Say, Joe Biden, Ended Any Forever Wars Lately? You Did? Tell Us All About It!
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President Joe Biden is set to address America about the end of the US military presence in Afghanistan, which became official as the last US C-17 transport plane took off from Kabul's airport yesterday, just before midnight local time. As Lawrence O'Donnell noted last night on MSNBC, it's a pretty unusual situation for a president to give a speech after an unsuccessful military conflict. O'Donnell noted that he'd checked with NBC News archivists, who confirmed that in 1975, following the fall of Saigon, Gerald Ford didn't so much as hold a press conference, let alone a speech to the nation.
"We're betting this one starts on time" is a thing Dok wrote in his draft that then did not come to pass.
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physical violent war is antiquated.much easier and cheaper to do it by levis and coca cola.
'Thank you for taking my question uh General Miller do you feel like you forgot anything in Afghanistan you know like perhaps state of the art weaponry or anything like that?'"Not off the top of my head no".'Do these photos ring a bell?'"Oh that, that's just some army surplus stuff leftover from WWII. Completely obsolete."'World War 2 you say?'"Maybe even WWI. Some of it even looks Civil Warish circa 1864. Can we move on now? It won't help the Taliban anyway. They drive on the other side of the road over there."'Can you envision any scenario where a cash strapped Taliban sell these weapons to ISIS and other terrorist groups thus leading to an explosion of world wide terrorism?'"Absolutely none".'Why is that sir?'"We took all our maps of Mexico with us when the troops left".'With all due respect general Mexico is not even in the same hemisphere as the terror cells in the Middle East and Africa'."Tomato Tomahto."