I think most people who read this blog know that Joe Biden wasn’t my first choice for president. Maybe even my 4th or 5th choice. But like all thinking people, I got behind him against Trump. Of course, I would have gotten behind a pile of dead fish over Donald Trump.
But I have been happily surprised so far. So has Michael Moore:
“I think what we’re going to see is how was it that he got all those people out without them being killed by the Taliban. Without a single plane being shot down. How did he do that, and while he was doing it, increased the food stamps to all the poor of this country, cut child poverty in half? So many things happened during this last month because we’re consumed with Afghanistan, the fact that he eliminated college debt for all disabled Americans. So if you’re disabled, your college loans have been just forgiven during this time of chaos in Afghanistan. There are so many little things like that, and we don’t talk about them. But I think you know he should get the credit for this because he had the guts to say no. That’s the end of this. He had the guts to do it. Nobody else had the guts to do it. And he’s a badass in that way that he will just do what he thinks is right, and he will do what he thinks is the moral choice.”
I’m pretty sure they knew they’d get the reaction they got when they withdrew. And I don’t think anyone genuinely believed that getting out was going to be perfectly efficient and clean. Wars don’t end that way. Biden and his crew have been around long enough to know that the Republicans would immediately revert to their warmongering ways and the press would join the party in order to prove how unbiased they are. But he did it anyway and it was a gutsy move. I can’t say that I expected it of him — or any of the other stuff he’s pushed along so far. Michael Moore is right about this.