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Thorner: Biden’s Fake Victory Lap

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September 1, 2021
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Yesterday, Tuesday, August 31, 2021, after showing up more than an hour late, President Biden touted his “successful” exit from Afghanistan, priding himself on how he was able to get “90%” of Americans out of Afghanistan who chose to come home.

In his remarks Biden, maybe because he was trying to convince himself, yelled at Americans who have a right to be upset with his catastrophic exit from Afghanistan. 

Biden’s Victory Lap was as predictable as it is astonishing. Only such a man as Joe Biden with the unearned, but raging arrogance, undeserved display of confidence, stunning indifference to the fate of Americans and Allies callously abandoned through his indescribable incompetence, could prattle on claiming ‘Success.’

A shameless Biden used a symbolic date certain, 9/11, as the crowning moment to declare the end of endless wars in Afghanistan, as vindication for the tragedies and unforced errors of the past few weeks.

Any student of history will look to Churchill’s Dunkirk success with pride as a courageous and stunning display of leadership, that is now in stark contrast to Biden's Kabul retreat, filled with cowardice, chaos, and failures of leadership, responsibility, comprehension of conditions and military capacity. This was largely a failure of stubbornness, omission, and execution, not military, but political.

After a 40-year record of a mindless deviation from advice and knowledge of wiser men, Biden was mostly alone in his foreign policy endorsement and largely wrong on every account.

The Biden hope for today, American’s notoriously short on memory of matters of importance, will forget this time of stain on America and remember the greatest evacuation and air lift in our history.  He may even be right.  But the Taliban are an unpredictable lot, as are the other terrorists who will have effective free reign in the country.  They are not bound by protocol or chain of command and just might take a few hostages or made for TV public executions and beheadings.
 
When that happens, Biden and his ill-planned escape from Afghanistan will be back on the front page.
 
While Biden would like to be the 21 st century Winston Churchill and the great Dunkirk evacuation, history will rightfully deny him that honor.  
 
Many of us have read about Churchill and Dunkirk.  We will remember:  Joe Biden is no Winston Churchill and will further believe that such a comparison is odious.
 
Good read from Fox News
 
An excellent article by Brooke Singman of Fox News was posted shortly after President Biden's remarks to the American people, Defiant Biden takes 'responsibility' for decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, touts mission success.  Singman's article is well worth a read.    
 
Mr. Singman presents an excellent recap of what Biden said, including snippets to reinforce his points.  Singman concludes his article with the following remarks:
 
“This decision about Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan," Biden said. "It's about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries.”
 
“As we close 20 years of war and strife and pain and sacrifice, it's time to look to the future, not the past," Biden said, "To the future, that safer future, that more secure future.”
 
“He added: "I gave my word with all of my heart. I believe this is the right decision, a wise decision and the best decision for America." 
 
But was it?   Certainly not at this moment in time.

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