Biden's Presidency Died in Afghanistan
Joe Biden is a fraud and a liar; a weak, incompetent leader, who will go down in history as the worst President in American history. While he may believe his own lies, the American people do not.
By Drew Allen
Biden’s Presidency Died in Afghanistan
In April of 2021, shortly after Biden’s presidency began, he announced formal plans to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. “It’s time for American troops to come home,” Biden said. But not all of our troops did return home.
On August 26th, two suicide bombers killed 13 American service members outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The horrific tragedy contradicted Biden’s previous assurance that the withdrawal was “proceeding in a secure and orderly way, prioritizing the safety of our troops as they depart.”
Biden made that statement in July, even after the top U.S. General in Afghanistan, Austin Scott Miller, had warned that the security situation in Afghanistan wasn’t good. “We should be concerned,” Miller said.
Biden, however, wasn’t concerned. Even as U.S. Army General Miller warned of the Taliban’s alarming advances, Biden assured reporters that a Taliban takeover wasn’t inevitable.
But the Taliban did takeover Afghanistan, our withdrawal was neither secure nor orderly, and 13 of our American service members never returned home. Rather than confront reality, Biden chose to lie, instead.
The Biden presidency is defined by two things: failure and fiction.
After suicide bombers murdered 13 American service members in Kabul, Biden pledged that “we will hunt you down and make you pay.” Days later the Pentagon announced the U.S. had carried out a successful drone strike in retaliation, which had resulted in the death of one high profile Islamic State terrorist and the injury of another.
Biden took a victory lap and warned that “this strike was not the last.” A day later, however, the New York Times reported that the same drone strike had blown up a vehicle laden with explosives, which allegedly had thwarted another imminent ISIS-K threat at the Kabul Airport. So did we kill an ISIS-K planner or did we blow up a car full of explosives? Neither.
The retaliatory drone strike hadn’t killed an ISIS-K planner, or thwarted an imminent attack as Biden and the Pentagon had claimed. Instead, it had killed 10 innocent Afghans, including seven children. To this day, not a single person responsible for the ‘mistake’ has been held accountable.
Everything that could have gone wrong during Biden’s hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan did go wrong. Not only were Americans killed, but countless Americans and billions in US military equipment were also left behind. It was an abject failure.
But not according to Joe Biden, who lives in a fantasy land of his own creation.
After the Taliban had reclaimed control of Afghanistan, 13 Americans had been killed, and Americans left behind, Joe Biden proudly declared that “the war in Afghanistan is now over.”
And yet a year after Biden made this declaration, he gave the order to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s number two, who had moved back to Kabul, Afghanistan after the Taliban took back control.
On July 8, 2021 Biden told Americans that our work in Afghanistan had concluded after we delivered justice to Osama Bin Laden. If it had concluded, then why did Biden kill al-Zawahiri one year later and announce that “justice has been delivered.” Hadn’t justice already been delivered?
And if Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan had been such a success, as Biden said, why didn’t he mention it in his State of the Union address on March 1st of this year?
While Biden ignored his failures in Afghanistan in the SOTU speech, he can’t ignore them as we approach the one year anniversary of his botched withdrawal.
Doubtless, Biden will try to spin the tragedy as a success and escape blame. He was quick to take responsibility for the killing of al-Zawahiri but will most certainly refuse to take credit for the murder of 10 innocent Afghans in his retaliatory drone strike or the deaths of 13 American service members just one year ago.
Joe Biden is a fraud and a liar; a weak, incompetent leader, who will go down in history as the worst President in American history. While he may believe his own lies, the American people do not.
Biden’s presidency is defined by failure and fiction. His botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was as secure and orderly as his management of the American economy and our own border.
Just as Biden denied the reality of his failure in Afghanistan, he denies his failures here at home, claiming we aren’t in a recession, that inflation is transitory or even non-existent, and that soaring gas prices are simultaneously Putin’s fault and a reflection of Biden’s successful energy policies.
But Biden isn’t fooling anyone, except himself. As we mark the one year anniversary of his lies and failures in Afghanistan, we also mark the one year anniversary of his presidency’s death. Biden’s presidency died in Afghanistan.