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On those rare occasions when Joe Biden gets wheeled out, a’la Weekend at Bernie’s, to try and defend his administration’s catastrophic actions in Afghanistan, he (or his handlers) try desperately to pin responsibility for the disaster on his Republican predecessor.
But new revelations reveal just how responsible the Biden administration really is for the disaster in Afghanistan. Especially the plight of US citizens, now stranded and at the mercy of the Taliban.
Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.
The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Antony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
The Democrats are clearly banking on Trump Derangement Syndrome to grant them a free pass on Afghanistan. While the tactic obviously works to a large extent, there are signs of increasing hostility to Biden even in the American media.
In any case, Biden’s excuses are dismally thin. Biden has used executive fiat, where he can’t leverage a Democrat-controlled Congress, to overturn nearly every single significant Trump policy. Yet he claims, ludicrously, to have been unable to reverse the staged-withdrawal policy in Afghanistan.
The truth is that, rather than reverse it, his administration simply bungled it beyond even the low standards set by the incompetent and venal Obama administration.
As outlined in Vanity Fair earlier this year:
“The Bureau of Medical Services’ Directorate of Operation—or ‘OpMed,’ as we call it—is a lifeline for the Department of State and the American people…OpMed emerged from the ashes of Benghazi, where, on September 11, 2012, militants attacked the U.S. consulate, killing America’s ambassador to Libya, an information management officer, and two CIA contractors. The day’s events rocked the national security establishment and prompted years of recrimination, congressional hearings, and blue-ribbon commissions […] OpMed was finding ways to do all sorts of things, serving as the hidden hand behind daring and often dangerous operations to rescue Americans from peril abroad,”
But, y’know… Trump. Everything the Bad Orange Man did is obviously bad, so OpMed had to go.
But The National Pulse understands that career officials inside the State Department objected to the Trump-era aim of creating a Contingency and Crisis Response bureau with the express purpose of avoiding a future Benghazi-style situation for Americans overseas.
Instead, Biden’s team revoked the funding and the approval for the plan, even as the COVID-19 crisis reasserted itself, and and Afghanistan withdrawal loomed […] The news flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claims that his government planned for “every contingency” in the war-torn country.
The National Pulse also understands no Congressional notification was sent to the United States Congress, as is required, upon the pause.
So, this Biden policy has turned out exactly as we’ve come to expect.
On August 15th, Biden’s State Department was forced to issue a humiliating statement warning U.S. citizens that the Embassy in Kabul would be unresponsive to their requests for help.
But, hey, at least they can bask in the relief of knowing that Trump Is Not Their President.
Speaking exclusively to The National Pulse, former President Donald J. Trump blasted Biden’s irresponsible move:
“My Administration prioritized keeping Americans safe, Biden leaves them behind. Canceling this successful Trump Administration program before the withdrawal that would have helped tens of thousands Americans reach home is beyond disgraceful. Our withdrawal was conditions-based and perfect, it would have been flawlessly executed and nobody would have even known we left. The Biden execution and withdrawal is perhaps the greatest embarrassment to our country in history, both as a military and humanitarian operation.”
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Thousands of stranded Americans might judge that a few mean tweets are a small price to pay for a competent administration that actually believed in America.
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