Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,can.politics,alt.military,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.democrats
Subject: Re: OT: Meathead
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
Organization: ViperNews - www.vipernews.com
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:39:01 +0000
trollhunter <hans@franz.not> wrote in news:20251218110338.30ded631@z-z:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:44:42 -0500
> Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-12-18 12:29 a.m., Ed P wrote:
>> > On 12/18/2025 12:16 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> >> On 2025-12-17, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Not at all. I recognize honesty and integrity. I don't se
> e much
>> >>> of it in the present administration.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Did you see any at all, in the last administration? If so, tell
>> >> me. Don't believe what you're told. Believe your lying eyes.
>> >
>> > The faults and errors of the last administration do not allow this
>> > one to be as bad or worse.
>>
>> Yeah. Look at the fiasco in Afghanistan for one. Trump really ripped
>> into Biden for pulling out and leaving all that military equipment
>> behind. Oh wait.... that was the deal that Trump made.
>
> Nope.
>
> https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/bidens_weak_national_security_po
> licies2.pdf
>
> The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that $7.12 billion of U.S.
> defense equipment remained in Afghanistan after the hasty and
> ill-planned withdrawal. Even President Bidenâs National Security
> Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed, âWe donât have a complete
> picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has
> gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of
> the Taliban.â
>
> The Taliban now has state-of-the-art U.S. military equipment to impose
> its authoritarian rule over Afghan citizens, sell weapons to our
> enemies, and perpetuate an unstable Middle East. In one desperate and
> impulsive policy decision, the Biden Administration reversed 20 years
> of progress made in Afghanistan that included an investment of $2.3
> trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars and the lives of thousands of patriots.
> The Biden Administration abdicated its duty to the memory of our
> warriors and gave the Talibanâ those who we came to fight against 20
> years agoâan advanced western military arsenal.
>
>> Biden was
>> just left holding the bag for what Trump had done.
> "...in February 2020, Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban
>
> Trump's Taliban deal,
The Afhganistan surrender was
by Trump, under Trump, with timetables
demanded set by Trump. The entire retret-
and-surrender package was pure Trump.