According to a report from Vox, President Biden has been presented with three options for how to either end the war in Afghanistan or prolong it. The Biden administration is currently reviewing the US-Taliban peace deal that was signed last year, which set May 1st as a deadline for a US withdrawal.
The first option is for President Biden to adhere to the deadline and withdraw the remaining 2,500 troops from Afghanistan by May 1st. The second option is to seek an extension of the deadline through negotiations with the Taliban. The third option is to scrap the deal and remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.
The report said the Biden administration will likely choose option two, citing unnamed US officials and experts that spoke with Vox. But it’s not clear if the Taliban has any interest in negotiating a deadline extension, as the group has been appealing to the US to withdraw.
The idea of an extension is to remain in the country while the Taliban and the US-backed Afghan government reach a deal to end fighting. But there’s no telling how long this could take or if an agreement could ever be reached.
Since the US-Taliban deal was signed, the Taliban has not attacked US or NATO forces, and no US troops died in combat in Afghanistan for an entire year, a first since the war started. But that will all change if the US stays in Afghanistan without the consent of the Taliban. It will mean an escalation of the almost 20-year war.
US officials also told Vox that the administration’s review of the US-Taliban deal is almost done, and an announcement is expected soon.
Options are usually presented as a multiple choice quiz. All presidents struggles with these quizes during the mid-morning decision briefing, which immediately follows quiet time. Some decision quizzes are more difficult than others; test questions are labeled with letters instead of numbers for truly tough decision selection.
Biden this . . . Biden that . . . does anyone believe that Biden is actually calling the shots? The American people did NOT elect Jos Biden President, yet here he is turning the screws on whatever progress was made since 1776!
I don’t know much about who elected who when but I do know you are funny at a time when more humor is needed.
“The American people” generally don’t elect anyone president.
In 2016, for example, Trump received the votes of fewer than one in five Americans, was elected by 304 people (electors chosen by a portion of those one in five Americans).
But if Biden was no more elected by “the American people” than other presidents, he does not appear to have been any less so elected either.
“[Biden] does not appear to have been any less so elected either.”
Maybe before stating this ever so confidently, you should wait for the Maricopa county election audit to be completed. Or the court case involving the Antrim County, Michigan “glitch” that switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden. Not to mention potential audits of the votes in Philly, Atlanta, Detroit and Milwaukee.
Just because Crash-Test-Dummy Biden is in the big chair, doesn’t mean it is over. I’m not saying that Trump will return to the White House now or ever. What I’m saying is that there will be hell to pay if the election is ever proven to have be “won” fraudulently.
Question: If the election was legit, why all the resistance to auditing the evidence, to find out the truth, one way or the other. The evidence of which truth exists with absolute certainty in the form of the ballots and machines?
Answer: Because both the Dems and the Repubs suspect/believe the election was “stolen”, and they fear to have the truth (whatever the truth may actually be) come out, because both Establishment parties desperately wanted Trump gone.
Well, celebrate while you can, because Trump and Trumpism ain’t anything resembling gone.
Question: If the election was legit, why all the resistance to auditing the evidence, to find out the truth, one way or the other.
Answer: because the states run their elections and the “swing” states audited them, including re-counting ballots, which proves, one way or the other, if the machines and total count were accurate. They were. The “evidence of truth” does indeed exist, and the states and over 60 courts reviewed it and confirmed the winner.
No audit was done. Just a recount of the ballots without any examination of their validity. But you just go right on gaslighting yourself.
States audited their elections. A recount is proof of accuracy.
Since automated ballot counting was first considered, cyber security experts worried that these machines could be hacked. They argued that we wouldn’t know about any tampering until and unless a ballot recount was done. The reason this technology was used and continues, despite this legitimate fear, is that a recount is a quick and easy way to prove if the tabulation was accurate. It was done. the accuracy was proven.
You can read any number of articles on the topic, going back years. A little research will prevent you from being gaslighted by dubious sources.
“States audited their elections.”
No they didn’t. A recount is not an audit.
“A recount is proof of accuracy.”
Proof of the accurate count of questionable ballots proves nothing regarding the legitimacy of the individual ballots and the subsequent electoral result. Rather, insisting that a simple recount is all that is required, when it is clearly insufficient, suggests that those relying on a recount suspect an unfavorable truth and actively seek to suppress it.
When you are ready to put the individual ballots “under a microscope”, then get back to me. Till then you’re just hiding from the truth (whatever that truth may be).
“None are so blind as those who will not see.”
Blind, and fundamentally dishonest.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. I wouldn’t say you’re so much “fundamentally dishonest” as “inclined to believe what you want to believe because it’s what you want to believe.”
Cuteness doesn’t settle an issue, it just shows you don’t have a strong argument. You would have been better and more credible if you had just kept silent.
True, cuteness doesn’t settle an issue. Facts do. Your firmness in choosing to believe what you want to believe because it’s what you want to believe is not the kind of fact that settles an issue.
I don’t NEED a “strong argument,” because the burden of proof is on the person claiming that what seemed to have happened wasn’t what actually happened. And so far the evidence you’ve produced for that claim is as follows:
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I believe that half the people think the election was stolen and the other half thinks it was legit. Is this fact, or “something I choose to believe”?
This difference in belief could be settled by a close examination of the ballots in question in Philly, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, and Miwaukee, so as to determine their legitimacy or illegitimacy. Is this fact, or “something I choose to believe”?
You seem to be projecting when you say “Your firmness in choosing to believe what you want to believe because it’s what you want to believe”.
That appears to be YOUR basis of belief, not mine.
I just want the ballots examined “under a microscope” in order to get at the facts/evidence and settle the matter.
You and the rest of the anti-Trump cult resist a close examination of the ballots for the obvious reason that you’re ok with the Biden-is-Prez outcome, and have no interest in an investigation that might prove differently, and Biden’s installation illegitimate.
I get it. And I’m okay with your attitude. I continue to enjoy the spectacle. And I look forward to the next act, whatever it may bring. The Biden Circus takes center stage in the midst of a culture war, a political war, a pandemic, and an economic collapse, all of which will amplify Trump and Trumpism for the next stage of the spectacle, while the cannibals feed on the rotting corpse of empire.
And for just a bit of schadenfreude fun let me add that I am a Bitcoin multi-millionaire living comfortably at a safe distance from the insanity of the American shitshow. So you and PintOrTwo and anyone else with broken brain, feel free to troll me to your heart’s content.
I hope for a better world, but, as I have no choice, I’ll settle for “interesting times”.
Good luck. Endeavor to persevere.
If you think I’m part of the “anti-Trump cult,” that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t.
I didn’t give a tinker’s damn who won the presidential election, because I knew that it would be business as usual either way.
If you want the ballots examined “under a microscope,” your beef is with the Trump campaign, which withdrew every lawsuit it filed for such relief in which the court agreed to proceed to discovery instead of dismissing for e.g. standing issues. When a plaintiff withdraws as soon as it gets the opportunity to prove its case, that generally indicates that the purpose of the lawsuit was something other than proving the claims and getting relief. In this case, the purpose was to keep the grievance mill turning through a series of publicity stunts.
There’s a good chance that the outcome in Georgia was a function of the standard Democratic vote fraud machine having advanced in the Atlanta area in recent years. Of course, there’s also a good chance that the outcome in Florida was a function of the “anti-Castro Cuban exile” community in south Florida pulling the same scam in Trump’s favor. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign fled in terror as soon as it was offered the chance to prove its claims.
“If you think I’m part of the “anti-Trump cult,” that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t.”
Baloney. You may not have been pro-Biden, but you were certainly anti-Trump.
“I didn’t give a tinker’s damn who won the presidential election, because I knew that it would be business as usual either way.”
Which was my position as well. (But now we have the potential for a “best of all possible world’s” outcome: the defeat of Trump and the massive discrediting of Biden, the Dem Party, and Neoliberalism.)
“…your beef is with the Trump campaign, which withdrew every lawsuit it filed for such relief in which the court agreed to proceed to discovery…”
At last, something useful … but is it true? I haven’t heard or read anything to support the assertion that the Trump legal team “withdrew every lawsuit it filed for such relief in which the court agreed to proceed to discovery…” I’ve heard that in no case did “the court [agree] to proceed to discovery”, but rather that in every case, the courts blocked all attempts to proceed to an evidentiary hearing.
I’d like to see your sources in support of your claim. If it proves true, I will modify my position accordingly. I’m not dogmatic, I just want the truth.
I didn’t say I wasn’t anti-Trump. I said I am not part of the anti-Trump cult. There’s a difference. I’m against all lifelong establishment progressive Democrat politicians (Trump just happens to be one of those), and pretty much all politicians, period.
“I haven’t heard or read anything to support the assertion that the Trump legal team ‘withdrew every lawsuit it filed for such relief in which the court agreed to proceed to discovery …. I’d like to see your sources in support of your claim.”
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/ORDER-1.pdf
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/30/lawsuit-dropped-over-more-3000-absentee-votes-including-military-ballots.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-drops-georgia-lawsuit-overturn-biden-win
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.99598/gov.uscourts.miwd.99598.33.0.pdf
https://www.democracydocket.com/2020/11/right-wing-group-bails-on-sharpiegate/
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-state-elections-lawsuits-general-elections-66d53e1e68b331c8b0bd86887dfc252b
I checked the sources you provided, and exactly as I might have suspected, there is nothing there to support your claim that “… the court [had] agreed to proceed to discovery.”
What’s more, in the “courtlistener” link I find this …
“The Wayne County board of county canvassers met and declined to certify the results of the presidential election.”
… which sounds to me like the Trump people succeeded in their effort to have the results in Wayne county “not be certified”, making further legal action unnecessary.
OK, well, you asked for sources, and I provided them. If baseline English reading comprehension is your problem, that’s not something I’m in much position to assist you with.
“If baseline English reading comprehension is your problem, that’s not something I’m in much position to assist you with.”
Look in the mirror. Textbook projection, no doubt brought on by Trump Derangement Syndrome. You’re insane.
Good luck with your mental health issues.
Have the last word … if you think it worthwhile.
Swing states did audit their elections. It is their prerogative alone, not the Fed government’s.
A recount is proof of accuracy. It is why automated ballot-counting is allowed. The machines are not connected to the internet. The same individuals warning of cyber attacks advocate for paper ballots as a failsafe. It is a deliberate system where proof – paper ballots – can be reviewed.
The individual ballots are not in question. The swing states determined they are legitimate. There are safeguards here too.
60+ court cases over two months, state legislatures, the DOJ, the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency verified the election. All questions answered.
You have allegations vs evidence. Join the factual side.
“If the election was legit, why all the resistance to auditing the evidence, to find out the truth, one way or the other.”
On the one hand, there doesn’t seem to have been much “resistance” to that at all.
And on the other hand, there’s always SOME resistance. In 2000, the GOP went all the way to SCOTUS to stop the recounts in Florida.
I’m not sure what you think I’m “celebrating.” I’m no Biden fan, and I WANT Trump and Trumpism to stick around for as long as possible. I’d rather both parties imploded, but I’m fine with just the GOP doing so.
Amazing, you talk just like 1960’s Russian Communist propagandist, a total revisionist.
Indeed both parties want him gone. But not because of Trump’s Space Force, his military spending, his sanctioning half the world, his willingness to sell weapons to anyone willing to buy them, his gifting of Israel or any of the other things where “Trumpism” overlapped with the establishment’s policies. He is/was a lateral move with the added bonus of being a belligerent asshole.
“Maricopa County… released the results of election audits from two independent auditors… (It) found that the county used certified equipment and software, no malicious hardware was found on voting machines, the machines were not connected to the internet, and the machines were programmed to tabulate ballots accurately.”
-https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/02/23/maricopa-countys-election-audits-show-2020-votes-counted-correctly/4550644001/
“Hand audit of all Presidential Election votes in Antrim County confirms previously certified results, voting machines were accurate”
-https://www.michigan.gov/som/0,4669,7-192-47796-547883–,00.html
Your link reports this:
“Maricopa County on Tuesday released the results of election audits from two independent auditors it hired to verify that voting machines were not hacked, were not connected to the internet and counted votes properly during the 2020 general election.”
” … voting machines …”
Your Trump Derangement Syndrome, which in four years has transformed from hysteria at Clinton’s loss to a general disconnect from and refusal to engage with reality, leads you to refuse to see what is right there in front of you.
” … voting machines …”
The Maricopa Board of Supervisors have continued to unlawfully refuse the AZ Senate’s subpoena for access to the ballots (and machines). Why? Because they don’t want an actual audit. They wanted and conducted their phony “audit”, the non-audit reported by the article. A non-audit that was INTENTIONALLY confined to examining only the machines, BUT NOT THE BALLOTS. Once the AZ Senate gets its hands on the ballots, the real audit will be performed. Then and only then will we have real evidence.
But you don’t care, because you are insane.
For the record, I don’t give a damn about the machines and never have. The machines are a distraction and irrelevant. The real evidence is in the ballots themselves, in particular the mail-in ballots, which have ***presumably*** been preserved. (It would be a shame if there was a fire at the storage location!)
The AZ Senate will eventually get the ballots (and the machines), then we will find out the truth.
Liz Harris’s Election Integrity Project, using publicly available records and hundreds of volunteer canvassers, has already identified hundreds of fraudulent ballots, each of which is prima facie evidence of a federal crime. Even a single dead person registering post-mortem and then voting by mail is evidence of criminal conduct. When hundreds of such acts are exposed, how will State’s Attorneys avoid investigating the matter? No matter how you persist in your delusion, this business is not going away. It will go slowly because of the resistance, but eventually things are gonna demand criminal referrals. Then it will get truly interesting.
That’s it for me. I’ll let you have the last word, because rational discourse with the insane is a contradiction in terms and a waste of time.
Trump thought he won the election because he had more white votes then Biden. In total, Biden got 7 million more votes then Trump.
Show us a better democrat system in the world, if there is you should consider emigrating, nobody will miss you.
Typical DC, three options are always two impossible things we don’t even imagine, and the one thing we do want him to do. “Choice.”
So they define withdrawal as utter failure, and the third choice as a new big war all over again like 20 years ago. So the “choice” is?