It was surreal. President Joe Biden crumbled when confronted by reporters with the deaths of 13 troops and 90 people who were slaughtered at Kabul airport on Thursday by two ISIS bomb attacks in the latest tragic episode of his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The 78-year-old President was lost for words at times and frustrated in others, gripping his notebook and widening his eyes while reporters from a pre-approved list asked him questions for about 30 minutes. As has become the norm for Biden, he was given a list of pre-approved journalists to call upon at the press briefing.
The UK’s Daily Mail news outlet reminded readers that President Joe Biden has suffered brain injuries in the past along with a heart condition in a report criticizing his performance during a press conference Thursday to address the deadly attacks in Kabul that left 13 U.S. military personnel dead.
The president also tried to blame the debacle on his predecessor, President Donald Trump. In response, Trump railed at Biden for blaming him and also slammed the president’s team for providing the Taliban with the names of all Americans remaining in the country, which Trump referred to as a “kill list.”
In July, former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, now a freshman GOP congressman from Texas, said Biden should be made to take the same cognitive test he administered to then-President Trump.
“You don’t need to be a physician to look at this behavior and see there’s something concerning happening,” he said. “He’s just not aging gracefully at this point.”
“You can go back – there’s forty years of tape of this man – he’s always made gaffes and stuff but these are different, he’s confused, he’s disoriented,” he said.
Paul Plante says
Goofy old Joe is way out of his league as president, a position of actual responsibility versus being a senator, and thanks to the idiocy of people like PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Bill and Hillary Clinton and the disgraced Andy Cuomo, former governor of the corrupt third-world country of New York state, we are saddled with a literal idiot as our “leader” for the next four years.
How to go, Bill, Hill and Andy!
And God help the nation as a result!
Paul Plante says
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record”
Michael R. Gordon
15 AUGUST 2021
“The Taliban, per se, is not our enemy,” Mr. Biden told Newsweek in 2011, drawing a distinction between terrorist groups that menaced the U.S. and the Taliban, which threatened the Afghan government.
Paul Plante says
I just saw a news clip of Joe at some press conference and when asked a question about Afghanistan, Joe said he wasn’t going to talk about Afghanistan and then he turned his back on the reporter and walked away.
Paul Plante says
What world does Joe Biden live in is a question on the minds of many people, not only in America and the world, which has just cause to be quite concerned with Joe’s failing mental capacity, especially after reading in the Reuters story entitled “Biden says Afghanistan exit marks the end of U.S nation-building” by Reuters Staff on August 30, 2021, as follows:
Biden has said the world would hold the Taliban to their commitment to allow safe passage for those wanting to leave Afghanistan in future, and to uphold human rights.
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How does Joe think that either him or “the world” are going to hold the Taliban accountable for anything?
What is Joe going to do if the Taliban do not uphold human rights in a manner acceptable to Joe?
Is he going to attack them militarily?
Is he going to send in a flotilla of drones and remove the Taliban from the planet with them, when in that same article we have as follows:
“I had to go to the bank with my mother but when I went, the Taliban (were) beating women with sticks,” said a 22-year-old woman who spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety.
She said the assault occurred among a crowd outside a branch of the Azizi Bank next to the Kabul Star Hotel in the centre of the capital.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen something like that and it really frightened me.”
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What is Joe going to do for that young woman?
Kill her with a drone strike the way he killed that two-year old girl the other day with a drone strike?
As to how the Taliban view the situation Joe handed them, we have this from that same article:
Facing sharp criticism over the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it was the best available option to end both the United States’ longest war and decades of fruitless efforts to remake other countries through military force.
Earlier in the day, the Taliban, who seized control of Afghanistan in a lightning advance this month, celebrated their victory.
They fired guns into the air, paraded coffins draped in U.S. and NATO flags and set about enforcing their rule after the last U.S. troops withdrew.
The Taliban now control more territory than when they last ruled before they were ousted in 2001 at the start of America’s longest war here, which took the lives of nearly 2,500 U.S. troops and an estimated 240,000 Afghans, and cost some $2 trillion.
“We are proud of these moments, that we liberated our country from a great power,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said at Kabul airport after a C-17 aircraft took the last U.S. troops out a minute before midnight.
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So, does Joe Biden, who incidentally just lost in Afghanistan, whether he can perceive that or not, given the fool still thinks in his failing mind that it is he who is in charge of the world and who can stay on the planet, think the Taliban are concerned about him or what he thinks about anything?