1. You get the impression that President Biden thought the job was a part-time situation, and you'd get enough advice daily to make half-way decent decisions.
2. There was a letter found in the bin Laden compound after his death (2011). Some element of the al Qaeda group had asked 'permission' to put a hit on VP Biden at the time. Bin Laden said 'NO', because he felt Biden was useful as a incompetent future President, and would lead the nation into chaos. You have to stand back for a while, think about how this question arose, and how he answered the question.
3. President Biden was 'rebuked' today by the British Parliament.....over his decision-process.
4. Shocking enough, Taliban 'bosses' are now treated at the same level as 6 January insurrectionists or Trump, by the US news media.
5. Early in the week, PM Trudeau of Canada wanted to talk to President Biden. He got nowhere in getting a response, and tried the number he had for VP Harris....getting nowhere on that. He ended up pulling up the private number of Hillary Clinton, and got a personal opinion of the mess from her. Whether it helped or not....unknown.
6. In the middle of this chaos, three US senators earlier in the week announced they had Covid (Wicker, King, Hickenlooper). This might have been page one news, had Afghanistan not come up.
7. Some story has started up over the past couple of days....Biden....either through the excitement or the pressure....can't sleep. The story goes that he (or his wife) thinks the only place where he can sleep is the family house in Delaware. Truth to it? Well....you'd think that he'd be juiced up by the Presidential doctor to sleep. Maybe they've already reached the peak on that sleep medication and it's not effective enough.
8. The 'good' Taliban chatter? Yesterday, based on a number of bad-boy events, I'd say that evaporated completely. Same bad-boys as in the 1990s.
9. If you were stupid enough to be an American in Kabul, and wanted a way out....you have to sign a document pledging $2,000 as a 'fee'. I should note, that only gets you out of the country. Wherever they land the plane....from that point on, you pay commercial rates for the ticket.....to return the rest of the way.
10. This afternoon in Germany, Chancellor Merkel asked Russia's Putin, if he can influence the Taliban. No comment was uttered over the grin or return comment. This had to be one of the ten most embarrassing moments of the Merkel era. Odds that Putin could do 'something'? I'd give it a 99-percent chance.
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