This Isn't Going To Be Popular - Biden Got It Right
That last statement at the end in response to the last question, that was good. He did a good job with that, laid out sound policy. I'm not sure how anyone, including Trump, could have done any better
And at least Biden got things moving, unlike Trump, who was unwilling to fire, at the end - or really at any time - insubordinate officials and generals who served *at his pleasure*, in fact appointing people who sabotaged his policies from the beginning. Trump was strong on rhetoric, but weak to nonexistent on setting out - and enforcing - policy. Biden, with his stuttering problem, ended up being the person who set the solution into motion - while being sabotaged at every step along the way. We have a real problem - we have an unelected government which insists on its right to rule without regard to the Constitution, and that unelected government must be destroyed, it must be ripped up into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds, as John F Kennedy put it - and Constitutional government and the rule of law restored.
And he’s neither senile nor incompetent. He has trouble in reading from prepared statements, and he tends to stutter and skip over words, but when he’s laying things out in a response to a question - a hostile question at that - it’s a clear, reasonable answer put out in plain English, which in this case says the things that should have been said by Bush II in 2002 - and I’ll bet that that has been Biden’s position all along. Unfortunately the press and mass culture is owned by the Military Industrial Complex, which also appears to own about 97 members of the US Senate, and now they want to replace Biden with Kamala Harris - who would be little more than very pliable clay in their hands. Biden is no fool and he has relevant experience: http://www.joe-biden.net/foreign.html I don’t agree with “liberal internationalist” foreign policy, but Biden was honest enough to admit he’d made a mistake, that “nation building” in a region where the dividing lines creating the “nations” in the Middle East drawn up by Sykes and Picot in 1919 were sheer fictions, ignoring the primacy of the tribes which really ran things *in the areas under their control* which had no relation whatsoever to those lines. After all, Saddam Hussein was Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, it was his tribal affiliation which made the difference. Same case for Afghanistan, it was never a nation, but a collection of tribes which fought amongst themselves when no foreign infidel invader was present. In that latter case, the tribes united to drive out the infidels and shortly thereafter reverted to internecine warfare. It may have taken Biden four years to figure this out, but he *did* figure it out - and made the very logical suggestion that Iraq be split up into three separate nations along tribal and religious lines - and I’m pretty sure he’d made the same conclusion about Afghanistan by that time.
A big part of the trouble is that the process of intelligence collection and analysis has been politicized in favor of neoliberal policies, so the people who need to rely on those agencies for impartial analysis in order to set policy have been repeatedly misled and even lied to. The latest - and most disastrous - lie was that the Afghan National Army existed at all, or had any loyalty to the Karzai or Ghani governments. It was no surprise to me to see that “Army” fold up like a cheap tent in a hurricane following the US statement about ending support. That little disaster came from the neoliberals at the State Department, who ratfucked Biden like they did to Trump and threatened to do to any President who defied them. That was followed up by the neoliberals running the Pentagon, who closed Bagram Air Force Base, by slipping away in the dead of night, leaving arms, ammunition, aircraft, and other supplies to whomever wanted them - and the Taliban gladly stepped in… And that thoroughly sabotaged the evacuation effort, leading to the current debacle at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Those Pentagon neoliberal bureaucrats ratfucked every American citizen left in the country, every troop stranded there, and quite a few others - and they ratfucked Biden, too. And then the “intel community” did its part, too, mouthing some ridiculous nonsense about there being 90 days before the Taliban could possibly come in. They were only off by 83 days. Ooops, another “intelligence failure”.
What Trump should have done, on his first day in office, at one minute after he assumed office, was to conduct a Joe Stalin-style purge of the Pentagon, the “intel community”, and the State Department. Biden should do the same, unless he wants to get ratfucked right out of office and wind up in some godforsaken nursing home, doped up and drooling into his shoes until he finally gets shuffled off into Eternity - and a lot of other Americans and others around the world end up in the same location, albeit not so peacefully. The neoliberals infesting the government need to be purged either by effective leadership or by revolution, or like any other parasite, will hollow out and eventually destroy the host.