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Biden Insiders: Our Afghanistan Exit Is a Part of a Much Bigger Reset
Biden and his team have clearer memories of the long litany of egregious and crippling missteps America’s leaders made during the first years of this century than do their critics.
www.thedailybeast.com
David Rothkopf
Updated Aug. 20, 2021 5:10PM ET / Published Aug. 20, 2021
"In fact, with perspective, we may well come to see their exit from Afghanistan as part of a major, generational, foreign policy reset. In fact, if events unfold consistent with the president’s vision, this moment will be seen as a watershed in a return to American global leadership after two decades of misguided, erratic, damaging foreign policy in the wake of 9/11. ..
...Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the administration’s reasoning to me as follows, “The investment we made in Afghanistan over the course of 20 years was enormous. Two decades, one trillion dollars, 2,300 lives lost, thousands more with visible and invisible wounds. It’s no secret that our strategic competitors would like nothing more than for America to be bogged down in conflict for another two years—or two decades. The only element that rivaled the cost of this conflict was the opportunity cost. The president concluded it was time for us to end this war.”
...The Biden team view is based on the idea that becoming bogged down in a 20-year war with an unclear mission that drained our resources and distracted us from our priorities made us weaker, that entering Iraq without justification made us weaker, that retreat in the wake of the calamities of Bush foreign policy made us weaker, that Trump attacking our alliances and undermining the rule of law at home made us weaker. The gross failure of leadership in managing COVID made us weaker. A president inciting an attempted coup made us much, much weaker...."
On friday, August 20, 2021 both Elizabeth Neumann and former Mike Pence Homeland Security advisor accused Trump appointees of breaking the visa vetting system intentionally, with one of its goals to impede the process of vetting and granting visas to Afghan residents "who helped us," resulting in few visas granted and a process still not functioning, today.
Judges Strike Several Blows to Trump Immigration Policies (Published 2019)
Judges in three states ruled against a policy that would withhold green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance such as Medicaid. Another judge ruled on border wall funding.
Judges Strike Several Blows to Trump Immigration Policies
"...The administration had argued that the public charge rule, developed by Stephen Miller, the White House aide who is the architect of several of the government’s hard-line immigration policies, was designed to ensure that immigrants are self-sufficient and do not become a drain on the nation’s coffers.Judge Peterson said the new regulations would undermine the interest of the states in promoting the health and well-being of their residents, as well as their financial security.
“The harms to children, including U.S. citizen children, from reduced access to medical care, food assistance, and housing support,” she wrote, are a threat to states that must reallocate resources to deal with those needs..."
Background of Elizabeth Neumann.:
Mother Jones
Donald Trump Is Now a Terrorist Leader – Mother Jones
Elizabeth Neumann, a former Department of Homeland Security official who focused on counterterrorism and threat prevention, contended in a ...
Jan 6, 2021
During first two years of ‘Muslim ban,’ Trump administration granted few waivers
Edward Ramotowski, left, the deputy assistant secretary of state for visa services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs; Elizabeth Neumann, ...
Sep 24, 2019
