How stupid can they be? Joe Biden's regime provided the names and addresses of our citizens and our allies to our enemies. This is a high crime. IMPEACH BIDEN.
The White House contends that limited information sharing with the Taliban is saving lives; critics argue it's putting Afghan allies in harm's way.
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Agreed, this is insanely stupid by any metric. Not sure how this could be defended in a meaningful way. Dumb and dangerous. I didn't really think he explained it well yesterday at all.
My point of "Where is the Commander-in-Chief" was not that Biden should talk; my point is that he should adopt a competent policy, stand up for our country, and quit kowtowing to the Taliban. His policies are weak and those policies are disgraceful and costing lives. His leadership is MIA. When he does "talk" he reads from cue cards and is unable and unwilling to respond in real time to questions.
Trump is the one who kowtowed to the Taliban, released 5,000 prisoners in exchange for 1,000 and signed a deal with them. Did you support those moves or not? Pompeo was posing for photos with the Taliban leader in February last year. Good idea or nah? Some 50 US troops died in Afghanistan under Trump's watch. Did that outrage you too? Biden said yesterday that we will hunt down the ISIS terrorists who did this, and he responded to questions in real time.
No EL, the blame does not belong to Bush, Obama, or Trump. The current situation is all Bidens doing. He pulled troops out before getting American citizens and Afghanies that had helped us out of harms way. What he did is indefensible. He left Americans behind. That was 100% his choice. Pathetic.
Trump's deal said we had to be out of there by May. People were upset at first that Biden didn't stick to that timeline, now they want us to send thousands more troops over there. Which is it? You're entitled to your opinion, of course. I hold a different one, no big deal.
In the 13 days since Aug. 14, we've now pulled more than 105,000 people out of Afghanistan. Did you think that we could have just covertly pulled that many people out of Afghanistan secretly without the Taliban knowing we were doing it? I guess this is what I don't fully understand. The Taliban already knew we were leaving after Trump signed the deal, it was just a matter of when. May, July, August, whenever it was, we now know that the Afghan army was going to roll over immediately whenever the Taliban said "boo" – and whenever we started moving tens of thousands of people out of the country, the Taliban was going to say "boo."
I'm also not sure that there's ever been a mass exodus like this in which we successfully evacuated every single person who wanted to leave. Should that be our expectation? I don't know, but it seems like a pretty tall order when you're talking about 150,000 people or more.
I feel like I'm defending Biden when really I'm not. I don't think he's the best person we could have elected president, not by a longshot. He was my preferred option of the two choices we had, obviously, but that's not saying much. He's deserving of very real criticism for some of what has happened in the last week or so. But this situation didn't start two weeks ago, and if you're not looking at the past few years and what has led up to this, you're not looking at the whole picture.
