The Issue: President Biden’s claim that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was an “extraordinary success.”
I agree with President Biden that the withdrawal from (surrender of) Afghanistan was an “extraordinary success” — for the Taliban, that is (“Joe’s ‘Success’ Delusion,” Editorial, Sept. 1).
With impressive efficiency, they conquered a nation, gained a state-of-the-art airfield, $85 billion worth of weaponry and the opportunity to exact murderous revenge on their opponents.
Biden hasn’t ended any war; he’s merely changed its theater. They will still be coming for us — only now, they are stronger.
James Evans
Worchester, Mass.
Biden is either delusional or, as his critics claim, grossly incompetent to spin our shameful withdrawal as an “extraordinary success.”
He is patting himself on the back for airlifting 120,000 people, when all he had to do was bring in more troops, which he ended up doing anyway, to secure Bagram.
This would have allowed our military to take our time to make sure no American or Afghan ally was left behind.
Biden violated a sacred American military tradition that nobody, dead or alive, is left behind on the battlefield.
Seymour Srulowitz
Monsey
Biden’s speech where he took credit for a “successful” withdrawal but blamed everything on the previous administration is further evidence of his disconnect from reality.
The withdrawal was indeed a colossal display of incompetence by the president and his administration, and don’t go blaming President Donald Trump.
The blood of 13 American service members, the foreign-policy mess that the withdrawal has created and the massive amount of forfeited weaponry is squarely on the shoulders of the Biden administration.
This incompetence cannot stand. As an American taxpayer, I demand resignations, and if resignations are not forthcoming, then impeachment hearings should begin.
William Millward
Hobart
Someone needs to ask Biden: Which one is it? He says it’s Trumps fault but then takes credit for how well he says it went.
After the disaster at the Bay of Pigs, you didn’t hear President John Kennedy say, “It not my fault. This was President Dwight Eisenhower’s plan.” Real leaders lead. They don’t point fingers.
Rick Cabrera, Elmhurst
Thank you to The Post for echoing my exact thought on Biden’s arrogant, self-serving victory speech.
I’m not alone in seeing through the blatant lies and misrepresentations and the blame games. This was the public unmasking of the real Biden: a man with no empathy, no values, no shame and no respect for “average” Americans’ intelligence.
Maybe (and hopefully) the best will happen: There will be no murders, no public executions, no kidnappings, no maiming of our citizens, allies and the innocent people we befriended and abandoned — and no attacks on American soil.
Frank Mazzella
Aliso Viejo, Calif.
Our president said our military forces leaving Afghanistan is a victory — that he has nothing to be sorry about concerning his decision.
Nothing could be further from the truth. He has led our military in a shameful retreat. Our nation looks weak and frail.
His inability as commander and chief has cost 13 brave soldiers their lives.
Now that country is back in the hands of terrorists. It’s a sad day for our military forces who fought there, many giving their lives, only for the last 20 years to be thrown away because of bad decision-making.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
As I think of our current feckless commander-in-chief, a line comes to mind that Gen. Eisenhower prepared for a press release regarding the events of June 6, 1944, that thank God was never released. The line is: “If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.”
Can you imagine our current leader making a statement like that?
R. Andrew Lessin
Staten Island
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