{"id":329259,"date":"2021-08-23T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joker-joe-biden-cant-laugh-this-afghanistan-debacle-off-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T05:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:27:57","slug":"joker-joe-biden-cant-laugh-this-afghanistan-debacle-off-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joker-joe-biden-cant-laugh-this-afghanistan-debacle-off-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joker Joe Biden can\u2019t laugh this Afghanistan debacle off: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Joker Joe Biden can\u2019t laugh this Afghanistan debacle off: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The laughter was so off-kilter, it made you wonder if Joe Biden had taken leave of his senses during his mini-press conference Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Americans are tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Our troops at Kabul airport are faced with an uncontrollable surge of people so desperate to escape, they are dying in the crush. America has suffered its worst self-inflicted humiliation and the free world is less safe \u2014 all because of his dumb decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he laughs? A cold, inappropriate laugh, muscle memory deployed as a political weapon by a man operating on empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first bout of hilarity came in response to a question from CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> reporter Ed O\u2019Keefe, one of four questions Biden allowed from a pre-approved list of reporters in the Roosevelt Room, seven days after the fall of Kabul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did he trust the Taliban? A swaggering, streetwise smile swept his face. I\u2019m no chump, it said, after he and his congenitally naive national security team were taken for chumps by those Stone Age Islamists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/joe-biden-76.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-19212757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/joe-biden-76.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/joe-biden-76.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/joe-biden-76.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden was all smiles while fielding questions on the Afghanistan crisis.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His derisive chuckles began when O\u2019Keefe apologetically asked about a new CBS\/YouGov poll that shows a majority of Americans disapprove of the way he has handled the Afghanistan exit, and \u201cforgive me, I\u2019m the messenger, no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective at the job.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghanistan-exit-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Hundreds of people run alongside a US Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway  of the international airport, in Kabul.\" class=\"wp-image-19211670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghanistan-exit-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghanistan-exit-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghanistan-exit-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hundreds of people run alongside a US Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport in Kabul.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen that poll,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1429545960192057353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1429545960192057353%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F08%2F22%2Fbiden-cbs-news-poll-majority-americans-competent-focused-effective%2F\">said Biden, shaking his head with a half-smirk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s out there,\u201d said O\u2019Keefe. \u201cFrom CBS this morning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This led Biden to burst out laughing. What was funny? If the mirth was a face-saving performance, it was appallingly ill-judged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He looked down at the cue cards he cannot survive without and began reciting: \u201cLook, I had a basic decision to make.\u201d He went on to reel off a raft of widely accepted reasons for ending the war. But this is not in dispute, as he well knows every time he slyly answers the question no one has asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The problem is the incompetence of the withdrawal, the premature closure of Bagram Air Base, placing our troops in an impossible position, needlessly endangering lives of American citizens and Afghan allies, and leaving billions of dollars of weaponry in the hands of our enemies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bagram-Air-Base-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A member of the Afghan security forces walks in the sprawling Bagram air base in July after the American military departed.\" class=\"wp-image-19211676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bagram-Air-Base-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bagram-Air-Base-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bagram-Air-Base-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A member of the Afghan security forces walks in the sprawling Bagram Air Base in July after the American military departed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Rahmat Gul, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>This is pure gaslighting. Of course it would have made a difference if the evacuation had been done while the US military still held Bagram, before the Taliban took Kabul. Whom is he kidding?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, he promised the withdrawal would be done \u201cresponsibly, deliberately, and safely.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s been utter chaos, and only effective in the last mad scramble due to the competence of troops on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden was full of self-congratulatory bluster and teleprompter statistics of how many people have been evacuated \u2014 28,000, by our military as well as our NATO allies and civilian charters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/kabul-troops.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this Aug. 21, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, take a moment to rest during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul\" class=\"wp-image-19211683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/kabul-troops.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/kabul-troops.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/kabul-troops.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>US Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force \u2013 Crisis Response \u2013 Central Command take a moment to rest during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla\/U.S. Marine Corps via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He hinted that the military finally has been authorized to go outside the airport to retrieve stranded Americans. But if that\u2019s the case, it\u2019s days after the UK and French and Germans started doing it. Why the delay?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He never said how many of the evacuees are Americans, but was at pains to stress that planes from Kabul are not flying directly to the United States, and noncitizens would be thoroughly screened offshore before they come here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comments reflect public concern about the prospect of terrorists arriving on our shores in the crowd of unvetted refugees who have been airlifted out in the chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Biden just confirmed the administration has no idea whom it is flying out, one of the many long-term consequences of botching the withdrawal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nato-flight.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A Romanian Air Force C130 aircraft lands at the end of an evacuation mission by the Romanian military for people stranded in Afghanistan.\" class=\"wp-image-19211694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nato-flight.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nato-flight.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/nato-flight.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Romanian Air Force C130 aircraft lands at the end of an evacuation mission by the Romanian military for people stranded in Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Vadim Ghirda\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The unfamiliar feeling of universal condemnation, more than anything, is what has had his team reeling. He has lost his air cover from left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> allies and now sits exposed to enemy fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Belatedly, he has realized he can\u2019t hide away on vacation and hope that Americans won\u2019t notice events half a world away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is the one area where journalists weren\u2019t willing to cover for him because most of them in the past 20 years have been to that godforsaken war zone and know the truth. The fact is that when you are in touch with reality, Biden\u2019s fantasies and glib narratives are unacceptable, no matter how partisan you are.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He kept fantasizing at the podium Sunday, as if saying something grotesquely false will make it come true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory is going to record this was the logical, rational, right decision to make.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, history will record that he bungled the troop withdrawal, against all advice, and set in motion a disaster that has echoes of the last disaster he had oversight of in the Middle East, when he was the VP in charge of withdrawing troops from Iraq, spawning ISIS and the Christian genocide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/biden-presser-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden arrives to speak about the situation in Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, in Washington. \" class=\"wp-image-19211697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/biden-presser-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/biden-presser-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/biden-presser-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden laughed when answering a question from a reporter Sunday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Manuel Balce Ceneta\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No matter how he tries to shift the blame, he is responsible for the calamity in Kabul. Yet his lack of humility or reflection shows he is nothing better than a con man, trying one last time to shaft the American people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He should have stuck to giving us updates on Tropical Storm Henri, the pretext for his address Sunday. Talking about downed cables and fallen trees is about the limit of his ability.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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