In a hastily planned press conference yesterday, President Joe Biden tried to explain to the American people why the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has gone so badly.
He blamed President Trump, of course, for the deal between his administration and the Taliban.
When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban. Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 — just a little over three months after I took office.
He also blamed the Afghan military for giving up and allowing the Taliban to rampage across the country...
Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight... If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country when the chips were down, they would never have done so while U.S. troops remained in Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.
...and argued that the Chinese would have liked to see U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan.
And our true strategic competitors — China and Russia — would love nothing more than the United States to continue to funnel billions of dollars in resources and attention into stabilizing Afghanistan indefinitely.
The pundits and experts were quick to decimate each point of Biden's argument. The President could have easily broken the Trump administration's "deal" with the Taliban. The Taliban hadn't held up their end of the bargain, and Biden has spent the last 6 months revoking every other Trump administration policy.
In addition, the Afghan military was decimate in large part because the U.S. decided to withdraw. They believed the U.S. had abandoned them, and they lost the will to fight. We also failed to provide them with proper air support or the resources they needed to operate the equipment we gave them.
Finally, the idea that China wanted us to stay in Afghanistan is ridiculous. Our bases in Afghanistan were right on China's doorstep, and now that we're gone, they can work to get the Taliban under their control.
But the American people don't need the opinions of "experts" to tell them that Biden botched Afghanistan. They have eyes, and they've seen the reports.
The Taliban have already begun executing detainees, raping women, and forcing girls as young as 15 to marry terrorists. Heartbreaking video emerged this week of Afghans desperately clinging to the fuselage of an Air Force transport plane, and some held on long enough to fall to their deaths.
This is why, according to a new poll from Convention of States Action and the Trafalgar Group, nearly 70% of all Americans believe the president mishandled the situation in Afghanistan. This includes 89% of Republicans, 75% of Independents, and a plurality of Democrats at 48%.
The president failed. He knows it, we know it, and the American people know it.
“There is absolutely no question that the American people are not buying the lies on Afghanistan. This is Saigon, and it’s far worse. Our nation has watched the same group of leaders in Washington, D.C., flounder and blunder on foreign policy, on COVID-19, on the border, and on the economy,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action. “After spending more than $1 trillion dollars and enduring wounded and dead soldiers, we are confronted with a basecamp for terror, a foreign policy nightmare, and are now less safe here at home. Time for new leadership.”
Foreign policy may be a proper role of the federal government, but that doesn't mean the American people can't use an Article V Convention of States to hold our national "leaders" to account. Politicians like Biden are constantly making unilateral decisions that hurt our country and then refusing to take blame. A Convention of States can put them back in their place by proposing constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government.
These amendments can shrink federal power to only those issues expressly mentioned in the Constitution, restrict Congress's ability to spend our money, and limit the terms of office for career politicians like Biden and his cronies.
The federal government has grown too large and too powerful, and they've made too many mistakes to be trusted. Now is the time to limit their power, and we can do it with a Convention of States.
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