Republican talking points on Afghanistan
Sept 15, 2021 22:14:28 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 15, 2021 22:14:28 GMT
I watched PBS NewsHour last night and couldn't stop shouting at the TV during Barasso's segment. The complete hypocrisy and refusal to answer questions was infuriating. I don't know a lot about him, but I thought he was a more moderate Republican?
www.pbs.org/newshour/show/sen-barrasso-on-epic-failure-of-afghanistan-exit-reckless-3-5t-spending-bill
Heres one of his points that I take issue with
Now, President Biden has had a number of things that — policies that came out of the Trump administration that he has reversed, like the Iran deal, the Paris accord, the World Health Organization and rejoining that, the remain-in-Mexico policy at the border. He threw — he's reversed all of those things.
Instead of admitting that former bears responsibility, the Republicans try to put all of the blame on Biden and object that Biden reversed other policies. True, but there's a difference between restoring agreements that former broke (and they never objected to that) and Biden breaking an agreement that was made by the former administration. Biden is trying restore relationships with allies and trying to uphold our commitments on the world stage in comparison to former who broke many of them. No acknowledgement that there's a difference between restoring agreements and breaking them. Start with a false premise, a false equivalency and make a false conclusion. Typical Republican playbook.
They also keep repeating that there were no deaths of American servicemen or women in the last year but neglect to mention that was because former negotiated that in exchange for releasing 5,000 Taliban.
Then, they complain that we didn't do enough to get our Afghan allies out. And they do have a legitimate point there. But then in the same sentence, they complain that were not doing enough to vet the refugees. You can't have it both ways. He wouldn't admit it or answer the question, but the root of that is the anti-immigrant stance that they don't actually want the Afghan refugees here in the US.
www.pbs.org/newshour/show/sen-barrasso-on-epic-failure-of-afghanistan-exit-reckless-3-5t-spending-bill
Heres one of his points that I take issue with
Now, President Biden has had a number of things that — policies that came out of the Trump administration that he has reversed, like the Iran deal, the Paris accord, the World Health Organization and rejoining that, the remain-in-Mexico policy at the border. He threw — he's reversed all of those things.
Instead of admitting that former bears responsibility, the Republicans try to put all of the blame on Biden and object that Biden reversed other policies. True, but there's a difference between restoring agreements that former broke (and they never objected to that) and Biden breaking an agreement that was made by the former administration. Biden is trying restore relationships with allies and trying to uphold our commitments on the world stage in comparison to former who broke many of them. No acknowledgement that there's a difference between restoring agreements and breaking them. Start with a false premise, a false equivalency and make a false conclusion. Typical Republican playbook.
They also keep repeating that there were no deaths of American servicemen or women in the last year but neglect to mention that was because former negotiated that in exchange for releasing 5,000 Taliban.
Then, they complain that we didn't do enough to get our Afghan allies out. And they do have a legitimate point there. But then in the same sentence, they complain that were not doing enough to vet the refugees. You can't have it both ways. He wouldn't admit it or answer the question, but the root of that is the anti-immigrant stance that they don't actually want the Afghan refugees here in the US.
