Exactly.
I'm not talking about political talent, I'm talking about the physical stress. Even if he was in perfect health it's a lot to ask a 78 year old to handle this level of stress.
Although I agree with you here, at least @KNIGHTTIME^ does in other posts, at least half of them. You are right there with the shallow logic of the US Media and Trump ConMan speeches in 90% of your posts.
got it, so even with 7 months in office the guy was incapable of planning a normal evacuation? I don't know what you're arguing here. This is a total and epic disaster. To the point that CNN is BBQing Blinken on tv, cuz Biden and Psaki are taking days off.
What pivot?
Yeah, forget that your boy, Trump, was hellbent on doing the same thing despite advice from his military advisors to the contrary.
Yeah, we all observed how well-planned the Trump Administration carried out the President's agenda.
And I'm not disagreeing with that.
how so, Trump's people had been in place for 4 years. Pretty easy to think there would have been a better plan in place as they had continuity on their side. Also trump worked the deal to get out of that place.Yeah, we all observed how well-planned the Trump Administration carried out the President's agenda.
And I'm not disagreeing with that.
I'm calling BS to any Trumpet who opines that somehow this would have all been different if Trump had been in charge and we'd stuck to the original May withdrawal date. This withdrawal was doomed from the get-go.
Yeah boy!!!
he's built an amazing strawman. Biden, wasn't great, but, let me tell you with Trump (if he was there) woulda been way worse.
I'm curious. Explain to all of us how Trump's evacuation in May would have been different. Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm not, I don't need to. Trump isn't in charge. Your reliance on building strawmans to deflect blame on the guy who's actually in charge is strange. COVID vaccinations not hitting Biden's expectations, Trump's fault. Gas prices reaching decade long highs, trump's fault. Failed evacuation of Afghanistan, Trump's fault.
Blinken was on CNN basically throwing Biden under the bus in an interview with Jack Tapper.
LOL. Suddenly NOW you're concerned.
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Trump's advisors told him he should keep a force in Afghanistan. Trump refused saying it was time to bring the troops home. The Usual Suspects here all wholeheartedly agreed with Orange Man.
Maybe. We have short attention spans.
Getting out was the right move, but holy shit… does this look like anyone put ANY thought into how it should be done?
It is on President Biden that he too ignored the advice of his military advisors and decided to follow through on Trump's pledge to the American People. Joe could have changed course -- but didn't.
The wholesale collapse of the Afghan military was predictable?
Not for stuff like this. Same thing goes for Trump and 1/6. The visual representation lasts a long time, like Clinton on video saying "I did not have sexual relations.......) or Bush 1 saying "read my lips.....).
You’ve got to be the most willfully blind person I’ve ever encountered.
I blame Bush for the most part, but I can't see how this moment doesn't get tied to Biden.
I agree with you but I think there is some uncertainty here. Namely that leaving Afghanistan polled really high. I just checked and a week it ago it 70% support. Today 70% disapprove of Biden's handling of the withdrawal.
Not for the details of the evacuation.
I was talking with a friend about this yesterday. When did the apparatus of our government become this inept? He said 9/11, I said it was the WTC bombing. It used to be that we could screw up but there was a pretty high level of efficiency that could deal with those screw ups. Now, it's like they just pile 1 failure on top of another.
