Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Biden - "self-defeat"

[Doc7505]

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Bide​

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"Self-Defeat"​

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Biden - "self-defeat"

hotair.com

30 Apr 2021 ~~ By Karen Townsend
The Sunday morning political shows were not kind to Joe Biden and his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Any and all criticism leveled at his decisions is warranted, especially since the death of 13 military members, ages 20 – 31 at the Kabul airport. There is no hiding from that tragedy at Camp David or in the basement of one of his Delaware homes.
One critic who keeps showing up is retired General H.R. McMaster who served as National Security Advisor in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018. His time in the administration was bumpy and after he left, there was talk that he called Trump a “dope” which was denied by others present at the dinner at which the remark was allegedly made. McMaster ended his frequent appearances on FNC that he enjoyed as a member of the Trump administration and went over to CNN and MSNBC. They were happy to welcome someone who they thought would criticize Trump. Now, however, it is impossible to notice he is back on FNC. He is a vocal critic of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of Afghanistan which must be a shock to his new friends in the Biden-friendly media. This morning he was interviewed by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. His opinions have not changed from one network to another.
McMaster says the war in Afghanistan ended in “self-defeat”. He said everyone involved in the war management during the last 20 years bears some responsibility but it didn’t have to end this way. He calls it “a one-year war fought twenty times over.” The decision for withdrawal has been a costly one. McMaster said that Biden “doubled down” on Trump’s original plan and “failed to reverse” it. The fact is, too, that Trump’s agreement with the Taliban – an agreement that wasn’t a formal agreement – was already null and void due to Taliban conduct before Biden set his withdrawal operation into play.

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~Snip~
There have been calls for the resignation of Sullivan, along with General Lloyd, and Tony Blinken. They all should lose their jobs. Either their advice to Biden was deeply flawed or Biden just went it alone. They all have blood on their hands now.


Comment:
“My son is gone, and I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted…legitimately, you just killed my son with a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the WH, who still thinks he’s a Senator.” — mother of slain Marine Rylee McCollum
Fact: - Those responsible for us being in Afghanistan for 20 years and for this withdrawal are graduates of the top 20 colleges and universities. How's that for higher education and critical thinking?

 

[candycorn]

Pulling out of Afghanistan was long over due. Any sober assessment would agree.

 

[candycorn]

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Bide​

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"Self-Defeat"​

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Biden - "self-defeat"

hotair.com

30 Apr 2021 ~~ By Karen Townsend
The Sunday morning political shows were not kind to Joe Biden and his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Any and all criticism leveled at his decisions is warranted, especially since the death of 13 military members, ages 20 – 31 at the Kabul airport. There is no hiding from that tragedy at Camp David or in the basement of one of his Delaware homes.
One critic who keeps showing up is retired General H.R. McMaster who served as National Security Advisor in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018. His time in the administration was bumpy and after he left, there was talk that he called Trump a “dope” which was denied by others present at the dinner at which the remark was allegedly made. McMaster ended his frequent appearances on FNC that he enjoyed as a member of the Trump administration and went over to CNN and MSNBC. They were happy to welcome someone who they thought would criticize Trump. Now, however, it is impossible to notice he is back on FNC. He is a vocal critic of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of Afghanistan which must be a shock to his new friends in the Biden-friendly media. This morning he was interviewed by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. His opinions have not changed from one network to another.
McMaster says the war in Afghanistan ended in “self-defeat”. He said everyone involved in the war management during the last 20 years bears some responsibility but it didn’t have to end this way. He calls it “a one-year war fought twenty times over.” The decision for withdrawal has been a costly one. McMaster said that Biden “doubled down” on Trump’s original plan and “failed to reverse” it. The fact is, too, that Trump’s agreement with the Taliban – an agreement that wasn’t a formal agreement – was already null and void due to Taliban conduct before Biden set his withdrawal operation into play.

​

~Snip~
There have been calls for the resignation of Sullivan, along with General Lloyd, and Tony Blinken. They all should lose their jobs. Either their advice to Biden was deeply flawed or Biden just went it alone. They all have blood on their hands now.


Comment:
“My son is gone, and I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted…legitimately, you just killed my son with a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the WH, who still thinks he’s a Senator.” — mother of slain Marine Rylee McCollum
Fact: - Those responsible for us being in Afghanistan for 20 years and for this withdrawal are graduates of the top 20 colleges and universities. How's that for higher education and critical thinking?

Let me guess...Trump--who was Commander in Chief--bears zero responsibility...right?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Pulling out of Afghanistan was long over due. Any sober assessment would agree.

Question is how not if. Keep up.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Corn Pop knew Biden was a sissy

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Let me guess...Trump--who was Commander in Chief--bears zero responsibility...right?

Well no, he's not POTUS now...your senile fck is

 

[shockedcanadian]

20 Years and has there been any military leader, adviser, strategist held accountable for poor execution? Did American leaders have the foresight to declare a mission, or did the old "get there and then call Status Quo every year" cut it?

Canada is one of the least accountable nations on earth, you are becoming more like us each passing day and I promise you, without question, you will despise such a system.

 

[candycorn]

Well no, he's not POTUS now...your senile fck is

Fact: - Those responsible for us being in Afghanistan for 20 years and for this withdrawal are graduates of the top 20 colleges and universities. How's that for higher education and critical thinking?

4 of those 20 were under the blob's authority.

Again...the blob is responsible for us being there during his tenure. Let alone signing the surrender papers.

 

[toobfreak]

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Bide​

you just killed my son with a dementia-ridden piece of crap​

Well, you know, Doc, even if Joe isn't to blame for this mess, LET'S BLAME HIM ANYWAY! Just for the fun of it, like how the Dems blamed Trump for trying to dig dirt up on Joe because THE DIRT WAS THERE, and because he fired the head of the FBI because Comey was a sneaky, lying crook. And like they blamed Trump for questioning an election that first broke every fucking rule elections have ever gone by, then declared a victory that was as full of holes and unlikely to happen as trying to grow radishes on the Moon.

Yeah, let's blame this dementia-riddled elitist POC now for the slightest of justifications because the imbecile is so far out of it, even his lies have lies, and I don't know what is worse, the disasters he leaves in his clumsy wake or the fact that the boob is too clueless to even realize what harm he really does.

 

[AZrailwhale]

4 of those 20 were under the blob's authority.

Again...the blob is responsible for us being there during his tenure. Let alone signing the surrender papers.

And for sixteen of the twenty years, Biden was an influential part of the government. He bears at least as much responsibility, if not more, than Trump.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Once war has been engaged, the only way the US loses is because of politics.

Afghanistan was pathetic proof…just like Nam.

The MIC wants perpetual war.

 

[Doc7505]

Pulling out of Afghanistan was long over due. Any sober assessment would agree.

Everyone agrees that we should have left Afghanistan. But not in the cowardly and dishonorable way your friend Joey Xi Bai Dung did.

 

[candycorn]

Everyone agrees that we should have left Afghanistan. But not in the cowardly and dishonorable way your friend Joey Xi Bai Dung did.

It would have been much more cowardly (and without any risk politically) to take your blob's approach and just ignore it. Joe did the right thing.

 

[Smokin' OP]

And for sixteen of the twenty years, Biden was an influential part of the government. He bears at least as much responsibility, if not more, than Trump.

You're FOS.
Even the orange retards' regime disagreed.

August 23, 2021
Trump's deal with the Taliban was flawed from the start, which is why Trump's own officials are now scrambling to distance themselves from it. "To have our Generals say that they are depending on diplomacy with the Taliban is an unbelievable scenario. Negotiating with the Taliban is like dealing with the devil," tweeted Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who certainly voiced no such objections while working for Trump.
She was not alone. "Our secretary of state signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban," Trump's former national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told journalist Bari Weiss. "This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn't defeat us. We defeated ourselves.

Even Mike Pompeo, Trump's Secretary of State and the man who negotiated the deal with the Taliban in the first place, is now denouncing it. He had the audacity to tell Fox News that the "debacle" in Afghanistan "will certainly harm America's credibility with its friends and allies." He certainly didn't seem to think so while he was laying the groundwork for the debacle in the first place.

"We're letting the Taliban run free and wild all around Afghanistan," complained Pompeo, the man who cut the deal to release the Taliban's leader from prison in the first place. Trump ordered the release of 5,000 of the top captured Taliban fighters last year—a decision his own designated "peace envoy" Zalmay Khaliizad said publicly had disturbed him. Those same fighters are now threatening the streets of Kabul.

Republican outrage was also completely absent in the first 45 days of Donald Trump's agreement, when there were over 4,500 Taliban attacks resulting in over 900 Afghan casualties. Where was the Republican outrage about the Afghan army then, when their President handed over Afghanistan to the Taliban? Nonexistent.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Well no, he's not POTUS now...your senile fck is

Well,
Americans are dying so for the Left it's a win win

 

[Obiwan]

And it appears more people are weighing in...

 

[miketx]

20 Years and has there been any military leader, adviser, strategist held accountable for poor execution? Did American leaders have the foresight to declare a mission, or did the old "get there and then call Status Quo every year" cut it?

Canada is one of the least accountable nations on earth, you are becoming more like us each passing day and I promise you, without question, you will despise such a system.

Will?

 

[surada]

Trump complained on a radio show that the media spent 'all night' Sunday covering the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida instead of his 'great agreement' with the Taliban

 

[surada]

Well,
Americans are dying so for the Left it's a win win

You can't beat mountain people on their own turf. We have been in Afghanistan over 20 years. The war was unwinnable. We lost.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Let me guess...Trump--who was Commander in Chief--bears zero responsibility...right?

Right. Trump didn’t vote to go to Ganistan. Joe did.