{"id":333068,"date":"2021-09-01T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-blames-trump-for-afghan-pullout-then-takes-credit-for-it\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:48:35","slug":"biden-blames-trump-for-afghan-pullout-then-takes-credit-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-blames-trump-for-afghan-pullout-then-takes-credit-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden blames Trump for Afghan pullout \u2014 then takes credit for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden blames Trump for Afghan pullout \u2014 then takes credit for it<\/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\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"John Podhoretz\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>President Biden stood before the American people on a Tuesday afternoon and angrily informed us all that he had no choice but to end things the way he did in Afghanistan. No choice! NO! CHOICE!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, don\u2019t blame him! Poor Joe Biden! Look what a mess he \u00adinherited!<\/p>\n<p>You want to pin the chaos on somebody? According to Biden, Donald Trump\u2019s your man. The former president made a deal with the Taliban that obliged America to pull out by May 1, so what could Biden do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he could have done nothing. Which is to say, he could have said Donald Trump\u2019s deal with the Taliban was no longer operative. And in a way, he did, since the May 1 deadline came and went and we were still there.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of things Trump did that he\u2019s stopped doing, plenty of Trump policies he\u2019s reversed. In the end, this is one Trump policy \u2014 the Afghan bugout \u2014 he decided to honor.<\/p>\n<p>You might think, therefore, that he would thank the former president for designing it. Instead, he wants people to blame Trump for a pullout Biden himself defends and for which he takes credit.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested, as he has before, that the only reason the American military went without fatalities in Afghanistan between February 2020 and the terrorist assault on them last week was that Trump and the Taliban had agreed they wouldn\u2019t attack us. Come on, man. Look at the American fatality numbers in Afghanistan before any such deal was struck.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine in 2016. There were 14 in 2017 and 14 in 2018. There were 21 in 2019. We had the Taliban relatively contained.<\/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\/JoeBidenPod.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-19308298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/JoeBidenPod.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/JoeBidenPod.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/JoeBidenPod.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden reversed the majority of the Trump administration\u2019s policies \u2014 except the most important one.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Oliver Contreras\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden claimed the choice \u201cwas between leaving and escalating.\u201d That claim does not hold water. In point of fact, we were providing support and air cover for Afghan forces and could have continued to do so.<\/p>\n<p>He ended the war because he wanted to, not because he had to. He wanted to claim a moral victory over warfare itself, to be known as the bringer of peace. Hubris is every leader\u2019s greatest temptation and his worst foe.<\/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\/Bidenmiltary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden salutes military members after the dignified transfer of 13 deceased US service members killed in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware on August 29, 2021.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-19308373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bidenmiltary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bidenmiltary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bidenmiltary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden salutes military members after the dignified transfer of 13 deceased US service members killed in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Aug. 29, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden\u2019s hubris is a bet. He is betting on the Taliban being something other than what they are, and betting that the American people will watch what h<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>ens now without feeling he has made us all complicit in the results.<\/p>\n<p>Every military casualty is a tragedy. As the president said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing low grade, low cost, or low risk for any war.\u201d But every member of the US military is a volunteer, and that is doubly why they deserve to be celebrated for the choices they\u2019ve made to serve their country by putting themselves in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>That is not how Biden spoke of them yesterday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>In defending his own act of negating their efforts in Afghanistan by choosing to surrender the country to the Taliban, he actually seemed to pathologize their service \u2014 portraying veterans as uncommonly prone to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The shameful cultural portrayal of the Vietnam vet from the 1970s as a delusional psychopath (see <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> like \u201cRolling Thunder\u201d) has now given way to a portrait of the Afghan vet as a trauma victim carrying psychic scars that will never heal \u2014 a portrait drawn by the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>They made America safer, and the world safer. Joe Biden has likely made America less safe, and the world less safe. At least their honor is secure. The angry old man who spent 20 minutes yesterday yelling at the country is secure in nothing.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\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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No choice! NO! CHOICE! Hey, don\u2019t blame him! Poor Joe Biden! Look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/JoeBidenPod.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[115157,72315,71173,4941,991,70376,72318,70580,79117],"class_list":["post-333068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-31-21","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-military","tag-taliban","tag-veterans","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}