Well, technically he was only an embarrassment to his family until he ran for office, then he was an embarrassment to Delaware for many years. I'd say Joe Biden became an embarrassment to the whole country about the time he went after SCOTUS nominee Thomas.Rawhide said:
Biden is an embarrassment to this nation; has been for the last 1/2 century.
what a shocker.Jacques Strap said:
Taliban gonna Taliban
Afghanistan: Stay home, female Kabul government workers told
TexasScientist said:
Will we ever know how many abandoned Americans remain, and will we ever know their fate? Their plight is already slipping away from the national discussion.
too many media distractions to a public with short attention spans. Many of us still care but it isnt talked about..TexasScientist said:
Will we ever know how many abandoned Americans remain, and will we ever know their fate? Their plight is already slipping away from the national discussion.
More Americans departed Afghanistan on a Friday flight that included 28 U.S. citizens. https://t.co/fesMc0H1ju
— NPR (@NPR) September 18, 2021
I guess I will start checking NPR Twitter more often, nobody else is talking about this..HuMcK said:
Flights out continue. Lots of updates on this thread, but I guess this one got missed.More Americans departed Afghanistan on a Friday flight that included 28 U.S. citizens. https://t.co/fesMc0H1ju
— NPR (@NPR) September 18, 2021
The State Dept. confirmed that a Qatar Airways charter flight left Kabul on Friday with 28 U.S. citizens and seven lawful permanent residents on board.
— Axios (@axios) September 18, 2021
This is the third such airlift by Qatar Airways since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. https://t.co/LY68grgRQJ
Yesterday 21 US citizens & 48 lawful permanent residents departed Afghanistan on a Qatar airways flight, the State Dept announces. To date, 78 US citizens and 66 legal permanent residents have departed Afghanistan via Qatar Airways charter flights, per State. pic.twitter.com/6ETq7VkxfY
— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) September 20, 2021
According to the U.S. State Department, 28 U.S. citizens and 7 lawful permanent residents were evacuated from Afghanistan on Friday. https://t.co/dWzW1H1FVd
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) September 18, 2021
dont watch TV so that leaves out pretty much all those..what is newsmax? OAN some radio station? What is Axios, internet site?HuMcK said:
Here's Axios and CNN, even a local Waco TV station after a quick search. You don't have to sift through NPR to stay informed, but you may want to start consuming more than just Newsmax, OAN, or the Fox "entertainment" pundits.The State Dept. confirmed that a Qatar Airways charter flight left Kabul on Friday with 28 U.S. citizens and seven lawful permanent residents on board.
— Axios (@axios) September 18, 2021
This is the third such airlift by Qatar Airways since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. https://t.co/LY68grgRQJYesterday 21 US citizens & 48 lawful permanent residents departed Afghanistan on a Qatar airways flight, the State Dept announces. To date, 78 US citizens and 66 legal permanent residents have departed Afghanistan via Qatar Airways charter flights, per State. pic.twitter.com/6ETq7VkxfY
— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) September 20, 2021According to the U.S. State Department, 28 U.S. citizens and 7 lawful permanent residents were evacuated from Afghanistan on Friday. https://t.co/dWzW1H1FVd
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) September 18, 2021
this is pretty cut and dry. https://t.co/WFLnYOnGeO
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 28, 2021
RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:
Perhaps we are ALL being played. These hearings may be less about Milley and Austin and more about Biden's negligent decision making. This very well could be the fist step in Biden's departure from office.
The calls for 25th will begin Friday at 5PMRD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-confirms-biden-turned-183800609.html
Top general says US military was aware within hours that Kabul drone strike killed civilians, but Pentagon took weeks to fully acknowledge it https://t.co/wYvgA0a7Cu via @businessinsider
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) September 29, 2021
Jacques Strap said:
Kabul Airport suicide attacker was freed by Taliban after four years in CIA custody for New Delhi terror plot
The Islamic State suicide bomber who killed at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 United States soldiers outside Kabul airport last month was incarcerated in Afghanistan's notorious Bagram prison for the past four years, thanks to Indian efforts, Firstpost has learnt through credible intelligence sources.
Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States' Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017. However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State's hurried exit and the Taliban's swift takeover of the entire country.
"Literally a decade's work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US' failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram," he said adding that the consequences of this failure will be "very far-reaching."
Five Afghans planned to hijack commercial aircraft during Kabul evacuation, US Air Force revealshttps://t.co/Yblb5mBbC0
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) October 14, 2021
We ended up a lot closer to the worst outcome rather than the best.jupiter said:Five Afghans planned to hijack commercial aircraft during Kabul evacuation, US Air Force revealshttps://t.co/Yblb5mBbC0
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) October 14, 2021
things could have gone alot worse
Piss poor execution of an exit strategy.Porteroso said:4th and Inches said:
Huge issue during Obama administration, not so much an issue during the Trump administration, becoming a huge issue again in the Biden administration. I may be reaching here but I think there is a common thread..
Biden did what Trump promised and planned to do. Given a second term, this would be Trump giving the same orders.
At some point, we had to leave. Never should have been there. The main thing we are doing wrong is ignoring our promises to get the Afghans who helped us out. Many were told a decade ago they and their families would get out. Some of them are being tortured and killed now. It is certainly a heartbreaking mess, but you can't convince me it would be better if we stayed.
Yeah. And Donald Trump was going to attack China. Blah...blah.....blah!!!HuMcK said:
"at least our friends would be out before it all hit the fan"
That's actually the one thing we can be certain would not have happened. The Trump admin put the entire Afghan SIV process on ice for years, even after a court order in 2019 telling them to stop stonewalling it (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-broke-law-visa-delays-afghans-iraqis-who-worked-n1057846), their 2020 numbers were down even further. Trump was fully prepared and planning to leave all of those people behind without a second thought. Pence's NatSec advisor Olivia Troye called them out on it after she left the admin, saying Trump put anti-immigration advocate Steven Miller in charge of the process to deliberately sabotage it.
Biden's delay of withdrawal from May to September was actually to try and work through that built up backlog.
Joe Biden's bureaucracy. Not Donald Trump's. Own it.HuMcK said:
"Donald Trump was not President when we pulled out of Afghanistan. Joe Biden was."
Ok. Joe Biden was not President when we surrendered to the Taliban, set the pullout date, and stopped processing Afghan ally visas entirely. Donald Trump was.
How do you take the length, err, the wrinkles i should sayHuMcK said:
"Donald Trump was not President when we pulled out of Afghanistan. Joe Biden was."
Ok. Joe Biden was not President when we surrendered to the Taliban, set the pullout date, and stopped processing Afghan ally visas entirely. Donald Trump was.