CLOWN KIRBY Gives Ridiculous Response To House GOP Report On Afghanistan Failure

Gotta hand it to Kirby — at least he’s a better liar than that spokesmuppet KJP. That doesn’t mean what he has to say is worth a tinker’s damn.

Here’s two minutes of him giving excuses for why they failed so badly… claiming it went well. Later in the presser he explains that nobody was held accountable because they all ‘held themselves accountable’.

🚨13 dead Americans is a failure:

Reporter: “On Afghanistan, would you argue that the withdrawal is a success or do you admit that there were failings in that?”

John Kirby: “Clearly, there were moments of great violence,” but overall it was a success. pic.twitter.com/SaepPjjJOi

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) September 9, 2024

Riiiiight. And we all know the media lapdogs would have accepted that reply if it was being delivered by a Trump official, don’t we? These are the same clowns that pushed the ‘kids in cages’ line even after they learned the offending photo was taken during the Obama years.

He’s reacting to a damning House GOP report on the failure in Afghanistan that just came out now that Congress is again in session.

The explanation for the failure sounds an awful lot like the excuses Pelosi gave for refusing to accept Trump’s offer of the National Guard to protect the Capitol Building on J6. There’s no telling how that decision would have changed history and we all know it.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee released their findings after the bungled retreat for Afghanistan.

A clear picture is painted of a rushed withdrawal being motivated by a political agenda (that 20th anniversary of 9/11).

That agenda was elevated above any counsel driven by practical security considerations. In short — they cared more about optics than lives. In the end, it cost them both.

The Biden/Harris exit payed lip service to the agreement Trump had to leave Afghanistan — without paying any attention to the specific pre-conditions required before America would leave. The local government asked for a 2-year extension so the local government could bring the Taliban under control, but Biden was in a hurry.

Some of the biggest failure points mentioned in the report center on the evacuation plan. We are supposed to have a plan for how to bug out in a hurry from any country we have a presence in… just in case a natural disaster or conflict makes the place too dangerous.

The report concluded that the administration had a “concern that a NEO equated to failure” and was also “more concerned about the optics of NEO than the dangers associated with failing to call” for one.
[…] An evacuation wasn’t ordered until Ross Wilson, then the ambassador to Afghanistan, requested one on August 15, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on vacation.
[…] One State Department employee said that “the State Department’s Crisis Management and Strategy office — the team within the Secretary of State’s Executive Office responsible for 24/7 management of global crises — only became involved once “they were allowed to call it what it was – i.e. a NEO/suspension of ops.”

“This inexcusable delay was exacerbated by the department’s failure to formulate an emergency evacuation plan. […] […] While the report is highly critical of Wilson, Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, it’s largely centered on Biden.
The report asserts that Biden was not bound by the Doha Agreement negotiated under the Trump administration, arguing it allowed for the dissolution of the deal if the Taliban did not meet its commitments.
But Biden has made clear he viewed the U.S. as too far down the path of withdrawal to shift its approach and that doing so would commit the military to once again engaging with the Taliban. — The Hill

Does throwing Biden and his team under the bus put Kamala in the clear?

Not really. Remember when she took credit that April as being ‘the last person in the room’?

She pushed all her chips in when she said that. She would be taking credit in her campaign had it gone well. She needs to own the blame now that it didn’t.