Post by the Scribe on Aug 15, 2021 18:21:31 GMT
Reagan got us into Afghanistan for starters. When Clinton attempted to kill bin Laden all the crybully republiconservatives protested yelling NO BOMBS FOR MONICA causing Clinton to refrain from further attempts. And then Bush Cheney totally ignored Clinton's warnings about bin Laden AND warnings about an impending attack (9/11) and look how that turned out.
Republicans trash Afghanistan 'embarrassment' in closed-door briefing
www.yahoo.com/news/liz-cheney-says-debacle-afghanistan-090541957.html
Earlier Sunday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) pummeled the Biden administration’s handling of the Taliban’s rapid-fire military triumph in Afghanistan as “inexcusable.”
Cheney, for whom the war in Afghanistan is part of her family’s political legacy, said the U.S. had failed the people of Afghanistan — and that its recent actions would make the nation's allies doubt whether they can trust the United States.
"It's not just that people predicted this would happen; everyone was warned that this would happen. We’ve now created a situation where as we get to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we are surrendering Afghanistan to the terrorist organization that housed al Qaeda when they plotted and planned the attacks against us,” Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week.”
One day earlier, Cheney blamed both Biden and Trump for the current crisis in Afghanistan.
"The Trump/Biden calamity unfolding in Afghanistan began with the Trump administration negotiating with terrorists and pretending they were partners for peace, and is ending with American surrender as Biden abandons the country to our terrorist enemies, "she tweeted.
Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was vice president in 2001 when the U.S. launched an invasion of Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. That invasion ousted the Taliban and drove Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda into the mountains of Pakistan, though the Taliban was able to regroup and extend fighting over the next two decades. Bin Laden was assassinated by U.S. forces in Pakistan in 2011.
Twenty years of U.S. support had failed to provide stability or prosperity to the Asian nation, nor extinguished the threat from the Taliban. But Cheney said that those who claim the U.S. departure from this war was overdue because total victory was never going to be attainable didn’t see the situation correctly.
“This is not ending the war. What this is doing actually is perpetuating it,” she argued.
Republicans trash Afghanistan 'embarrassment' in closed-door briefing
www.yahoo.com/news/liz-cheney-says-debacle-afghanistan-090541957.html
Earlier Sunday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) pummeled the Biden administration’s handling of the Taliban’s rapid-fire military triumph in Afghanistan as “inexcusable.”
Cheney, for whom the war in Afghanistan is part of her family’s political legacy, said the U.S. had failed the people of Afghanistan — and that its recent actions would make the nation's allies doubt whether they can trust the United States.
"It's not just that people predicted this would happen; everyone was warned that this would happen. We’ve now created a situation where as we get to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we are surrendering Afghanistan to the terrorist organization that housed al Qaeda when they plotted and planned the attacks against us,” Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week.”
One day earlier, Cheney blamed both Biden and Trump for the current crisis in Afghanistan.
"The Trump/Biden calamity unfolding in Afghanistan began with the Trump administration negotiating with terrorists and pretending they were partners for peace, and is ending with American surrender as Biden abandons the country to our terrorist enemies, "she tweeted.
Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was vice president in 2001 when the U.S. launched an invasion of Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. That invasion ousted the Taliban and drove Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda into the mountains of Pakistan, though the Taliban was able to regroup and extend fighting over the next two decades. Bin Laden was assassinated by U.S. forces in Pakistan in 2011.
Twenty years of U.S. support had failed to provide stability or prosperity to the Asian nation, nor extinguished the threat from the Taliban. But Cheney said that those who claim the U.S. departure from this war was overdue because total victory was never going to be attainable didn’t see the situation correctly.
“This is not ending the war. What this is doing actually is perpetuating it,” she argued.