What was obvious to everyone except the Biden White House, the Afghan withdrawal was an abysmal failure because they didn’t take the Taliban takeover seriously, largely to protect the president’s sinking approval ratings. New Army reports confirm what’s been known for some time that President Joe Biden, 79, refused to exit Afghanistan in an orderly way before the Taliban’s Aug. 15, 2021 takeover of Kabul. Biden had since May 1, months to execute an orderly withdrawal but chose to protect his sagging approval ratings over protecting U.S. military and civilian personnel. When ISIS struck the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 26, killing 13 U.S. soldiers and 170 civilians, Biden’s helter-skelter exit strategy was shown to all. Now the State Department defends the indefensible, talking utter rubbish about Biden’s Afghan exist strategy.
All anyone has to do is look at Biden’s 39.8% approval ratings to know that he’s failed in his first year as president. Biden now says he doesn’t pay attention to polls for good reason, they reflect clearly his failed performance as president. “Cherry-picked comments do not reflect the months of work that were already underway or the whole picture of what the U.S. diplomats undertook to facilitate evacuation and relocation of U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and allies—Afghan allies from Afghanistan,” said the State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter. Defending Biden’s Afghan exit plan only drives his approval ratings lower, knowing that the failures are obvious. Instead of taking months to evacuate U.S. citizens and diplomatic personnel in an orderly fashion, Biden waited until the last minute to actually begin the evacuation. By that time, utter chaos endangered U.S. lives.
Under sworn testimony under the Freedom of Information Act, Army brass admitted the evacuation needed more time and planning. “I think we could have been much better prepared to conduct a more orderly NEO [noncombatant evacuation operation] if policy makers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground, and the timeliness associated with the TB [Taliban] advance, and the TB intent to conduct a military takeover,” Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top commander in Afghanistan in August, testified. Only the most hardcore Biden supporters, largely African Americans and other progressives, back Biden’s Afghan exit. Biden’s 39.8% approval ratings tell the real story of what U.S. citizens think of Biden. Voters may have despised Trump for whatever reason but they know that Biden has botched almost everything he’s touched.
When it comes to Ukraine crisis, it’s Biden, not Putin, that’s pushed the world to the brink of war over nothing. Ukraine has no national security significance to the U.S. yet Biden has turned the Black Sea country into his “wag the dog” strategy. Failing at almost everything, Biden’s communication team thinks he needs an international crisis to divert attention way from his domestic and foreign policy blunders. When it comes to big spending plans, Biden’s already created the worst inflation in 40 years. Yet he wants, along with his liberal base, to spend more cash and drive even more inflation. When it comes the Ukraine situation, Biden expects the European Union [EU] to fight a war with the Russian Federation on the European Continent, with Biden saying he would not commit U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine. Afghanistan showed Biden’s bereft planning when it came to an exit plan.
Brig. Gen. Farrell Sullivan testified Aug. 6, 2021 in the National Security Council that if the White House started to evacuate military, civilian and diplomatic personnel in May, 2021, it would have showed that “we have failed.” So, the White House strategy was to wait until the fall of Kabul to start evacuating U.S. citizens and support personnel. Biden deliberately waited until the 11th hour to save face, when reports of Taliban advance on Kabul were undeniable. “In my opinion, the NSC [National Security Council] was not seriously planning for an evacuation,” Sullivan said. Biden’s failure to discharge his duties as commander-in-chief was an impeachable offense. With Democrats controlling Congress, Republicans have no recourse. Only former President Donald Trump got impeached by the Democrat controlled House over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Biden’s bad decision-making has left the economy in the most precarious place since the days of former President Jimmy Carter. One year after Trump left office, inflation has returned with a vengeance and the U.S. and EU are on the verge of war with the Russian Federation. When do nonpartisan patriots in Congress say enough-is-enough with Biden’s management of the economy and foreign policy? How many more bad mistakes can the country take until the economy falls apart or were in another war? When it comes to the Afghan withdrawal, there’s overwhelming evidence that Biden waited until the last minute to evacuate U.S. military, civilians and support personnel, leading to the Aug. 26, 2021 ISIS suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. soldiers and 170 civilians. What more has to go wrong before responsible members of Congress take action before it’s too late?
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