{"id":335586,"date":"2021-09-05T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-afghanistan-disaster-and-lies-are-grounds-for-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2021-09-05T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:30:58","slug":"bidens-afghanistan-disaster-and-lies-are-grounds-for-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-afghanistan-disaster-and-lies-are-grounds-for-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden&#8217;s Afghanistan disaster and lies are grounds for impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden&#8217;s Afghanistan disaster and lies are grounds for impeachment<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever elected to the most powerful office in the world, is not merely doddering in a palpable senility, flailing haplessly before the cameras with a wizened countenance. He has not merely exposed himself, both physically and mentally, as wholly unfit for the formidable task required of an American president in 2021: that of a Lincoln-esque statesman able to tame a nation\u2019s simmering angst, salve a fractious republic\u2019s gaping wounds and reorient ourselves toward the pursuit of a coherent common good.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is, quite simply, a man unsuited to meet the challenges of the present moment. He is out of his league and, one hopes sooner rather than later, will find himself out of political time. Indeed, there is a compelling case that that time is right now. <\/p>\n<p>The way Biden has handled America\u2019s (admittedly long-overdue) withdrawal from the backwater of Afghanistan has been so inexplicably botched, so patently dripping with gross malfeasance and so clearly subversive of his solemn constitutional oath and his foremost commander-in-chief prerogative that the proper short-term remedy is obvious: impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution\u2019s presidential impeachment standard, as consumers of our politics know all too well from former President Donald Trump\u2019s own recent trials and tribulations, is that of \u201cTreason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.\u201d Modern impeachments typically focus on the catch-all \u201chigh Crimes and Misdemeanors\u201d provision, and so too does the case for Biden\u2019s own Afghan debacle-induced impeachment rest on that criterion.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Some may read \u201chigh Crimes and Misdemeanors\u201d and facilely conclude that, as with former President Bill Clinton perjuring himself in the late 1990s, such an actual black-letter criminal offense is required for successful prosecution of a presidential impeachment. But that reading, while reasonable at first blush, is wrong. It ignores the centuries-old history of the phrase \u201chigh Crimes and Misdemeanors\u201d as a legal term of art at common law. <\/p>\n<p>The proper explication was presented by Alexander Hamilton in \u201cThe Federalist No. 65\u201d: \u201cThe subjects of (the impeachment trial\u2019s) jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any Democrat who does not have a shockingly selective and short-term memory ought to understand this. Democrats\u2019 first attempted impeachment of Trump, commenced in 2019 due to a thoroughly unmemorable and unremarkable (if imperfect) phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that amounted to a five-page printed tran<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\">script<\/a>, was clearly underpinned by nothing whatsoever if not an alleged and amorphous \u201cviolation of some public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, with this ham-fisted foreign-policy quid pro quo phone call as recent impeachment precedent, Biden\u2019s unearthed July phone call with former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani is arguably <em>alone<\/em> sufficient to trigger impeachment proceedings. As Reuters reported this week, Biden instructed Ghani to outright lie, if need be, about the failed US-led effort to contain the Taliban. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren\u2019t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Afghanistan-Gulf-Hosting-Fugitives.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden told former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to &quot;project a different picture&quot; about the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.\" class=\"wp-image-19358118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Afghanistan-Gulf-Hosting-Fugitives.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Afghanistan-Gulf-Hosting-Fugitives.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Afghanistan-Gulf-Hosting-Fugitives.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Afghanistan-Gulf-Hosting-Fugitives.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden told former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to \u201cproject a different picture\u201d about the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Alex Brandon, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what sane world is Biden\u2019s outrageous phone call to Ghani <em>less<\/em> damning than Trump\u2019s Ukraine phone call to Zelensky, in which the former president temporarily delayed the release of eventually disbursed foreign aid as part of a sloppily attempted quid pro quo?<\/p>\n<p>But Biden has, of course, disgraced himself and sullied America\u2019s reputation in myriad ways beyond his ill-fated phone call to Ghani, which transpired mere weeks before Kabul\u2019s fall. He and his administration have spoken of the Taliban, an unreconstructed sharia supremacist jihadi outfit, as an ostensibly legitimate geopolitical actor worthy of sharing sensitive information. <\/p>\n<p>That would be the same Taliban that turned a blind eye to an ISIS-K suicide bomber who killed 13 US servicemen and maimed dozens of others outside the Kabul airport, and which has of late been going door to door executing political opponents it previously vowed to spare. That has now freed thousands of highly dangerous jihadi prisoners from abandoned Bagram Air Base and acquired, among other treasures, 73 American military aircraft and nearly 100 American military vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s incompetence has directly freed terrorists and unequivocally bolstered the weaponry cache of the jihadi group that harbored al Qaeda in the run-up to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Casualty-Return-Afghanistan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden watching the arrival of a casket of one of the soldiers who died in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.\" class=\"wp-image-19358120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Casualty-Return-Afghanistan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Casualty-Return-Afghanistan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Casualty-Return-Afghanistan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Casualty-Return-Afghanistan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden watching the arrival of a casket of one of the soldiers who died in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on August 29, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most important, Biden has now lied to the American public, tout court, with respect to getting all American civilians out of Afghanistan before the last military plane took off from Kabul. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna stay to get them all out,\u201d Biden told ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 George Stephanopoulos on Aug. 19 about Americans stranded in Kabul, as the US withdrawal chugged along. <\/p>\n<p>That turned out to be untrue: At least 100 to 200 American civilians remain stranded. It is difficult to think of a more egregious violation of a US president\u2019s commander-in-chief constitutional prerogative than to strand US citizens in a hostile, jihadi-overrun foreign country while simultaneously pushing full-steam ahead with evacuating all military personnel from the area.\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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