President Biden doubled down on his gratitude for local leaders who defied bans on school mask mandates issued by Republican governors during calls to school superintendents on Friday night.
It couldn’t be any clearer: One party tries to help people, while the other tries to hurt them.
I’d rather more like to hear more from him on how Afghanistan isn’t a total failure from us, and why almost nobody in the Intel community predicted this rapid of a fail.
Subtext to Abbott, DeSantis, Ivey, and the rest of the GOP gubernatorial death-cult:
“My White House is not going to let you god-drunk selfish maniacs off the hook on this one. We are going to make you own it.”
2024 campaign starts now.
Biden can help DeSantis with his self-immolation.
Joe Biden: “What about the children, doesn’t anyone care about the children?”
DeSatan: “Not me”
We never had a Commonwealth of Nations like the British
Are you worried about the lithium?
No, but a lot of horrible things are going to happen now that might have been prevented with a continuing presence. Very sad situation.
Anti-vaxxers and anti-anti-vaxxers clash, fight and someone gets stabbed
Iceland? New Zealand? What are the options?
The British always had an elastic version of “presence”.
I expect the Chinese to figure out how to do business with the Taliban. That would probably be enough to keep the Taliban in power for years.
I predicted Afghanistan would be a failure when we first elected to send troops. At that point the intel community was under assault by Dick Cheney to provide him the answers he wanted in order to invade Iraq for Haliburton and PNAC, which included Dubya . Afghanistan provided cover and then the seed mission to get Bin Laden took root. The logistics of an impossible endless war gave the MIC warm fuzzy tingles, and we ended up with not one, but even better, two wholly elective conflicts.
Why Obama did not get us out is a whole other subject.
What were IC’s estimates for the resilience of the Saigon and Phnom Penh governments and militaries at the start of '75 offensives against them?
This just might be a case of the principals overvaluing their investments.
Of course, coming out and saying we expect our client’s military to collapse like a slashed balloon wouldn’t help the situation on the ground, even if it allowed the US government to make more realistic preparations.
Well they weren’t buying what we were selling, bombing, or building.
China can build their silk road. The U.S. doesn’t have to do everything.
Well could we also add why no one say the rise of ISIS, or the how quickly Mosul fell to ISIS in 2014.
Desantis: “Not my kids, not my responsibility”
Hell, even I I had given them another three-four days before Kabul would fall, didn’t think that there would be zero attempt to defend it.
So I’m not saying Biden was wrong to do this. If they can’t be bothered to defend their own place, not much point in us doing it.
But do think he needs to stand up and clearly say it, that the fall of the afghan army with almost no shots fired is exactly why it was the correct choice to leave.
It is not often I see the word “gratitude,” in the articles on TPM. Thank you, Summer, for using it here. And thank you to Prez Joe for saying this" “Local leaders who are standing up to the governors politicizing mask protection for our kids, thank you.”
There are “things,” and people I am grateful for, every single day. Mostly simple, sometimes big. Thank you!
It’s going to be a howl watching Trump provide a “narrative” when he blames Joe for the Afghan pullout.