George Rebane
Diplomacy unsupported by the threat of force is nothing but duplicitous hot air.
Has Kabul fallen? For all intents and purposes the answer is yes. How else to explain all those towelheads carrying their AKs and RPGs, casually walking the streets of that city of six million, while thousands are desperately trying to get on a flight out from the airport’s military side still under American control? Last we looked, the Afghani ‘security forces’ who had yet to flee were still wearing their uniforms.
Our display of existential historical ignorance is on parade. Even backwoods snuffies like me have known for decades that Afghanistan is not a ‘country’, but a region of ethnically and culturally similar tribes of the mostly fanatically devout and concomitantly ignorant Muslims. As recounted here numberless times and echoed by RR’s commentariat, attempting to deal with that region as a unified sovereign nation-state has been a fool’s errand, as history confirms. The only time Afghanis unite and cooperate is when they fight to expel foreigners from their sandbox. All foreign policies should start recognizing those truths.
Re Afghanistan as the on-again, off-again home of international terrorists. Years ago Rebane Doctrine called for no nation-building, no long-term boots on the ground, but the use of our vaunted over-the-horizon military capability to whomp terrorist hotbeds as they arise in the region. We should deal with the terrorists from the air or at most with expeditionary raids – go in quickly, kill and destroy, and extract quickly. This is a policy that we should already be or become very good at, and apply worldwide against anyone who represents a clear and present danger to our nation. It has worked in the past, and it will work again. And the response of the international community to such a clear and consistent policy would be refreshing – it will not be a beauty contest and we will maintain our usual cadre of enemies, but it would make our diplomacy more meaningful.
The enduring problem with such a policy is that it will still require wise, educated, and experienced leaders to determine who to whomp, when, and with what. Starting with its leader, the present administration does not have a senior level team in place to carry out such a policy – their forte consists of wrongheaded and untimely appeasement.
Afterthoughts: I first learned the gory details about Afghanistan back in 1978 when James Michner’s Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan was published. (All the Rebanes were avid readers of Michner’s and Clavell’s historical novels in those days.) Immediately apparent was that this region was not a country in the ordinary sense of the world, no more than were China (that at least made pretense) and India before the western colonists intervened.
Before the USSR’s recent intervention in the 1980s, the last anyone tried to colonize Afghanistan was Great Britain in its strategic maintenance of the British Empire in the 19th century. Britain’s goal in controlling the region was to deny czarist Russia’s expansionist forays in central Asia that included Afghanistan as a strategically important access to a warm water port unencumbered by climate and foreign controlled narrow straits. In 1878 Britain attempted the tried-and-true approach of imperial colonials – go into a region consisting of warring and distrustful tribes, pick a tribe with a capable and malleable leader, and support him in conquering and annihilating his ethnic brethren. That leader would then be celebrated as the ‘great unifier’ of his heretofore non-existent country that would become a satrap of the western invader. It worked in so many places, it was sure to work in Afghanistan.
Well, it didn’t, and all the west got out of it was a bunch of pretty good literature. But it did give the Russians about a century of pause before they decided in 1980 that they could do it better. But after ten years, the communists in Moscow pulled out of Afghanistan – it turned out that they had bigger problems at home and with their European colonies.
What should be of some amazement to all Americans today is that less than 25 years later, the double dummies on Team Bush2 decided to have another go at nation-building with the idea that a unified Afghanistan under our security umbrella would become a stable and loyal ally. An ally that would serve as a geo-strategic anchor in the mid-east and south Asia from which the US could manage its regional, and even global interests. (Our allies were all for it given their own interest in securing the region’s supply of oil.) Then reality stepped in, and we saw before ten years had passed that we weren’t going to do any better than the Brits or the Russkys. But our hubris and wallet seemed boundless, and the comparatively low rate of casualties was politically acceptable – since we were making the world safe from terrorists – and we stuck it out for another ten years, ignoring a constant stream of evidence that there was no good ending to this growing trail of tears.
So what did we do, we decided to pull a Saigon 2.0 in Kabul, thereby completing a trifecta of a wrongheaded invasion, followed by a frustrating and futile occupation, and concluding now with an ignominious exit. And today half of Americans want to enlarge our government while giving it more money and more control over our lives. How did we become such an ignorant and contentious people?
[16aug21 update] To salvage some remaining honor from the ongoing and ignominious Biden Banzai for the exits, Rebane Doctrine proposes the following. With the 5,000+ combat troops we already have there, the US should declare the Kabul international airport as a temporary sovereign enclave and haven to be retained and defended until the thousands of Afghanis already on the airport, or those who can get there in the interval, are processed for exit visas and transported safely out of the country. First order of business should be to fly in tents, toilets, food distribution facilities, etc (and more gunships and fighting vehicles) to take care of the throngs while they await their exits. Should the Taliban do anything to thwart that process, we will declare publicly that we will whomp them with a new and improved version of ‘shock and awe’ that will give new meaning to the operation, and it will continue for an undetermined time to include Taliban targets all over Afghanistan. In short, we’ll leave when we’re damn good and ready.
[17aug21 update] Biden cannot learn from mistakes. Bumblebrain has a 40+ year sorry record of understanding and making policies – this deficit is especially acute in foreign policy. He was much younger when he started rejecting corrective feedback to his early blunders. Today he has put a ribbon around his demonstrated ability/propensity to make a flustercluck out of all his initiatives and responsibilities. Without the ability to understand and accept feedback from past mistakes, there can be no learning for improved performance. And he’s demonstrated this by blaming Afghanistan on everyone except the guy in the mirror. Today this mental (character?) defect is abetted by his visible mental decline which, I suspect, is making members of his cabinet and inner circle brush up on the particulars of the 25th Amendment. Pelosi must be inwardly overjoyed at the prospect, and Kamala is just too dumb to be worried about her own prospects should the musical chairs start. And the rest of the country will suffer the consequences.
[21aug21 update] Here is an especially interesting, informative, corroborative, and well told piece about the Taliban, how and why they fight, and why losing does not enter their minds as even an idle thought. It's told by a AF gunship combat veteran whose job was to listen in on the Taliban and then kill them by the hundreds. What's astounding is that the ragheads knew the Americans were listening in on their radio transmissions, and they didn't give a crap about being overheard. 'What I learned while eavesdropping on the Taliban' (H/T to reader). Enjoy.
rebanesruminations.com 
413 responses to “Afghanistan Reflections (updated 21aug21)”
Here Emery,, enjoy.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/16/pinkerton-the-1970s-are-calling-joe-biden-again-is-this-saigon-1975-or-tehran-1979/
“Mr. President, 1975 is on line one, and 1979 is on line two.
It seems like Joe Biden, first elected to public office in 1970, is destined to relive all the national policy debacles of the 1970s. Today, near the end of his long career, the 46th president is becoming strangely reacquainted with the mistakes and frustrations of the 37th, 38th, and 39th presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and–most pointedly of all–Jimmy Carter. “
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Bush- 7 years 4 months
Obama 8 years
Trump 4 years
Biden 6 months
Obama had us in Afghanisan longer than Bush. One could assume that eight years would be enough time to finish the job and come home. The Obama-Biden Administration. Eight years. Joe the cream rise Sniffer was the only person in the War Room who opposed taking out Bin Laden. Thats just ole Joe back in the day when his brain functioned the same as today.
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(sp) Joe the cream rinse Sniffer. Biden to Trump: “Hold My Beer.”
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Here Emery, your sister can take half the blame.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/16/kamala-harris-joe-biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-plan/
“Vice President Kamala Harris said she played a major role in crafting the Biden administration’s plan in April to quickly withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan.
Harris confirmed that she was the last person in the room shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he had ordered all U.S. military personnel to withdraw from the Middle Eastern nation by Sept. 11, 2021 in an April interview with CNN. The vice president also commended Biden for the decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan.”
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I agree about Obama Anvil. He had 8 year. But it was Bush that got us in and 7 years should have been enough to declare “mission accomplished” and get the hell out. . I never did support occupation and nation building agreeing with George and Ron Paul on that.
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Read any current news from Afghanistan lately, Paul?
Apparently not. All we hear from Paul is from 8,10,12 years ago.
You can cry all you want about shoulda coulda woulda, but Biden said he had it all figured out and would take care of the whole deal.
How’s that workin’ out Paul?
Biden had 4 years to take care of Afghanistan and he F’d it up in only 6 months.
And Paul blames everyone except Biden.
You voted for an incompetent loser, Paul.
We are now (thanks to the current admin) protected from our enemies by wokeist boot-lickers and incompetent martinets.
Putin and Xi are licking their lips.
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Are the Crisis Consultants busier than a one legged girl in a chorus line or what? Imagine all the money they are raking in right now. Wonder if they will send Raul Emanuel out next? Lanny Davis? Michael Avanti? Mike Cohon? Probably some whistleblower military expert like Vinnman.
Noticed reading a link on this thread that Obama has disappeared from using his instragram account and all social media. Maybe they will send in Chris Cuomo to carry the WH water.
Talk about Code Red.
I detect things are starting to get heated up. How about some soothing music from those lovely suburan moms to calm the savage beasts within. Sound good? ok.
https://youtu.be/wWsEBqMWR24
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Anything and everything Emery, not to deal with Biden’s epic FAIL?
Post your degree in military tactics.
How long should a war take is the usual Emery “squirrel”.
Maybe you should go find some of those officers you schlepped bags for.
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Biden’s “Katrina” moment.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-pundits-slam-biden-return-camp-david-after-afghanistan-address
Nobody in their right mind believes that a debacle of this magnitude would’ve happened under Trump. Period. Now China knows that America’s not gonna defend Taiwan. Biden has created a foreign policy dumpster fire from which he will never recover.
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I see Emery had nothing but crickets when ask about the still “ongoing” war in Korea. That’s well beyond his 3,5,10 BS.
And no response about a real quick end to said war? Why not Emery?
“we” have had plenty of time to win that one too.
What’s the Emery timeline there?
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Quick, roll tape of Jan. 6. 24/7 carpet bomb the airwaves
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Taliban leader was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 swap by Obama
“Earlier this year, one of them, Khairullah Khairkhwa, actually sat across the table from President Biden’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, in Moscow, where Khairkhwa was part of the official Taliban delegation that negotiated the final terms of the US withdrawal. The retreat cleared a path for the Taliban to retake power after 20 years.
“I started jihad to remove foreign forces from my country and establish an Islamic government, and jihad will continue until we reach that goal through a political agreement,” Khairkhwa said at the summit.
After raiding the presidential palace in Kabul, a group of armed Taliban fighters told Al Jazeera that they were arranging to bring back their Gitmo-paroled leadership from Qatar upon securing the capital. One unidentified fighter, who blasted America for “oppressing our people for 20 years,” claimed he had also been locked up at the Guantanamo Bay facility. It’s more evidence that Gitmo catch-and-release policies facilitated the fall of Afghanistan to the enemy that Washington vowed to crush after 9/11.“
https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/taliban-leader-was-freed-from-guantanamo-in-2014-swap-by-obama/
8 years Obama had. 8 years. Biden has 4 years to plan for the withdrawal and he totally screwed the pooch in less than 8 months.
Bring out Susan Rice. They brought her out after 911-Benghazi. She can lie with the best of them.
Wonder why Obama turned off comments on his social media account as soon as the Afghanistan clustergluck hit American TVs. Probably had something to do with his three day Birthday Bash in white privileged evil whitey Martha’s Vineyard.
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This should really help Herr Gavin win the recall.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/17/gavin-newsom-welcomes-afghan-refugees-to-california-were-a-state-of-refuge/
How many can we put you down for Emery?
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An absolute failure –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-f-grade-independents-afghanistan-speech-lee-carter
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Abandoning Americans! –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-declines-to-guarantee-evacuation-of-americans-stranded-in-afghanistan-after-aug-31
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Nero 2.0 –
Fiddling while the world burns
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
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Can’t get him stabilized on his meds?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/17/white-house-president-joe-biden-has-not-spoken-any-other-world-leaders-since-taliban-seized-kabul/
Is Jill going to be the one doing the talking?
Where is Cackles?
Someone has to step up and unscrew this pooch.(The odds of that are as good as Emery getting critical of Biden anytime soon.)
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He’s right that they act like they are stoned –
Geraldo blasts Biden White House’s ‘bungling’ of Afghanistan: ‘Ivy League a—- unconnected to reality’
Host says Biden, top advisers appear to be ‘stoned and hiding’ after Taliban takeover of Kabul
https://www.foxnews.com/media/geraldo-blasts-biden-white-houses-bungling-of-afghanistan-ivy-league-a-es-unconnected-to-reality
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Nice……!
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things!”
~Sugar Frosted Barry O’s
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If the Taiban does not treat women and gays nicely, then the UN will draft and fire off astrongly worded resolution condemning Afghanistan for being…well, whatever a 7th Century society treats women and gays. Bad Islamists, bad. No mention of transsexuals. Odd.
worth watching a few minutes after intro.
https://www.facebook.com/100044171722408/posts/408349217314132/
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With all the team 0 retreads no wonder this idiot reached his peter principle and tens of thousands are paying the price. –
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is at the center of yet another U.S. foreign policy disaster. During the Obama administration, in his role as a top aide to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and then-vice president Joe Biden, the highly credentialed wunderkind presided over some of the most humiliating failures in the history of American foreign policy.
Sullivan’s extensive experience as an architect of American failure in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Iran, and Myanmar, plus the fact that White House press secretary Jen Psaki is mysteriously out of the office, made him a natural choice to defend the Biden administration’s handling of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/jake-sullivan-disaster/
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How many!?! WTF can you believe they stranded that many citizens much less the threatened folks who worked for us. Didn’t think it could get worse but this is criminal –
https://news.yahoo.com/15-000-americans-remain-afghanistan-002300775.html
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Oh how nice what’s her name, the cackler in chief is fleeing to vietnam, i wonder if she will visit the old embassy in saigon that’s a museum to the fall, with pictures of the ch-47’s just like we saw in kabul =
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-vietnam-afghanistan-comparisons-fall-of-saigon
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So it begins the reality is setting in, the wont be anymore afgans getting out –
The Taliban have strengthened their grip on Afghanistan’s capital city by setting up checkpoints around Kabul, where residents’ smartphones are being searched for any signs of communications in English, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Taliban fighters are also searching the offices and homes of Afghans who have affiliations with Western governments or organizations. Many Afghans are racing to erase past online lives, scrubbing their phones for evidence of a more secular lifestyle over the last 20 years.
The Taliban have also set up checkpoints at entrances to Kabul’s airport, where they have whipped and beat Afghans who tried to cross to make an escape, the Wall Street Journal report said.
The Journal reported that some evacuation flights were leaving near-empty, as a result of the new checkpoints. A German military A400M Airbus – which has a capacity of over 100 passengers – took off with just seven onboard on Tuesday.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/taliban-set-checkpoints-kabul-searching-181244677.html
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MIDWEEK IN PICTURES: AFGHAN BUGOUT EDITION
President Biden’s July statement that “there’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the United States embassy” will stand next to President George H.W. Bush’s “Read my lips: no new taxes” pledge as the most self-damning statement from a modern president. And we learn that as recently as the middle of last week, the State Department was flying over a regular rotation of embassy personnel to Kabul. They are that clueless and stupid.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/midweek-in-pictures-afghan-bugout-edition.php
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THEY DID WHAT!! –
The Biden administration moved in June to dismantle a system designed to protect American citizens trapped abroad — just months before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, stranding thousands of Americans in the Central Asian country.
Fox News has obtained the June 11 memo sent around the State Department which gave the green light on the “discontinuation of the establishment, and the termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR).”
The sensitive but unclassified memo was signed by Deputy Secretary of State Brian McKeon, just a couple of months before the Biden administration’s botched troop withdrawal that saw Afghanistan fall under Taliban control.
CCR was formed under Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and was tasked with providing “aviation, logistics, and medical support capabilities for the Department’s operational bureaus, thereby enhancing the secretary’s ability to protect American citizens overseas in connection with overseas evacuations in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-dismantled-ccr-kabul#&_intcmp=lb_pentagon-weighs-in-on-afghan-evacuations,-biden-says-'chaos'-couldn't-be-avoided:-live-updates_postclickthru_189_article1
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Memory as short as someone’s in Nevada City.
“President Joe Biden bristled when confronted on Afghans falling from U.S. Air Force jets after grabbing on to them amid the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan.
In an interview with ABC News‘ George Stephanopoulos, Biden was asked about the pictures of “hundreds of people packed in a C-17” and the images of “Afghans falling.” (RELATED: US General Expects Terror Threats From The Taliban And Al Qaeda To Increase)
“That was four days ago, five days ago,” the president said.”
Uhhh,,,, no it wasn’t…. It was MONDAY…. This is WEDSDAY…
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/18/joe-biden-rebuffs-confronted-image-afghans-falling-us-planes/
Miss Trump yet?
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That miserable excuse of a prez. pretty much has written off the Americans left in rag head land.
A fine fearless leader you stuck us with Proggys.
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“Our Glorious Military Leadership: Are we abandoning all of the people? The good General gave a horrible answer in the presser just now…
These good folks are too busy searching for the almost non-existent white-supremacists to do war in any way, shape or form. Listen to this nonsense – no way to get people out as the airport is surrounded and Austin said they are not venturing out… so one question asked was then what? Are we abandoning all of the people? The good General gave a horrible answer.”
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/our-glorious-military-leadership-are-we-abandoning-all-of-the-people-the-good-general-gave-a-horrible-answer-in-the-presser-just-now/
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Yup –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/geraldo-hits-biden-for-pitiful-speech-as-afghanistan-crumbles-what-the-hell-did-covid-have-to-do-with-it
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Well perhaps he should get off twitter defending crt and start running the run down of the God damn war, my bad that’s too much truth for the worlds biggest wokehole uhhum ‘general’ I bet the chi coms play his videos over and over at their field grade and general advanced schools for giggles at happy hour –
https://news.yahoo.com/gen-milley-nothing-that-i-or-anyone-else-saw-indicated-immediate-collapse-of-afghan-military-following-us-pullout-213246886.html
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Don @ 9:39 pm
Last two paragraphs:
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued an alert Wednesday to people in the Afghan capital, saying it “cannot ensure safe passage” to the airport.
Asked whether U.S. troops could facilitate evacuations for Americans and others who are unable to reach the airport in Kabul, Austin said, “We don’t have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people.”
Why not? Don’t have the capability to insure people reach the airport? Boy, heads will roll if some journalists go missing. Shelter in place for how long? Until things get better? There is 10,000 Americans out there. Hopefly they have the resources to pay someone to hide them in the trunk and drive them on some back road out of the country…or to a boat on the coast.
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sad is not the word, Shapiro.
https://www.facebook.com/100044171722408/posts/409258003889920/
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BT – There are also reports its over 15k citizens stranded. The first pic in this shows the core problem of the nation builder especially the 0 and creepy grampa joe 8 years. Virtue signaling is not going to help the teenaged and younger afgans. Abusing their 7the century tribal sensibilities and feeding lies to the youngsters that a protest with cute hand written signs will get them killed as we saw today. At least they are killing the protected behind the walls and away form cell cams. There is no press.
Team 0 with its crazy priorities that did not help the crime/jihadi stability with rainbow flags and the like meant they were never really willing to deal with the epic corruption.
Then creepy grampa joe decides to evac troops after the winter doldrums (cant do what Trump was going to) but before civies and just like everyone thought the duffer failed to support just like he signaled with the whole gulf drawdown. Thanks socialists! That blood is on your hands.
None of this happened when Trump only had 2000 troops in country. Gee i wonder why???
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/15-surreal-heartbreaking-haunting-photos-005633314.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
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This is why I avoided details for a few days. No surprises at all.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-women-throwing-babies-over-barbed-wire-to-save-them-report
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The Chinese seem to think that the debacle in Afghanistan is a reasonable indication that their “investment” in Xho Bai Den is about to pay off….
I think they may be on to something.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231877.shtml
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Crickets from the peanut gallery lately. 🤔
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Posted by: Barry Pruett | 19 August 2021 at 07:33 AM
Crickets from the peanut gallery lately. 🤔
Long noted that Punch’s schedule frequently “tightens” whenever the democrat party is getting bad press.
(Forgive me if this shows up twice…..)
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Here are some Biden lies from the past few days off the top of my head.
Nobody is being killed in Afghanistan.
We don’t have troops on Syria.
The chaos in Afghanistan was inevitable.
It was Trump’s fault.
Afghans won’t fight.
Taliban takeover was not inevitable.
Taliban was not remotely as capable as the Afghan military.
The USA was not going to “just walk away and not sustain their ability to maintain that force.”
There’s not a conclusion that, in fact, they cannot defeat the Taliban.
Biden lied and now a lot of Americans are trapped behind enemy lines. People are dying. The situation was created by marxists who care more about “transforming” American than our own citizens. Sound alike a true Marxist to me.
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Quote go here today
Insight: “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.” —François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
“The crisis at the border and the stunningly swift defeat in Afghanistan are entirely on Biden. He took sustainable situations and overturned them out of ideological fixity and fantastical wishful thinking. The outcomes were utterly predictable. Indeed, anyone who knew anything about the border or Afghanistan warned what would happen. The debacles haven’t been the product of forces beyond Biden’s control; events didn’t take a hand, he did. These are man-made disasters. … In both cases, he quite literally chose chaos.” —Rich Lowry
“Any new president inherits realities that precede him. The issue confronting every president is what principles and policies will he put in place to deal with these existing realities that will define his administration. Most clear now is that America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is surrounded by a perception of confusion, weakness and humiliation. For anyone who believes that our nation should be a beacon of strength for freedom in the world, that beacon has been deeply tarnished.” —Star Parker
“[Pro-American] Afghanis were assured they’d be protected. Instead, the Biden administration has shown far less concern for them than for the migrants who are breaking our laws to enter illegally and have done nothing for America. A double standard.” —Betsy McCaughey
“For those saying that the Afghan people are merely going back to what they are used to, remember that the median age in Afghanistan is 18 — and the Taliban fell 20 years ago.” —Ben Shapiro
“It’s alarming that neither President Biden nor Vice-President Harris has the capacity to answer questions during a major foreign policy crisis of their own creation.” —Senator Tom Cotton
“Radical Islam supports female genital mutilation, which is a terrible thing. Leftism supports the genital mutilation of both males and females, except for the purpose of turning males into females and vice versa.” —Matt Walsh
Non compos mentis: “I commend the president for the action that he took. It was strong, it was decisive, and it was the right thing to do.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Grand delusions: “The economy is doing great.” —Congresswoman Lauren Underwood
And last… “I have not heard one word from all of these women in ‘The Squad’ in Congress saying anything about protecting the women of Afghanistan. You know, they’re closed-mouthed right now. It doesn’t fill their narrative. People ought to be sick of this. They really should be.” —Senator Tommy Tuberville
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Fishniglio @ 7:58 am
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. I surmise the stillness from the peanut gallery is due to two factors.
1) The marching orders have not been given out. They are running radio silence. Not much to work with on this topic that is consuming most all the airwaves: https://www.rawstory.com/. Not much for The Ponytail of Ignorance to parrot….yet. The narrative is still be crafted and focused grouped, I reckon.
2) Easy peasy. President Biden took a wee hit to the chin and the polls reflect that. Now Biden’s credibility is being called into question. Credibility does not suddenly bounce back. Sows doubt in the public’s mind and lingers in the background of everything going forward.
Bonus!
3). If Biden knew (was briefed) of what the generals and Intel stated in July and then told the American something different in August, then he lied to the American people. The NY Times makes this claim in a round-about way, but the Grey Lady uses “anonymous sources” (that’s what the times and Wa Compost is known best for) and their sources had to have privy to classified information. If Biden fully was aware he lied to the American in August, then that could be an impeachable offense. Will Biden be impeached? No. No, no, no until after the 2022 midterms. :).
BTW, the NYT and WaPo had to look legit and slap Biden on this one. There were left with little choice. Call it a one-off. They will back in short order having their lips stuck so firmly to Biden behind that it would take nematic hammer to separate their lips from Biden’s wrinkly ass.
Biden lied, people died! Enjoy the crickets while they last.
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Something Is Wrong with the President
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/something-is-wrong-with-the-president/
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The calls for Prez Duffus to resign are getting louder.
Ready for an even worse prez? Harris is even more scary.
Toss them both out? Queen Pelosi?
We are so f*cked.
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Toss them both out for President McCarthy… anytime after Jan 2023.
Not that he’d be great in the job.
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McCarthy is the worst Republican. No spine. No foundation. Total politician. Still would be better than Biden or Harris. 😂
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You’re not a Republican Gregory. Why do you care?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 August 2021 at 01:15 PM
You’re not a Republican Gregory. Why do you care?
You’re not a Democrat Punch…..oh wait, yes……yes you are! Despite a decades worth of that Green Libertarian™ nonsense.
Carry on!
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Emery slithered back in.. OK Emery, Trump had these terrorists on the ropes. He had them controlled.
Then your fearless leader shows up and “fixes” all that.
Just another “If Trump did it,, scrap it” moment..
You said your happy when Biden got rid of all the other Trump programs and policies,, this should be no different.
Now go back to grooming Biden’s blond leg hairs.
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Barry is right. McCarthy is a spineless SOB.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/would-republican-house-majority-impeach-biden-2023
“House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says that if his party wins back the majority in the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections, House Republicans wouldn’t use impeachment as a political weapon against President Biden in 2023.”
It’s already been proven Biden is unfit for office.
Nuff said.
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Sure, it’s just a tiny sample for a poll, but with news like this we can expect more Trump did it too!, I did not vote for Obama the second time, and Bush got us into this mess. All that may or may not be true, but the public usually focuses on the man sitting on the porcelain throne in the Oval Office. The senile old man who botched the pullout big time. Nobody else botched the withdraw. Oh well, back to Delaware. Somebody is late for his nappy-pooh.
‘New Poll From The Federalist/Susquehanna Shows Joe Biden’s Approval Nose-Diving Following Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal’
In the days following the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to just 38 percent
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/19/new-poll-from-the-federalist-susquehanna-shows-joe-bidens-approval-nose-diving-following-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal/
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