re: Taliban has taken Kabul. Terrorist attack at Airport at least 12 marines confirmed killed

I'll tune in

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know Biden is incompetent but whoever the military people behind the scenes orchestrating all these decisions need to be held accountable.

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Bingo

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People aren’t going to take this are they?

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I simply, at this point have to laugh at this question

NY Times with a pretty damning article

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Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances

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Even as the president was telling the public that Kabul was unlikely to fall, intelligence assessments painted a grimmer picture.

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WASHINGTON — Classified assessments by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President Biden and his advisers said publicly that was unlikely to happen as quickly, according to current and former American government officials.

By July, many intelligence reports grew more pessimistic, questioning whether any Afghan security forces would muster serious resistance and whether the government could hold on in Kabul, the capital. President Biden said on July 8 that the Afghan government was unlikely to fall and that there would be no chaotic evacuations of Americans similar to the end of the Vietnam War.

The drumbeat of warnings over the summer raise questions about why Biden administration officials, and military planners in Afghanistan, seemed ill-prepared to deal with the Taliban’s final push into Kabul, including a failure to ensure security at the main airport and rushing thousands more troops back to the country to protect the United States’ final exit.

One report in July — as dozens of Afghan districts were falling and Taliban fighters were laying siege to several major cities — laid out the growing risks to Kabul, noting that the Afghan government was unprepared for a Taliban assault, according to a person familiar with the intelligence.

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There's a good bit more at the link.

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You have to understand that a great number of progressives see nothing different between January 6th and what's going on now in Afghanistan.

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I can’t believe they don’t see the difference.

They may lie to themselves and be willfully ignorant, but they know there’s a HUGE gulf deep down.

If the NYT turns on you, it's over.

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People aren’t going to take this are they?

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Of course they are. But that's beside the point of you asking if Biden will resign.

He won't resign and his base and his media overlords will forget all about this in short order and get back to being the propaganda wing if his administration.

Very cosmopolitan.

They are absolutely destroying biden on fox right now.

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but they know there’s a HUGE gulf deep down.

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Progressivism attracts a lot of populists who frankly, aren't the brightest bulbs.