Biden Says He Will Get Americans Out of Afghanistan, but Warns of Possible Losses – WSJ
OK, so we’re finally out of Afghanistan…sort of. We’ve abandoned the whole country except for the airport, but there’s still 10-15-18,000 Americans still left (the numbers are vague but substantial). So how do we get them out? Of course, let’s send troops back into the country to find Americans! Though Biden warns about “losses” as a result. Duh.
Yes, there’s nothing like putting the cart before the horse. What a marvelous plan Biden had here. Let’s get all the troops out first (and leave all our armaments behind so the Taliban can use them to murder everyone who might have smiled at an American), just so we can say we’re out, and then worry about who’s left behind. And then decide to go back in when the eminently foreseeable public/media pressure gets to be too much.
Wouldn’t you think someone would have thought this out a little better? If this was a movie it’d get a Razzie. If this debacle was a cadet’s answer to a West Point essay exam, it’d get an F. We’d say Biden should be impeached for this colossal screw-up, but with Kamala Harris as the backup, well, we can’t really go there seriously, can we, though it’s fun to talk about. Remember George Bush the Elder, who had Dan Quayle as his VP so no one would either assassinate or impeach him. Pretty foolproof, isn’t it? Biden certainly took a lesson from that playbook.
Anyway, this all would be a terrible joke if it wasn’t for the thousands of Americans who lost their lives or were wounded and maimed, and those surely yet to come as long as a moron like Biden is making decisions.
The ironic part is that Biden is 100% correct to get out since Afghanistan historically is a morass for any occupier and we never should have stayed once bin Laden was killed, but obviously not a lot of thought went into figuring out how to do it in a sensible way. One hopes he at some point has the common decency to apologize for this mess and for letting down all those who served.