Biden Made This Despicable & Uncomfortable Speech
How shameful.
by Joshua Jackson 2 days ago 1.6k Views 0 Comments
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Let’s begin with two quotes. The first is from respected diplomat Ryan Crocker, who’s served across multiple administrations, including a post in Kabul during the Obama years: “I’m left with some grave questions in my mind about [Biden’s] ability to lead our nation as commander in chief. To have read this so wrong – or, even worse, to have understood what was likely to happen and not care.” The second quote is a bit older, and it’s furnished by a man who is likely not surprised at all that Biden could have read a major foreign policy issue so wrong: “I think [Biden has] been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” That was former Obama Defense Secretary Bob Gates, writing in his memoirs. When pushed on the harshness of this assessment, he stood by it. Which brings us to President Biden’s Afghanistan speech yesterday.
We will stipulate, at least for the sake of argument, that Biden – and Trump – are both correct that it’s long past time for the US to cut our losses and withdraw completely from Afghanistan. Politicians from both parties have campaigned on that premise, and it has been a popular view, even though there are compelling counterarguments. Biden’s speech reinforced the reasons behind his decision, and I suspect at least some of his points resonate widely. But the disaster currently unfolding is not exclusively or even primarily rooted in the decision to exit. It’s about how that exit is taking place. Americans aren’t recoiling in horror at the nightmarish humiliation in Afghanistan due to the policy of withdrawal. They’re doing so because of the breathtakingly incompetent and disgraceful manner in which the policy is being carried out:
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