I've just been listening to Joe Biden - just back from vacation, while his disastrously executed withdrawal from Afghanistan went horrifically pear-shaped, making Saigon look like a foreign policy success - speaking to the American people in defense of his decision to withdraw.
For his liberal apologistas, yes, I know - President Trump planned to withdraw, too. I'm not saying that withdrawal is the wrong decision. I'm not saying we ever should have been there in the first place. (Note that Biden wasn't calling for his boss to withdraw during the eight years that he supposedly had his ear.)
My problem isn't so much with the what, but with the how. Biden said it wouldn't end like Saigon.
It didn't. In Saigon, we didn't see images of desperate Vietnamese hanging onto C-130s as they rolled down the tarmac, then plunging to their deaths as the planes went airborne - knowing as they fell that their fate would be preferable to what they faced at the hands of the Taliban.
Biden didn't anticipate the country falling so fast that he'd have to send troops back in to evacuate our embassy, that the fall of Kabul would be so fast that even that operation would be so late that he'd have to beg the Taliban to spare our people. That the translators who've helped us while we were in country will be mercilessly tortured and executed, because we can't get them out. That he's handing the country over to China. His pull-out was more sloppy than a frantic teenager in the backseat of Dad's car.
We all know that stupid stuff comes out of Joe's mouth like poop comes out of a baby, but I found four of his comments particularly curious, and I wish I could question him about each of them. Instead, I'll just point them out here, and question them rhetorically.
First, (and these are in no particular order in terms of when he said them during his speech, which isn't important anyway, since he rambles like a drunken gnat), he said that the Afghan political leaders couldn't come together.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?
Remember Joe's inaugural address? He was going to be the great uniter, the healer, the guy who brings the two sides together. Then he signed executive order after executive order, rather than trust the legislative process. He praised Republicans in a presser for their bipartisan support of a $1 trillion infrastructure deal, then immediately held another presser with Democrats crowing about how they were gonna use reconciliation to shove another $3.5 trillion in spending on the Socialist wing's agenda down the American people's throats.
When it comes to uniting, this guy is to America as Moses was to the Red Sea.
Second, he said that on a call a while back, prior to the withdrawal, he advised the Afghan President to clean up the corruption in his government.
Whaaaaat?
Again, does no one else see the irony in this? If you don't, Hunter would like to sell you a painting. Never mind that it'll look exactly like your kid's refrigerator art, but will cost you millions. That's assuming he has time to whip one up in between his Burisma board meetings, a gig daddy kept from being investigated by threatening to withhold aid from one of our allies.
Third, he seemed incredulous that we spent $1 trillion in Afghanistan. Over the last 20 years.
You have to see the irony in that. We've spent more than that in the last week.
Finally, he said, "I won't repeat the mistakes of the past 20 years."
Hey Joe, explain your border policy. Looks to me like you're not just repeating them, you're doubling down on them.
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