{"id":654574,"date":"2021-08-17T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654574"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:20:33","slug":"we-were-so-unprepared-chuck-todd-says-afghanistan-withdrawal-makes-biden-look-less-competent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-were-so-unprepared-chuck-todd-says-afghanistan-withdrawal-makes-biden-look-less-competent\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Were So Unprepared\u2019: Chuck Todd Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Makes Biden Look Less Competent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-were-so-unprepared-chuck-todd-says-afghanistan-withdrawal-makes-biden-look-less-competent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-17-at-10.39.25-AM-e1629216402921.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"46.587476099426\">\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Chuck Todd said Tuesday that President Joe Biden had lost \u201ccompetency high marks\u201d over his handling of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Todd joined fellow MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson to discuss the fallout of the initial <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/matt-zeller-msnbc-biden-afghanistan-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">troop withdrawal<\/a>, and he argued that the president had lost some of the competency that had set him apart from former President Donald Trump during the 2020 campaign. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/joe-scarborough-blasts-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-political-disaster\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We Just Can\u2019t Keep Abandoning Allies\u2019: Joe Scarborough Goes After Biden, Calls Afghanistan Withdrawal A \u2018Political Disaster\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todd began by saying that the immediate question was how to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/lindsey-graham-joe-biden-incompetent-dangerous-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evacuate<\/a> anyone who still needed to get out of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/reporter-afghanistan-cries-distress-forgets-question-press-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a> \u2014 and how the United States and other allies might handle the number of refugees who might attempt to flee Taliban control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big long-term question, why were we so unprepared for this moment, you can\u2019t help but come to two sort of conflicting theories but I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re ever going to get an answer that is going to feel satisfying,\u201d Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to suggest that one possible factor was the idea that Biden had made up his mind about the troop withdrawal before he was sworn in as president \u2014 and that had left him unwilling to bend when the Pentagon pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they always thought they could buy more time and for whatever reason didn\u2019t plan for every contingency,\u201d Todd said of the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Todd then pivoted to address Biden\u2019s speech, arguing that although he had tried to pass along at least some of the blame, he had not pointed his finger at the Pentagon or the intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019ve got to ask, how, the orderly part of this, what went wrong? I do think the biggest political fallout is competency,\u201d Todd concluded. \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s greatest strength against Donald Trump in the campaign was the idea that he had been around the block, he knows what he\u2019s doing. We\u2019re facing this crisis with COVID, we need competency back in government, no more chaos. He\u2019s lost the competency high marks he were getting at one time and that\u2019s tough to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Chuck Todd said Tuesday that President Joe Biden had lost \u201ccompetency high marks\u201d over his handling of Afghanistan. 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