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Four Star General Compares Trump To North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il
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“What we are seeing is a parallel to the 1930s in Nazi Germany," says Retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey on the Trump movement. “That
Their proposed solution: more war with the Taliban.
Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:
Republicans are pushing President Joe Biden to take actions that would amount to re-invading Afghanistan by either requiring the U.S. military to retake an abandoned air base or staying in the country long enough to restart the dormant war with the Taliban.
The calls were amplified Thursday following the deaths of a dozen U.S. service members and more than 50 Afghan civilians in a pair of bombings near the Kabul airport, the center of the American effort to evacuate the country’s wartime allies from Afghanistan. Intelligence officials believe a branch of the self-styled Islamic State (ISIS) that has battled the Taliban for influence are responsible for the attacks, according to reports.
In a statement, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who has long opposed efforts under both Biden and President Donald Trump to end U.S. involvement in the two-decade war, said Biden needed to “rip up the Aug. 31 deadline and defend evacuation routes” by expanding the perimeter around the Kabul airport or by retaking Bagram Air Base.
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“The status quo was not an option. Staying would have meant U.S. troops taking casualties; American men and women back in the middle of a civil war. And we would have run the risk of having to send more troops back into Afghanistan to defend our remaining troops,” Biden said in July defending his decision to withdraw. “So let me ask those who wanted us to stay: How many more — how many thousands more of America’s daughters and sons are you willing to risk?”
Though it has been mostly Republicans calling for Biden to pour additional troops into Afghanistan or retake Bagram, many congressional Democrats also have called for Biden to ignore the Aug. 31 deadline, hold the Kabul airport and continue to evacuate Afghan allies and the remaining Americans.
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), for instance, said in a statement Thursday that the administration should “evacuate every American, as well as our partners who stood side-by-side with our troops to combat terrorism” and should ignore “arbitrary deadlines.”
But even military experts who question Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan have argued that staying past the end of the month would risk military lives. Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who has been critical of Biden’s handling of much of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, said Wednesday that holding the Kabul airport past Aug. 31 would be “utter nuts.”
“I am utterly appalled at so-called responsible people arguing with Biden’s decision to leave,“ McCaffrey said on MSNBC. “We do not want a shooting confrontation.”
Biden allies ― who have watched as Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.), who once bashed Biden for not leaving Afghanistan quickly enough but now hammers him over the withdrawal ― have grown increasingly incredulous.
“Republicans only have one false note that they’re willing to hit here, which is to posture like they’re tough by saying that we should put more of our troops into harm’s way — even after 20 years and 2,400 soldiers already lost,” one Biden ally said on condition of anonymity. “Where was this fake toughness when Trump was letting thousands of Taliban fighters out of prison or blowing wet kisses to their leaders?”
The GOP wants to cause a further quagmire in Afghanistan by bringing troops back to restart the war that should have been over the moment Osama bin Laden died. President Biden's decision to withdraw is the correct one.
“This is some crazy thinking going on inside that White House," warned Gen. Barry McCaffrey.
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Trump exhibits ignorance
By JOHN KANELIS
Donald Trump’s ignorance of military matters is well-known, thoroughly chronicled and has become the talk of the planet.
But then the commander in chief said today that rank-and-file enlisted men and women love him, but that the generals and admirals at the top of the chain of command well … think a lot less of him.
“I’m not saying the military’s in…
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Trump exhibits ignorance
By JOHN KANELIS
Donald Trump’s ignorance of military matters is well-known, thoroughly chronicled and has become the talk of the planet.
But then the commander in chief said today that rank-and-file enlisted men and women love him, but that the generals and admirals at the top of the chain of command well … think a lot less of him.
“I’m not saying the military’s in…
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