'The buck stops with me', says Biden but then proceeds to blame Afghan fiasco on Trump and locals who failed to fight the Taliban before staking $500M in aid to refugees then fleeing back to Camp David
Daily Mail
August 16, 2021
President Joe Biden delivered a speech of quiet fury at the White House on Monday, defending his decision to bring home U.S. troops before blaming Afghan leaders for their failure to prevent the country collapsing.
'I stand squarely behind my decision,' Biden said. 'After 20 years I've learned the hard way. That there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.'
It was the first time the president had spoken publicly about the unfolding crisis in six days. He was forced to return from Camp David amid hostile headlines about his absence from Washington while Americans were being rescued from Kabul airport.
He admitted missteps during the past two decades and described the chaos at Kabul airport, where throngs of Afghans are desperately seeking escape, as 'gut wrenching.'
'I am president of the United States of America,' he said. 'And the buck stops with me.' But only up to a point. He said the blame for such a rapid disintegration lay not with him, but his predecessor as president and Afghanistan's leaders.
'The truth is - this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated,' he said, his eyes narrow. 'So what's happened? Afghanistan's political leaders gave up and fled the country. 'The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight.'
3 comments:
He was actually somewhat focused and coherent. They must have pumped every bit of Adderal on the east coast into him.
Biden is not even close to being President Harry Truman.
Biden is stupid, and senile, and a bare-faced liar, and senile, and stupid, and senile.
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