Close your eyes and imagine…
You are the president of the United States and a massive withdrawal has gone completely sideways.
You are taking heat from both sides of the aisle.
Do you refuse to take the call from a top ally who can help, or do you give them a shout to see what can be worked out?
Virtually everyone here would agree you pick up the phone, but not Joe Biden.
The Snub
Reports are flying around the internet now that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was trying to reach Biden for some 36 hours to no avail.
Not only that, but there are also reports breaking that the UK was completely “in the dark” regarding the United States’ plans after Kabul fell (more than likely, this is why Johnson was calling).
The Times of London has reported that “senior [U.K.] military commanders have also not been party to key discussions between the U.S. and the Taliban, so were left in the dark about when they could be forced to pull out.”
Johnson was trying to reach Biden for roughly 36 hours, but I guess he was not aware that Joe was on vacation and not taking calls.
According to reports, Johnson reached out to Biden on Monday morning, but Biden did not get back to him until Tuesday night, after returning from Camp David…
Congressional hearings now. https://t.co/AWPue3j2la pic.twitter.com/OWIyQWFe7T
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 19, 2021
Meanwhile, our allies have taken matters into their own hands, doing what we should have been doing days ago…
Impressive French rescue convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan…pic.twitter.com/d2qGcUCyxu
— Dan Scavino🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) August 20, 2021
Instead, when asked about plans to put more ground forces in play to help the evacuation, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby stated, “We have not seen any great impediments to the safe passage that the Taliban have agreed to facilitate.
“Americans are getting through those checkpoints and they are getting onto the base — the airfield, and they are being flown out of Kabul. I won’t speak to potential future operations that may or may not be conducted.
“What I can tell you is the operation we’re conducting now, and that is to keep that airfield open and running and Americans are getting through the lines. They are getting onto planes.”
John Noonan, a national security adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), is actually on the ground in the area and says that is 100 percent not true…
Have been speaking with evacuees directly on the ground in Kabul.
Taliban not honoring their word.
Obstructing ingress points to the airport, beating and harassing evacuees, scaring many off. US troops prohibited from expanding perimeter or helping.Many still stuck.
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) August 19, 2021
Another evacuee, a US citizen texted:
“We are going tomorrow to airport my mother is also injured and so is one the guys I think he has broken back from the When they hit him with an AK.”
“I also have back problems because I got hit with back of machine gun.”
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) August 19, 2021
The dishonesty from this administration is astonishing, as is the fact every member of the media is not calling them out for it.
Joe Biden is trying to sell us rotten tomatoes and sour cream by telling us its strawberries and whipped cream.
More and more people are starting to see the deception, including media outlets, but there are still far too many people defending this man and the atrocious actions of his administration.
If this debacle is not an impeachable offense, they need to rewrite the rule book.
Sources: The Times of London, New York Post, & Washington Examiner
