Biden on Afghanistan
Still an idiot and now off the reservation.
This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Vice President Biden said that U.S. troops would rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan. “You’re going to see that [troop numbers] chart coming down as rapidly over the next two years,” Biden said after looking at a chart showing troop numbers surging from 33,000 at the beginning of 2009 to 98,000 in the summer of 2010. “This is not a Coin [counterinsurgency] strategy,” Biden said. “We just want to make sure that the Taliban is diminished enough so that the Afghan government can contain it.”
Perhaps most troubling, Biden said: “the president has made something exquisitely clear to each of the generals: He said do not occupy any portion of that country that you are not confident within 18 months you’re going to be able to turn over to the Afghans. Do not occupy what you cannot turn over.”
Placing this requirement on the generals seems to contradict statements by the president and his advisers that July 2011 is the beginning of a gradual conditions-based withdrawal from Afghanistan.
First Obama steps in it by announcing a withdrawal date, then he sends out all the Kings horses and men to walk back that foolish notion, himself included. Then just as he thinks he may have convinced everyone that he was just pandering to the American left, his court jester jumps in and says, no we really meant it, we are bailing on you people, trust me. Now that is really going to inspire confidence in all those Afghan leaders we are counting on handing this thing off to isn’t it Joe? What an ultra maroon. The sad thing for Barry O is that Biden has an exemption from being thrown under the bus.
Tags: afghanistan, biden, court jester, cut and run, idiot, july 2011, obama
I have to disagree with you Jimbo on this one. I think what you heard from Biden is exactly the plan President Obama has. Yes people have softened the withdraw talk, but politics remain the same, November 2012. The reason for the softened talk was only to keep allies on the ground and ANA support. Expect a 50,000 troops withdraw from Afghanistan by December of 2011. Its politics, not war for this president.
Heck, Pakistan is already making accommodations with certain Taliban leaders that may help them after we leave.
Its bad when you believe that Biden would have made a better President……….
I think we can all agree that the message from the white house is intentionally muddled and contradictory so Obama can position himself on the winning side at the end. Also, we can rest easy knowing that President Bush will eventually be blamed for all of it.
“Also, we can rest easy knowing that President Bush will eventually be blamed for all of it”. That’s the “new” policy in a nutshell, when all else fails, blame it on the previous President.
0 is playing every side of the coin here, so no matter what the outcome is, he’ll either be able to claim credit, or blame it on Bush.