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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.

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413 responses to “Afghanistan Reflections (updated 21aug21)”

  1. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I love watching Paul lay his ignorance of all things America out for all to see on a daily basis. Lol. Swimming in the shallow end of the baby pool. 😂

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  2. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 August 2021 at 08:06 PM
    You mean crash the economy like Trump did whoever you are fish thing ?

    How did Trump crash the economy Punch? You sure like saying it but you never explain how he did it.
    That sure would be a good thing to know.

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    Barry 8:19 – “Swimming in the shallow end of the baby pool.”
    ‘Swimming’?
    Hah!
    The 3 year olds are having to hold his head above the water.

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Are you denying the economy crashed fishlike? Who was President when it crashed-duh. Trump was at the wheel when the bus ran off the road. Why is it always Republican administrations when that happens?

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So if the dod and state are telling people to not come the to airport and they cant come get them they are by definition stranded notwithstanding the bullshit from the WH spinmiester?
    strand·ed
    /ˈstrandəd/
    adjective
    1.
    left without the means to move from somewhere:
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Given the open southern border is anyone surprised that citizens are suffering illegal immigrant burn out that would effect the view of afgan immigration. –
    The response from black Americans matched the views of GOP supporters: 39 percent of black respondents supported just 10,000 migrants, and only 21 percent supported the resettlement of more than 50,000 Afghans. The matching numbers for Republican respondents were 39 percent and 16 percent.
    Similarly, 51 percent of independents want fewer than 50,000 Afghans. Only 22 percent favor more than 50,000.
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/08/23/poll-americans-oppose-mass-migration-afghanistan/
    😉

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It was obvious to the world that creepy grampa stayed safe in the basement as a campaign strategy given his massive loss of cognitive ability. Now it looks like she wanted to be mrs willson 2.0. Hows that working out socialist desm? –
    “When you look at what’s hurting America, when you look at this lack of leadership, and you wonder, who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position?” she said.
    “I’m sorry, as a political spouse, I can’t help but look at Jill Biden,” continued Campos-Duffy, who is married to former GOP congressman Sean Duffy.
    “No one knew better his state of mind than Dr. Jill Biden,” she added, making a point of emphasizing “doctor,” even though the first lady holds a doctorate in education, not medicine.
    “And if you ask me, the most patriotic thing Jill Biden could have done was tell her husband ― to love her husband ― and not let him run in this mental state that he’s in,” she concluded. “I think she failed the country as well.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/fox-news-host-ridiculed-implying-040007611.html
    😉

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  8. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 August 2021 at 08:51 PM
    How’d he do it Punch……surely you must know?
    C’mon man?

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 8:51 – “Are you denying the economy crashed fishlike?”
    No, Paul – he asked you a question.
    If you don’t have the mental facilities to answer – be honest and let us know.
    We understand.
    It’s a common problem with those on the left.
    A lot of times we’ve found that the issue is that a part of the leftist’s body has been jammed up inside an orifice that is too small to naturally accept the entrance of said body part.
    Modern medical science is working on a cure.

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  10. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Punch……surely you must know?
    Hmmmm…….apparently not.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s bad timing for the Afghan refugees. Remember when the train stations across Europe were filled with kind hearted citizens holding signs saying, “Welcome Refugees” and citizens brought down sandwiches and water and welcome kits to the stations. It took just one little boy from the refugee camps to wash up on the rocky shore of Europe to set the whole Welcome Wagon bandwagon loose.
    Now, Greece is building a wall to keep Afghan refugees out. Italy says they ain’t coming here. France is no longer speaking orator’s prose and saying ‘no room at the inn.’ Britain is about the only one who will take them in….20,000 max, the largest number of any of the European Union countries. Angie is sitting quiet, still stunned that none of the NATO allies with troops In Afghanistan (Germany, France, Britain) were informed or involved in any ally coordination of leaving Afghanistan in the rear view mirror. Angie is fuming and France called the Biden Plan imbecilic. Qatar has taken the most in temporarily (because of geography if nothing else), but now says no more flights carrying Afghans will be permitted to land in Qatar.
    Bad timing and bad planning makes for a humanitarian disease, bigly. Welcome to the Biden cages.
    ‘Humanitarian Disaster’: U.S. Shelters For Afghan Evacuees Rat-Infested, ‘Awash With Loose Feces,’ Report Says
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/humanitarian-disaster-u-s-shelters-for-afghan-evacuees-rat-infested-awash-with-loose-feces-report-says
    Like eating a bad can of chili.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Frigging British. No wonder we drove them out of our land with firearms. I can’t believe this. With all the worthwhile people to rescue, they added a friggin Wa Compost so called ‘journalist’. This is a new low for our ally. Should have turned her over to the Taliban and let her get gang raped in the streets and left behind like CBS did to Lara Logan.
    ‘US reporter credits British troops for saving her from Afghanistan’
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-post-british-troops-afghanistan-b1907473.html
    Thanks for nothing, limeys.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    If Gavin stays in power, he just might pull the same stunt.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/24/taliban-afghans-not-allowed-airport-us-must-leave-aug-31/
    “Mujahid also pushed against the U.S. urging Afghans to evacuate, asking them not to issues such encouragements. He said Afghan nationals should go back home and claimed females won’t be barred from work permanently.
    “We are asking the Americans: Change your policy and please don’t encourage Afghans to leave,” the spokesman said through a translator. “Don’t encourage our engineers, our doctors, our military. We need them. We need their talent. Do not take them out to foreign countries.””
    Those who can, are leaving Calif. and taking their money and talents with them.
    Seen the streets of Frisco and LA lately?

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You are truly disgusting Bill. I mean you are actually encouraging a scenario where a journalist and an American citizen is “gang raped in the streets” bu the Taliban.
    George, how is it you allow this trash to be spread via your blog? This has nothing to do with freedom of speech or expression. Instead it is encouraging a situation where an American citizen is assaulted and raped by a gang. What is the standard you employ for expression on your blog that would allow this? Bill should be banished from your blog George.

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  15. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 24 August 2021 at 09:25 AM
    ……moron!

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Sure Emery,, as you cheer on Biden for his incompetency.
    Oh.. Not a peep from you on Biden’s molestation of small children. Yet you grow a pair to whine about Bill?
    You’re pathetic.

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 935am – Can BillT’s sentiments be compared to your own with your condoning silence about Biden’s criminally stupid retreat from Afghanistan which has allowed the Taliban to kill, rape, maim, … thousands of people as they consolidate their takeover of the country. These are things actually happening, instead of words of frustration from a commenter. Where is your moral high ground located on what is going on right now, and the absolutely obscene response from Team Biden?

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  18. Walt Avatar

    And it nose dives.
    “In the daily Rasmussen poll, His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s job approval rating took a real dive overnight. What had been a fairly respectable (but falling) 46 percent approval, 53 percent disapproval rating on Monday is now a 44 percent approval, 55 percent disapproval rating.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/nolte-joe-bidens-job-approval-craters-overnight/
    And no recovery in sight.
    How does one recover from surrendering to the enemy? 20 years of progress shot to shit.
    Trump had the enemy under his boot. The Taliban feared Trump.
    The Taliban laugh at Biden.
    You got what you wanted LIBS,, Own it.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    Show me ONE complaint from a child or parent about Bidens behavior with children and I’ll consider it. All you have is an interpretation of a photo or video and nothing more.
    George
    I can’t believe you’re supporting Bill on this. To me it is truly astounding and disappointing that you do. Expressing a desire to have a named individual raped by a mob because she is an opposing journalist has to be beyond any reasonable limits you should allow on your publication-which is what this is- is beyond disgusting. You should pull that off your blog immediately and issue an apology.
    Comparing that specific action that Bill recommends and endorses to my lack of clarity about the situation in Afghanistan does not justify allowing that dangerous and likely illegal statement to be posted under your name.
    I expressed disapproval of our actions in Afghanistan under Biden and also expressed the lack of action by the past three Presidents whose tragic decision to remain in that country for 20 years to be the root cause of the current situation and they should share the blame for whatever repercussions may occur.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Go to show Emery don’t read links. The pictures HAVE been posted Biden sympathizer. You ignore them.
    Women HAVE come forward to complain. Where the hell were you?
    Tell us why we call him “Tuna Fingers” Biden. Or the serial hair sniffer.
    The evidence has been put up here plenty of times. Your denials are laughable.
    Now go do your own damned looking empty Emery.
    It not a bit different that your denials of voter fraud, despite the countless facts in evidence posted.
    Your no better than a North Korean in blind love with Dear Leader.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Paul, at least I have managed to stay on topic. It’s not so hard to do if you try.
    It takes a British commando squat to go in there and get their people out….some behind Taliban lines and they are grabbing Americans too. The Germans have their elite teams shooting it out with the Taliban and rescues their people and Afghanistan civilians from the streets. The Germans are in charge of the north gate, I believe. Bang, bang, watch out coming through, guns a’blazing if necessary.
    The Aussies are furious at our boys because they are ready to go some rescue missions at another gate to get people inside, but their co-combatant American soldiers have been told to not go outside the encircled airport. And where are teams of elites? Probably taking turns holding babies.
    I can’t remember if is it was the Aussie, the Brits, or the French that nicknamed our President ‘Sleepy Joe’, but it has definitely caught on openly among the European allies in their semi-private discussions.
    Seeing French President Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, the calm refined flowery orator blow a gasket and start jumping up and down screaming about Joe Biden is not something one sees everyday. He has great self discipline. Only 43, so of course he never seen the US drive a stake into the heart of NATO in his lifetime. The Brit Pm is barely over 50 as well as other Western democracies and they have never seen such a US clustergluck in their life lifetimes either. Friggin Sleepy Joe! And they are all mad at the US population for electing Jauch a senile old fool.
    BTW, it was the Brits going out and grabbing people near at the wall and grabbing people through the gate they opened combined with perfect timing for the Wa Compost lady that saved her life. The US was not going out to rescue her. Maybe Bezo’s would have paid some Tailban a few million to grease the wheels to have her brought to the airport. Never know. Bezo’s is one cheap man when it comes to paying his Wa Po staff. Heck, they did not even get the $1,000 bonus everyone else from private employers when Trump opened the economy for business. Too risky to roll the dice with Bezos. Lady Luck.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    This should bring a tears of joy to Emery.
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/08/24/taliban-vows-help-fight-climate-change/
    “A Taliban representative told Newsweek in an interview Monday that the jihadist organization will, if permitted, play an indispensable role on the international stage in fighting climate change, among other supposed global challenges.”
    Like they are really going to stop selling oil. How else will they pay for fresh ammo ?

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, in case there was any lingering doubt to who is leading and calling the shots and who got himself beyond painted into a corner and now between a rock and a hard…….let’s remove some doubt.
    ‘Report: Biden Decides Against Extending Evacuation Timeline After Taliban Threatens ‘Consequences’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-biden-decides-against-extending-evacuation-timeline-after-taliban-threatens-consequences
    Exit Question for all comers: If Biden’s hands were tied, locked into Trump’s May deadline, then why did Biden move the withdraw date to the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this year, then back to his own chosen August 31 withdraw date before live television and marching bands….after he was told the optics of a pullout celebration may not look good on Sept 11, 2021. Perhaps not the best o tie the two together if you had planned a victory dance.

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  24. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Walt | 24 August 2021 at 12:10 PM
    How else will they pay for fresh ammo ?

    Heroin and rare earth metals for the Chinese!

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    They don’t need fresh Ammo Walt. They’ve got all they need thanks to Bush, Obama and Trump.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Stay on topic Bill??? You were the one who gleefully proposed that an American female journalist should have been left behind by the the British so that she could be gang raped by the Taliban. his is a new low for Rebanes Ruminations.
    You’re quote Bill
    “I can’t believe this. With all the worthwhile people to rescue, they added a friggin Wa Compost so called ‘journalist’. This is a new low for our ally. Should have turned her over to the Taliban and let her get gang raped in the streets and left behind like CBS did to Lara Logan.”
    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 August 2021 at 08:50 AM

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  27. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    YEAH BILL…..YOU ARE QUOTE.
    ……moron!

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  28. Walt Avatar

    OH LOOK!!,, Emery changes the subject again!!
    Find those pictures yet Emery? Read the articles of PERV Biden? Must HAVE!! as usual when confronted with facts,, change the subject.
    Biden broke the deal Trump made. Biden pulled the troops out first and left our citizens to fend for themselves while the enemy walked right in.
    Blaming others for your dear leader’s actions of cowardice
    is so lame. Dear leader scrapped the Trump plan.. Forget so soon enemy sympathizer? Remember? you’re pleased that dear leader undid everything Trump did. This is no exception.
    Blaming Trump is SO Liberal. But ignore the facts. That’s what an Emery does.
    Here. this is what the Brits think.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58286766
    “Declaring his support for the Afghan war decades ago, Joe Biden warned: “History is going to judge us very harshly, I believe, if we allow the hope of a liberated Afghanistan to evaporate because we are fearful of the phrase nation-building or we do not stay the course.” Will this be the week that history judges his presidency?
    West Wing assistants tapped at keyboards, heads down, while aides chatted away as if business as usual, belying the chaos unfolding in the wider world.
    The stunning fall of Afghanistan back into Taliban hands as the US was ending its 20-year war had brought about a crisis gripping all corners from Kabul to Camp David.”
    So how are you going to shine Joe’s shoes now Emery?

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Time to pay the piper for the ill-conceived rush out the door before getting the civilians out –
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/24/afghanistan-woes-sink-bidens-approval-41-usa-today-suffolk-poll/8244854002/
    😉

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Into the creepy grampa joe vacuum head ride the russians, collusion? –
    The United States has historically been a major supplier of weapons to the Saudi monarchy. Former President Donald Trump maintained close ties with Riyadh, aiming to bolster the regime against Iran. His arms sales to the Saudis prompted congressional rebuke and Trump subsequently vetoed measures to block arms sales to the country. President Joe Biden, however, reversed course and suspended arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this year.
    Russia’s outreach to an agitated U.S. ally also follows Biden’s decision to extend the Afghan War for an extra four months, breaking a deal Trump brokered that would have resulted in an organized military withdrawal by May 1. Biden’s August 31 deadline – on which he has since doubled down – has prompted tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and allied Afghans to swarm Kabul’s international airport in light of a Taliban takeover of the country last week. Thousands remain trapped in the country as of press time following the Taliban’s successful conquest of Kabul and the evaporation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s forces.
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/08/24/russia-saudi-arabia-sign-military-pact-amid-chaotic-us-withdrawal-afghanistan/
    😉

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 1:19 pm
    Reminiscent of Ted Koppel coming on late night with his ‘ America Held Hostage: Day 7, Day 73, Day 247. My Mom loved watching Ted Koppel after work to see what was happening with the hostage crisis, day whatever. Ted became a member of the family that year.
    ———————————
    Posted by: fishniglio @ 12:35 pm
    ‘Heroin and rare earth metals for the Chinese!’
    Man, there is a trillion bucks of rare earth sitting there. Whoever gets their hands on that will have a darn near monopoly on the market. China most likely and now our closest base is hundreds of miles away in Qatar. The silk highway just got another big step to completion.
    As far a smack (heroin) goes, the Mujahideen are already fighting the Taliban to maintain there control of the optimum market in the northern regions of not federal government mountains. Yes, the Mujahideen fighters are back. We taught them how to fire those Stinger Missiles at the Russians. The Russians only killed 90,000 of those mountaineers. They have a nice area that takes them into Pakistani Pakistan, Tribal leaders style. I think the Mujahideen fighters will be a hard nut to crack for the Taliban Tally Wackers. The Mujahideen fighter do not recognize no stilling Afghan government and are not in the mood to share the wealth with just anybody.
    All in all, it could have been worse. The Brits could have saved this clown.
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/08/image-3-copy-6.jpg?w=768&ssl=1
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/08/That-70s-Show.png?w=1160&ssl=1

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    HOW MANY AMERICANS LEFT IN AFGHANISTAN?
    The withdrawal from Afghanistan is a nightmare from which stranded Americans are trying to awake. At this point, it doesn’t look as though anywhere near all of them are going to make it.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/how-many-americans-left-in-afghanistan.php
    ————————-+-+
    ‘The Afghanistan Debacle Is Exposing President Biden’s Descent Into Unreality’
    As the situation in Kabul deteriorates, the Biden administration seems increasingly untethered to reality, boasting about an evacuation gone haywire and lying about stranded Americans.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/24/the-afghanistan-debacle-is-exposing-president-bidens-descent-into-unreality/
    ———————-

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Screw you creepy grampa joe says the taliban –
    Taliban says it won’t allow Afghans to reach Kabul airport as UN warns of ‘credible’ reports of executions
    https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-says-wont-allow-afghans-141715773.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
    😉

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thank you fishmouth for catching my typo. I’m going to run it again without the typo so people like you can understand what Bill Tozer was saying. Here you go:
    Your quote Bill
    “I can’t believe this. With all the worthwhile people to rescue, they added a friggin Wa Compost so called ‘journalist’. This is a new low for our ally. Should have turned her over to the Taliban and let her get gang raped in the streets and left behind like CBS did to Lara Logan.”
    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 August 2021 at 08:50 AM

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The creepy gampa joe socialists have set up the perfect terrorists storm on our open borders –
    Arizona AG warns of potential border threat from terrorists freed by Taliban in Afghanistan
    A top border patrol official said that terrorists coming through the border is ‘a real threat’
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-ag-border-threat-terrorists-taliban-afghanistan
    😉

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Yet Emery still supports the PERV Biden.
    Here Emery, ignore the facts. Now what would you be saying if it was Trump accused of such a deed? Have a video like this of Trump grabbing p**sy? (of course you don’t)
    https://djhjmedia.com/kari/fact-check-did-joe-biden-pinch-this-little-girls-nipple-while-surrounded-by-power-seeking-adults/
    “Recently, though, I came across a video of Joe Biden appearing to pinch a young girl’s nipple. While it is hard to tell exactly what happened, Biden’s hand does stray to the young girl’s chest, and the girl appears to flinch.
    There is another line of evidence in addition to the video. The girl, Maria Piacesi, had a conversation on Tik Tok in which she confirmed that Biden had indeed pinched her nipples. The link below is to an article that contains a statement from the girl, who is now a young woman.”
    https://jessica-ramer.medium.com/did-biden-pinch-a-young-girls-nipple-911b6b885b06
    Here is where he gets tagged “TUNA FINGERS”
    https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-sexual-assault-campaigns-politics-d922da60baa91121f4529fe51a0fd55a
    Time to hide Emery. Go play with your crickets.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The ponytail of ignorance is going down with the ship like a good little putin party parrot –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/nolte-only-28-believe-bidens-doing-enough-to-rescue-americans-in-afghanistan/
    😉

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Trump never pulled stunts like this. He always took questions.
    So much for the claim. “Biden NEVER shies away from questions”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/joe-biden-walks-americans-afghanistan/

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  39. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 24 August 2021 at 03:40 PM
    Punchy….you are too short for this ride…
    All for now.

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  40. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Don I can hear it now. “You know that USA Today is a right wing shill media group!”
    😂😂

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Punchy, Punchy, punchy. Whatever are we to do with you?
    Ok, I made a big mistake. Here is my exact quote:
    “Very nice contribution to the conversation Paul. Perhaps some prune juice might lift your spirits. Somebody is getting grumpy. Must be time for beddy bye.” —Bill Tozer @ 10:18 pm.
    I am sorry Punch. I thought you could handle your prune juice. I thought it may have helped you with your constipation of the brain. I did not mean for you to guzzle a couple of quarts of prune juice and eat a whole shopping bag of those wrinkly plumbs.
    Holy smokes, Paul emery. You knocked back too much prune juice last night, woke up, opened RR, starting reading and the first thing you know you soil yourself bigly. Big time bigly. Man, you haven’t been the same all day. No more prune juice for you if this is how you are going to react. Kind of unhinged, unmoored.
    Damn, don’t you just hate it when you just cannot make it to the toilet in time? Hope you didn’t have any run down and into your slippers. They were so soft and cuddly. Make sure you clean the undersides of your ankles.
    Moderation, my dear brown streaked fellow, moderation. All things in moderation. I am sorry for being part of you soiling yourself. It’s been awhile since I’ve shit my pants like you, knock on wood. I erred in my advice. I take full responsibly for my part in addressing you.
    ————
    First she took issue with the oddly hard hitting press, taking great exception to the question of ‘Americans are stranded.’ Press said she was playing semantics with the word. Now they are ‘left behind’. The truth is they are abandoned by No Empathy Joe.
    ‘Psaki Claims Biden’s Afghanistan Crisis Is ‘A Success,’ Appears To Admit Admin Expects Some Will Be Left Behind’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-claims-bidens-afghanistan-crisis-is-a-success-appears-to-admit-admin-expects-some-will-be-left-behind

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Bill. Emery must have been hanging around the wrong food truck.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
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    Don Bessee

    They love them some talking points lefties, expect to see the same from the ponytail of ignorance. You cant make this stuff up –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/democratic-national-committee-declares-victory-for-biden-in-afghanistan/
    😉

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don, thats on par with the new Joey Fingers’s spin. Ready? The Biden an resulted in the greatest humanitarian airlift in the history of THE WORLD!! The Greatest Ever! Don’t ever underestimate Sleepy Joe. Its a miracle.

    Hmmm. Lots of Afghan Nationals, not so many US citizens.

    Hey, no wonder the serial hair sniffer is our popinjay’s kind of man. Two peas in a pod.
    link to follow….

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Resurfaced Video Shows Biden Saying “There’s Nothing Special About Being an American”
    “So in his words, America is strong because of it’s people… but there’s nothing special about being American. Does that make any sense to you?
    https://bongino.com/resurfaced-video-shows-biden-saying-theres-nothing-special-about-being-an-american

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry Bill
    I need to accept the fact that you and the other RR’s believe tossing a female reporter into a crowd of men to be gang raped is ok if she’s a liberal reporter and therefore deserves it. I find that kind of shocking but gosh have old fashioned values that don’t seem to apply here.

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What’s that sniveling sound??

    He has no friends now, that did not take long –
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States clashed with some of its closest allies Tuesday over President Joe Biden’s insistence on sticking to an Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal date that will shut down a frantic international evacuation effort from Taliban rule.
    https://apnews.com/article/europe-afghanistan-g-7-summit-13631be5beba847935719ec4d8a4d5ce
    😉

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