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)”
BIDEN SPEAKS, BIDEN LIES.
Joe Biden spoke to the media this afternoon about Afghanistan. His talk lasted about ten minutes and he took questions for 15-20 minutes. Much of the Q&A amounted to a filibuster.
Fact-checkers can have a field day with Biden’s talk, if they are so inclined. We’ll see if they are.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/biden-speaks-biden-lies.php
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So, this is why Punchy was all giddy on Aug 12 saying the Republicans were taken a beating lately, in regards to Cuomo resigning or something. Not a bad read, not a great read in my sometimes humble opinion.
‘This Is Actually Happening’
Inside the Biden team’s five-day scramble as Afghanistan collapsed.
“President Joe Biden and his inner circle were in an ebullient mood.
It was Wednesday morning, Aug. 11, and they were basking in the glow of back-to-back legislative wins. The day before, the Senate had passed a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. And in the early hours of Wednesday morning, they witnessed the advancement of a $3.5 trillion framework to finance Democrats’ social agenda.
Watching the Senate vote tally in front of a television screen in the president’s private dining room, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pumped their fists in triumph. The linchpin of their domestic agenda had begun to fall into place.
Biden was looking forward to his summer vacation set to begin in a few days, including some downtime at Camp David and at his house near the beach in Delaware. Meanwhile, many senior and mid-level West Wing staffers were also prepping for some time off, setting their “out of office” email replies. “It’s a ghost town,” a White House official said, describing the scene in the West Wing.
But as the White House was taking a giant victory lap over its domestic accomplishments, a disaster was looming on the other side of the world in Afghanistan.“
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/20/biden-afghanistan-kabul-chaos-taliban-evacuation-505600
Hmmm. Didn’t Joints Chief Chair Mike Milley preciously say something about all this rage out there that he ist does not understand and wants to know it so he can understand the rage? Yes, he done said it. Right about now he is on the receiving end of a lot of rage from all corners. He is getting a quick crash course lesson of which he wished for.
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GAS LIGHTING.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/joe-biden-american-afghanistan/
“Bumbling Contradiction: Joe Biden Promises Every American in Afghanistan Will Get Home but Cannot Guarantee Safety”
Just another term for
“Blowing smoke up your ass.”
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I’m sure Taiwan feels SO relived….
“O” and Joe let Putin take our ally Ukraine. (we vowed to defend)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/wh-scrambles-joe-biden-vows-sacred-commitment-to-defend-taiwan/
China must be regurgitating their chow mein in fear.
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CNN rats out Biden?
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/20/cnn-clarissa-ward-kabul-airport-white-house/
“The CNN correspondent also highlighted how the reality in Kabul differs greatly from the “talking points” Americans are hearing from the Pentagon and the White House. She said the scene on the ground “shocked her,” in part because officials have been offering up different comments on the situation.”
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Instead of getting out there and bringing in our folks the wokesters in the army say stop you are making us look bad! That sums up the creepy grampa joe admin, to damn scared of their shadows to do their job and rescue our people from what may turn into a mass hostage situation. Does anyone believe for a minute they will bring in the at risk afgans. –
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.
This show of rare tension between the U.S. and British command groups in Kabul reflects three factors.
First, it shows the obvious stress of attempting to extricate thousands of personnel under a situation of increasing terrorist threat. Elements of the Haqqani network, the Islamic State in Afghanistan, and possibly al Qaeda are now operating in proximity to Kabul airport with some degree of command separation from the Taliban.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-general-tells-british-special-forces-stop-rescuing-people-in-kabul-you-re-making-us-look-bad/ar-AANygdE?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
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Even the French are showing us up Don.
I’m just waiting to hear how the MEX special forces
are making us look bad.
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Is the Auburn food truck festival put on by Placer County Parks and recreation District. Wonderful event lots of families lots of kids good music wonderful venue.
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Not impressed Emery. I eat plenty of the proverbial “roach coach”.
And hanging out in the smoke is such a great idea.
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Paul empty. Take your self centered self seeking self asborbant self promoting stories that nobody cares about to the Sandbox. The topic is Biden enraging even CNN, MSNBC, the Alantic, NYT, and almost every left wing blowhard erupting at the brain dead creep named Joe Biden for his unconscible handing of our people in Afghanistan.
Be gone with you and your roach coach music. That it to the roach motel where they care about that crap, ass hat.
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For our resident accountant.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/steve-daines-demands-accountability-for-82-billion-in-u-s-military-equipment-seized-by-taliban/
“Steve Daines Demands Accountability for $82 Billion in U.S. Military Equipment Seized by Taliban”
And what does Prez. Coward say about air strikes to destroy captured vehicles and aircraft? “I don’t want to piss off the Taliban.”
Yup the same “JV” team “O” and Joe gave birth to.
Seen the vids.s on TV? Those were OUR M16s and such. Some look new right out of the box.
Someone in the W.H. gave the orders to “dump and run”.
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Emery should go around testing the local gas station sushi.
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It all comes tumbling down –
The seven-month rolling average of the president’s job approval is now at 50 percent disapproval compared to only 43 percent approval, with seven people expressing no opinion.
Broken down by age groups; 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65 plus, all have a negative opinion of Biden as well.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/poll-biden-job-approval-underwater-in-majority-of-states/
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Chalk up another LIE Emery, since your the one who said was keeping score.
https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2021/08/20/fact-check-biden-claims-afghanistan-evacuation-largest-airlift-of-people-in-history/
“CLAIM: President Joe Biden boasted Friday that the Afghanistan evacuation is the “largest airlift of people in history.”
VERDICT: Likely FALSE. The evacuation is smaller than India’s evacuation of its citizens from Iraq and Kuwait in 1990.”
Just like his(joke of an) administration has created more jobs in history. More like keeping more people FROM WORKING in history.
And another Trump plan fearless leader scrapped..(Because Trump did it)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/former-officials-say-trump-planned-to-keep-special-forces-in-afghanistan-to-prevent-a-collapse/
“Former senior Trump administration defense and intelligence officials watching the disaster unfolding this week in Afghanistan say that the incoming Biden administration rejected their plans for a stable withdrawal, which included keeping a small unit to conduct counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Taliban if necessary.”
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While creepy grampa joe is trying out new depends in the basement those emotionally empowered mutha mullahs are breaking out and are confident the west will squawk but do nothing. –
UPDATE 1-France, Germany, UK very worried about Iran’s uranium enrichment
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/1-france-germany-uk-very-141927356.html
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Here is an evacuation 101 primer for the ponytail of ignorance –
“As far as how it would have been different, we had an approach that we literally worked on from the very beginning,” Pompeo said. “So President Trump had made clear in his campaign, he wanted to get our young men and women home as quickly as he could. We were striving to achieve that. He also made very, clear both when I was CIA director, but more directly to me when I was the Secretary of State, that we had a second objective—and that was to make sure we could do so in a way that was orderly, that got equipment home, that got American civilians out, and then protected our second objective there, which was to continue to be able to reduce the risk that we ever had an attack on the homeland from that place. And so there were lots of work streams underneath that, one of which was the intra-Afghan conversations. So we spoke with the Taliban, we spoke with the Tajiks, we spoke with the Northern Alliance, folks in the West, we spoke with the Afghan government and had an agreement with the government— we were working to begin the peace and reconciliation process – an ugly, complex, almost certainly years-long endeavor. But at the same time, we made clear to the Taliban that here are our set of conditions. If you honor those conditions, we will honor ours, which is to draw down our forces. We we did that in a measured, step by step way, from about 15,000 to about 2,500. But we never got to the conditions where President Trump felt comfortable that we could go to zero and so we didn’t go to zero.”
“Well, I start with this: we clearly would have endeavored to get every American civilian out,” Pompeo said. “The civilians leave before the folks with the firepower, the folks with the guns—this is just … this is common sense and military operations 101. Second, President Trump also made very clear it was important to him that the equipment get out. He would always talk about all of the equipment. Every last stitch. I can’t tell you how many times I heard him make clear to the military that had to be part of their strategic planning process as we wound down. They had started that while we were there, they’d begun to move material out—we always knew there would be buildings and things that would be tough to get out and you might have to blow them in place, but it was a … it was a part of the strategic conversation about how we were going to ultimately get to the reduced force posture levels. We wanted the civilians and the equipment out—and then and only then would we begin to take those last folks out, none of which would have happened until the conditions were right, until they had met the conditions. When we thought that those twin objectives could be achieved, making sure we weren’t attacked from this place again and second, getting our forces down to the lowest possible number.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/exclusive-pompeo-on-bidens-tragic-afghan-disaster-it-didnt-have-to-be-this-way/
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Well they have as much cred as the bee –
CBS News mocked for report claiming ‘climate change helped strengthen the Taliban’
Critics compared the report to something published by The Babylon Bee
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-news-climate-change-helped-strengthen-taliban
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Great ideas Pompeo. Why didn’t you do them with your buddy Trump when you controlled the White House You didn’t do shit.
In that sense you’re no different than Obama or Bush.”-
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 August 2021 at 09:14 PM
Ah dry your eyes Punch……remember……America is Back.
Now…..where’s that ice cream?
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Trump did plenty empty Emery. Your dear Leader scrapped everything Trump had in place. If you can’t deal with the facts, head to the ice cream shop. They have whine flavor
for LIBS.
Biden is starting to have trouble reading his prepared excuses on that jumbotron that doubles for a teleprompter.
100×120 in!
Shuffles off and not taking any questions!(like someone here we know) So much for “not shying away from questions”.
Hummm… Emery acting like Biden. Who is learning from who??
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Biden. Worst president in modern history.
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Hear Biden Emery? “Americans are just fine in Kabul.”
Oh And ” al Qaeda is gone from Afghanistan”
Biden’s words TODAY Emery,,,
The Pentagon briefing after that made Biden a LIAR.
CNN: “It’s clear, Biden has FAILED”
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Barry. The three worst miserable excuses for Presidents all happen to be DEMS.
Biden just took the #1 spot away from Carter. Carter and “O” are tied for 2ND.
Carter has a good excuse. He meant well. But giving away the Panama Canal (a U.S. territory) was beyond stupid.
As for “O”,, he screwed the U.S. over intentionally.
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So it begins, with the lies exposed the socialists are doing the thousand cuts, how ironic that the 50 year career of creepy gampa joe ends with the left saying the emperor has no clothes, situational awareness or a grounding in this reality! Perhaps the ponytail of ignorance can give us one of his infamous prognostications? –
Tucker Carlson: Biden’s officials are turning on him, and it’s about more than Afghanistan
They’ve broken the most important rule in any White House: Don’t diminish the boss
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-officials-turning-more-than-afghanistan
Taliban fighters compiled blacklist to hunt Afghan officials: Private intel report
Taliban fighters are “intensifying” their “hunt-down” of Afghan officials, security forces and police and punishing their families when they can’t find them, according to a new private intelligence report obtained by ABC News.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-fighters-compiled-blacklist-to-hunt-afghan-officials-private-intel-report/ar-AANyyUj?ocid=msedgntp
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Biden is upside down in Paul’s favorite poll too.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
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Could you imagine how many we could have evacuated if the TDS set didnt screw the pooch from the get go? –
U.S. cargo plane set record transporting 823 Afghans from Kabul
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/u-cargo-plane-set-record-134701203.html
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And yet still no resignations in disgust from the military or intel folks under Joey B. Have they no honor or sense of shame?
That was rhetorical.
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“Thanks for reading. If you’re as exhausted by the events of the past week as I am, say a prayer for the 78-year-old man who’s directly responsible for the crisis in Afghanistan. Joe Biden is a one-man humanitarian disaster, and that really must weigh on him. No wonder he’s in hiding.”
How’s that legacy coming Joe?
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https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1429073247232925700?s=20
Dumkirk. That’s a good one.
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It is said that every president serves only to burnish the reputation of his predecessor…..
How’s that legacy coming Joe?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/joe-biden-is-who-we-said-he-was/
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The Biden plan.
1.. Pull all the troops out.
2.. Leave plenty of American assets behind.
3.. Abandon Americans to fend for themselves.
4.. Send troops back with orders to do nothing.
5.. Tell Americans to send emails and to hide where they are.
6.. LIE like an Afghan rug on national TV.
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The one with constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the mouth asks, why, why, why did not Trump get us out of Afghanistan?
Answer is simple and clear if the Discredited Pony Tail of Ignorance would ever take the cotton of of his ears and put it in his mouth. Doubtful that will happened. Can’t teach and old dog new tricks. If you bed down with that old dog, you will get fleas. Just like Bobbie Mangina. Anyway…
Trump had conditions with the Taliban. Conditions of good faith and trust. We will honor our word to withdraw in steps as you honor your word about the staggered withdrawal. A mutual agreement between two parties based on each keeping up their end of the bargain. Simple, clear, conditional.
The Taliban broke their end of the agreements, thus preventing Trump from fulfilling our end of the agreement with the Raghead rapists. Until the conditions were met, no withdrawal possible, but Trump kept trying.
The Obama folks and intelligence said it would take months, possibly two years to decimate ISIS. Trump took about of a month to wipe then from 90% their there territory, then made them flee in the desert with no place to call their home. Remember the Caliphate?. A month of cutting them off from their supply lines and ‘dynamite fall from sky’ as one Raghead cried out for help.
BTW, Shira law is Islamic Law. One and the same for those who say the Tailban are not following Islamic law or they are somehow different from the ones who have infected Europe with the Scourge.
Now Biden comes along and gets rid of any conditions that the Taliban had to meet to for US withdrawal. Biden is a threat to the National Security of our nation and our Western Civilization’s allies.
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Still radio silence over on RAW STORY. Day 5, save this one pro-Biden lie…er….statement. Hey, Biden is squashing the right’, most of the independents , and 25% of the Democrats narrative. Biden is crushing them. Go Joe, Go!!!
Biden counters right wing critics: ‘Any American who wants to come home, we will get you home’
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement.
“Addressing the American people for the second time on Afghanistan this week President Joe Biden promised “any American who wants to come home, we will get you home.”
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-counters-right-wing-critics-any-american-who-wants-to-come-home-we-will-get-you-home/
And Raw Story believes that line of bull, ROFLMAO.
Contingency plans:
1) If Biden gets all Americans out over time, all will be forgotten and he will be praised as a man of his word and getting the US citizens out of caveman country.
2) If a video shows one American being killed, then Biden will be in deep doo-doo politically.
3) If Biden sends, say 500 US combat troops, to rescue American citizens unable to get past the Taliban check points surrounding the airport and shots are fired and 300-350 of them come back alive and the others are killed as fighting breaks out, Biden will have no choice but to send in the bombers and start bombing and attacking Taliban strongholds. In other words, we will be back to exactly where we were in 2001….fighting terrorists like the Tailban and factions of other Islamic ragheads. That scenario with be the end of Biden’s short and destructive Presidency.
Yesterday (or the day before) 2,000 folks were flown out of Kabul. Only 275 of the 2,000 were American citizens. Not a good sign.
Now, if the Taliban had kept their end of the bargain as laid down by Trump, we would not be having this conversation and we all would be talking about Jan 6 and the Delta variant.
Now, if Joe Biden did not go off half cocked with his fantabolous foreign policy ideas (remember his plan to divide Iraq up into three separate countries to bring peace in Iraq for example), then we would not be having this conversation either.
Biden owns the withdrawal, the biggest clustergluck in decades. A embarrassment to the USA and our allies and NATO to put Biden’s harebrained plan in the most charitable terms.
Since the average age of the Afghanistan people is 18 years old, that means that Sleepy Creepy Joey B has brought upon the Afghan people the biggest fuck up in their lifetimes. Many have never lived under Taliban Shira Law Islamic rule. Surprise, surprise.
PS: The Biden aides were all confident that Joe would not political setbacks for the disaster known as the Biden withdrawal. They bet the farm on Joe brushing off any fallout.
Once again proving that the Dems put politics ahead of country. The USA can play second fiddle to the American Marxist’s agenda.
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Well now this is just shameless elder abuse on the part of the Taliban…..
Isn’t making a senile grifter look foolish a violation of the Geneva Convention?
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/taliban-jihadis-in-us-gear-stage-mockery-of-iconic-iwo-jima-flag-raising-photo
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And it gets worse.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/21/kabul-airport-gates-closed-taliban-confiscating-u-s-passports/
“The Kabul airport gates are reportedly closed Saturday, as additional details indicate the Taliban is confiscating U.S. passports.”
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The socialist dems love their red lines that never get enforced –
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said the Taliban has already interrupted U.S. operations in Afghanistan by obstructing access to the Kabul airport, and despite President Joe Biden’s vow that interruptions of American operations would be responded to, there hasn’t been a response.
Mast said, “He said that he made it clear, any interruption of our operations will have a swift response. Well, isn’t surrounding the airport and not letting anybody in or out an interruption of that? And I see no response. And the fact of the matter is, we all know from history that when optics are the biggest concern of politicians, then people get killed. … And that’s what President Biden is doing today, making sure that his optics of not having this appear as a combat mission is the most important thing that he focuses on, and we’re going to have people killed because of it.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/21/gop-rep-mast-bidens-breaking-red-line-to-respond-if-taliban-interrupts-operations-in-afghanistan/
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So why wouldn’t they have activated the craf when they expected 10’s of thousands to be evacuated? Only now are they looking at it WTF???
It looks very much like there was never any real intention to do an evac of the afgans at all much less citizens!! –
The White House is considering enlisting commercial airlines to help in the US evacuations in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal first reported Saturday.
The military has alerted major US airlines that their help may be requested to operate flights for Afghan evacuees, either on a voluntary basis or by activating the Civil Reserve Fleet, NBC’s Josh Lederman reported.
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet was created in 1952 after WWII and can be activated during a national defense crisis to add to the US military’s aircraft capacity. Commercial airlines volunteer to participate in the program and in return are given preference for transporting cargo and personnel for the Department of Defense.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/white-house-considering-ordering-commercial-005009101.html
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Footnote to 938 The craf would be flying into bases outside afganistan who are the hubs receiving evacuees.
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“The craf would be flying into bases outside afganistan who are the hubs receiving evacuees”
Don, you mean like Qatar? They just said No Mas! to anymore Afghanis. We will not take anymore of those kind. Airport closed to you, GI
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Harris must be in Asia looking to hand over Taiwan to China.
No? How bout pulling out troops out of S. Korea so the fat kid can “reunite” Korea.
Proggys are sure going to have plenty of excuses come next Nov.
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The silence from our local marxists is remarkable. Lol.
“You know what woke means? It means you’re a loser. Everything woke turns to shit. It’s true.” DJT
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Where is Emery? THIS devout LIB has the stones to bitch about Biden,, why not you??
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/22/fncs-wallace-biden-is-flat-wrong-on-afghanistan-does-the-president-not-know-whats-going-on/
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Hiding in the basement. Lol
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Barry 9:33 – “Everything woke turns to shit. It’s true.” DJT
This is why Trump has such a large and passionate following. He is one of the few that dare to call BS on the current race to the bottom by the Dems and the left. EVERY politician that wants to be considered conservative or just possessing common sense should be doing the same.
Yet very few are.
Sad.
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WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE NEW YORK TIMES (2)
“Further to Paul’s post yesterday on mounting criticism of Biden in the house organ of the Democratic Party (commonly known as the New York Times), today the Times has published what amounts to a four-alarm fire memo to Democrats that Biden needs to get his act together, or be cut loose:
‘As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm’
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/when-youve-lost-the-new-york-times-2-2.php
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After the British Parliment condemned Joey B, Tony Blaire took his turn…with a line growing behind him in France!
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair Slams Biden’s ‘Dangerous’ Abandonment of Afghanistan
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/former-u-k-prime-minister-tony-blair-slams-bidens-dangerous-afghanistan-abandonment/
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Trump sure knows how to show reminders.
THIS is as true then, as it is today.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/22/donald-trump-plays-gen-patton-speech-at-rally-were-tired-of-woke-generals/
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“Rome” is burning… Party on!!!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-pelosi-dancing-napa-fundraiser-bidens-presidency-implodes
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WHEN BORIS CALLED
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/when-boris-called.php
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They even lost chris wallace –
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday over President Biden’s claims about the crisis in Afghanistan, repeatedly calling the commander in chief’s statements ”flat wrong.”
“The president said al-Qaida is gone. It’s not gone,” Wallace said at one point. “The president said he’s not heard any criticism from the allies. There’s been a lot of criticism from the allies. Words matter, and the words from the president matter most.”
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/chris-wallace-anthony-blinken-afghanistan-biden-174853926.html
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Surely you jest, creepy grampa joe said they are gone from afganistan –
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-of-islamic-state-threat-to-americans-in-afghanistan-11629648314
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