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.
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Well, yeah. They're short of supplies.
During World War One, as the war progressed, Imperial Russia didn't have enough guns for all its troops. So it only gave guns to the front ranks. Men in the rear were told that, as they moved forward, they were to pick up the guns of the fallen troops ahead of them.
Of course, thanks to Biden, the Taliban now has plenty of new, top grade weapons.
Lincoln is their model.
Bringing in Catholic Irishmen - the mortal enemies of the white Protestants of the South - to fight his war was a disgusting betrayal of all his vaunted principles. He had German regiments as well, also largely Catholic who gleefully killed Protestants just like back in the old country. Did they care about freedom for the Africans? Dont make me laugh.
So yeah...the example is from that era.
The Irish at least had the good sense to riot in 1863 in NYC because as they pointed out, it wasnt their war. And they didnt like the idea that rich men could pay someone to take their place.
“Diversity” in the military is not about righting wrongs. It’s about changing the American military into the non-American military. Just ask Joe, his family remembers.
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.
They should be careful what they wish for. Woke snowflakes and trannies might be loyal, but they're not too brave or competent.
They’re past the planning stage, and have moved on to implementation.
Let’s face it...
When it comes to defense and the military, they’re just inconvenient issues, as far as the democrats are concerned. They would rather not have to deal with them, and in fact, they would get rid of those duties if they could.
Democrats have been trying, for decades now, to remake and redefine and transform the country, into a socialist/communist nation. The military is in the way and to them, is just a consumer of assets and money which democrats would rather redirect towards their social programs.
To democrats (including Biden), military casualties are just collateral damage on the way towards transforming the country. In fact, Biden demonstrated how inconvenient the military has been when it came to them taking away his precious time when those flag-draped coffins arrived (and yes, they were just coffins to Biden and democrats, and the bodies inside where inconsequential).
Democrats want to concentrate all of their efforts towards transforming the country, and every other issue is just getting in their way. The military would be done away with if the democrats had their way, and would also forsake our duties to our friends and allies, if it weren’t for the inconvenience of the enemies which won’t give up coming after us. Which is why Biden and his administration and democrats in general, don’t want to define any country or terrorist group as enemies, since it would mean having to keep a military ready for action.
Keep watching the democrats, since, the military and foreign affairs are just getting in their way.
We are going to have to rebuild our military forces and our foreign relations, before it’s too late.
I tend to agree with you. Many may feel a bit uneasy about suppressing their countrymen but in the end they will do the bidding of their pay masters.
Look for Biden to die in his sleep one night real soon. Or have a heart attack or deadly stroke. They have to be thinking of how to get rid of him.
Plagiarism, lies that defame innocent people, countless lies about his own achievements that actually don't exist, inability to keep his hands off of the innocent, son who has made money but defamed himself, not even respected or trusted by the man whose administration he served under, and most recently derided and scorned by those who lost their sons in a foreign land because of his feckless 'leadership'.
Shame on those who voted for this self-absorbed person and those who prop him up because he represents their selfish interests.
Which is why the constitution was drafted with an effort to prevent standing army.
Congress wants to dominate the public, and it will use our money to pay for their army to control the public.
We are a banana republic.
“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. “
I think their actions are driven by sheer hatred towards the military and their desire to destroy any resemblance of patriotism towards the country they despise.
Vaccine mandates will also work to expose who will do their bidding and who won't.
They don’t have to be. They will fight from a desk computer. A few remote drone strikes on Americans not with the program and they’ll be home for dinner.
“During World War One, as the war progressed, Imperial Russia didn’t have enough guns for all its troops. So it only gave guns to the front ranks. Men in the rear were told that, as they moved forward, they were to pick up the guns of the fallen troops ahead of them.”
Same thing happened at Stalingrad. Every soldier was given five rounds of ammo. Front ranks were also given rifles. Trailing ranks were supposed to pick up rifles of the fallen and advance. NKVD troops at the rear shot anyone who retreated or did not advance.
We should be careful not to underestimate this evil. Leftists have used force of arms to kill tens of millions.
An analysis of Biden washes out this way for me.
Biden has been dissed his whole career. He is now in charge and come hell or high water he will have the last word.
Pitiful little man that can leave the US in ruin.
Sounds like the SS. Didn't help the 13 million murdered in the camps.
A woke military may not be competent to fight a real war, but it will be quite comfortable with torturing and killing American citizens.
Visualize Antifa with a core of experienced Taliban fighters.
Agreed, Start looking for stories of domestic violence of the lgbstd crowd, they are vicious, full of rage and extremely violent. Working an ambulance have seen alot of ‘stuff’ but everytime its a domestic it was easy to tell if it was a normal relationship or a gay one, the gay ones looked like attempted slaughter or massacre.
Too bad our "patriotic" GOPe congresscritters are letting this happen.
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