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| Subject: President Ice Cream’s Afghan meltdown Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:37 pm | |
| There is quite a lot of that Yes-No, Did-Didn’t, whiplashing these days
You have to hand it to the Taliban (or, if you are Joe Biden, the ‘Tally-bahn’): they are both a persistent and an infernally clever lot.
As to their persistence, recall that George W. Bush assured us that, ‘thanks to our military, our allies, and the brave fighters of Afghanistan…the Taliban regime is coming to an end.’ That was in December 2001.
As of August 2021, they control the country and are as I write issuing ultimatums to the President of the United States: everybody out by September 11, no, make that August 31 — otherwise, there will be ‘consequences’.
Oh, and by ‘everybody out’, we don’t mean Afghans who may have worked for the US: they have to stay.
There does seem to be a communications breakdown about radical elements in Afghanistan.
A few days ago, President Ice Cream said that al-Qaeda was ‘gone’ from Afghanistan, ergo (he did not say ‘ergo’) we had no reasons to be there, getting al-Qaeda after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 having been the original rationale for going into that godforsaken country in the first place.
Alas, just a few hours later that day, the Pentagon spokesman John ‘no imminent threat’ Kirby acknowledged that ‘al-Qaeda is a presence as well as Isis’ throughout Afghanistan.
.https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-ice-cream-afghan-meltdown/ |
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