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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   On 8/17/2021 8:59 AM, Lee wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > Biden says "buck stops with me" and   
   > defends Afghanistan withdrawal   
   > AUGUST 17, 2021   
   >   
   >   
   > Washington — President Biden said he   
   > stands "squarely behind his decision"   
   > to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan   
   > on Monday but admitted that the swift   
   > collapse of the central government caught   
   > the U.S. off guard, telling the nation "   
   > the buck stops with me" as chaotic efforts   
   > to evacuate U.S. personnel and Afghan   
   > allies from Kabul continue.   
      
   If ex-President Donald J. Buckpasser had been in office and had kept to the   
   deadline in the shitty "deal" he negotiated, he would be blaming hundreds of   
   other people for the result, while accepting *ZERO* responsibility.  We know   
   this.   
      
   I don't like most of what President Biden has done in office, but he has   
   personal integrity.  Trump has no integrity whatever.   
      
   >   
   > Addressing the nation for the first time   
   > since the Taliban took the capital on   
   > Sunday, the president did little to   
   > address pressing questions about why the   
   > U.S. failed to anticipate the rapid pace   
   > of the Taliban takeover or why the U.S.   
   > was not to prepared to evacuate Afghans   
   > who aided U.S. efforts over the years.   
   > He claimed many Afghans who assisted the   
   > U.S. were not evacuated sooner because   
   > they didn't want to leave and because the   
   > Afghan government discouraged it. The   
   > president took no questions after his   
   > remarks, and returned to Camp David on   
   > Monday afternoon.   
   >   
   > "I stand squarely behind my decision,"   
   > Mr. Biden said from the White House,   
   > defending his timeline for withdrawing   
   > U.S. troops. "After 20 years, I've   
   > learned the hard way that there was   
   > never a good time to withdraw U.S.   
   > forces."   
   > https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-taliban-decisi   
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