Obama’s Former Ambassador to Afghanistan:
I Question Biden’s ‘Ability
to Lead Our Nation’
Breitbart Middle East,
by
Paul Bois
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/16/2021 2:22:57 AM
The fall of Afghanistan has shocked Obama’s former ambassador to such a degree that he is now questioning President Joe Biden’s ability to lead the nation.
Speaking with The Spokesman-Review, Ryan Crocker, who served as Obama’s ambassador from 2011 to 2012, lamented that the Biden administration failed to see the Taliban’s swift takeover when preparing for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.“I think the direction was predictable; the trajectory was not,” he said. “What President Biden has done is to embrace the Afghan policy of President Trump, and this is the outcome.”Just a little over a month ago, Joe Biden rejected assertions that U.S. withdrawal would lead to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
nmanix 8/16/2021 2:33:06 AM (No. 880631)
This is the groundwork 4 Obama to have Biden out and Harris in so Obama (Valerie Jarrett) can have complete control.
48 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 8/16/2021 4:32:45 AM (No. 880660)
Ryan, who did you vote for?
40 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 8/16/2021 4:47:32 AM (No. 880671)
#1
If Bidet is forced out over this expect Hairass to form a "National Unity" government.
Can you say VP Romney? Or maybe VP Liz Chaney?
Yeah, it is coming
19 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 8/16/2021 5:56:09 AM (No. 880721)
"Overall, Crocker had serious doubts about President Biden’s ability to lead. “I’m left with some grave questions in my mind about his ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief,” Crocker said. “To have read this so wrong – or, even worse, to have understood what was likely to happen and not care.”
Crocker knows, or should know. that Biden is not leading our nation as commander-in-chief or otherwise. Our massively bloated, overpaid intelligence agencies are responsible for the disgraceful Afghanistan withdrawal.
Worse: It's almost certain that no one in any of these agencies will be held responsible. They are already very busy preparing their excuses.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/16/2021 5:57:40 AM (No. 880724)
Mr. Crocker, we too question Biden's ability to lead this nation. We the people have questioned this for the last 8 months.
Watch, Jill will be screaming all the way holding onto the door.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/16/2021 6:46:31 AM (No. 880753)
Crocker, so you think Kamalie is the answer then, bro? And what's up with your snarky comment that the surrender is a result of biden the cheater embracing Trump's Afghan policy, Crocker? Suffice to say yo voted dim in last November's election fraud?
38 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/16/2021 6:51:52 AM (No. 880757)
Oh, looky, it’s all Trump’s fault. Quelle surprise.
30 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 8/16/2021 6:53:15 AM (No. 880759)
FTA: Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam?” Biden was asked on July 8. A better question: do you see any parallels between a scoop of melting ice cream and your brain?
23 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/16/2021 6:57:52 AM (No. 880763)
Him and 81 million other Americans - now the rest of the world. Biden couldn't even play with his dog without tripping over it.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/16/2021 6:59:25 AM (No. 880764)
The word, "unexpected" will be liberally thrown about by the MSM.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 8/16/2021 7:02:37 AM (No. 880768)
Duh
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 8/16/2021 7:11:10 AM (No. 880780)
Biden thinks Afghanistan is the blanket he uses when he takes his afternoon nap. He is not deciding anything. There are dark forces behind him who are leading, and they do not want what's best for America. They want to weaken the US by strengthening our enemies. They want chaos. They are not incompetent. They know exactly what they're doing.
America was the last bastion of freedom on this earth. If the deep state succeeds in transforming it, there will be nothing standing in their way. At the moment it looks like they are winning, but this is far from over.
25 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/16/2021 7:26:36 AM (No. 880788)
We knew this well before Nov 3 Einstein!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermoine 8/16/2021 7:26:42 AM (No. 880789)
Nice try Crocker...THIS was not Trump's Afghan policy. He would have never let us look weak or even worse, "terrified", as we pulled out. It would've been a completely different draw down -- it would've been done from a position of strength.
27 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
homefry 8/16/2021 7:40:37 AM (No. 880799)
I question quid pro joes ability to dress himself.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
govlawyer 8/16/2021 7:51:02 AM (No. 880814)
Embracing Trump's policy? Really? President Puddingbrain isn't running the show, obongo is. This is obongo's third term with ValJar at the controls and her Muslim Brotherhood's playbook at the ready.
20 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
VietVet68 8/16/2021 7:54:51 AM (No. 880818)
Does anybody really think Joe Biden is making these decisions? As Obama's puppet Biden is stuck with all the bad decisions Obama gives him and for Obama it's a perfect world...there are never any consequences to his bad moves.
14 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
FunOne 8/16/2021 8:01:13 AM (No. 880823)
When the going gets tough, the tough take a week vacation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 8/16/2021 8:08:25 AM (No. 880832)
It doesn't matter who he voted for. What matters is that he is recognizing incompetence, even when it's a Democrat.
2 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/16/2021 8:13:21 AM (No. 880835)
So where does this leave us: President Harris? President Pelosi? I condemn the Press for allowing this man to vegetate in his basement and never holding to account for Hunter, his plagiarism, his record in the past and his rampant criminality just because they hated Donald Trump. I also condemn my Democratic friends who were only too willing to listen to the anti Trump Press and never be curious or be willing to think on their own because THEY hated Donald Trump. One thing you can say for Trump: he is a pragmatist. If he set a leave by date and was warned it had flaws he would have at least listened, and he certainly would have flexed muscle and changed course when things started to look iffy. I truly have contempt,p[t for the Press and my "friends" for allowing this to happen just because they held a grudge.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/16/2021 8:18:01 AM (No. 880841)
It took him this long to figure this out? He may be dumber than Willy Brown’s former girl friend.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 8/16/2021 9:02:12 AM (No. 880885)
General Milley should be court martialed now.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/16/2021 9:32:17 AM (No. 880932)
Here it comes folks... the finish of creepy joe's administration...was this their plan all along... and commie/harris is no better...biden was never in charge... he was the "front man" for obama...and the pentagon is licking their chops for another war in the Middle East...it's always been about money and the military complex getting their fingers in the pie...there was NO reason to stop the keystone pipeline except to get America into the hands of the oil from the muslim countries...it becomes clearer every day...
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/16/2021 9:38:04 AM (No. 880942)
If President Trump were still in charge, he would have started taking out the Taliban as soon as they started crawling out from under their rocks. NONE of this would be happening.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Trapper 8/16/2021 10:05:06 AM (No. 880976)
Destroy America's energy independence, open the southern border, flood the country with covid-positive illegal aliens, set an inflation fire, make the military "woke" and welcoming to all sorts of misfits, surrender Afghanistan to the taliban in a humiliating defeat. Question: If the Biden handlers had set out to INTENTIONALLY destroy America, what would they have done differently? NO ONE is wrong ALL the time. There is nothing random about this.
9 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/16/2021 10:09:03 AM (No. 880986)
Crocker’s comments amount to the Obama crew seemingly distancing themselves from the quickly politically diminishing Biden, and fraudulently attempting to blame Trump who has been out of office now for eight months, for the ongoing fiasco and Taliban victory that is ongoing in Afghanistan. The next move by Biden should be to dispatch Harris to Afghanistan in a burka to determine the “root cause” of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, who could argue with that? As Biden can’t send any of his high ranking “woke” Generals over there as they are too busy trying to root out elusive and mysterious “White Supremacists” from the US military. They say that Biden is going to to give a teleprompter driven speech to America as soon as he has something to say about Afghanistan, maybe after the Taliban capture some American military aircraft at the Kabul Airport! About the only option left for Biden to get Americans and others out of Afghanistan is for him to bribe the Taliban with offers of billions of dollars of American “aid”.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/16/2021 10:10:45 AM (No. 880988)
Absolutely poster #12. You speak the truth, I wish I could give you 1000 thumbs up. This is exactly what those who are salivating at the destruction of the United States have been planning along with allowing tens of thousands of invaders coming in unimpeded on our Southern borrder. How many of those young, healthy, military age males we see lining up to come in are from mid-eastern countries and are now being put in place to attack us or major highways and bridges. All is going on planned.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
caddyjak 8/16/2021 10:37:39 AM (No. 881034)
Biden?? What about Harris and Pelosi in the batters box. The all-time political leadership nightmare!!
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/16/2021 11:31:16 AM (No. 881135)
Wanna bet that Obama gave him permission to say that?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/16/2021 11:33:35 AM (No. 881141)
Same for your prior boss...Obumbler!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/16/2021 12:07:42 PM (No. 881195)
Biden has senile dementia. So sad for US.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/16/2021 12:13:20 PM (No. 881210)
And we still have 40 more months left of Old Joe's ''expertise'' in leading the nation.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/16/2021 1:46:19 PM (No. 881371)
From the American Academy of Diplomacy: "Ryan Crocker is a Diplomat in Residence at Princeton University. He is on a leave of absence from Texas A&M where he is an executive professor and former dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He was a career Foreign Service Officer who served six times as an American Ambassador: Afghanistan (2011-2012), Iraq (2007-2009), Pakistan (2004-2007), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-1997) and Lebanon (1990-1993). Three of these appointments were under Republican Administrations and three under Democratic Administrations. He also served previously as the International Affairs Advisor at the National War College, where he joined the faculty in 2003. From May to August 2003, he was in Baghdad as the first Director of Governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2001 to May 2003. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he also has had assignments in Iran, Qatar, Iraq and Egypt, as well as Washington. He was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the bombings of the embassy and the Marine barracks in 1983."
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
rochow 8/16/2021 1:58:22 PM (No. 881387)
No kidding, he is shocked. The Biden vege needs to be in a home, his wife arrested for elder abuse, and his know nothing 'administration' needs to be dismissed!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
LadyVet 8/16/2021 3:37:04 PM (No. 881495)
Re:#33
Note that you have to know the facts about the Beruit bombings and the Marine Barracks bombing or one might read that sentence quickly and think that the Israelis are responsible for the bombings. It is certainly implied. He must have learned diplomat-speak from the Dem school.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
mizzmac 8/16/2021 6:06:55 PM (No. 881649)
Just now? You're a little late to the party, former Obama ambassador-dude.
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