She can't even comment, let alone open up to questions. Besides the instinct to keep her quiet so they don't have any other statements to square with the already incoherent official line, she would be expected to comment on how women and girls will fare under the Taliban. THAT is not video you want out there.
Don’t know if this is a repost, but Parliament condemned President Biden.
My point was that she personally wants to be as far away from all of this as humanly possible to avoid any possible splatter from the shit hitting the fan.
Well, no, there are third and fourth options, to give him the benefit of the doubt:
I mean, sure. I suppose it’s possible, but not likely. That also doesn’t make any of it okay. Option three means they’re either withholding information from him or he doesn’t remember what he’s being told in his briefings. Option four means he isn’t aware of what his own administration is putting out or he’s not able to remember the classification level of information on which he’s being briefed. Not exactly reassuring either.
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So the Brits negotiated a separate deal? Also, the Brits aren’t stupid, so they’re clearly willing to take casualties to effect their evacuation. As for OUR diplomatic deal, I guess we DO negotiate with terrorists now? Although, I guess they can’t be terrorists if they have a Twitter account, right? Because the literal insurrection they just pulled off is nowhere near as bad as January 6th.
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It’s been a shit show from day one.
This problem was solved by installing locked doors to access cockpits on commercial aircraft.
On the first point, we agree. Because the policy didn’t stop at just kill terrorists, that’s where we went astray. 100 percent on the Bush admin there. I’ve been listening to a lot of post-mortems over the last few days from NatSec folks from across the spectrum. Let’s also not forget the significant impact of starting another major, higher priority conflict next door in 2004. Setting aside the myriad reasons that move was a disastrous policy blunder, it diverted a lot of the resources from that effort, crippling it further. So, let’s review… Bush admin sets out on an impossible task, then shoots themselves in the foot by starting a second war. Tell me again how this isn’t the Bush administration’s fault?
| Worked out ok | Didn’t work out well |
| Uganda 11 Serbia 99 Haiti 95 Kuwait 91 Panama 89 Grenada 83 | Syria 13 Libya 11 Afghanistan 01 Somalia 93 Lebanon 83 |
Whatever one thinks of her, why would the VP comment on this? Not really her role. How many times did Walter Mondale comment publicly about the Iran hostage crisis before he started running for President?
