President Biden triumphantly announces America's surrender in Afghanistan as the Taliban reimposed

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All righty. So we are watching in real time the worst American foreign policy debacle of my lifetime.

Now, admittedly, I was born in 1984, so I do not remember the pullout from Saigon in 1975.

But this is easily the worst foreign policy debacle since then.

Probably it is worse than that.

Because remember, at least it can be said of the Viet Cong that they didn't, you know, attack the Empire State Building in 195.

The Taliban sheltered the people who took down the world trade centers and attacked the Pentagon on 9-11.

And now we are turning the country back over to them. And what's most incredible about this is that our dottering fool of a president, and he is a fool. He did this for no reason. None. There was no rational reason for him to do what he did, certainly not in the way that he did it. Even if you think we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, which, as'll talk about, I think is a foolhardy idea.

But even if you believe that, there was a way to do this that was at least somewhat organized.

Biden didn't do any of that.

Instead, Biden, because he is an ideological idiot, decided that he would run his ideology directly up against the brick wall of reality. Now, I will say I'm amused to see how many people in the

commentary seem shocked, seemed shocked by the idiocy of Joe Biden. So, for example, Politico, Europe

has an entire piece about how people in Europe can't believe how bad Biden is at this,

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