Biden's Afghan Disaster

After horrifying images of Afghans and Americans running for their lives in Kabul stunned the world, President Biden decided to interrupt his vacation and address the nation. His speech was too little too late, and it was filled with lies.

If you think I'm being too harsh, CNN's Jake Tapper said Biden's speech was "full of finger pointing and blame." Former Obama CIA Director Leon Panetta compared Biden's Afghan debacle to the Bay of Pigs disaster, and said that Biden needs to "take responsibility."

While Biden said the buck stops with him, he blamed everybody but himself. He blamed President Trump, who managed the Afghan conflict without a glitch for four years. (Trump knew exactly how to deal with Islamic supremacists.)

Biden blamed President Obama, saying he opposed Obama's troop surge in 2009. Biden even blamed Afghan refugees for not leaving sooner. Biden was tough on everyone except the barbaric Taliban, to whom he just surrendered the entire country. 

Biden lied when he said he had no other choice except for deploying tens of thousands of additional troops. No one was asking for that. After 20 years, Americans overwhelmingly want to get out of Afghanistan. But no one wants to leave like this.

The wise course would have been to provide the air cover necessary for an orderly withdrawal.  But Biden had already removed our air power. Even worse, he grounded what little air power the Afghan government had.

Here's the really bad news: This isn't just a temporary disaster. Because of Biden's stupidity, we left behind much of our military equipment. The Taliban will now be one of the best supplied military forces in the region. 

They have American Humvees, personnel carriers and our guns. All the things you paid for Biden just left to our enemies. If Joe Biden was working for the Taliban, he couldn't have done more to help them and hurt America.

I worked for Ronald Reagan who believed in "peace through strength." Another wise man once said, "America risks being seen as a harmless enemy and a treacherous friend." That is the ongoing disaster Joe Biden has created. (See next item.)