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2021-09-05 Home Front: Politix
Biden wants Afghan exit to end US global cop role
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Posted by Fred 2021-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 For those Americans fond of imagining their country to be a unique, invincible superpower — winner of the Cold War, then awesome military interventionist everywhere from Iraq to Africa ever since — this is a shock.

Ouch. A punch to the face is more like it.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-05 03:32||   2021-09-05 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 "Let's all forget 9/11", right? YJCMTSU

The mistake was allowing the 'experts' to deal with it.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-05 06:40||   2021-09-05 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 He's simply leaving the table per continued suggestions and threats from the Chinese.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-05 06:45||   2021-09-05 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I think lots of Americans want this. It's part of the perversity of American history that a democrat will pull down the entire Wilsonian project.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 07:49||   2021-09-05 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 
Having lost a number of DOD friends in places where they were inappropriately used as "Peace Keeping cops" and NOT Soldiers, all for political election year reasons and nothing related to protecting the USA.

Well OK maybe some Special Interest Groups and Wealthy Donor Business plans or resources.

Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-05 08:21||   2021-09-05 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Amen to #5. Say nothing. Strike quickly with no thought to mercy or detention. Get out quickly and continue to say nothing.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-05 08:53||   2021-09-05 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Prompt Global Strike. Managed from CONUS or ships at sea. No boots on the ground. Getting rid of a pariah nation by remote control is a good form of "nation building."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 09:16||   2021-09-05 09:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Getting rid of a pariah nation

But there are so many.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-05 09:40||   2021-09-05 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 Well Skidmark we better get to work now because "we have a man's Job ahead of us."

☺
Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-05 10:15||   2021-09-05 10:15|| Front Page Top

#10 
So, Its Joes Idea for the USA
to engage in Isolationism...

Isolationism is a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who assert that nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. One possible motivation for limiting international involvement is to avoid being drawn into dangerous and otherwise undesirable conflicts. There may also be a perceived benefit from avoiding international trade agreements or other mutual assistance pacts.
More at Wikipedia

And Instituted, what will happen in a Post - Biden - World ?
Posted by Blinky Gleasing7925 2021-09-05 10:51||   2021-09-05 10:51|| Front Page Top

#11 And they said Williams had mental issues.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-05 10:56||   2021-09-05 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Biden's America: No ally trusts us and no enemy fears us.
Posted by Matt 2021-09-05 12:11||   2021-09-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

#13 There isn't a jacket big enough to cover Biden's owners.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-05 12:23||   2021-09-05 12:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I just read Joe's Tuesday speech. After muddling through the post Afghan disaster spin, he reveals a bit of policy. There is much Trump and much Ben Rhodes in those two or three paragraphs of policy.

The old phrase even a stopped clock is right a couple of times a day seems to apply to Joe...either that or a blind hog found can find an acorn every now and then. Three acorns below:

1. Don't let your enemies dictate your foreign policy (Ben Rhodes reference...and he likely wrote this portion of the speech). Biden references China and Russia prefer that we are distracted, tied down, and wasting resources.

2. No nation building...very much Trump.

3. Prefers to respond to threats strategically when possible (uses new Pentagon buzzword "over the horizon" and respond tactically on when necessary to support the strategic strike...seems to be the policy of most on Rantburg.
Posted by Tennessee 2021-09-05 12:27||   2021-09-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Politicians say a lot of stuff. Only mental deficients buy any of it.
Posted by M. Murcek  2021-09-05 12:35||   2021-09-05 12:35|| Front Page Top

#16  Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.

It only works if we do both pieces, NN2N1. But while some small progress is being made on getting our house in order, the borders will remain unguarded so long as the Democrats are in charge.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-05 13:12||   2021-09-05 13:12|| Front Page Top

#17 #15 Politicians say a lot of stuff. Only mental deficients buy any of it.
Posted by M. Murcek

Mental deficients revel in political propaganda.
Posted by Tennessee 2021-09-05 13:55||   2021-09-05 13:55|| Front Page Top

#18 I agree, we shouldn't be the world's cop. We should be the world's John Wick. You piss us off and the only thing left is the pile of dead. Leave us alone and we'll sit quietly at home, minding OUR business.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-09-05 14:04||   2021-09-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#19 So, Joe - is this like "America First"?
Posted by Bobby 2021-09-05 14:06||   2021-09-05 14:06|| Front Page Top

#20 The world's John Wick. I like that. Wick, and Rambo before him were trying to mind their own business when otbers made that impossible. As an aside, read David Morrell's books (The guy who wrote First Blood)
Posted by M. Murcek  2021-09-05 14:48||   2021-09-05 14:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Read Ender's Game
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-09-05 15:07||   2021-09-05 15:07|| Front Page Top

#22 Never read Ender's Game. Never will. Also never read any Harry Potter books or any Tolkien. Never saw ET. Never read any Steven King. Somehow, I'm still alive and living a full life.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-05 20:00||   2021-09-05 20:00|| Front Page Top

#23 Too bad our enemies - you know those who desire to KILL US, get a vote.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-05 20:38||   2021-09-05 20:38|| Front Page Top

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