have nothing … Sixty-two percent of those surveyed disapproved of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. … Bush, to the disastrously failed withdrawal from Afghanistan.…
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