This is a painful interview between furrowed brow Jake Tapper, painfully wanting to defend the administration and yet the total failure is too insurmountable to defend, and an abjectly overwhelmed and clueless Secretary of State Anthony Blinken – who is trying to explain the complete mess they have created.
The background here is the history of foreign policy failures and boondoggles by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton…. and the transferring of those same geopolitical outlooks into the Biden administration. Blinken talks in platitudes of diplomacy that are irrelevant today. The Chinese, Russians and Afghanistan Taliban don’t give a tinkers-damn what the dementia nurses around Biden are talking about.
The pearl-clutching Biden/Blinken approach is just as irrelevant as the bomb-dropping Obama/Clinton approach. Team Biden act as if the Taliban cares about what Facebook, Twitter and Instagram voices say about them; it’s nuts. The single-minded totalitarian Taliban don’t care about the United States or United Nations any more than they care about Tik Tok or CNN opinions.
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I’m left wondering where Ayman al-Zawahiri is in all of this?
Ayman Al Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden
Now begins Biden’s reign as the most Hated man in American History.
What’s Biden got to do with anything? He’s nothing more than an avatar for people who want to stay out of sight.
We need to keep focusing on this point.
He is there to be hated, and then disposed of. The Obama Crew want to dump all the negative consequences of their policies onto Biden, with the expectation that when he is removed all that baggage will go with him.
Biden is not innocent, but he is also not relevant. By directing disgust and outrage at him, we are playing into the hands of those using him for that exact purpose. There is plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of shoulders to share it.
Surround Obama’s house and light it on fire! The guy literally should be in jail for treason!
be very careful with statements like that…these people do not care a whit about your constitutional rights
anger should be directed at softer targets like the media
what I find ironic is they cannot control the southern border
and they think they can control all the boarders of the states
Go ahead! I don’t care! I didn’t commit treason!
JoeBama was very effective.
Well, let’s get on to the next fool and get him out of the way.
Great points. You’re seeing the Biden blame game already from some members of the enemedia. Democrat apologist Bret Stephens from the NYT is all but calling Biden a bumbler in his opinion column today. Fake Tapper from CNN put on his acting suit to perform as a journalist and grilled our clueless Secretary of State Tony Blinken. Is this the event the Deep State will use to throw Joe Biden overboard?
Exactly. Biden is a hate sponge. As soon as he’s no longer useful, or so far gone they can’t keep up the pretense at all, they throw him away like soggy, dirty paper towel. Then they prop up Kamelhole as the new dart board for us to focus on while the true criminals stay largely out of sight and out of mind.
Jill Biden – hiding in plain sight!
Biden is the mascot for that team. by not allowing us to use his name, it makes communication more difficult when trying to spread anything.
its a small detail, that is highly effective for disrupting an enemies cohesive messaging
Always remember…BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA! This is him and his…with a great head start given to him by the inept and stupid…George ‘Baby’ Bush!
No one actually likes Joe Biden,his wife or his brood. Even his own party never really liked him and looked forward to Kammy taking over sooner than later…until she reminded them why no one likes her either. Now all theyve got is Joey.
The Manchurian Marionette does what a marionette is supposed to do: follow whoever pulls his strings!
The Chinese want all the captured U.S. technology: leaving behind documents and all kinds of hardware was not incompetence.
It was by design. The Chinese will pay the Taliban for the technology, the Taliban will use the money to attack America again.
The Russians might also bid on that technology. The result will be the same.
The DEMS want America chastened, embarrassed, and demoted to sub-mediocrity status.
It’s WIN-WIN-WIN time for China, Russia, and Islamic Terrorism.
Taiwan, Japanese islanders, the Philippines, Nepal, the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania….maybe even Poland: they are all undoubtedly very nervous tonight.
I recently saw a purported Taliban convoy taking our abandoned hardware to Iran.
Lots of vultures in play.
Lets say we get rid of Biden. Then what? Its President Harris. We all know Biden’s not going to last to 2024 and even if he does, he won’t run again. I suspect the D’s will pressure him to resign in early 2022, just in time to cut their lossses in the Mid terms.
Ockam’s Razor: I hate to admit this, but this was an absolutely Brilliant plan by Obama. Six months into his third term, the Muslim Brotherhood has an entire country and they are massively armed with US weapons and US military equipment.
No different than obama denying our military the approval to retrieve or destroy on the ground one of our drones that crashed in Iran! More of our military top secret equipment given to muslins to be used against us!
Dinesh D’Souza predicted all of this, the rise of the caliphate in the ME, in his movie “2016: Obama’s America”
Good news everyone!
Our Brilliant Generals have just assured Joe Biden that they still will be able to win the hearts-and-minds of the Taliban. They are all set to offer them all free online courses on CRT and Wokeism and LGBTQ, figuring that will surely do the trick. Joe Biden has just accepted their advice and will award them all with Brilliant General Medals.
and 2000 a month.
and a small herd of sheep.
I guess they already do the cross dressing, and have the little boy dancers who they molest.
These are the Dem kinda people.
Fire Milley. Fire Milley now. Let the arrogant bastard go on a private non taxpayer funded journey to understand white rage.
“Fire Milley”?
He is also doing exactly what he is programmed to do.
Who couldn’t guess that the Odumbo plan to destroy America wouldn’t include such humiliation on the World stage
It is difficult to love and it is easy to hate. This is how the whole scheme of things works. Good things (freedom / great economy / security / peace) are difficult to achieve, while bad things (tyranny / depression / invasion / sex trafficing , MS13, humiliation) are very easy to get.
– Confucius
I’m not humiliated. Not in the least. I’m angry.
As rotten as this is…the “infrastructure” bill they passed is wayyyy worse. It will destroy us for sure.
Was this his birthday present?
Blinken says that the well trained army we paid billions for was “unable” to defend…..I have eyes, and I saw them hand over not only the country, but ALL our military hardware with welcoming arms. I despise leftists.
And 20 years is enough time to train someone to be almost anything.
There are now MD’s who 20 years ago were literally in Kindergarten.
China told Biden to tell the afghans to handover the equipment to the Taliban who will be turning it over to Iran.
Makes sense.
And the next obvious question would have been who’s job was it to assess the Afghan Armys readiness before we pulled out and is that individual still employed as of today?
My guess is collecting a pension from his first career and already started a second more lucrative career in the meantime.
I wonder if – in the scenarios considered, such as “Taliban might well take over the country in 90 days” …
… if there was also a scenario of “Afghan army melts into the background and Taliban takes over in 72 hours” (3 days)
Any chance we’ll get to see that list of scenarios now that fingers are being pointed at “intelligence failure”?
Remember, the intelligence “community” have a habit of leaking when it’s to their advantage … and they might want to protect themselves and reputation
Probably the same guy that was supposed design a backup/rescue plan if things didn’t go as planned.
No, you don’t get it. We hand over all that old military hardware to the Taliban so we can print up a bunch of money so’s we can buy a whole big lot of new military equipment.
Same way they handed over the capital, pre-planned.
I never thought I’d live to see another ignominious defeat a la Carter. I’m only glad my daddy is no longer alive to see what his beloved Army has become.
There is no way the illusion can be held up any longer. This has got to be some kind of slap – awake for a great many people.
God please be with us.
Nah….much worse than Carter.
This is all Barack Hussein….
the ‘Unelected One’…President Gerald Ford! he should be the lasting symbol of the ‘DC Swamp Creature’!
Biden makes it the unelected Two.
I agree with alley cats and your last sentence. The best we can do as individuals is to be sure that our own house is in order when the end comes.
Don’t hold your breath. The majority of this country will never wake up.
A rare moment when you witness someone who spews lies better than Fake Yapper himself.
Jake (you look hideous) Crapper is playing a part. Anton Blinkmuch will be temporarily embarrassed and grow a couple more bags under his eyes. SanFran Nan’s plastic eye surgeons will help him out, and we’ll be back at square one with these lying, traitorous pretenders.
But we’re not playing this game anymore. We know. It’s predictable.
Doing his best Lindsey Graham/ Tucker act.
I’m shocked! SHOCKED! It’s an outrage!!
Barf
LOL. He does, doesn’t he. So does the other guy.
They really do look clueless, don’t they?
We would call the expression on Blinken’s face “deer in the headlights”.
Two humanitarian crisis caused by Biden .. the US Southern Border and Afghanistan thousands dying!
Three if you count the “lambda” variant coming in with them.
stop with the variant bs
its the flu
This is a comment from the Gateway Pundent.
The public beatings of women will commence.
Will the leftist “womens rights” groups defend Joe Biden on this too.
Yes, they will continue to defend him.
There have never been very many social justice warriors screaming for justice over the maltreatment of women and homosexuals by practitioners of ‘The Religion of Peace’.
They will be as vociferous as they have been defending “my body, my right”…. oh wait.
Where are the open border protests in the USA?
Well, I wonder if they will be arrested and pummeled and charged and put in solitary confinement with no access to family members and be treated like domestic enemies now? Maybe not.
Secretary of State & defense should resign immediately and joint chiefs.
If Trump had done this then Pence would’ve been on all the Sunday talk shows calling for his resignation along with Ms Lindsey, Mittens and Mitch the B….
Funny how the Dems all stay on the talking points regardless of how ridiculous it sounds when said out loud.
It works because of their audience: those whose hold on power depends on deception will always be able to find an audience willing to be deceived.
The only thing that surprises me is that this interview is on CNN.
They’ve got to get their story out or they are dead in the water.
Exactly, why CNN then? All 300 viewers probably have the same viewpoint.
CNN is world-wide!!!
In every airport.
Laura:
Some things are just too horrendous to ignore or hide even for corrupt CNN.
This is a day of infamy that will have a prominent place in world history and the misery and horrors it will produce are only in their 1st day. CNN helped to “elect” or cover up for this cruel buffoon that caused the infamy so they are now compelled to pretend to care about all the friendly Afghans and others being murdered or tortured today and the untold numbers of others about to be killed or cruelly mistreated by this ruthless 7th century theocracy.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blinken. The heart of darkness.
Worst President ever. A total embarrassment. And of course it is Trump’s fault. These people are disgusting traitors and should all resign but won’t.
Biden is not the president
Democrats and Disney and their adventures in wokeism, AKA Fantasyland. And Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, still cannot come to grips with this strange thing called reality … you know them as Kamala, Blinken, and Biden. Economic affairs are crumbling just as fast as these clowns’ imaginary foreign policy.
Does this make any sense that the people with the most powerful weapons in the world, would turn over all their hardware and munitions to the guys from the Caves?
300,000 well equipt army evaporates?
One explanation I heard is that word has come in from the new Chinese masters to turn over all the equipment which is head to china and to Iran.
That makes more sense.
Glad that we are finally out of Afghanistan, but the exit is a disaster that is entirely on Biden. That’s what happens when the commander-in-chief has lost his faculties and is nothing more that a puppet being run by a bunch of leftists bureaucrats. I pray that all the Americans there are able to get out safely.
The bigger disaster is Biden’s total lack of border enforcement, resulting in thousands of illegals pouring into the country everyday, large numbers of which are Covid positive. He has turned the Border Patrol into the Border Facilitators. Meanwhile its mask mandates, forced vaccinations, and more Covid restrictions for the rest of us. When will the Republicans in Congress enter articles of impeachment for Biden’s failure to protect the American people from this foreign threat? Do it now.
Now do the U.S. southern border…
Michael Yon, combat journalist: 20,000 a month army of mostly young, military age, men are headed to the United States
https://audioboom.com/posts/7924077-twenty-thousand-a-month-through-the-savage-darien-gap-to-reach-panama-and-then-america-michael
Michael Yon: U.S. Policy Creating Hellscape in Panama — Every day is Mass Casualty Day
I just made this video in the jungle. The video and my written description are raw and unedited.
https://michaelyon.locals.com/post/947826/u-s-policy-creating-hellscape-in-panama
Michael Yon does it again. This should alarm everyone. The Democrats are importing millions of these people into the U.S. Like he says, mostly young, military age men, who have survived the rigors of jungle, rivers, bandits, hunger, etc. And their culture.
Maybe if they send this guy to influence the Taliban…
What is that?
Hunters new play thing!
Surely, even for Hunter there aren’t enough drugs to…..
It’s a “tik-tok influencer” hired by the Biden administration to promote the china virus jab…
I hope it will not be forgotten, that while the Administration was fuquing around with putting out this bullsh!t, Afghanistan was falling…and they lied. And they were focused on frivolous jokes like this.
And TheBigGuy was absent the whole time. And people died. And many more will die.
We still haven’t seen the Resident in Thief. But they spread this sh!t all over social media. Heads need to roll.
Embodiment that US society is decaying.
One of the many problems with Progressive Democrats is that they think politics is the same as governing. For them it is a never ending campaign. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the real world consequences of making decisions that affect billions of people throughout the world does not matter to them. All they care about is power and how they want people to perceive them. Progressive Democrats are dangerous and the sooner sleepwalking everyday Americans wake up, the sooner we can limit the damage. Tell everyone you know about the Conservative Treehouse.
Misery index must be about maxed out nationally.
I know it is here in my domicile.
See photo in post above, yup. Needle beyond max.
The swamp can twist this into whatever they want, but this is international.
The world is watching.
US Gov has no credibility. No one will trust them. They betrayed everyone who has helped them. The Kurds, Iraqi people, the Afghanis…
They have almost full power in this country now. They used BLM, LGBT useful idiots to get here. Soon those idiots will no longer be needed and they will be persecuted as well
Eventually all the different interest groups will want to lead and we will see them going after each other.
The war people must be mad right now, I hope to see internal fights.
“No one will trust them.”
You would think so. Money makes people dumb though.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1427026623891660801
Add another zero to your refugee count.
And the Intelligence agencies, are also in lockstep with Blinken doing something like this:
The good thing for Slo Joe is his foreign policy activism is still unblemished…he has YET to get one right
I’m sorry to say this, but with our Border wide open don’t be shocked if we get attacked in the near future.
And to be honest, if they attack civilians will be tragic but I will not support any wars or any mission to get who did what. No more. I think the world would agree. NATO would most likely not join the US.
If terrorists attack the US Gov… I will definitely NOT support any kind of retaliation. The enemy of my enemy…. yep.
If the crowd being welcomed by the left, go after DC swamp, I may join Ilhan Omar and say: Some people did something.
No reason to be sorry for saying that. Sounds reasonable….
I like the little rewrite that someone did on the Rudyard Kipling poem, IF
“If you can keep your head
while all about you are losing theirs,…
…it may simply be
you do not understand
the situation….”
So as I said, no reason to apologize. I think you understand the situation pretty well.
“don’t be shocked if we get attacked in the near future”
I’m betting a donut on Sep 11, this year
The symbolism of 20th anniversary has go to be almost overwhelmingly too tempting to resist
I’d bank there’s a full-on push among various actors to pull that off
[Disclaimer: To NSA, who may be hoovering up all our comments, this is a purely speculative statement on my part, I have no – repeat NO – actual insight or knowledge of such activities]
The NSA knows.
True story: Someone I know was married to a drug dealer but she didn’t know hubby was involved in drug dealing.
Hubby gets busted and she gets a visit from the feds.
She was panicking and told them she didn’t know anything about it.
The Agent said, we know, we have been surveiling you both for 2 years now.
Feds were there to warn her about other stuff.
It seems that nothing actually happens on all of the obvious symbolic anniversaries – but this may be too tempting to for the terrorists – hopefully nothing happens!
Blinken is a souless POS who serves Satan! His eyes are black and reveals his demon chops!
It is 1919. The world’s most feared imperial military leaves Afghanistan in a disgrace that heralds its coming irrelevance.
It is 1989. The world’s most feared imperial military leaves Afghanistan in a disgrace that heralds its coming irrelevance.
It is 2021. The world’s most feared…….
I’m hypothesizing that some memo went out saying no new personnel into Afghanistan when the Biden Resident in Chief took office. Since he is the figurehead, it was another idiot that made the call that this included maintenance crews since the memo was so poorly worded and poorly though out.
I’m sure we’ll find out there was pushback by the people affected by it but the higher ups were busy studying white rage or how to implement the rainbow flag and praising Dementia Joe for his resolve.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. These people are incompetent idiots and evil.
We need to bomb all that expensive equipment that Biden left them ASAP! Destroy it all and the people operating it!
If not, Iran and China will end up with it! Biden needs to give the world an update NOW! Not in a few days!!! Terrible decision! Can’t believe our Military would behave this way!!! The top brass need to go now!!!
too late
they put it on a silver platter for them
It would not surprise me if leaving it behind is intentional.
“Can’t believe our Military would behave this way!!! The top brass need to go now!!!”
Why not? They abandoned us here at home too.
Eegads! We are back to refusing to recognize or talk to governments unless they touch all the Jeffersonian bases of human rights. Dream world diplomacy. Freeze their Mastercard accounts! No soup for you!
Stringing together worthless buzzwords and platitudes and diplomacy-speak that have no meaning. “Simply not in our interest.” May not be in your interest to continue to own your car. So you sell it and get something for it. You don’t push it off a cliff.
Even Tapper can’t believe the answers and excuses he is getting for the dumpster fire they have lit. The incompetence is breathtaking.
And the man who handled that so adeptly received 81 million votes.
Yeah, OK.
Programming interrupted for heavy propaganda. Incoming.
I wonder what Biden plans to say when they capture Americans and start televising their beheadings.
Beheadings and hostages coming soon.
I’m not altogether sure we’d see any footage. Media and Social Media are in lockstep with this administration.
If they play the national security card very few will see it.
Ayman al-Zawahiri is retired and living on a nice pension in Iran.
Funded by us.
I still show the video of him in the Egyptian jail to remind people he is still roaming around free. The other is the disgrace I feel for leaving the doctor who helped getting bin Laden rot in a Pakistani xhit hole prison
This is what an insurrection looks like.
Not a word on the Trump peace deal that Biden broke in May, Sundance?
Why doesn’t anyone ever compare the fall of Afghanistan to Benghazi?
OH WAIT. The Kenyan and ILLary left them to die without lifting one single finger. There WAS a stand down order.
It’s what America does cause they create the problem, make coin, pay third parties, kill soldiers, sailors, Marines, and contractors, then bail and say too bad so sad, your on your own.
Hey, General Milley, how CRT helping you to solve the mess we’re in? Huh? Gee, Afghanistan has myriads of tribes: you not only have cultural DIVERSITY but also genetic diversity?
I would imagine you think that diversity is Afghanistan’s strength, eh? I would imagine all good progs think that, eh?
Presume anyone you encounter to be a supporter of this administration and any of its policies. Ridicule away. Let them deny their support publicly.
Let’s face it. America’s military generals blew this. Either they didn’t have a plan, or dragged their feet, or both. Didn’t want to leave so they just refused to act?
Surely Fake Tapper is partly responsible for the mess in Afghanistan due to being a propagandist for the Democrat party.
Do you think the Democrat Politburo will use this to get rid of Biden and replace him with Harris?
Doesn’t matter. The same people will be pulling her strings.
All of us that lived through the fall of Saigon knew this day was coming for Afganistan. We screamed,begged,pleaded: go in kill them then get out. Dont occupy or nation build. We where there when the Mujahedeen were fighting the Soviets. Lay the blame where it belongs: Little Georgie. Shithead.
Problem is and I’m convinced of this, Americans view the world through the prism of a democratic republic when that’s what doesn’t exist throughout the Middle East.
Bernard Shaw was pretty apparently scared out of his wits during Desert Storm (while reporting from the Al-Rashid Hotel for CNN) . . .
now they can just avoid those embarrassing scenarios for the on-air talent during what used to be considered “important breaking news”.
At this very important moment, CNN is running “The History of the Sitcom”!
The speed of the Afghan Govt collapse caught DOS by surprise.
The IC(CIA writ large) will come under fire for not being more candid about the tactical realities of a US withdrawal’, and the delusion of a unified National Afghan identity. No amount of marketing, or Public Relations, will conceal the error, of overstaying a decade too long.
What you are looking at is a bit of internecine jousting. This is the IC preemptively pushing back at the inevitable blame, that will be cast on them, by the DOS. The DOS in turn, will be looking for whipping boys, to take the heat off…
It’s clear that the way we left Afghanistan was purposeful and designed to be another cog in bringing about the downfall of America. This benefits the globalists in multiple ways, but most importantly, our credibility has now been shot for awhile. In doing so, the purposeful, by design, weakening of America continues on multiple fronts where our enemies will take up the mantle of opportunistically leveraging their influence where we formerly had strongholds.
In addition to weakening America from within through creating inner division and conflict, the regime will continue to weaponize our own govt against Patriots usurping one right after another under the guise of manufactured crises, fear and panic. If we don’t stand, resist, work local and get loud, we may just go without a wimper while folks are more concerned about what they will get from Costco or Home Depot on the weekends. I pray this is not the case and that we do not cower in fear.
No doubt, we will be importing many Afghans, which along with the open Southern Border, will be yet another attempt to change the voting demographics in red and purple states. This is why the election integrity issue is so important. If we don’t win on that issue, we are in for tough times. However, I do not say this to be a downer, but a warning and a clarion call for action against these enemies, both foreign and domestic. We need to understand, learn, and apply better tactics to win against the Alinsky monkeys trying to destroy us from within.
This link takes the reader to something published at Gates of Vienna, about six months ago. I printed it off when it was first published and keep it with my Bonhoeffer text.
https://gatesofvienna.net/category/second-amendment/
It’s aging well, in terms of accuracy…..and also depressing, in terms of accuracy……
The material, which is from their Dutch correspondent H. Numan, is presented by Baron Bodissey.
That is indeed a very chilling piece. The urgency we feel is palpable, both among us and when reading/listening to the people we follow. The snark is gone. We turned around and discovered tyranny had rushed in from every corner.
Yes, the withdrawal looks like an intentional act of incompetence when in fact there is probably a good reason for it from the evil clowns that run our country. It is hard to imagine a military, that has contingencies for every scenario, plans a – z, could have let this happen.
I counted 172 “ums”
ChiCom Joe had his administration make the LGBT agenda a foreign policy priority in Afghanistan meanwhile the Taliban was overrunning the country! That’s cognitive dissonance to me but I’m not a psychiatrist so what do I know? Flying the LGBT flag at our Afghanistan embassy accomplished exactly what?
I see Tapper wants to be taken seriously..he’s got his smarty glasses on.
That’s why I didn’t recognize him right away.
I’m left wondering where Ayman al-Zawahiri is in all of this?…….
For some reason when I read that name in my head I immediately started thinking Subadar Prag Tewarri instead, and my thought was yeah, Kipling knew how to handle this mess.
I guess it’s just been a long day.
you wrote: “The background here is the history of foreign policy failures and boondoggles by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton” I would completely agree with you had you listed Bush the Lesser, too. We should not forget that Mr. Bush Jr. correctly launched a punitive war in 2001 but instead of winning it by bombing the Taliban into a pulp he invited the NGO’s to help with rebuilding the country with building schools for girls, etc.,