Bobby wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:00 pm
When Biden left Afghanistan, Russia, China and Iran were watching.
Hamas was watching too.
The American troops ran like rabbits from Taliban fighters
with only old AK47s driving civilian Toyota land cruisers.
$7 billion of high tech weapons were left for the Taliban terrorists.
Putin thought -
I might as well invade Ukraine as the USA is too weak to stop me with
that senile old Biden in charge - I'm glad it's not Trump that we face.
China looked on and increased military operations/exercises around Taiwan.
Iran thought - why not stir up some trouble in the Middle East? -
lets' tell Hamas to kill the Jews.
Biden won't do much - he's too weak.
Deep beneath the circus of right-wing theatrics, there's a kernel of truth in Bobby's post that should give the left a serious case of indigestion. When it comes to the foreign policy tango between Biden and Trump, it's a dance of predictability versus chaos. Biden, steady as a metronome, versus Trump, the human pinball. This very predictability might just be giving countries like Russia and China a clearer playbook under Biden, making them more daring in their geopolitical chess game.
An example; Bobby's digital diatribe dumps the whole Afghanistan mess on Biden's doorstep. Pure, unadulterated rubbish. It's as nonsensical as the right giving Biden a pat on the back for overturning Roe vs. Wade, a Trump-era gambit. What they conveniently omit is that Trump's orchestrated the US-Taliban deal – including the troop reduction in 2020 and the grand exit in 2021. Biden, sticking to his 'man of his word' script, honoured Trump's deal post-2020 victory. This act of political acrobatics, trying to straddle the centre line, ended up tripping his administration, alienating both the left and right.
Would Trump have stuck to the US-Taliban deal had he stayed in the Oval Office? That's the million-dollar question. His fan club hails him as the deal-making Hercules unafraid to walk away from a bad deal, while his critics paint him as a charlatan, breaking promises like a wrecking ball at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Both perspectives are true, making the deal's success under Trump paradoxically less likely, despite him being the maestro behind it.
But let's circle back to Bobby's nugget of truth about Biden's weakness. He's too sheepish to push for bold changes needed by the left – think court-packing, student loan forgiveness, minimum wage hikes. All his can do is wave his hands in the air whining "C'mon man" while the world burns. Biden's timidity has indeed let America down. He is hated by both sides. It's not a failure of policy but a failure of nerve.
