Who Is Biden Kidding?

 I waited before posting about Joe Biden's speech on Afghanistan.   My initial reaction was anger at the dishonesty and I did not want to speak out of anger.  After a day of reflection, however, I still consider the speech to be completely dishonest.  In essence, what Biden said was "I have always been against the war in Afghanistan and wanted to have no troops there, but I had to end the war now because President Trump made an agreement that called for a US troop withdrawal.  Huh?  If you were always against that war, Joe, and if you wanted no troops there, it surely wasn't due to an agreement made by Trump that you were reluctantly withdrawing US forces.  Your claim makes no sense.  Either you were always against the Afghan war (even while the Obama/Biden administration multiplied the number of US troops in the country by five times), or you were fine with US troops in Afghanistan were constrained by the agreement Trump made.  It can't be both.  And while we're considering Biden's lies, perhaps someone in the administration could explain why an agreement made by Trump could not have been undone or modified by Old Joe.  There was no binding treaty; there just was a tentative agreement made by Trump.

Let's be clear:  what is happening in Afghanistan is not just an embarrassment for the USA, it is a major disaster for this country.  Why should any regional power accept assurances of support from team Biden who abandon a long term ally on what seems like a whim?  

It's hard to imagine that Biden, in just six months in office, could 1) bring back inflation in a major way, 2) undermine and destroy Afghanistan after thousands of Americans died to protect freedom there, 3) allow Iran to attack international shipping and go all out developing nukes, 4) completely abandon enforcement of our southern border, and 5) stand by incompetently while COVID makes a startling comeback.  Biden's term is only about 15% complete.  What disasters await the USA in the remaining 85% of his term.  And, God forbid, when Biden leaves after his term (or more likely is pushed out in his wheel chair), it VP Harris follows him, America's days as a world power or even a civilized nation may be at an end.

Hopefully, in 2022, the nation's voters will oust the Dems from control of Congress.  Sadly, though, Biden and his incompetence will be in the White House until 2025.