The Swamp controls American foreign policy through the use of "interagency consensus" or lack there of.
They give the President a set of canned bad option along with the threat to leak & destroy them if they don't follow what the Swamp wants.
Example:
nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
The Swamp didn't want to withdraw from Afghanistan, neither half of the Swamp.
So they resisted Trump's efforts to bring the troops home & they obstructed Biden's.
How the interagency tells the President they can't do what the President wants. Then threatens leaks...
President Trump fired Secretary of Defense Ester in November for ending him a classified memo claiming that DoD could not withdraw from Afghanistan & refusing to plan such a withdraw.
Then leaking a spun version of it to the Washington Post...
The article provides a clear example, have 2 agencies settle on different plans & refuse to come to a consensus.
You can't plan an evacuation until you first reach an interagency consensus.
All from Swampy anonymous sources of course...
All over a debate over whether to move Afghan evacuees to a 3rd country or to a US territory such as Guam.
You can't plan an evacuation if you can't come to a consensus over where to move them to...
Biden appeared to want to evacuate them to a 3rd country, then evaluate their Visas, & let those approved then come to the US.
The Swamp wanted to move them to Guam where their presence on US territory would make it difficult to reject them & trigger immigration court cases.
So DHS believes it is illegal to bring them to Guam & then have them fill out their Visas on US soil.
But State is unwilling to fix it's broken Visa process to make it work for the interpreters & other US allies.
Biden is either violating the law or endangering national security
So he either faces Swamp smears accusing him of doing what some agency lawyers argued was illegal or he concedes to the Swamp & does it their way.
Remember how many times Trump actions were portrayed this way? Same game...
Trying to force the administration to do it the way the Swamp wants it done.
Probably more worried about Swampy Afghan politicians than they are about front line interpreters & their families.
So as of mid-July, the State Dept. still had not convinced a foreign nation to accept the Afghans...
If course the Swamp wanted to disqualify Afghanistan's neighbors on human rights issues, issues the Swamp ignores any other day!
It's not just about the interpreters.
It is also about every corrupt official in Afghanistan getting to US soil & claiming a green card based on their years of kickbacks, fraud & corruption.
Don't worry, the Swamp always has an out by scapegoating someone else.
They'll scapegoat Biden to the Rs & scapegoat Trump to the Ds.
And most will believe the Swamp!
In fact the Trump Admin lost a court case on this issue in 2019.
But do we fix govt. incompetence?
Never, it's more fufilling to express righteous indignation on social media while blaming it on the guy in the other party. Without ever figuring out that the Swamp is the one who tricked you into blaming that guy...
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