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    Biden Living in ‘Fantasyland’ on Afghanistan Pullout, Sen. Joni Ernst Says

    President Joe Biden is moving ahead with plans to evacuate all U.S. citizens and troops from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, providing the Taliban does not interfere with the evacuation. But Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, a combat veteran, says she does not see how it’s possible to meet that deadline.  The notion that Americans and our…
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    Media Are Only Tough on Biden When He’s Not in the Room

    President Joe Biden is still in the midst of the worst stretch of news coverage of his administration—and it’s one of his own creation. Facts that have emerged about Biden’s calamitous withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan show that he was unwilling to listen to his own military leaders, changed his story about his faith…
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    Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Shows He’s More Bystander Than World Leader, in Over His Head

    President Joe Biden stepped out of the Oval Office on Friday and delivered yet another defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal. For those convinced he’s in over his head, he did not disappoint. His excuses were as pathetic as ever—but there was more in these remarks. Biden, an inept statesman and a disastrous politician, also proved…
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    Biden Not Certain How Many Americans Stranded in Afghanistan

    President Joe Biden vowed Friday to evacuate every American in Afghanistan who wants to go home, but seconds later said he can’t promise a “final outcome.”  Biden made the contradictory points in scripted remarks, before he took a few questions on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan as the U.S. hastily withdrew forces. It was the…
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    Cowardly Biden Hides From Press on Afghanistan

    The very supportive media environment around President Joe Biden has turned suddenly sour over this administration’s shoddy handling of Afghanistan. This debacle shouldn’t be buried and ignored by the press, like they’ve tried to do with the border crisis. But Biden’s gone back to hiding as a strategy, as he did in his 2020 presidential…
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    Biden Can’t Escape Blame for Afghanistan Fiasco

    The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul. Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern United States—despite its powerful diversity training…
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    Biden’s Surrender

    After searing criticism from Democrats and Republicans about how he has mishandled the withdrawal of the remaining American forces, diplomats, their families, and contractors from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden interrupted his Camp David retreat to return to the White House for a speech in which he blamed the Trump administration for its failed policies relating to…
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    Biden Chooses Decline

    In November 2009, the late Charles Krauthammer gave a seminal speech, titled “Decline Is a Choice.” In it, Krauthammer stated, “The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no … Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition….
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    A Crisis of Confidence in Biden

    As many Americans are likely becoming more aware of, confidence in the competence of President Joe Biden is waning quickly. The images and videos coming out of Afghanistan show a catastrophic failure to execute a withdrawal from the troubled country, and indicate that serious failures in intelligence and planning have taken place at the highest…
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    Earmarks, a Favorite Tool of Central Planners, Are Making a Comeback Under Biden

    One of the hard-fought victories of the tea party wave that swept Congress in 2010 was the elimination of earmarks in 2011. The new majority wanted to rededicate Congress to the goal of promoting a free society—free, among other things, from the manipulation of central planners. And one of the favorite tactics of central planners…
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    Senate Democrat Pressures Biden Administration to Soften Iran Policy

    The Biden administration, whose failed efforts to appease the Taliban with a one-sided “peace” agreement have been exposed as a catastrophic error in Afghanistan, is under pressure to step back from confronting Iran on nuclear and other issues. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., chairman of the relevant Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee, has called for the U.S….
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    How Will Biden Handle His Next 3 Afghan Crises?

    President Joe Biden thought he might be ending endless wars, but all he accomplished was making the protection of U.S. interests in Afghanistan more costly and more at risk. Further, he faces three new crises that America will have to confront. How Biden addresses them will shape the future of his presidency and America’s security….
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    Biden Admits Green New Deal Is a Dream

    Last week, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ordered a “code red,” releasing a “landmark” report warning that global warming was an existential threat to humanity, “unequivocally” blaming humans for the problem, and demanding rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. “What the IPCC told us is what President [Joe] Biden has believed all…
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    Biden Needs to Admit His Failures on Afghanistan

    Before President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the crisis in Afghanistan, someone should have reminded him of the adage “When you are in a deep hole, stop digging.” Because on top of his strategic failures in Afghanistan, he has now made a massive political misjudgment. Here is the problem with a White House rebuttal that just blames…
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    5 Actions Biden Must Take Now on Afghanistan

    What does President Joe Biden’s disastrous decision on Afghanistan portend for the future of transnational Islamist terrorism? A lot. The administration needs to acknowledge its mistakes and get busy preventing the terrorist rampage. There are two ways that the world could see a lot more slaughtering of innocents after America’s humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan. First, of course, we…
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    Federal Judge Reinstates ‘Remain in Mexico,’ Ruling Biden Broke Law in Terminating Policy

    Federal District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday granted judgment in favor of Texas and Missouri against the Biden administration in their lawsuit over the president’s termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (commonly called the “Remain in Mexico” policy).  The takeaway is that unless President Joe Biden prevails in an emergency appeal, the policy will be…
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    Fall of Afghanistan Seen as Historic Failure for Biden

    When candidate Joe Biden was asked if he would bear some responsibility for the outcome of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan if the Taliban took control of that country, he answered, “No, I don’t.” “Do I bear responsibility? Zero responsibility,” Biden added during the CBS News interview in February 2020. “The responsibility I have is…
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    On Afghanistan Fiasco, Biden Says ‘Buck Stops With Me’ While Blaming Everyone Else

    “The buck stops with me,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation Monday afternoon, after blaming his presidential predecessors for continuing a long war in Afghanistan. Biden gave the speech in response to criticism of the way in which the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. After a weekend in which the…
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    I Served in Afghanistan. This Chaos Was Avoidable, and Biden Is Squarely to Blame.

    The scenes at Kabul’s international airport are heartbreaking. Thousands of Afghans, trying to flee the grip of the Taliban, swamped the airport hoping to catch a flight out. Some desperate Afghans even tried hanging onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 as it was taking off. Regrettably, a few Afghans dangling from the bottom of the…
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    McCarthy Calls for Probe of Biden Policy Amid Collapse in Afghanistan

    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday called for the Biden administration to be investigated over its handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal after the Taliban retook the country in a matter of days. McCarthy, a Republican from California, told Punchbowl News Sunday that President Joe Biden’s decision to fully withdraw before Sept. 11 was a…
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