George Rebane
’20-year Afghanistan Mission Accomplished’ tout our Democrat leaders as they thank all those service members who sacrificed their lives in so many ways. These politicians describe such sacrifices as having been made voluntarily by our military heroes. But IMHO that doesn’t jive with reality. Who among the sacrificed would have willingly done so if told from the gitgo in, say, 2012 that you’re going to Afghanistan with the possibility of dying, getting your legs blown off, or coming back with PTSD in order to deny the Taliban ragheads another eight years of running the country as a tyrannical Islamist gulag, and which will again become home to various international terror organizations of the kind that gave us 9/11, and then we will cut and run? Not many would have signed up for that kind of duty had they been told the truth.
But if being given a realistic mission, say, ‘It’s highly likely that we’ll be in Afghanistan forever with a minimal force level consisting mostly of intelligence operations, drone air support, and training Afghan security forces to prop up their government and keep the country from reverting to raghead terrorist control. You will be in combat until we can bring the situation into a desired low/no casualty stasis. This is the cost of doing White Hat business around the world to secure our homeland and the lands of our allies who join us in such operations. America has done this in the past, and realistically today we see no future time when global evil will be vanquished so that such outposts and tours of duty, first outlined by Ambassador Kennan in 1946, will no longer be necessary.’ I know of no one in our circle of friends who would not sign up for such a tour when called upon – and that is because most of us have manned the ramparts of freedom at one time or another, and will do so again. But it all starts with telling us the truth.
[4sep21 update] Never let a crisis or disaster go to waste. In the Dems’ desperate attempt to paper over the historically atrocious Biden Afghan debacle, the lamestream media are doing their best to sweep that ignominious, tragic, and chaotic military retreat under the rug, any rug of opportunity. So Ida for Al-Qaeda has become the opportune switcheroo in the socialist press and punditry. No more are we concerned about that premier terrorist organization resurging and setting up again in Afghanistan. At the best the lamestream will continue pushing the lie that the Taliban doesn’t get along with Al-Qaeda and other recidivist outfits like the ISIS-X (currently X=K) et al.
So now we don’t have to worry about the return of all kinds of bad guys as long as we ‘work with’ the Taliban. Anyone who has been paying attention (a shrinking minority) knows that all of them belong to the Haqqani network of cheek-by-jowl anti-western terror outfits. And at their chapter house meetings, they must be laughing their butts off about what they read in the NYT, WaPo, and hear on CNN, MSNBC, … . Meanwhile, to keep the Return of the Ragheads under wraps, the Democrats have qued up Covid and climate change for their lamestream as the next diversionary dollops for dimwits. (Remember, they still have to have to keep the open-border crisis hidden from their cognitively calcified constituents.)
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