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Biden approval rating under water

No, he didn’t. He called the incessant uproar over everything the Admin did the next Russia Hoax.
He said that criticisms of his handling of the Coronavirus were a democratic hoax. Not the existence of the virus. At one of his unmasked rallies where he was stirring up his base to hate democrats.
 
The military equipment was left to arm the Afghan military. The Americans and Afghans who stayed knew about the pending withdrawal and choose to stay because at the time Afghanistan was a functioning state with government and military that these people would be supporting.
Only some of that is true. You're stating it how you wish it is.

Many of the Americans who stayed were private military contractors and maintainers essential for keeping the Afghan military and the equipment we left functional. A blanket “withdraw all Americans” would have only served to undermine the Afghan military and government and act as a de facto surrender to the Taliban.
This is largely true, the PMCs, but there are also, active US forces there. So, again, you're still stating it how you wish it is.

There was no concept of evacuation prior to military withdrawal because people could come and go and their was a commercial airport with commercial flights operating for more than a month after the withdrawal.
This is false. The US military itself uses commercial flights, has since Vietnam. There is a huge difference between Vietnam and Afghanistan, and that's why even the US Media is hitting Biden ... hard. You refuse to see it.

Huge difference between fall of Saigon and the embassy ... and this.

So do you see why your simplistic approach is problematic?
You're actually the one that over-simplified it. He's actually correct, even if some of your points are partially correct. US military personnel -- not just PMCs -- are in country, and they ARE IN CHARGE OF US MILITARY CHARTERED FLIGHTS TOO.

Never mind that US government officials and military are out of the country and the US short of an outright travel ban has no jurisdiction over US citizens who are traveling to Afghanistan in a non-government role.
^^^ This is the far left media narrative that even the US Media is seeing through. Geez you ate it up. This is UTTERLY FALSE.

Not everything is PMC. Not everything is Afghani or PMC equipment.

So given that what would you have done?
Exactly what he said. The Taliban broke the flimsy agreement ... because they could.

You don't make an agreement you don't keep to fellow Americans. It's bad enough that Nixon-Ford and now Trump-Biden let our ally down, but Ford didn't do this, Biden did.

That's going to leave a mark.
 
Yep, when at a loss for a legit response, go the insult route.
If you and your wife are out somewhere and decide to leave, should you be criticized if you leave your wallet and shoes there and drive off without your wife?

“NOOOO!!!!1 Everyone agreed it was time to go home!!!!!!”
 
“NOOOO!!!!1 Everyone agreed it was time to go home!!!!!!”
Certainly the posters here I argued with back in 2020 felt that way. So do we slowly begin removing our military equipment, American civilians, and Afghan allies over the course of the next year or two? NO.

Instead we ANNOUNCE to the whole frickin' WORLD that we've negotiated with the Taliban (weird, I could have sworn we don't negotiate with terrorists) to withdraw our troops from the country in May. Hell, Candidate Trump said in one of his 2016 campaign rallies that only an idiot announces to the enemy in advance what he plans to do -- yet in 2020, that's EXACTLY what Trump did -- and Biden continued supporting it when he got in office. The only thing Joe did differently was announce (again, WHY?) an extension of our withdrawal time.

Even without predicting that the American-trained and equipped Afghan army would fold like a cheap suit, this approach was destined to fail from the get-go.

Leave troops in until we had properly removed our own military equipment, all Americans, and all Afghan allies who wanted out.

Not that hard.
This is the kind of crap you get (from a politician of either party) when you mix wartime field tactics with back home politics.
 
If you and your wife are out somewhere and decide to leave, should you be criticized if you leave your wallet and shoes there and drive off without your wife?

“NOOOO!!!!1 Everyone agreed it was time to go home!!!!!!”
Jesus what a stupid analogy.
 
LMAO. This WC gem from the Trumpster who supported us leaving BACK IN MAY for crying out loud!!!!
Own it, democrats are a disaster. Record inflation, gas prices up 50%, a border crises created because of “orange man bad” policy decisions.

then instead of withdrawing with a plan biden just abandons american citizens. At least 13 dead now and probably much more. The fact youre still defending this speaks volumes to the blinders you have put up
 
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This is all on Biden.
No one is answering my question: WHO TELLS THE ENEMY IN ADVANCE WE'RE PLANNING TO GET THE HELL OUT???!?

Trump: We're out in May! Biden: We're still going to leave...but in September!


Someone explain to me the rationale for announcing a withdrawal date, be it in May or September?
 
We never left while Trump was in office. Not sure why that is relevant.
Now sure why that is relevant??? Are you f*king kidding?

Heeeeelllooooooo.
Trump was the one who announced last year that the U.S. would be leaving Afghanistan once and for all (um, during the campaign season) in May, 2021, because he.... cue trumpet fanfare.... negotiated a deal with the Taliban.

Could Biden have changed course once he got into office? YES. Is the evacuation on the Biden Administration? YES. Has the evacuation been a clusterf*k? YES. But for our Usual Suspects to suddenly come down with amnesia about how the hell we got here is the height of hypocrisy.
 
We have no idea if based on the intel if Trump would have done something different.
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. :)

I do agree with Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (for a change) when he says we should stay in Afghanistan past our self-imposed deadline for as long as it takes to remove all remaining Americans and Afghans who fought along beside us.
 
Here comes the chuds trying to find something 40 years ago completely irrelevant to this happening today. A complete disaster of what we built for 20 years destroyed by Biden in 10 days.
It shows how unserious Hawley is, he doesn’t respect Democracy here
 
That was not a good press conference for Biden. Doocy actually made him hang his head in shame for several seconds. I almost felt bad for him.
 
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It's almost like his handlers told him to say a few strong words but in the end he looks weak and defeated. Pretty embarrassing decline of the United States in 8 months.
When he went off script and took open questions it really gave us an insight to his emotional and mental state. He's broken. He doesn't want to do this anymore. His sadness really came through.
 
"The first person I was instructed to call on".

Yes, he actually said that.
 
The fact you're still defending this speaks volumes to the blinders you have put up
Defending what? Please point where I've been defending our withdrawal.

I can show you where I argued keeping a force in Afghanistan when Trump was negotiating with the f*king Taliban, but you people have come down with a bad case of amnesia prior to January 20th. This whole Afghanistan thing has been a fiasco from the get-go, but by all means, revel in our country's clusterf*k ending to this saga.
 
It’s about how you leave. Not just leaving.
The people who are still in Afghanistan for the most part weren’t just “late leaving”, but planned to stay in country after the military withdrawal. So a better analogy would have been you sold the restaurant, some of the previous employees stuck around and the new boss set the building on fire.
 
He said that criticisms of his handling of the Coronavirus were a democratic hoax. Not the existence of the virus. At one of his unmasked rallies where he was stirring up his base to hate democrats.
So we agree then, he didn’t call the virus a hoax. And he was right at the beginning, and really throughout, that the admin did better than most of the comparable countries in the world. Fauci was the idiot and still is with his inability to message. You’ve bought firmly into political lies. He wasn’t perfect by any means, and there’s plenty that I’d have done differently, but it wasn’t the disaster the media has made it out to be.
 
This is bad. He’s dug a hole that he and most likely anyone can escape from. It happened lightning quick
 
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ITT: "his approval rating drop can't be because of Afghanistan, and it makes no sense that its because of Covid."


Yes, democrats really are this delusional. Next week when his approval rating is in the 20s they won't understand why, because to them everything is wonderful, except for the stuff that is Trumps fault.
 
ITT: "his approval rating drop can't be because of Afghanistan, and it makes no sense that its because of Covid."


Yes, democrats really are this delusional. Next week when his approval rating is in the 20s they won't understand why, because to them everything is wonderful, except for the stuff that is Trumps fault.
price of gas, inflation, no one working... any of those reasons?
 
ITT: "his approval rating drop can't be because of Afghanistan, and it makes no sense that its because of Covid."


Yes, democrats really are this delusional. Next week when his approval rating is in the 20s they won't understand why, because to them everything is wonderful, except for the stuff that is Trumps fault.
I really don’t think an approval rating in the 20s is possible anymore.

There are far too many people for whom politics is their team sport. They’re ride or die with the R or the D, and will approve of anything the side they like does.
 
I really don’t think an approval rating in the 20s is possible anymore.

There are far too many people for whom politics is their team sport. They’re ride or die with the R or the D, and will approve of anything the side they like does.
agreed, i don't think you can really get below 30%, that would be my guess.
What was Trump's low? High 30s?
 
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