Jesse Watters rips the 'Biden doctrine': What's the strategy?

joe biden defending his disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan while former obama officials are calling him out and biden is admitting well he could have helped create a new terrorism safe haven can al-qaeda come back yeah but guess what it's already back other places what's the strategy every place where al qaeda is we're going to invade and have troops stay there come on 70 american people think it was time to get out of afghanistan spending all that money but the flip of it is they didn't like the way we got out but it's hard to explain to anybody how else could you get out an image of sheer strength biden getting slammed by former obama officials for making the terror threat in america worse the taliban is harboring zawahiri today taliban is harboring al-qaeda today the taliban winning the war in afghanistan and then the way our exit happened has absolutely inspired jihadists all over the world not only will jihadists be inspired but a lot of them are going to come to afghanistan to be part of the celebration to be hard to be part of jihadist central the most important thing for this president to do is to be willing to accept responsibility for the mistakes and to move on uh and to basically do what is necessary now to protect our national security you know dana you don't often see this especially amongst democrats former obama officials cia directors coming out and saying accept responsibility because you just made the problem and leon panetta repeated the point that he thinks that there was a mistake made or mistakes made but you don't hear that from anyone in the uh they've heard it once no they're just they've linked arms it's red rover red rover send them over and like if you're sending over obama people it reminded me of something though pete do you remember during the campaign when robert gates former secretary of defense when his book came out and he said joe biden has never been right even once on any foreign policy issue in the last 30 years so that's very that's very strong and as i recall there wasn't a lot of defense of the vice president at the time uh people just didn't didn't pile on but they kept their powder dry they didn't say much and i think this is um part of that uh i think americans want to be on offense against al qaeda when president biden says what were we going to do invade every country that has al qaeda no one's suggesting that these straw men our arguments are really frustrating what americans do expect is to be on offense against al qaeda wherever they are and that doesn't mean invasion and we can argue about afghanistan and getting in and then the mission and all that but that again it's just a false equivalence there the other thing i would say the last thing is um it took the botching of the afghanistan hasty retreat to bring americans together you now have bipartisan agreement that it was that people wanted to get out of afghanistan but that it was handled terribly on the way out and they're embarrassed by it they're humiliated they want the americans to get out the green card holders and those vetted special immigrant visas to who helped us for them to be able to get out and it doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon especially for those sivs and the last bipartisan point is that people do not feel more safe today than they did before 9 11. well that's true and jesse too to what dana just said maybe the obama officials knew who joe biden was all along and they knew you put him in a situation like this where you have to make dynamic decisions he's going to dig his heels in ultimately and place blame i don't know anywhere else when i see people like morel and panetta i see obama and i see hillary notice hillary and barack have been dead silent since this thing broke out and they're kind of speaking for hillary and barack and that's significant break down the statement with me pete would you do me the honor okay can al queda come back yeah but guess what it's already back in other places does that make you feel safe it makes me feel great how about this what's the strategy every place where al qaeda is we're gonna go invade and have troops staying there come on come on that's the biden doctrine straw man followed by a come on that's like dan is saying jesse i don't like your hair dana you don't like my hair well i'm just gonna shave it off come on let's do it let's do it no that makes no sense and then he fills how else could you get out joe turn on the tube bro every pundit on television been saying you keep bogram you leave air support in while you pull out the allies and the civilians maybe coordinate with nato and then get all the hardware out before the chinese can steal it come on man how could you get out maybe any other way any other conceivable way is this a democratic view jessica is it is what is the foreign policy of joe biden what would democrats say their foreign policy is right now if the acknowledgement is well al qaeda might just come back but al qaeda's all over the place well i haven't heard anyone but the president say that that's certainly not what jen saki's saying it's not what anthony blinken was saying today that's something that the president said in a very casual exchange with a reporter i will give you that it felt very casual on 9 11. yeah i mean i don't i don't think that anyone if you looked at joe biden's schedule and the statement he put out on 9 11 i don't think that there's any way to think that he doesn't care about it or understand what happened on that day so i really don't want to go there he was at ground zero in the morning he went to shanksville he released a great statement so let's leave that but as for the criticisms what's more interesting to me about it is that you say these are obama officials they're obama biden officials it's an administration right like they got picked by barack and joe together to do this job and obviously people have their preferences and they say you know i want this guy you want this guy or this gal but those are people from your own team making that criticism which is why i think the binding administration has been extra quiet about it because it's not just democrats saying it it's ones that you worked with for years right and people who you often worked with for decades if you're in this kind of position certainly in terms of foreign relations since he was the chairman but that's what makes the criticism katie that much more stinging is that if they are trying to avoid it they can't avoid reality which is ultimately michael morale saying we've inspired jihadists uh could joe biden actually act to take on al qaeda and this administration if if necessary of course he could i mean that's why we have the u.s military we have the capability to do this they're choosing not to joe biden and i would say it doesn't matter if the secretary the press secretary is saying something or the secretary of state is saying something that's different and that's what we want to focus on the president of the united states is in charge of the security of the country it's the commander-in-chief's number one job is protecting americans especially from foreign threats and this idea that he's saying well al-qaeda's everywhere so throwing up my hands and it's a very defeatist attitude and he's has this attitude from a position of weakness where we are relying on the taliban to get people out there are americans left behind his attitude should be we will fight them wherever they are we have the capability to do that and they shouldn't mess around and find out but instead he's saying oh well what do you want me to do that's your job your job is to do something instead we've been taking effectively orders from the taliban and you want to look at a future of our ability to strike we don't have human intelligence we have signals intelligence which means you don't have all the ingredients you would normally have which means you end up droning a aid worker with water bottles we're getting intelligence suicide bomber right

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Length: 7min 32sec (452 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021