Posted on 09/05/2023 5:29:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Two years later, people are still paying the price for the catastrophe of Old Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And people will be paying the price for decades to come.
The Associated Press reported on August 22 that “more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report.” These were people the Taliban had promised not to kill, but as Muhammad said, “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268). Nine days before that, the Daily Mail reported that “militants who left fingerprints on IEDs meant to kill Americans in Afghanistan and a prisoner freed by the Taliban were among more than 65 terrorists allowed into the United States after the catastrophic withdrawal.” What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!
Jihadis beyond Afghanistan, meanwhile, are benefiting from the $7.2 billion of military equipment the U.S. left behind for the Taliban. Nikkei Asia reported last March that “modern weapons and sophisticated night vision devices left behind by U.S.-led coalition forces withdrawing from Afghanistan and fleeing Afghan troops are being used by Pakistani Taliban militants to intensify attacks on law enforcement.” Jihadis in Kashmir have the best U.S. weaponry as well.
Emblematic of the mishandling of the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan was the fact that the Islamic State jihadist who murdered 13 American service members and numerous Afghans in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in August 2021 had just been released from prison at Bagram Air Base, the center of American operations in Afghanistan until the U.S. precipitously and irresponsibly abandoned it in July of the same year. U.S. snipers had him in their sights but were ordered not to shoot.
CNN reported that the bomber, Abdul Rehman Al-Loghri, was part of “ISIS-K,” that is, the Islamic State’s Khorasan group in central Asia, and that he had “been released from a prison near Kabul just days earlier when the Taliban took control of the area, according to three US officials.”....
Jihadis are released, but not J6 protesters and fence shakers.
Bingo this is the real Biden foreign policy.
Never underestimate leftist’s ability to screw things up …..
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - America is going to experience another 9/11 that will make the FIRST 9/11 look like child’s play.
There is no doubt in my Military Mind that the players aren’t already here, hiding in plain sight, plotting and waiting.
Congress has ONE JOB - to defend our boarders and keep us safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.
They have failed. Miserably. *SPIT*
They never say how many Americans were stranded there.
Sunk cost. America gained nothing for those 20 years of blood and treasure, explicitly evidenced by their reversion before we could even leave.
Neocon fantasy of nation building was always a fantasy.
We lost the "War on Terror" because we ended up where it all started -- with the Taliban in full control of Afghanistan.
The Taliban didn't start the 'war on terror', that started because religious fanatics didn't like the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. The neocon foreign policy of making Saudi Arabia an imperial outpost by backing a corrupt monarchy provoked the attacks on the U.S.
For over three decades, at every turn the neocons have gotten the U.S. involved in wars that have nothing to do with improving our security.
Yep
For over three decades, at every turn the neocons have gotten the U.S. involved in wars that have nothing to do with improving our security.????????
Not without the support of the neo-coms.
No extended war was ever possible without the democrats approval.
Tommy daschle, Senate majority leader, had a democrat only vote to go to war in Iraq.
The democrats voted overwhemingly to go to war.
Maybe you forget that bill clinton gave a ton of foreign aid to the Taliban?
We would have gone to Iraq with Gore, too.
Regime change in Iraq became official US policy under billy clinton
Another “Incovenient Truth”, the Rats would like you to forget.
Deep state thugs and goons... and their creepy 'values'. Remember they gave a promotion to a cop who murdered a woman vet - a protestor at point blank range - when she wasn't a threat to anyone.
Congress has ONE JOB - to defend our boarders and keep us safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.
They have failed. Miserably. *SPIT*
You’re putting the cart before the horse blaming Congress. What do you want them to do? Pass more laws? We have plenty of laws that are not being enforced. This is on the president.
Another Vietnam, run by old generals, and congress.
I’m talking ‘collectively.’ Like since the very FIRST illegal entered America and was allowed to stay.
Pre-Reagan years, and even THEN they got Amnesty! Ugh!
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