 [FrontPage] During the 2007 Dem primaries, Biden attacked Obama for adopting his position on Afghanistan.
The flailing Biden campaign put out a press release accusing Obama of being a "johnny-come-lately" who had belatedly adopted Biden's push for "significantly increasing reconstruction assistance" and sending more American soldiers to Afghanistan.
While running for president, Biden had based his entire foreign policy around sending more troops to Afghanistan. He had memorized one line, "if we're surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan", and repeated it in the Senate, in interviews, and on the campaign trail.
Sending more troops to Afghanistan, he argued would give America "the moral high ground".
“The next president of the United States will have to rally the American people and the world to fight them over there, unless we want to fight them over here. But the over there is not, as President Bush has falsely and repeatedly claimed, in Iraq, but it's rather in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he insisted at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Biden attacked not only Democrat rivals like Obama, but also President Bush, for not wanting to send more troops to Afghanistan. “I asked the commander of British forces how long his people would allow him to stay in Afghanistan. And he said, ‘Senator, we Brits have an expression. As long as the big dog is in the pen, the small dogs will stay. When the big dog leaves, the small dogs leave as well.’ Well, guess what? The big dog left in 2002.”
He was only off by 19 years. Biden was preemptively accusing Bush of his own sins.
By the 2020 primaries, Biden had completely reinvented his entire history with Afghanistan.
“I’m the guy from the beginning who argued that it was a big, big mistake to surge forces to Afghanistan. Period. We should not have done it. And I argued against it constantly,” he falsely claimed.
Biden had gone from attacking Obama for ripping off his idea of surging forces to Afghanistan to being the guy who "from the beginning" had opposed the idea.
The idea that Biden opposed “from the beginning” was the one he originally claimed credit for.
That was quite a turnaround for the fraudster who had spent his previous presidential campaign declaring, "If we're surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan."
Biden, one of the co-sponsors of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, which began the nation-building push in that country, also claimed that he was against nation-building.
“Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation-building,” Biden claimed in his recent failed speech after Kabul turned into Saigon.
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