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
The mainstream media has just as much if not more responsibility than Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and GWB. The mainstream media have been trying to undermine America’s success in Afghanstan during the Presidency of GWB and Trump with their daily death count and other narrative engineering.
Let’s don’t forget the “Afghan Army”, it took 20 years and BILLIONS for them to learn skills that our Soldiers learn in 9 weeks. The Afghan Army ran like cowards, that is on them. Kabul is a city of 6 million people and they too, have run like cowards to in comparison a handful of Taliban. The place has been FUBAR since the dawn of time, you can’t fix stupid or mutant DNA.
But that is precisely what democrats try to do over and over again.
GOP is just as bad.
When you see the Tapper or
Blinken or Biden/Collins/Walenski/Fauci saying nonsense and wangling their hypocrisy……. remember: they do that because they know they are about to disappear off the scene.
Clint Eastwood lol…the Leni Riefenstahl of the Military Industrial Complex. Hope he enjoys his fistful of blood dollars.
“debate” between two clueless, marxists elites
“how did this happen since we are the ones we’ve been waiting for?”
“yeah, I know, right?”
Wasn’t this the reason General Flynn was fired? Oh and a couple three hundred Flag senior officers?
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-biden-regime-promises-to-accelerate-mass-migration-of-thousands-of-afghan-refugees-into-the-u-s/
Let me see if I have this straight:
We were attacked by Saudi nationals but we did not retaliate against Saudi Arabia. We attacked Afghanistan because we were told the Saudis trained there, and we believed it because we saw a video of men in pajamas jumping over monkey bars and doing bad karate.
We later justified the invasion of Afghanistan because Bin Laden was hiding in a cave there, and we stayed there for 20 years, although we recently found out he was in Iran. The official story is we found him hiding out in Pakistan and killed him there. We never attacked Iran or Pakistan.
However, we did attack the stabilizing rival of Iran (Iraq) because we didn’t like Saddam standing on his porch with his AK-47 and saying mean things about the USA.
Now we have a ruling party in the USA that says mean things about the USA every day. The Taliban is back in control in Afghanistan, and I am the terrorist because I don’t want experimental gene therapy to (not) protect me (or you) from an imaginary virus we believe was leaked from a lab in China because we saw a video of a woman falling over dead on a sidewalk in China.
Everyone held in Guantanamo Bay that was released by Obama has now been released in Afghanistan, but Americans who vented their frustration with Congress are indefinitely detained in Washington DC.
As Yakov Smirnov used to say, “What a country!”
HERE, HERE! HEAR, HEAR!
There was a need to extinguish a large number people …….. working class only. Next up ……… man made virus’.
“We were attacked by Saudi nationals but we did not retaliate against Saudi Arabia.”
Probably because the Saudis had expelled bin Laden from SA for his terrorist acts including against Americans. His citizenship in SA was terminated.
That was enough explanation to satisfy you?
It makes a lot more sense to me than your belief that the Saudi establishment wants to destroy America. The SA establishment gave President Trump an extraordinary warm welcome.
Why do you think bin Laden was based in Afghanistan? The Saudi government was not at all averse to the Amercans working in SA, helping to develop the Saudi oil industry. But a bunch of rebels including bin Laden did hate the American influence.
Did I say the Saudi establishment wants to destroy America? Your argument presupposes that the pre-9/11 Saudi regime was the same one that welcomed Trump. A lot of events intervened there.
Now, has the Saudi establishment allowed violence on Americans by turning a blind eye to the “rebels?” Review the Jeddah consulate attack for your answer. A good analogy would be our Uniparty ignoring a year of Antifa and BLM violence for a year because it furthers political objectives.
I’m not saying we should have gone off half-cocked against SA, but it would have been more logical than building sandcastles in Afghanistan for two decades.
And I’m not saying the USA should have been building sandcastles in Afghanistan.
But I don’t think action against SA would have achieved anything either.
“In 1994, as bin Laden expanded his group’s infrastructure in Sudan and trained Islamic militants to participate in conflicts around the world, Saudi Arabia revoked his citizenship and froze his assets, forcing him to rely on outside sources for funding.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Osama-bin-Laden
Ok. We can agree on that.
Only president we’ve ever known that was a guaranteed failure. A fool aggressively ruling against his own people. It’s tough to describe how despised Joe Biden is going to be. Especially after stealing the Election. He’ll be the most hated man in American History.
Biden Never Saw What Hit Him
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2021/08/15/biden-never-saw-what-hit-him-n1469569
“The bad news is that to this considerable tale of woe is likely to be added as much mischief as America’s enemies can contrive. They will pile it on. For no less than the Taliban, America’s near-peer adversaries, now have the estimate of the hapless man in the White House. This confirmation of incapacity is possibly a greater loss than the fall of Afghanistan itself.”
Roger That . .
I hope Biden does see what hits him.
Can the script writers replace Xiden and make it look like a hit from Deplorables?
“What a show!”
And it occurs to me – well, Truman was a hit years back – maybe Xiden is ‘Truman, The Twilight Years’.
Obviously, the network is failing and will try anything to boost ratings.
Bilk Back better.
Must’ve watched too much TV.
How long before the media come out with polls informing us all that Joe Biden is polling better than ever ?
obama will be. he’s the puppet master along with our enemies.
IMHO – Obama may have been given the impression that HE is “The Puppet Master” . . . but when I hear him speak with all of those “ands” and “uhhs” I hear a dullard speaking.
Nah, he just gets all ghetto to be one of the peeps… sarc/
I despise Obama more than Biden.
Definition: Afghanistan Withdrawal
A poison pill left by Donald Trump in case Biden stole the election.
Possible
The equipment left behind, reprogrammable, contains zero day viruses?
Can You Say Liar Liar Pants On Fire
“Latest security alert from US Embassy in Kabul: “We are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has suspended consular operations effective immediately. Do not come to the Embassy or airport at this time.””
Sounds like they are saying “You are on your own, Lots of luck”.
just horrible . . . how exactly do you “shelter in place” in a hellhole?
Put your head between your legs and kiss your ?
Goodbye.
Translation: don’t come to the Embassy or airport and pester us about a ride out.
Word is the situation is rapidly deteriorating…
Our Generals fail at everything. They can’t even plan a withdrawal.
<They can’t even plan a withdrawal.>
You’re kidding…Get outta here! 🙂
They left enough armaments for the Taliban to start WW3. We armed the Taliban so they could take over Afghanistan so we could spend American blood and treasure for 20 years. And now we left them more weapons than they ever had. We are the dumbest country in the world. The State department should disappear.
Don’t worry everybody…heels up will save the day any moment now//sarc…with all I can muster. Even Sheldon would get it.
And if she doesn’t save the day, Pelosi will….
…uhh, hang on just a second.
This is a much-much-much bigger crowd than Biden ever had stateside. He should go over there to give them a pep talk.
and take his new WH social media influencer with him.
My only concern right now is getting all of the Americans out of Kabul. I do not know how many are sheltered in place and probably on their own right now but this is setting up to be a total disaster. These people were caught off guard by the idiot President Crash Test Dummy and the dopes who run the Pentagon and the State Department.
I will pray for their safety until they all get out safe.
Thanks and Good night.
“the idiot President Crash Test Dummy and the dopes who run the Pentagon and the State Department.”
A perfect storm of stupidity.
Or is it a perfect intersectionality of insanity?
An event overlong in the making, another trillion-dollar resource gift to the communists from their sponsors, along with a few hundred billion in useful hardware from whence to light a match in terrorist-infiltrated western countries. The bell tolls, the fat lady warms her vocals, or, as one of the hook-noses stated mid last century, bolshevism is _______.
C’est la vie.
So So true, Oh my Lord, we all better pray tonight.
That many? It will be interesting to see what the Taliban do to the Americans. Perhaps the Pentagon won’t start a new war, they will just keep this one going.
I’m hoping they will see the value of selling them back to us and not harm them!
I wonder if the CIA got all its people out …… They have their own aircraft, pilots, etc.
You can bet they ALL got out.
N o ” sheltering in place “for them!
During the pursuit across town of the surviving brother of the two Boston Brothers, I recall the news reports were all about warning citizens to “chelter in place” while police were hunting for the guy (who turned out to be hiding in a boat)
that had to pretty scary and I think the idea was that they wanted everyone to stay indoors to not get caught in the crossfire
so these are people in their own homes, doors locked all around . . . police everywhere . . .
it sounds so absurd now to hear our “leaders” telling the poor souls in Afghanistan “shelter in place”
in a burgeoning hell hole!
sorry about typos – seems to happen more frequently when I use the phone to type comments!
My guess anyone over there involved with the US government are Left-wing Biden voters. Let them stay there.
Blinken, odd speech pattern for someone charged to speak to the world; all sentences chopped into blocks of 4 words, 5 words or 6 words punctuated by “ah”- “ah” – “ah”, emphasis on the first word always. Close your eyes and one hears Obama’s staccato, inflection, double down tone , the race and halt, and overall distractive and annoying speech pattern. Obama>Blinken. Blinken<Obama.
YES!
They’re having a helluva time trying to “make sure” of anything.
Blinken is a total moron who doesn’t have a clue.
Biden, Blinken, and Tapper.
Winkin’, Blinkin’, and Nod.
Always thought that Obama did that for the hypnotic effect.
Initially it worked. Can’t tell you how many times I’d be
somewhere and watching people (particularly black Atlantans)
stand there transfixed, almost drooling when he was talking.
He looked like he was medicated, and gray. Blinken is evil, not stupid. He must know this is the end of the road.
No money in the budget to save Afghanistan. gotta plant them windmills
The ‘Elites’ and the Fake News are anti-Religion; they act as there is ~no God. … The Taliban are religious-Muslim, = military Jihadists.
The Elites and the Fake News have no understanding of the driving convections of the Jihadists. … The Fake News and the Elites are considered minions of the Great Satan. … There will be no real peace.
I’ve considered that these filth are not anti-God or anti-religion, instead, following their religion to the letter, an instructional part of which is to destroy our Religion. They know (at least the upper echelon) precisely what their desert-God requires of them and move the game pieces constantly to our detriment/demise. On the elite end, religion is more a control and command structure but IS as instructed to them by one of the Gods (jealous desert God). As the Saud said to the hook-noses, we are brothers. A true statement was ne’er made.
According to CNN, Joe is set to address the nation “in the next few days”. I’d love to be a fly on the wall, listening to all the organ grinders vomit up one excuse after another, and hoping they’ll hit on one that will stick. They will come to a decision on how to respond, then bring Joe into the picture, have him practice his “speech” on a teleprompter a few times, and then cross lots of fingers.
I don’t believe for a minute that Joe is in on any of these “tryouts”, but I bet Jill is.
Better Get Ready A Biden Is coming For You. If we do not move to stop them they will only give one choice. Civil W-R. Make No Mistake Biden Will love his neighbor as well as his enemy if he can not be caught. Turn the other cheek to him is to suck on his sons crack pipe, an take his hor–into your wife’s bed. Better get Ready they are waiting to take your home. BY Judicial force. BY My Dead Cold Hands. GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY , GOD HELP US ALL. I PRAY FOR ALL OF YOU.
Cannot stand the look of jack turd. Twisting in a nut defending pedo.
Thanks again Mitch McConnell and your crew of traitorous RINO’s (along with VP Pence). Because of your arrogance, greed, and hatred of PDJT, you all installed a brain dead pedophile into the Oval Office. Looks like he is controlled by a group of idiot high-school mean girls out to put their mark on the world.
We all blame you for this. We know what you did and are still doing. It wont work out for you too much longer, though.
Yes, we must not forget to give Mitch his credit due. Nor Pence.
Didn’t Pence’s son die in Afghanistan?
I think that may have been Kelly’s.
No, I don’t think so.
No one in DC gives a rats ass about Afghans or Americans. In a month business as usual.
The Baizuos are in charge.
Yes. Bunch of immoral and emotional bullies/mean girls.
Terror threat is RAISED: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley tells senators that the US homeland is now at greater risk from terror groups in Afghanistan in major blow to American efforts after 20 years of fighting in the country
No sheet Sherlock.
Milley can’t possibly think it’s a greater threat than that posed by white supremacists with their white rage. That would go against all the great wisdom he has previously given the country.
https://www.lucianne.com/2021/08/15/terror_threat_is_raised_joint_chiefs_of_staff_chair_mark_milley_tells_senators_that_the_us_homeland_is_now_at_greater_risk_from_terror_groups_in_afghanistan_in_major_blow_to_american_efforts_after_20_years_of_fighting_in_the_country_66552.html
And with a wide open southern border, they could send Taliban teams over carrying our own military weapons against us.
What if the terror threat is raised because they figured Americans would be in the streets protesting the Afghanistan situation?
Perhaps they saw it as a likely last straw after a stolen election, EO’s in record numbers, a sieve for a southern border, mask mandates, vax mandates, CRT mandates, etc.
Hasn’t Milley resigned yet ??
I predict the Tal’s will shoot something with innocents on it down within 48 hours.
why?
because they can.
I predict they will round up any US citizens they can find (estimated 10,000 left behind) and video their beheadings in a public square.
why? Because they can, and that’s how they roll.
Why not? Who is going to stop them? They’ve hit the jackpot with Biden and these crazy marxists now in DC.
Press Secretary taking the week off. Talk about timing!
Seems me Trump could roll up to the White House tomorrow morning and just take over. No one else is there… they’re all MIA. ?
I’m good with that!
What, no news?
https://www.mei.edu/blog/al-qaeda-dream-come-true
Global leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been nowhere to be seen in many months and much of al-Qaeda’s command has been killed in an intense spate of U.S. strikes in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen since 2017.
Zawahiri’s deputy, Sayf al-Adel, is currently in Iran and will undoubtedly be exploring avenues for a return to Afghanistan, alongside other members of the group’s Shura Council.
Hunter Biden knows more about running a Ukrainian gas company.
And painting great works of art too! And being a Naval Officer.
Blinken is as clueless as is Biden…
Alex Salvi on Twitter: “Secretary of State Blinken (July 7th): “We are not withdrawing, we are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying … If there is a significant deterioration in security … I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” https://t.co/5RGuw4OfZL” / Twitter
They’re ALL a bunch of clowns…
Don’t Blinken ……….. Anthony may be gone. Well probably not ………. But it was a funny thought. Pray for deliverance of the victims of Islamic (Democrat) genocide.
Tune in to CNN . . .
“The History of the Sitcom”
CNN could borrow that tagline from “Seinfeld” . . .
“a channel about nothing”
Let’s fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. How many peeved Afghans will want revenge for this day?
Dubbya made any comments today?
Quiet as a mouse . . .
I wonder if George and Laura have given any thought to all of those Afghan children named after them?
They are sitting back counting the cash they made.
Hard to say, but a lot of them will be here soon.
https://youtu.be/wCKvd3E60sY
Shelter in place?
Joe, have you been to Kabul recently?
For the vast majority, there isn’t any safe shelter, no Tradecraft, no network, nothing. There is only waiting to be picked up. If you are a westerner, you are in peril.
Any American paraded, or harmed on TV, by the Taliban, will be on you Joe.
This was absolutely avoidable, Biden had half a year to manage this correctly, or take more time if need be.
Outrage as Biden ‘Accidentally’ Reveals Identities of CIA Agents During Video Conference
https://100percentfedup.com/outrage-as-biden-accidentally-reveals-identities-of-cia-agents-during-video-conference/
He’s done that before- remember he outed our Seal team 6, who had just taken out Bin Ladeen. As a result of his naming them on live TV, they were all killed in a helicopter.
These people are evil, but are stupid/crazy, too. They do the same things over and over.
That by itself is impeachable
Yeah. Too bad we are no longer a country with equal justice under the rule of law.
The Afghanistan problem resulted from those who believe that jetliners can knock down skyscrapers.
They did.
Ridiculous men acting ridiculous!
The Obama/Biden cabal including Hilldawg. with the help of RINO’s like McShame, started the Muzzslum caliphate running rampant across the ME . Remember the ISIL, Tal- ee- baun, JV team BS, spewed by the traitor Obama?
President Trump wiped the ISIS caliphate off the face of the earth in a few months. That must have made the Islamic Kenyan traitor infuriated. Now his sock puppet, Joe Crow Xiden, has set the stage for the return of another caliphate with captured American vehicles and weapons to begin another rampage.
That will open the door for the Neo-Con, warmongering RINOs to join Joe Crow Xiden, and the Neo-Con Communist Democrats to start the military industrial complex war machine in action again. Trillions to be made by world global elites intervening in foreign wars as the try to stifle Americans with this China Virus, CRT, invasion at the southern border, white supremacy, etc. BS. Like Sundance has stated numerous times. TRILLIONS are at stake.
Including Benghazi. Those weapons illegally transferred by our non-consulate took out the chopper with our first black female combat pilot if I recall. The communist treasonous obama, and sidekick clinton should have swung for that. ‘Course we need to predate obama and include earlier clinton/albright filth who brought the terrorists to yugoslavia as well. Hmmm, back to old carter and the terrorists we created and baited the soviet union with, til they’d had enough and rolled into the tarbabystan. Our country has been coopted for quite some time.
Beaten by a lot slightly above caveman status – utterly “Democrat”.
Don’t let Harris off the hook she was in the room when Biden made his decision on Afghanistan. She’s a moron too!
Are we looking at weeks of U.S.citizens in a hostage situation or the restart of a hot war as more of our troops arrive? Perhaps everyone will get out this week? Lord knows ?
Other than this pathetic interview, it’s pretty much a media black out on Afganistan. Headlines continue to be consumed with all things COVID sprinkled with the usual nonsense about celebrities, fad diets, and the like. This is a powerful tool that will help minimize exposure of the administration as lemmings go about their lives in the relative dark and assume there’s nothing much to be concerned about.
You do know that this is exactly what the Xiden organization wanted to achieve right?
This is just another great victory for them.
Will there be Hunter Biden genre impressionistic paintings of the slain American allies underwritten by the Chinese communist Party?
Note the time difference between London and Moscow
the clocks show a 3 hr difference.
check the internet for the current time in each for today and you will see it is 2 hours in actuality.
what gives?
Go over to the TGP and they have two images of the same room with Biden in i, but Biden has a different set of clothes in each image.
My guess if Biden is in the bunker in Delaware and nowhere near the WH and these are “stock” photos shown to make it look like he is doing something.
Whenever I hear/see the name Blinken, I think of this poem . .
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field – Poems | poets.org
We know who Blinken is, who are the other two ?
Obozo’s administration was 8 years of abject failure. Their foreign policy was a disgraceful disaster. You would think that after 8 years of not getting anything right, they would have learned a thing or two. The current illegitimate administration, has many of the same obozo failures now making decisions for this administration. And it’s quite telling they learned nothing from 8 years of failure, they continue with the same level of incompetence. This administration as a whole, would be hard pressed if tasked to run a lemonade stand.
It’s by design…stupid is just used, and biden is full of stupid, as well as BHO
This debacle hasn’t finished yet. We now have at least 6000 troops holding an indefensible position. They are 750 miles from carrier air support and 300 miles from Tajikistan if the Tajiks would allow us to use their airports. So we now have 6000 troops in a Dien Bien Phu pocket. Nope, the debacle isn’t over yet.
Clueless.
I wonder how many pieces of Hunter “art” the Taliban did buy for this?
Maybe we can trade Bowe Bergdahl back to the Taliban for five civilian interpreters who helped us over the last twenty years.
As phony as the photo of bidan sitting in a conference room alone wearing two different shirts and looking at a tv with him sitting at a table wearing a mask.