Biden's Self-Inflicted Disaster
President Biden’s press conference July 8, 2021:
Reporter1: Is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
Biden: No. It is not…
Fast forward 38 days:
August 15, 2021: Headline, The Salt Lake Tribune": Taliban sweeps into Afghanistan capital after government collapses and president flees.
President Biden’s press conference July 8, 2021:
Reporter 2: And do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling…
Biden: (Interrupts) None whatsoever, zero…There’s going to be no circumstances where you see people being lifted off the roof of a Embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It’s not at all comparable.
August 15, 2021. Again, 38 days later: Evacuation efforts in Kabul are underway.
U.S. Embassy Evacuation Kabul 2021 U.S. Embassy Saigon 1975
CNN: “‘If the Taliban find me, they will kill me and my family,’ says abandoned Afghan interpreter.” (emphasis added)
Kabul International Airport
Advice from the Embassy to American Citizens and those Afghanis eligible for evacuation - shelter in place and oh, by the way - you’re pretty much on your own.
U.S. Embassy Kabul instructions (August 15, 2021
Event: The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly including at the airport. There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place.
U.S. citizens wanting assistance in departing the country should register for any option that might be identified to return to the United States, and must complete this Repatriation Assistance Request …Do not call the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for details or updates about the flight. This form is the only way to communicate interest in flight options.
Not sure how they are going to find “any option that might be identified” since the embassy is closed. Also the form seems to be one that people fill out on line, which presumes they have access to the internet and a computer or smart phone.
What a Disaster.
To drive home the incompetency of the Biden Administration, they tweeted this at 11:32 am, August 15, 2021:
First glance I thought what the hell? Why is he still on vacation at Camp David and not the White House? Then others with more computer skills than I noted this:
So we have a President that assured us that the disaster that is happening would never happen, sitting at Camp David while his staff tweets a photo to the world outing our intelligence people in the CIA and Doha Station. The Biden administration in general and Pres. Biden in-particular are dangerous.
Or as President Obama is reported to have said “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”