Afghanistan is on the cusp of transforming from a national humiliation that merely restricts the next generation of American foreign policy to a military disaster. If we continue our current path, it can be compared with the fate of the British army when it retreated from Afghanistan in 1842.
Although every component of the U.S. government has failed utterly in carrying out its mission, and there is ample evidence that our elite and government are incredibly incompetent, a movement is now beginning to convince us that this is a white house dementia popsicle. An act of genius. Yes, those voices are saying that there were some glitches in the evacuation process (for example, once the U.S. withdrawal deadline passes on August 31, there may be about 10,000 Americans in Kabul), but the president’s determination and The vision (so-called) Joe Biden is exactly what this country needs.
This naturally comes from the “Daily Beast”-just because Vox.com is busy reporting on the greatness of Joe Biden. I use this particular tweet for two reasons. First, the author blocked me. I don’t know why, but I am sure it is what I deserve. Secondly, Josh Landis has been an energetic oral sex worker for Syrian President Assad for about 20 years and can deal with the best of them. The fact that he reposted this Weibo to express his approval shows how bad this idea is for the United States.
The article is Biden insider: Our exit from Afghanistan is part of a larger resetThe author is one of those crooks who use his little talent and journalism degree to obtain the qualifications of an expert in “foreign policy”. This shows how low the threshold to reach this state is. He was never a diplomat. He has never served in the State Department. But he is a registered lobbyist in the UAE. So I think this counts as foreign policy experience. The full flavor of his wisdom can be found in one tweet:
The Taliban, all these people, plus all Al Qaeda fighters in the world, will not pose a threat to the United States like Trump or Trumpist extremists. Let us maintain our point of view.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 20, 2021
Now continue to ride wildly.
In fact, in the long run, we are likely to see their withdrawal from Afghanistan as part of a major, intergenerational foreign policy reset. In fact, if developments are consistent with the president’s vision, this moment will be seen as a watershed in the return of the United States to global leadership. Wrong, unstable, and destructive foreign policy in the two decades after 9/11.
In other words, we are likely to see the events of the past week, not only very different, but contrary to what many commentators have described, they can understand, but at the expense of long-term vision, to respond to terrorist attacks. We have all seen what happened on the streets of Kabul.
What would this kind of leadership look like in a world where we are seen as weak, reckless, and unreliable? we do not know. We have never been told how humiliating national failure brings leadership, mainly because it does not.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the government’s reasoning to me as follows: “Our investment in Afghanistan in 20 years is huge. In 20 years, one trillion dollars, 2,300 people have lost their lives, and thousands more are visible. And invisible wounds. As we all know, our strategic competitors want the United States to be trapped in the conflict for another two or twenty years. The only factor that rivals the cost of this conflict is the opportunity cost. The president concluded that it’s our end It’s time for this war.”
A senior White House aide put it this way: “The president firmly believes that leaving Afghanistan will improve our ability to become a stronger world leader, have more contact with allies, and be more effective internationally.” The aide went on to echo Blinken, Thus underscoring the centrality of the idea of focusing our attention on the great power competition between Biden and his team, he said: “As the President has repeatedly said, Russia or China don’t want to see anything happen. Not just It is the United States that is bound by the endless war in Afghanistan. This is especially true as the threat of terrorism grows elsewhere, and geopolitical challenges elsewhere also increase.”
At this point, Joe Biden was actually speaking on the clown car press he had just finished.
When asked by reporters, President Biden said that China and Russia would rather the United States stay in Afghanistan and “get into trouble.”
Then he said: “I think history will record this as a logical, rational and correct decision.” pic.twitter.com/4MKYXAOzsS
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 22, 2021
Once again, we are not “struck” in Afghanistan, as we have been in West Germany for 50 years. Compared to retaining around 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, the Russians and Chinese are more excited about the United States as a geopolitical eunuch. Today, now, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan are all wondering whether the United States is a useful partner that can resist China’s influence in the Western Pacific and general influence (spoiler alert ): They know we can’t count on).
President Biden recognizes all this and is seeking to systematically, comprehensively, and irreversibly eliminate this damage and strengthen the United States so that we are ready to play a leading role in the coming decades. Although this means ending America’s longest war, it also means using trillions of fighting funds to invest in ourselves, our infrastructure, our schools, and our healthcare system. In the eyes of the government, “rebuilding better” is not just a large domestic project. Like Dwight Eisenhower’s interstate highway system, this is an investment in our safety and competitiveness. Significant initiatives in cyber security, grid resilience, broadband expansion, and climate change make this very clear.
This effort has also translated into an effort to eliminate the damage to our international status caused by unilateralism, contempt for the rule of law, attacks on domestic democracy, and the rise of domestic violent extremists who pose a greater risk than overseas terrorist organizations. Efforts include rejoining the Paris climate agreement and rejoining the WHO, leading the way in vaccine diplomacy, renewing commitment to strengthening international institutions and our alliance, seeking negotiations for the United States to rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement, and perhaps most importantly, for 21 Be prepared for the challenges and opportunities of the rest of the century. Shifting our focus and resources from the greater Middle East to the Asia-Pacific region is another key part of it.
Therefore, our plan is that we will achieve unparalleled success by investing more funds that we do not have on projects that do not help the economy.
This is the problem of his entire thesis. There is no case in history where a humiliating and tragic failure ended a war and made the loser stronger. If Biden is not an idiot and exits smoothly, the story may seem reasonable under the dim light, but it is not.
Eisenhower ended an unpopular Korean War, and his campaign goal was to status quo And there is an American ally that firmly controls South Korea. But under the leadership of Eisenhower, the first batch of American consultants were also deployed to Vietnam, so this is not like the end of the Korean War that kept us away from new military operations. Eisenhower did not make significant deficit spending. The dominance of the United States in the Western world is unquestionable, so much so that he weakened two American allies during the Suez Canal crisis, but our leadership position is okay.
On the contrary, today we ask the British Prime Minister to correctly refer to Joe Biden as an incompetent person (Tony Blair and Boris Johnson choose words for “Drowsy Joe” and “Stupid” Afghanistan Operation).
More importantly, even if this false nonsense is reasonable (which is not the case), there is no universe that can allow the collapse of Kabul to help Joe Biden. Biden has revealed to anyone who does not know that it is a flaming idiot, so much so that his Secretary of Defense complained to members of Congress that the Taliban had beaten Americans trying to go to Kabul Airport. At the same time, Biden was telling the country that the opposite was true. (The State Department tells American citizens to leave Kabul Airport to go home, and other horror stories about our impending Kabul disaster). Biden’s response to this challenge was cowardly and abominable. Congress has noticed this, and no one in Congress wants this stench of failure to stick to him.
The American people have noticed that Biden’s plummeting poll numbers will only get worse. As pictures of atrocities begin to leak, Americans are taken hostage, and our former allies are executed without any due process, these poll numbers will deteriorate.
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Execution and brutality #Terrorist Taliban It is in full swing. The free reports in the Western and Pakistani media are false. Mullah Haji, the police chief of Badghis, was publicly shot and killed by the invaders.#Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/eSsENoRXSt
-Ihtesham Afghanistan (@IhteshamAfghan) August 19, 2021
Right now, the Senate is divided. If those House districts that voted for Donald Trump, which the Democrats now hold, become Republicans in 2022, Nancy Pelosi will not become the speaker of the next Congress. It is impossible for Biden to pass a Republican Congress, or even a Congress in which the Republican Party controls a House, to force a spending bill worth a surprise.
This is a dishonest and despicable spin. No one, not even the author, believes it. This is a partisan hacker, which is stupid. But in short, this describes our “foreign policy experts.”
