The events in Afghanistan prove one thing. The Taliban are not afraid of Joe Biden or whoever is running the Biden Administration (WRBA). No matter where the buck stops, Joe would like to blame that on Donald Trump, but we know Trump would have handled it differently if he’d had had to handle it at all.
If Trump were still in the Oval Office, the in-theater dynamics would be different. President Trump’s one term in office had many distinctive qualities beyond Twitter. He showed a firm hand in foreign policy. He delivered targeted strikes in retaliation for misdeeds by thugs in the Middle East. He deployed force rapidly in defense of Americans. And the world knew it.
The Trump plan for withdrawal would have gone, most likely, to plan. Americans would have systematically exited the country with the understanding that any military action by the Taliban before then would probably be met with sudden and significant force.
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Not ground troops unless there was some immediate need for boots to evac personnel, translators, or other civilian aids, but targeted strikes on Taliban leaders or military personnel or equipment (and at least a few mean tweets).
That’s how Trump handled Iran and its proxies in the Middle East; Afghanistan would be no different.
But when Sundown Joe Biden entered the Oval Office, the Taliban likely mobilized immediately, deploying or activating resources based on existing plans to take back the country.
Knowing Biden was weak, they took advantage, and they were right to do so (from their perspective). Biden and his “advisors” were busy with military gender studies, reeducating white soldiers about their systemic racism, or deciding how to announce that citizens questioning election integrity or honoring 9/11 (irony alert) were potential terrorists.
Important business for Homeland and its tentacles.
No time for the business in the Stan. We were leaving anyway. But they screwed the pooch.
People are trapped in the country. America looks (again) like a nation that bails on foreign supporters. And the Taliban, who aided and abetted 9/11, have an entire nation to help other terror states funded by our enemies, to train and plan attacks on western nations.
Joe says we’ll address terrorism on a case-by-case basis. Joe, what is happening in Afghanistan right now is terrorism.
This would never have happened under President Trump. Would it have happened after he left office as a two-term president, maybe? Probably. But we might have had a different military and a different America by then, and maybe not.
But it wouldn’t happen on Trump’s watch.
Taliban Joe is trying to blame his predecessor, a trick he learned from Barry, but this has Barry’s fingerprints all over it. The only question I have left is, did Barry do it to wreck Joe (he’s no fan of Biden), or did he do it to watch the world burn?
Probably both.
And does Joe feel like he needs to blow something up ala Clinton to make a statement or as a distraction – and think about how dangerous the idea of Biden choosing what to blow up might be.
