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Fact-Checking 9 Major Biden Claims About Retreat From Afghanistan
Throughout the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which began in mid-August and wrapped up just before midnight Tuesday in that nation’s capital, President Joe Biden made many comments that later proved to be inaccurate. After 20 years in Afghanistan, the last U.S. military personnel departed, leaving the Taliban to take over completely following Biden’s… -
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House Conservatives Call on Biden, Austin, Milley to Quit Over Afghanistan Withdrawal
The House Freedom Caucus called Tuesday for President Joe Biden and other administration officials to resign in order to take responsibility for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We call upon—most somberly—the resignation of this president, Joe Biden,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republican members of the… -
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Biden Must Avoid Another Fiasco With Iran After Afghanistan Debacle
President Joe Biden opted to continue with a half-baked “peace agreement” with the Taliban that he inherited from the previous administration and the results were disastrous. Now, the Biden administration is on the verge of making a similar mistake by seeking to resurrect the flawed 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration…. -
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. John F. Kennedy vs. Joe Robinette Biden
In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact… -
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Biden Still in Excuse-Making Mode
The blame game continues. In his latest speech on the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden fingered the terrorist group ISIS-K for the bombing at the Kabul airport. He then delivered more excuses why the hole he dug isn’t getting deeper. After a 90-day intelligence review, his administration still can’t figure out if COVID-19 came out of a… -
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Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy Instincts
The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is a bipartisan, transadministrational failure. It is a humiliation. The fact is that after 20 years, after thousands of lives were lost and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on the military, police, training, infrastructure, and education, the country fell in days. Whatever your position is on the presence… -
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Biden Isn’t Using All Available Resources to Rescue Americans in Afghanistan, Lawmakers Say
Rep. Mike Waltz, a colonel in the National Guard and a decorated Green Beret, is frustrated with what he describes as the State Department’s “risk aversion,” which he blames for preventing the military from quickly locating and rescuing all Americans still stranded in Afghanistan. With the evacuation window beginning to close, the Florida Republican is… -
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For Brits, Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle Is a Betrayal
When President Joe Biden addressed the American people on the Afghanistan withdrawal last Friday, we were witnessing the death spiral of one of the most calamitous U.S. administrations of modern times. This presidency is sinking faster than the Titanic, increasingly friendless on the world stage, and looking like easy prey to America’s enemies, from Beijing to Moscow. Biden appeared confused, angry, incoherent, and… -
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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….