Trump had lamented Biden’s failure to follow “the plan our Administration left for him,” adding that the withdrawal of troops should have been informed by the situation on the ground, according to a Saturday statement.

“The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power. What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul. This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence,” the former president added.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demanded Sunday an investigation into the Biden administration’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan, warning that the decision to fully withdraw troops before the Sep. 11 deadline was a “mistake that will haunt us for decades.”

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Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

08/14/21

Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy, and many other issues. Everyone knew he couldn’t handle the pressure. Even Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much. He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him—a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America. The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.

After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power. What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul. This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

Biden’s time is up next.  Resign now!  

Joe Biden, a catastrophe!

by PRESIDENT_ELECT_Right1

More proof that Donald Trump is an utter fucking idiot who can't think more than 3 seconds into the future.

What actually happens if Biden resigns?

He probably thinks he becomes president again.

No, that will happen in Jan 2025.  

Then we get the ugly, ignorant, and uninformed 'ho  

We basically already have it now.  He’s resignation just makes it being President official.  

I just need to say I'm not a fan of that word.

... and the statement is simply childish name calling.

And yet you never say the same thing when someone refers to Trump and or his supporters the turd Reich.  A little consistency would make your statement above have some value.  

More whining.   Own your own words rather than try to deflect to others.

A former CIA officer is blasting the Biden administration after its chaotic, deadly pullout from Afghanistan, calling governing elites “trash” and claiming that U.S. competitors and enemies are going to be emboldened to the point where the world becomes more dangerous.

“Former US intelligence colleagues are angry and deeply worried at what has happened in Afghanistan,” Bryan Dean Wright stated to begin a lengthy Twitter threat.

“Here’s what I’m hearing, and why there’s nearly universal belief that America and the world are in for one of the most dangerous, unpredictable times in modern history,” he wrote.

“Afghanistan has shown the world — enemies & allies alike — that our military & intel assets are largely irrelevant because we can’t deploy them successfully,” he added.

“The blame lays at the feet of multiple Presidents. The Generals. The Spies. The Congress. America’s Elites are trash,” Wright wrote, going on to predict that China and Russia will now become more aggressive.

“China knows it. They will become emboldened, covertly & overtly. War over Taiwan and contested islands in the S. China Sea and E. China Sea is now more likely. Russia will consider similar covert & overt moves, focused on Crimea, & former Soviet satellites,” wrote the former CIA officer.

He went on to report that Russia and China could team up to achieve their strategic objectives.

“The fear is that China & Russia will act in concert. Why? America was whipped by a tiny rebel force and couldn’t even retreat properly,” Wright continued.

“Meanwhile, the American people are angry, COVID weary, & divided. If there were ever a time to push American hegemony aside, this is it.”

“If Cold War III grows hot, America will need to quickly build up & work with foreign counterparts,” Wright continued.

“But who will trust America after Afghanistan? Who believes we have the leadership to use our military might well? Who will trust us when we say ‘We Will Stand With You’?” he went on.

Wright then predicted that lesser powers will also begin testing the Biden administration.

“Beyond China/Russia, others will take gambles too. Terror orgs like al-Qa’ida & ISIS are degraded but not dead,” Wright said.

“Their ideology is very much alive. Iran’s Hizballah — with terror cells throughout the US — may see an opening to create chaos too,” he noted, adding that Biden’s Afghanistan debacle is “just the beginning.”

“Meanwhile, the disaster inside Afghanistan is only just beginning. The Taliban will launch a terror campaign against American collaborators,” the CIA vet wrote.

“The pictures will shock the conscience of the world, further degrading American moral authority. Biden & Co will struggle to respond.”

Wright also blasted the Biden administration over the fact that tons of U.S. weaponry supplied to the now-disintegrated Afghan National Army is in Taliban hands.

“There’s also the nightmare of tactical weaponry now awash in Afghanistan, in the hands of the Taliban and — soon — on the global black market,” Wright predicted.

“These arms will fuel chaos around the world for decades. The Pentagon has no idea where this stuff is and no plans to destroy it,” he said.

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Hey, Donnie! Takes one to know one (corrupted snake oil salesman)

So you are conceding that Biden is a corrupted snake oil salesman but are simply trying to say Trump is one too because he knows Biden.  Got it!  

Confirmation bias in full display.

It is exactly what she said.  Takes one to know one.  

You leaped to call Biden a corrupted snake oil salesman.   Confirmation bias.

What is funny (in a pathetic sense) is that you are attempting to deem Biden a corrupted snake oil salesman while excluding Trump from that characterization.

Or do you consider Trump a corrupted snake oil salesman?

I don’t consider either Trump or Biden to be that.  She is the one responding to a seed about what Trump said regarding Biden saying it takes one to know one implying that both were that.  

In that case your retort was simply illogical.   You did not think it through.

Or spell check it.

Another banana oil seed, big surprise.

I’m glad that you liked it so much!  Are you going to deny Trump said what is attributed to him in the seeded article or are you bitterly resentful that his comments made the news and were published.  You had to know that I’d seed the article upon finding it though I did wait an pass on another one that was earlier but was only a short breaking news snippet from Trending Politics at the time. This one had a better headline too.  

Biden needs to go.  He’s a tired lazy sleeepy and demented old man whose personal core values are rooted in evil, corruption, and the deep state.  He is an empty vessel for the regime of the secular progressive left.  Their policies have failed in such a spectacular and devastating fashion for America and the American people that the old fool must resign!  

Yet again, pure partisan hate-based bullshit drawn almost entirely from talking points.   Disgusting that some people spread such crap.

Oh no!  I’ve been accused of being partisan yet again!  What am I to do?  The irony is that I’ve never denied being a partisan for evangelical Christian populist conservative America first nationalism.  It’s what I am.  I have changed in that I’m no longer an unconditional pro free trader nor pro wall st. Banker or big time corporatist. Those are all democrat positions now.  

It’s [a pure partisan] what I am.

Indeed!  

I have changed in that I’m no longer an unconditional pro free trader nor pro wall st. Banker or big time corporatist. Those are all democrat positions now.  

And of course!   Pure partisans simply accept the position of their parties.   So if Trump makes a claim, you simply accept it.   Why, I bet if Trump were to claim — sans evidence — that the 2020 election was rigged and that he actually won,  you would probably believe it in spite of the overwhelming facts and logic to the contrary.

'“The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power.'

Do Americans? And why should they?

After the US left in '73, North Vietnam was two years routing the South Vietnamese government. And beside the North Vietnamese, Taliban troops compare very poorly. Yet with the US withdraw, the Afghan regime fell like a house of cards.

That collapse exposed the absence of indigenous support. Ghani's regime fell like the utterly rotten fruit it was the instant US hands removed. Mind, that also exposed the irrationality and uselessness of the US mission. It also exposes the equally rotten nature of the US ruling class. And the whole world knows this.

The assignment of 'blame' under such conditions is so much political masturbation. But is a graver matter lurks here.

Unlike 1975 when the SU faced serious crisis and wanted 'peaceful coexistence' with the US and Western countries, Washington faces a formidable enemy, China. This will deepen US imperialism's desperation and increase the danger of World War. This desperation, the complete refusal to reckon with our imperialist history, and the increasing instability of our society in general but more importantly of the ruling class in particular -- threatens all humanity with a disastrous end.

The United States disgraces itself. Meanwhile, it menaces the earth [undoubtedly] already planning its next for-profit aggression.

And the best the ass-clowns do is to wave the banner of 'partisanship!'

menaces the earth [undoubtedly] already planning its next for-profit aggression.

 Iraq and Afghanistan were the exact opposite of that. I would think, as a socialist, you would recognize the analogous strain of deterministic  thought that inspired  the Wilsonian/Bush  belief that  democracy would solve all the world problems and led to 20 years of wasted "nation building."  But of course, democracy as a cure all is just as much as phantasma as  Marxist historical materialism.

'Iraq and Afghanistan were the exact opposite of that.'

You've stated your proposition. Feel free to make your case.

'...belief that  democracy would solve all the world problems...'

Well that's something ... but then democracy was never the intent however much it was cited as a reason for continuing the anti-Afghan campaign.

'Marxist historical materialism.'

Marxist theory is not only an historical-material based philosophy; it is also dialectical. You really can't have Marxism without dialectics. You left out that point.

Yet with the US withdraw, the Afghan regime fell like a house of cards.

Since the US deal with the Taliban was signed, week after week, month after month, the Taliban began bribing warlords and Afghan

military commanders and governors. There were very few serious battles in the past month, just bribes changing hands.

Kabul fell almost without a shot.

Lots of fires as uniforms were being disposed of.

Trump: Saigon 'Child's Play' Compared to Kabul

People near Taliban signature white flags wait for the arrival of their relatives, who were reportedly released from prison by the Taliban in Afghanistan, at a border crossing point, in Chaman, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (Jafar Khan/AP)

By Charlie McCarthy    |   Tuesday, 17 August 2021 10:50 AM

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was "child's play" compared to what has happened in Afghanistan.

"What took place yesterday in Afghanistan made our withdrawal from Vietnam look like child's play," Trump said in a statement released through his Save America PAC.

"Perhaps in World history, there has never been a withdrawal operation that has been handled so disastrously. A President who has been illegitimately elected has brought great shame, in many ways, to our Country!”

President Joe Biden on Monday defended the U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan, saying it was time to leave after 20 years of conflict.

Taliban forces seized and took control of capital city Kabul on Sunday, drawing comparisons to the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Both events included images of helicopters evacuating Americans from the U.S. Embassy as enemy troops approached.

Trump on Monday criticized Biden for what he called the "grossly incompetent way" U.S. troops were pulled out.

"It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left!" Trump said in a terse, two-sentence statement.

Biden acknowledged that the Afghan government collapsed more quickly than he expected.

"The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated," Biden said. "We gave them every chance to determine their own future. We could not provide them with the will to fight for that future."

Gen. David Petraeus, who led U.S. forces in Afghanistan during the Obama administration, took issue with people claiming Afghanistan soldiers lacked the will to fight.

"Afghan soldiers died in huge numbers over the course of the past two decades," Petraeus told NBC News . "We were worried that they wouldn't be able to replace all those they lost. So the idea they would not fight for their country is something that is just not accurate."

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I suspect that the corruption antedated the 'deal' by a substantial margin. If war wasn't so very profitable, there would be an outbreak of peace.

It's still an economy based on local trade and barter. 

Corruption to them is part of a complicated tribal, family and religious mishmash.

Business as usual.

Maybe Trump should keep talking. The more he sounds like an idiot   ("A President who has been illegitimately elected has brought great shame, in many ways, to our Country!”)    the better it may be for Biden. 

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Trump was right about all that he said.  Biden is nothing more than a big mistake.  

Why is Trump mad? He wanted to pull troops out of Afghanistan. And even that was a continuation of what Obama was doing.

Trump Administration Wants All U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq And Afghanistan By Spring

The way people are pulling their hair and gnashing their teeth over the resurgence of the Taliban is just bizarre to me. What did Trump imagine would happen? What did angry Democrats think would happen? Or angry Republicans? What did anybody think would happen?

Did anyone really think that the Afghan government and military was going keep the Taliban at bay all by itself? This was inevitable. I see people shocked and upset and I feel like they haven't been paying attention.

The only options available to Biden weren't  keeping  troops there forever or a botched withdrawal.  It's possible to believe all the troops should have been brought home and the withdrawal should have been better executed. 

Trump was in contact with the Taliban and doing things in stages and contingent upon their behavior.  When they crossed a line in the sand Trump drew he bombed the crap out of them until they came back to the table and complied.  When Biden took office he broke off the contacts with the Taliban and created a whole new date based on emotions and was all carrots and no sticks.  This fiasco would never have been tolerated by Trump as part of our withdrawal were he our President now.  He would have had A-10’s Strafing vehicles, c-130’s dropping MOAB’s and B-52’s carpet bombing anti personnel fuel air explode bombs all over the routs to Kabul in order to assure an orderly withdrawal.  It would have looked like that Iraqi retreat out of Kuwait in Jan. 1991

He would have had A-10’s Strafing vehicles, c-130’s dropping MOAB’s and B-52’s carpet bombing anti personnel fuel air explode bombs all over the routs to Kabul in order to assure an orderly withdrawal.  It would have looked like that Iraqi retreat out of Kuwait in Jan. 1991

keep dreaming...