Biden ignored military advice on Afghan withdrawal
Is it any surprise? Was it any surprise when Biden ignored border security advice from border security experts on the ground and continues to do so? The answers are all, “no,” course — for a singular reason:
Biden was not installed in the White House to do “what’s right” or take advice from anybody on anything — expert or not — that runs counter to the objectives and narratives of the far-left. Period.
According to a Sunday report in The Wall Street Journal, that’s exactly what Biden did, here; he reportedly overruled the advice of his top military officials when ordering the United States pullout from Afghanistan.
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Prior to announcing his disastrous decision, which ultimately led to the “Biden’s Saigon” yoke being hung around his neck — where it will forever hang — Biden met with several top military commanders — all of whom recommended he leave a force of 2,500 troops in the country and step up negotiations with the Taliban for a peace deal.
Biden declined their advice. Per the WSJ....
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Biden’s logic? (Wait — is that oxymoronic?) Biden said in a statement on Saturday:
“One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me.”
False choice, Joe. It wasn’t about one more year, five more years, or 50 more years. It was about how we should withdraw — sooner than later, but without the disaster that you and you alone caused. Sorry, pal, try as you might; you only look weaker — if that’s possible — by cowardly trying to hang it on Trump.
Biden’s condescending Secretary of State, Antony Blinken also tried to blame Trump for Biden’s decision during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” on Sunday, but in a “Flying Pigs Alert” moment, host Jake Tapper — yeah, Jake Tapper — was not having any of it, and took it Blinken to tell him just that.
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Gen. Milley and Defense Secretary Austin took too much comfort in the number of troops the Afghan national government had compared to the Taliban but they also misjudged the character of those forces under fire. That was a fatal conceit. Apparently, they were men just drawing a check paid for by US taxpayers and not really willing to fight for their country. This was also a major failure of the US intelligence services not to know this.
None of this excuses Biden's bad judgment and his cowardly blaming of Trump for a screw-up that was totally Biden's.
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