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Let's talk about Joe Biden and his terrible re-elect numbers and then also his excuse mongering for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

We'll get Victor's thoughts on that and plenty more right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show. So Victor, I'm sure you saw these stories and let's let me just throw these two up and you expand, expand, expand, expand however you feel wish to.

So Biden's re-elect number is less than one third of voters think that Joe Biden deserves re-election. That's according to a CNN poll. His, some, separately, is, I think I saw the other day on real clear politics. His approval rating is, is still pretty crappy around 42%.

We have a story pretty simple. Biden administration blames Trump in part for chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. Victor, I thought it was a wonderful success. Wasn't that the, this, this spin until recently, but blaming Donald Trump.

For what happened in Afghanistan is kind of what they're trying to do. Yeah, I listened to John Kirby. He's really transmogrified from a nondescript bureaucratic former rear admiral into just a political hack. I mean, gosh, when I listen to him explain, he was bragging on how well the withdrawal when it would be as almost Churchill, whether than resigning after the guipoli disaster, which I think, you know, it was a strategically.

Perhaps misdirected, but it would have worked at the, at the British forces, not just, you know, stayed on the beach and didn't have, didn't show any aggression. But my point is that he accepted that as a, as a disaster, he didn't say, well, they withdrew from the beach. They got back on the ships. It was a wonderful withdrawal or even, you know, when you look at Dunker.

That was a wonderful withdrawal, but it was still a complete military defeat. The entire British army of 300,000 plus had been driven out of France in a way that never happened in World War I.

And Churchill, we minded everybody. This was a very able way to preserve things, but it's a terrible defeat. It's, it's not a victory.

And yet here we are when we look at those aerial pictures of, um, these and artillery platforms and all these equipment just lined up and we just handed it over. We handed over a 300 million dollar out, we outfitted Bergman Air Base, the biggest in Central Asia. We handed over a billion dollar embassy.

We just left and just we got, we left Americans that are now under house arrest or worse. We left thousands of people that we worked with.

They've been, been either been killed or they're in hiding. And for him to stand up there and say that this was not a defeat or not a humiliation or it's Trump's fault.

And Trump had a plan. It was to keep the Bergman Air Base in about 2500 people there and to provide air support for the city.

So, you know, it might be, I don't know if you remember Jack, but I just thought it reminded me it was sometime around 2011.

And people were getting sick of Barack Obama's instead of just letting the economy work. He went in and he over regulated and he kept spending and borrowing and we didn't get out of the 2008.

And I think GDP was under 1% unemployment. I don't know what it was. It was 8 to 9% and they kept asking him. And I remember so well Charles Croadhammer, the late Charles Croadhammer.

He was just obsessed and angry at Obama because he kept blaming George W. Bush or he said he had bad luck or he said there were natural phenomenon. Remember earthquake somewhere and this was all and he did that for the next eight, next five years.

And it was the same thing. Why does he just say it was a mistake and which is not going to happen again, but they always blame somebody blame, blame, blame, blame, blame.

That's part of the psychological baggage of the left. I don't understand it at all. I mean, every politician tries to blame their predecessors, but this is getting ridiculous.

I mean, it's kind of gaslighting. It's just absurd.

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