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It is Far More Sinister Than You Think
Townhall.com ^ | September 1, 2021 | David McGrath

Posted on 09/01/2021 9:28:56 AM PDT by Kaslin

More than 800,000 Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Navy Sailors served in the war in Afghanistan. I am one of them. I worked the streets of Kabul on my last deployment. Day, and night we trudged the mind- bending, stomach- turning streets of the overcrowded streets of Kabul. It amazed me how many people could fit on the back of one motor bike, and how daring civilians were to jump right in front of an armored vehicle with the horn blaring with seemingly no regard for their personal safety. 

I became a man there too. I learned a lot about myself. I fought hard there. I fired a weapon at another man whose only goal in his entire sad, misguided life was to kill me. As the fight raged on, the man’s body just stayed there after I put him down. For nearly Eighteen hours, I watched as other fighters stepped over this man, took his weapon, and stripped him of his ammunition. At the end of the day, all he was to them was another dead fighter, there to be stripped of his supplies and forgotten. 

It is fitting that the 10th anniversary of that day is upcoming. It's September 13th. I remember it well. It was 2 days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and just a year before the uprising in Benghazi, Libya. 

I got to peek far behind the war curtain on that year-long deployment. I was in a leadership position. I agonized over every one of the thousands of decisions I made that year. There is nothing worse to a soldier than the feeling you get when you may have flubbed something and put another man who wears your unit patch in danger. It is indescribable. You would rather die yourself than to get someone else hurt. 

That’s why I cannot fathom the missteps, the almost pathological behavior of President Joe Biden’s administration, and the decisions surrounding ending the Afghanistan conflict. I have to imagine that this is all by design. Nobody could be incompetent enough to give away our most strategic staging area in country: Bagram Air field. 

Bagram is so important positionally. It is easy to defend. It sits Three-Hundred miles from China and Iran, who are serious adversaries to the United States on the world stage. 

General Mark Milley has come out and said that Bagram was not important tactically to the Afghanistan pull-out. Milley has had some idiotic moments, but he is not a stupid man. General Milley does not believe that Bagram isn’t important. The worms and pencil-necks of this administration have clearly gotten to him. Think tank guys like Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken have talked General Milley out of his good senses. 

The plan had to go forward without Bagram. The plan was to add to world de-stabilization. Demoralize completely the military, and make sure that a plane load of fresh democrat voters would be en route to a United States city near you. It is the only logical conclusion that I can draw. Even Joe Biden, who had been a failure for Forty-plus years as a senator could not have screwed this up, like this. It has to be by design. 

Read any communist playbook. Most communists like Barack Obama and soon to be President Kamala Harris see no use for an American military as currently constituted. Much like the police force, they want to break them down and build them up as their military. One that does their bidding and holds their ideals. 

Step one: Demoralize. Step 2: Throw it into disarray. That has happened as well. 

Enlisted men do not trust their leadership. Find them incompetent, and want them tried for murder after the death of 12 Marines, a Corpsman and a soldier last week in a suicide attack. 

The military is a complete mess right now. Everyone wants out. Everyone is completely embarrassed and is ready to throw their rank on the table and head off to make solar panels like John Kerry promised. 

To the ruling class, this is a fantastic result. They do not want good, red-blooded Americans who find what happened over the past 7-10 days as reprehensible. 

They want ideologues who will go along to get along, and do their bidding. Like Mark Milley, who was looking for "White Rage" In the halls of the Pentagon before this pesky Afghanistan issue cropped up. Or Lloyd Austin, who was never a bright General, who was giving political purity tests to lower enlisted upon his installation of Secretary of Defense last January. They are nothing more than lackeys with no moral compass, or honor. They are just right for this administration. 

It should not surprise you that Americans are stranded in Afghanistan, behind enemy lines, yet plane load after plane load of refugees left Kabul ear-marked for the United States. The people left behind could be or maybe will be again Trump voters. Hell, they may not even be vaccinated (Gasp!) These refugees will be so happy to be in the States that they will vote for the ruling class forever. Which is all that matters. 

Oh, and one more thing: You should not be surprised at how callous the President acted when receiving the remains of our honored war dead at Dover Air Base yesterday. These patriotic kids are not his constituents. The president nonchalantly checked his watch at every casket that was unloaded. Casualties of his bungling of the surrender. Nobody will really hold him to account. He is literally here to be the patsy. A Grandfatherly idiot, who is barely coherent enough to understand what he is being used for. There was no happy ending to the war in Afghanistan. No Sailor kissing a girl in Times Square, in a pretty white dress while fireworks go off in the background. It ended like it started, with American blood, and so many unanswered questions.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bagram; bananarepublic; biden; bidenadmin; greatreset; military; milley; taliban
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1 posted on 09/01/2021 9:28:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

After this total debacle—it isn’t a question any more about what the military members would do if Biden tried to declare Martial Law.

I think they would refuse his order.


2 posted on 09/01/2021 9:32:02 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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The aliens arent being brought here to vote.

They will be pulled into the military so that over time, it will be the Communist Democrat enforcement gang.

The Soviet army was completely different from the Czarist Russian military.

They plan to do the same here.


3 posted on 09/01/2021 9:36:24 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ridesthemiles

Which is why the left wants to rebuild the military.


4 posted on 09/01/2021 9:38:03 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ridesthemiles
I think they would refuse his order.

I wish I could agree with you, but I don't. It's like saying 99% of the fbi agents are good people. That is obviously false after seeing all the armed raids for petty laws on normal Americans all over the country.
5 posted on 09/01/2021 9:38:51 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: Kaslin

Nobody will really hold him to account.
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That’s one of the consequences of rigged elections.


6 posted on 09/01/2021 9:39:42 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
Enlisted men do not trust their leadership.

Then they should stop enlisting.

Imagine that.

7 posted on 09/01/2021 9:40:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: ridesthemiles

Some would just quit, some would follow orders.
Fortunately for us the ones who follow orders are the ones who celebrate perversity.


8 posted on 09/01/2021 9:41:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
Even Joe Biden, who had been a failure for Forty-plus years as a senator could not have screwed this up, like this. It has to be by design.


9 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ridesthemiles

> what the military members would do if Biden tried to declare Martial Law <

If the Deep State were smart (and it is), a false flag event would come first. Then would come a clampdown to fight that nonexistent “event”. And since the mainstream media is already in Biden’s pocket, most folks wouldn’t know any different.

Anyway, I don’t think such a scenario is likely. The Deep State Democrats now control the voting process. All they need do is be patient, and everything will fall into their laps.


10 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Regulator

During our Civil War there was a battle in New York as the north conscripted the recent immigrants to fight in their army. So it has been done before.


11 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:56 AM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: Kaslin
"You should not be surprised at how callous the President acted when receiving the remains of our honored war dead at Dover Air Base yesterday. These patriotic kids are not his constituents. "

Sadly, I fear that Democrats will see to it that these fallen patriots will be voting Democrat in the 2022 election.

12 posted on 09/01/2021 9:48:25 AM PDT by Skepolitic ( )
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13 posted on 09/01/2021 9:49:30 AM PDT by Bobalu (The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see his ass.)
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To: Kaslin
>> The military is a complete mess right now. Everyone wants out. <<

All part of the plan. Our military like the DOJ and FBI will become filled with incompetent toadies.
14 posted on 09/01/2021 9:50:19 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kaslin

BFL


15 posted on 09/01/2021 9:52:21 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Kaslin

First of all, Thank you for your service. Second, with this sentence, you answered your own questions: “ That’s why I cannot fathom the missteps, the almost pathological behavior of President Joe Biden’s administration, and the decisions surrounding ending the Afghanistan conflict. I have to imagine that this is all by design. Nobody could be incompetent enough to give away our most strategic staging area in country: Bagram Air field. “

It is simple. The #JihadJunta now is the US Government, led by BHO and his Muslim-ChiCom Overlords. They stole the election and own the pillars of power.


16 posted on 09/01/2021 9:53:01 AM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew is the Prince no more...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: JoSixChip

Ditto “ Just following orders” led to a Holocaust.


17 posted on 09/01/2021 9:54:25 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: Kaslin
The people left behind could be or maybe will be again Trump voters.

I've thought about this. We already know the left vetted the Nat Guard that were at the WH. Maybe they know exactly who they got out of Afghanistan and who they left there. Maybe they knew which soldiers to stick at the front gate too.

18 posted on 09/01/2021 10:05:34 AM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: Regulator

Astute observation. History is too dangerous a source of truth to allow honest people to share it. Watch your six


19 posted on 09/01/2021 10:09:07 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Our military like the DOJ and FBI will become filled with incompetent toadies. “

Then they’ll be less of a threat to the People when they’re ordered to operate against them.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 10:09:34 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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