Joe Biden Pissing All Over Media's Cherished, Beautiful Forever Wars

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.wonkette.com/joe-biden-afghanistan-speech-2654787171


Joe Biden spoke from the White House yesterday to give an update on the evacuation from Afghanistan of US citizens and Afghans who helped the US, emphasizing that in recent days the evacuation flights have picked up considerably from last week's pace. Biden said the evacuation is on pace to be completed by the original planned deadline of August 31, but added that he'd instructed the Pentagon and State Department to develop contingency plans in case more time is needed.

Since Biden left open the option that the US might need to keep troops at the airport in Kabul beyond next Tuesday, we are now being treated to great journalism like this garbage from the Washington Post, claiming that having a plan but being ready to change it if needed has

stoked a new round of outrage and confusion about the United States' exit from a two-decade war.

The result was looming uncertainty over whether the United States would finalize its exit within a week, as Biden wants, as well as intensifying anger from would-be Afghan refugees, U.S. allies worried about getting their own personnel out of the country, and veterans concerned about the fate of those who helped the war effort.

The beauty here is that if Biden had set August 31 as a hard deadline, he could be condemned for blindly insisting on an unrealistic goal that failed to plan for unforeseen developments on the ground, and if he'd said the US would definitely stay a few days into September to make sure there was enough time to get everyone out, he'd clearly be an a indecisive squish whose commitments to meet a deadline can't be trusted.

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[sarcasmo]

1. Has any media person mentioned the 20 year cost of this Afghanistan nightmare?

[CrispyQ]

2. Agree with him or not, it's refreshing to see a CIC step up to the plate

& tell the People like it is. No whining. No deflecting. No blaming someone else. No childish bullshit. Reasonable people will see the difference. (Too bad the media never mentions that.) The cult will never see it, though. A few may see it, but will never admit it. Part of being in the cult is never admitting when you're wrong, or made a bad decision, or got conned.

[Budi]

3. K & R

Joe Biden is nobody's fool. And lord knows everyone with a media connection keeps trying to re-image Him as that.

[CrispyQ]

4. LOL. He could be a family member--or two! -nt

[Budi]

5. LOL.. he is oddly familiar. Like, everybody's got one in their circle of fam & friends

[David__77]

6. The withdrawal is an excellent development.

I’m glad he is steadfast- to do otherwise would be totally disastrous.

[greenjar_01]

7. What will Jake Tapper do? Who will he be? Who can he be?

His only fundamental ontological status is as an Iggles fan and a Defender of Troops.

Will he actually have to learn something hard, like how to actually make policy that houses homeless veterans, or the ins and outs of the VA?

O, Jake Tapper! O, America!

[Moebym]

9. He has a nice, cushy gig

Sitting in front of a camera looking angry and/or constipated while commenting on the consequences of a difficult decision he didn't have to make and assuming certain things to have been true when he actually didn't know shit.

[rickford66]

8. How many people did tfg evacuate ?

Askin' for a friend.

[world wide wally]

10. The Taliban knows we still have an Air Force, don't they?

[Moebym]

11. Nothing Biden could do

Short of rescuing all of the people who want to leave Afghanistan quickly, but without any casualties, would please the media and his bad faith critics. They don't know how insanely difficult, not to mention dangerous, that is to do, logistically-speaking.

They are worried about bloodshed, are they? Well, if we do stay past August 31 and the Taliban does what it's warned us it would do, the fallout will make the past few days look quaint in comparison.

I want to ask them, "if you think you would have done a better job at planning and executing this pullout, why don't you try being President for a day to see how 'easy' it is to make decisions that will affect millions of lives?"