From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Underestimating The Enemy: Why Biden's Afghanistan Exit Went So Badly Wrong - For The Biden Administration, It Was The Start of A Sort of Litany of Things That Didn't Go As Well As They Would Have Drawn Up on The Whiteboard
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:37:26 -0500
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THIS [EMPHASIZING] is what a child does to Usenet's list of newsgroups:
Why? Because mentally, he's a child.
alt.fan.rush-limbaurgh
alt.socially.liberalism
alt.athieism
alt.fucknozzles
alt.poltics.democrats.d
talk.poltics.guns
['oh.no.this.definitely.is.NOT.going.to.can.politics' psycho gratuitous bullshit crosspost removed]
> Shut up, shrieker.
Make me, puny punk.
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Why is Rudy soooo jealous of me?
Because he was too frail, weak and short to have done these VERY common things, most of all of us have done.
Because Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, was *NEVER* a three sport letterman, like me,
and who was *NEVER* a bouncer, like me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf pro, like me, and who was
*NEVER* a lifeguard, like me, and who *NEVER* dunked a basketball, like me, and has *NEVER* laid as many
women as me.
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:08:02 -0700, Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, who was *NEVER* a
three sport letterman, like me, and who was *NEVER* a bouncer, like me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf
pro, like me, and who was *NEVER* a lifeguard, like me, and who *NEVER* dunked a basketball, like me, and has
*NEVER* laid as many women as me, says...
> No doubt ? because your time is worthless
Says the basement-dwelling booze lackey for his mommy, who's here all day EVERY DAY.
LOL
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I can do this all day long, mommy's little basement-dwelling booze lackey.
This is Rudy (Sheldon) after reading my replies to him.
https://i.imgur.com/nIsPGby.mp4
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Underestimating The Enemy: Why Biden's Afghanistan Exit Went So Badly Wrong - For The Biden Administration,
It Was The Start of A Sort of Litany of Things That Didn't Go As Well As They Would Have Drawn Up on The
Whiteboard
From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
['oh.no.this.definitely.is.NOT.going.to.can.politics' psycho gratuitous bullshit crosspost removed]
[subject line vandalism by commie tip-toeing to suck boyfriend's cock, repaired]
On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:01:35 -0700, Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, who was *NEVER* a
three sport letterman, like me, and who was *NEVER* a bouncer, like me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf
pro, like me, and who was *NEVER* a lifeguard, like me, and who *NEVER* dunked a basketball, like me, and has
*NEVER* laid as many women as me, says...
> Where's Harris and Biden?
Not invited because "Gold Star" families are smart and didn't want that pedophile and Alzheimer-addled
*BIDEN*, who got their kids killed, there.
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Underestimating The Enemy: Why Biden's Afghanistan Exit Went So Badly Wrong
https://www.ft.com/content/2f0c12 - F5-f501-41e2-b1e1-176e0b61f9d6
The Taliban's capture of Afghanistan meant that Biden now had to rely on the Islamist group to ensure safe
passage for Afghans and foreign nationals who were rushing to leave, and to prevent ...
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The US State Department on Friday released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which
found that the Biden administrations' decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental
consequences, and details damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the deadly and
chaotic US withdrawal from that country after nearly two decades on the ground. - CNN
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Chaotic Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was A Turning Point In Biden's ...
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/15/1117037318/for-biden-the-chaotic-withdrawal-from-kabul-was-a-turning-point-in-
his-presidency
Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images. A year ago, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, a chaotic end to
America's longest war - and a turning point in the Biden presidency, a moment when his ...
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Afghanistan Conflict: As Kabul Falls, Biden Backlash Grows - BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58224399
Afghanistan conflict: As Kabul falls, Biden backlash grows. The lightning advance of the Taliban in retaking
the country has led Afghan Americans, former generals and leading statesmen to blame ...
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For Biden, the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul was a turning point in his presidency
Franco Ordonez
A year ago, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, a chaotic end to America's longest war - and a turning
point in the Biden presidency, a moment when his approval ratings fell, and never fully recovered.
It's a moment remembered by many Americans for images of crowds of desperate Afghans at the Kabul airport.
Some chased a U.S. Air Force plane, some even hanging on as it took off - and tragically fell to their
deaths. A suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members.
"Every president has a crisis early in their terms," said John Gans, a former Pentagon official who has
written about White Houses during times of war. "For the Biden administration, it was the start of a sort of
litany of things that didn't go as well as they would have drawn up on the whiteboard."
During the withdrawal, Biden's approval ratings plunged - and his polls have remained in negative territory
ever since.
Doug Sosnik, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said it wasn't just Afghanistan that started Biden's
fall from grace. Covid-19 was surging and inflation was beginning to accelerate.
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But Sosnik says the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan really hurt Biden because it undercut the president's
image.
"If bringing competence back to government is one of the kind of hallmarks of a candidacy, then I think the
optics of the Afghanistan withdrawal go completely against the sort of rationale of why you should have voted
for Biden," he said.
Gans compares the political fallout for Biden to what former President John F. Kennedy saw, after the Bay of
Pigs invasion in Cuba.
"Every president since has had something that has helped puncture the momentum, the appeal, the whatever sort
of capture they have on the American imagination," said Gans, who is now a fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania.
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The long-awaited review of the withdrawal is not finished
The White House promised a full accounting of what went wrong. Those reports are still not complete.
John Kirby, the National Security Council Spokesman, told NPR that no military operation is flawless. He also
emphasized the lives saved during the withdrawal, noting more than 124,000 Americans and Afghans were moved
to safety over 17 days during the evacuation.
Kirby said Biden never concerned himself with approval ratings, but strongly believed ending the war was in
the U.S. national interest.
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"I would argue that the events of the last year bear that out, that we were able to focus on other threats
and challenges, not keeping a couple of thousand or perhaps even more troops on the ground in Afghanistan,"
Kirby said.
He said leaving Afghanistan allowed the administration to focus more on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and
ongoing challenges with China.
And last month, Biden approved a drone strike to kill al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
Afghans fleeing the country sit inside a U S military aircraft in Kabul on Aug. 19, 2021.
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Voters are focused on domestic challenges
The withdrawal helped start Biden's slide in the polls. But a year later, voters are more concerned about the
economy, said Mohamed Younis, Gallup's editor-in- chief.
"I'm saying is it's really been a very long time since foreign policy has been the factor in a presidency
sort of turning sour," Younis said.
These days, Afghanistan doesn't even come up in focus groups with voters, said Celinda Lake, a Democratic
strategist.
"Nobody raises that at all anymore," she said. "People are completely focused on the domestic economy right
now."
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More recently, Biden has had a string of victories on domestic issues, but so far it's only given him a small
bump in the polls.
Sosnik, the Clinton adviser, says it's too early to know whether Biden can change the political tides.
"When you have a narrative that's starting to become negative and events occur to reinforce that negative
narrative it creates even more negative momentum."
Biden, himself, remains optimistic, telling reporters on a recent trip to Kentucky that momentum is shifting,
but it will take time to see the results.
"The fact is that we've been divided for so long," he said. "And it's only recently that we have any kind of
movement. And I think you're going to see a lot change."