Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell on Friday praised American troops for their service in Afghanistan and blamed the “suits” for what he described as a “debacle” amid Taliban forces quickly taking over much of the country.
Parnell, a decorated Army veteran who served in combat in Afghanistan for 16 months, has faulted “President” Joe Biden and current military generals for the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan without leaving any diplomatic presence, as had previously been the administration’s goal.
“To our troops who fought in the Afghan War: You did your job. You did it well. You defeated the enemies of America at every turn. You gave the Afghans a shot at freedom. Be proud of your service because America is proud of you,” Parnell said. “This Afghan debacle is on the suits. Not the boots”.
“For the last seven months, I’ve watched generals engage in Twitter fights with people, debate the merits of Critical Race Theory on Capitol Hill,” he said. “It seemed like our generals were more concerned with fighting Tucker Carlson than they were the Taliban, and we are seeing the tragic and disastrous consequences of that play on the battlefield right now.”
And “President” Biden issued a statement blaming former President Donald Trump for the Taliban’s [current] successful surge through Afghanistan!
Of course, blame it on Trump! The usual lame excuse from this worthless bunch of losers.
I do believe that the suits and the current batch of military leaders wrote Afghanistan off years ago. Shame, shame, shame.
The Johnson administration here in the UK (I can’t really call it a government) is also blaming the former president:
UK Talking to Taliban, Blames Trump, Not Biden, for Afghanistan Chaos
Wallace said Trump’s 2020 Doha peace agreement “undermined the Afghan government and left it in a place where we ultimately saw the end” and, even more explicitly, told the BBC: “The die was cast when the deal was done by Donald Trump, if you want my observation.”
Right!
“Biden’s accusation that the Trump administration was responsible for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is wrong on several counts. The agreement Trump reached with the Taliban was conditions-based. Since the Taliban breached the conditions, there is little reason to believe that Trump would have implemented the troop pullout. Moreover, Trump intended to evacuate civilians—both U.S. citizens and Afghan nationals who worked with the Americans along with their families—before pulling out U.S. military forces. Unlike Biden, Trump was willing to listen to argument and change his positions to align them with the situation on the ground when necessary. He would likely have kept a residual force in Afghanistan to keep the Taliban at bay.
Perhaps the oddest aspect of Biden’s indictment of Trump is that he treated Trump’s deal with the Taliban as immutable. But Biden was free to walk away from Trump’s deal with the Taliban. Biden’s protestations regarding the deal are particularly ridiculous given that in his seven months in office, he has taken a cleaver to nearly all of Trump’s domestic and foreign policies. No, Biden didn’t remove U.S. forces from Afghanistan because he had to keep Trump’s deal. He removed them because he wanted to.”
Whether it was better to pull out or remain has always been debatable, but the manner in which Biden pulled out was handled in the worst way it possibly could have been.
It should no longer be in doubt to anyone that Biden is incompetent and unfit for office, and should be removed immediately.