Taliban celebration.
After 3 years in power the Taliban in Afghanistan celebrated with a military parade featuring all the US military hardware that Joe Biden left behind. In what was widely criticized as a chaotic operation that left 13 US troops dead, the Taliban inherited the failed state that the US had kept a lid on for more than two decades. The venue for the celebration was the massive Bagram air base, which was built and maintained by the US long ago.
Enjoy the video
https://youtu.be/qghpnknMNoc?list=RDNSqghpnknMNoc
Here is what Kamala Harris said about her role in the decision:
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Good morning.
Today our thoughts are with a Ferguson Police officer in critical condition.
Officer Travis Brown
Graphic new footage shows Ferguson Police Officer Travis Brown being violently knocked to the ground by an unruly protestor — a hit that left him still fighting for his life with severe brain injuries days later.
Brown, 36, was dispatched with his fellow officers Friday to arrest a number of troublemakers who were trying to rip down a police fence as a demonstration commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the shooting of black teen Michael Brown devolved into chaos.
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Now Brown has a life-threatening brain injury.
Will Kamala Harris sponsor a fund to free the protestor?
All to protest a dipshit kid assaulting an officer 10 years ago.
That has become their crusade.
Everything is justified for the cause.
When did this incident happen?
About a week ago.
gee, what was the name of that dipshit POTUS loser that arranged for the entire taliban hierarchy to be released from prison?
Tell us all about it.
Gee who was the dipshit president that changed the withdrawal timeline causing the clusterfuck. Oh that's right:
She's not the only one that can't point out anything.
Neither can Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
She couldn't find anything.
American troops were in Afghanistan for roughly 20 years. Even the Russians got out of there after ten.
It was time, and everyone knew that it was likely that country would revert to Taliban control when we left. The idea that all the blame for 20 years of ups and downs attempting to "westernize" those people falls on Biden is preposterous.
The criticism was never about ending the mission.
It was about the manner in which Biden withdrew
It was never going to end well.
Did Vietnam end well in 1975?
For the US, Vietnam ended in 1973.
There is a lot more but I kept it short.
March 29, 1973 : Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end.
In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.
U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam | March 29, 1973 | HISTORY
All of which has nothing to do with Joe Biden running like a dog from Afghanistan.
By the timeline set by the former 'president'
But not the way the former President would have withdrawn.
LOL. The decision to leave Afghanistan was made by Trump.
LOL. Trump wouldn't have done it that way.
5.1.7 is about Trump.
Trump maintained Bagram AFB and would have until every American was out.
From Fact Check:
Two days after that interview, we wrote that Biden’s recollection was contradicted by reporting from the New York Times , Wall Street Journal and Washington Post , all of which reported, citing unnamed sources, that early in Biden’s presidency, top military officials recommended Biden keep a small residual force in Afghanistan.
Now Biden’s claim is contradicted by firsthand sources — the generals themselves.
At the Sept. 28 hearing, Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe said that during a closed, classified hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier in September, Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, then the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that he recommended in January that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
Inhofe asked McKenzie if he agreed with that recommendation.
“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion, and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation,” McKenzie said. “I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. And I also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time. Those were my personal views. I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”
Generals Contradict Biden on Afghanistan Advice - FactCheck.org
Enough said.
Trump negotiated a bad deal with the Taliban that increased their capability . In the wake of that the Afghan military response to the Taliban disintegrated. The US withdrew per the Trump negotiated agreement.
Sure Biden might have executed it better, but he was following the advice of his military advisors under the circumstances.
They are all to blame, certainly including Trump.
He can't blame Trump, especially after he did away with every Trump policy.
He expected us to believe he was tied to what Trump said.
He left $7 Billion worth of military equipment there. He left Americans behind.
He got 13 US soldiers killed.
You are correct. The initial decision was made by Trump. It was fucked up by Biden and he states as such. See 3.2
"He" "He" "He." Biden wasnt there.
This complete withdrawal would have been chaotic no matter who the president was. The Afghan government and military completely collapsed. That is as much trump's fault as Bidens, if not more so. Trump has his four years to do better in Afghanistan and didnt.
Not even close.
Biden wouldn't listen to the Generals. He wanted to show us that he was going to get out right away.
Trump never ran out of Afghanistan. Biden did.
The Afghan military collapsed. That led to the "hasty" withdrawal. You make it sound like Biden wanted chaos. It is ludicrous. Biden takes his share of the blame but blame extends back to Trumps agreement to put a deadline on it.
Who else can we blame?
It was Joe, face it.
The failures of the Afghan military didn't cause the retreat (no other way to put it). The plan was changed by Biden.
Of course it would have been the same way as the former 'president' convicted felon and rapist.
That comment is a lie
That was one of the least funny things I have ever seen. Gutfeld doesnt even rise to the level of a Jimmy Kimmel wanna be, and the woman playing Harris for some unknown reason gave her a Jewish accent.
I have no idea why you posted that.
I thought she did a good impression. One that would make Marilyn Michaels proud.
It's like they have no actual sense of humor or it's very childish or, I can't really find the correct word, stupid for sure, juvenile, immature.
WTF was that? That's supposed to be funny? I wonder why it was posted as well.
Comic relief? As in we're laughing our asses off at this moronic attempt at comedy by Fux 'news'.
She is good and funny as hell
Sounds just like her.............
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly turned down interview requests with The New York Times to address fresh criticisms he's facing over his response to the George Floyd riots in 2020.
Walz, who has served as governor since 2019, is accused of failing to act quickly enough as rioters burned and looted businesses for days before he sent in the National Guard. Over 1,500 businesses and buildings were burned, with property damage estimated at $500 million, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune .
He doesn't want to talk about it?
Just like he doesn't want to talk about the problems his policies caused during Covid. IMO Vance and Trump both need to stop their bullshit and start talking policy and be sure (no excuses, no games to delay) to get after all of this during the debates. The voters need to fully understand what the policies of both sides are before any voting starts (in something like 23 days). damn..