Peter Bergen, CNN: The worst speech of Biden's presidency
(CNN) On Thursday President Joe Biden spoke in defense of his ill-considered, hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, in remarks peopled with straw men and littered with false assertions.
First, Biden contended that he was bound by a 2020 Trump administration agreement with the Taliban to withdraw all US troops by May 2021. But that was an agreement conducted by a previous administration -- so it's not binding -- and it was predicated on the Taliban breaking with al-Qaeda.
They didn't, according to the UN in a report released just last month.
It was also predicated on the Taliban engaging with the Afghan government in real peace negotiations.
They haven't, according to Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan official who leads the High Council for National Reconciliation. He told CNN a week ago that there has been "very little progress" in those negotiations.
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WNU Editor: Peter Bergen's commentary is spot on.
And what did not help the President in this news conference is that the press that were present did to President Biden what they did to President Trump for four years. But unlike President Trump who always enjoyed engaged with the President, President Biden ran out of the room after taking questions for only 13 minutes.
Former US defense Secretary Bill Gates once said that President Biden has always been wrong when it comes to foreign policy throughout his 50 years in politics.
Is President Biden wrong on Afghanistan?
You tell me.
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WNU, The answer is in the question :)
Did Biden have his pants on backwards and talk about the lack of forest floor raking?
If he is wrong on Afghanistan, then so too Trump who also wanted us out
Silliest speech? no silliest post that really shows how far you have gone to be political, sniping at a president who wants what a huge majority wants: get out of a no win situation. But you take the time to snipe? Biden got us out. If you want jus there, then sign up and go. Too many good Americans have died to save that opium-producing nation that is and always has been fractured politically and is helped in his insurgency by neighboring Pakistan.
Odd that you condemn the speech when most Americans agree that we have to leave that place!
suddenly, the American press, despised by those commenting at this site, is great?
But at a moment when Americans are still fighting Covid, searching for a way out of 18 months of economic disruption, and struggling with racial tension and political division, there is almost no debate about the wisdom of the drawdown among Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Polls show that large numbers of Americans in both parties support leaving Afghanistan.
For years, Mr. Biden, in wanting to withdraw from Afghanistan, was on the losing side of the debate. In 2009, while serving as vice president, he argued for a minimal force, only to be overruled as President Barack Obama ordered a surge of forces, then a rapid drawdown. But a dozen years later, as president, he has found his moment.
Progressives who once warmed to the idea of educating Afghan girls and women are now more interested in rebuilding America than Afghanistan. Conservatives have largely given up on former President George W. Bush’s pledge to spread democracy around the world and instead embraced former President Donald J. Trump’s “America First” opposition to what he saw as endless wars.
Lololololololo! That's all you've got?
Lololololololo lololololololo!
Use some thought, I know it's hard for you but try.
Come on, you can figure it out.
Hunter is helping with the pants.
Trump realized that Washington and the Pentagon, had not won in Afghanistan, were not winning now, and were not going to win in the future. So Trump did the next best thing. He set up the pullout.
Now, Joe Joe Biden "Your Life is Calling" critcised Trump's pullout and then turned around a did the same thing, but with less planning and finesse.
Is Joe as wise as Richard Pryor? Doubtful.
Obama wanted to pullout. He talked about it, read the polls, and chickened out. And that ladies and gentlemen is a slur on chickens. I've seen brave chickens than Obama. So Obama instead of pulling out said the combat mission had ended.
President Dementia was part of the Obama White House. He would have heard that Obama wanted to pull out. But he forgot to write anything down on a notecard for his future self. Or maybe he did and forgot where he put his notecards? Maybe nurse jill can find them.
When Trump is president in August, who will be vice president?
You?
Cookie Monster regales us with another copy and paste lifted, nay purloined, from the New York Times.
Cookie Monster can finger paint better than Hunter and I bet he can cut and paste better than Hunter, too.
Look at the upside. If Cookie Monster is cutting and pasting, he is not in the cookie jar!
Wow Fred, what a zinger. How's that memory? Bet you remember your ex-student's phone number!
That would be an investigation.. fred's life.. uhhhuhh it's always the biggest perverts and sinners who come after trump. And he runs a smut website/ is a proud Democrat. It fits so perfectly to the leftist demonic cliche
Fred's response is consistent with his quora repartee. His comedic repertoire has not grown.
"its been 20 years man!' "we cant win!"
Typical pony faces think America is exceptional, or something.
Hunter is selling finger paintings for 500 grand a pop.
A chip off the old block.
Why would you want to got to free porn site? Free porn? Is anything free? Malware can be hidden in a picture. From what part of the world do the pictures come? It would be a great way to install ransomware on computers.
You're leading the way. How's your memory?
Biden erred in insulting our intelligence.
He denied the country would fall to the Taliban.
He lied when he said our goals were achieved.
A genocide is nearing in Afghanistan and Biden couldn’t bring* himself to prepare Americans for the consequences.
I am in favor of full withdrawal of combat forces, after 20 years it’s time. Biden can’t level with the people. Thats his sin.
My my the twisted logic of a Democrats. You are a lowlife, if you go to a site with porn, but not if you operate the site.
Twisted Dim thinks, if you know about the site, you are as much a low life as the operator.
Such is the logic of our betters.
5:40 is plain all right in a lot of ways.
Lol you believe it if you write it
your notion of porn must come via mommy
I have had my site for some 17 years and get 15 thou visits a day
ps: note this site, warnewsupdates, lists my site in the blog roll in margin! now you can not come here anymore?
How's that memory?
Again why would a person go to a free porn site to see free pictures from, who knows where. Whenever has anything been free?
Always been a part of trafficking haven't you?
What's the name of the site and where is it listed?
Lots of people look up porn on computers at work and at home. Easier for hackers, if they partake at work. Little dude believes in the Russia Hoax, but imports pictures from Russia.
9:03 if you go to the site you will see that said person is a racists. What would her allege? Disparate Impact. Person really need to partake of CRT and have struggle session to overcome their racism.
What would HOLDERr allege?
Disparate impact
Someone like holder will come along and charge disparate impact.
With that line up of beauties and nary a black woman, we all know you are not anti-racist
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