The Fall Of Imperial America

American Conservative ^ | August 16, 2021 | Rod Dreher

[C19fan]

Iwoke up this morning to video clips of Afghanis falling to their deaths from the undercarriage of US Air Force cargo planes taking off from Kabul airport.

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AUGUST 16, 2021|2:36 PM ROD DREHER Iwoke up this morning to video clips of Afghanis falling to their deaths from the undercarriage of US Air Force cargo planes taking off from Kabul airport.

A friend pointed out that this is a fitting, if horrific, bookend to the American adventure in Afghanistan. He wrote, of the Falling Man of 9/11, and the falling Afghanis today: “both accepting certain death as an escape for equally certain and lethal torment.”

And this:

We have a lot to talk about today. But first, let me acknowledge that Patrick J. Buchanan, a co-founder of this magazine, told us so. He called it all back at the beginning. He warned us not to engage in nation-building. He warned us not to make war on Iraq. But our elites of the Left and the Right — especially the Right — treated him as a heretic. Today, we are living with an Iraq that is dominated by Iran, with a Syria that has been dismantled among the Assad regime, the Turks, and the Kurds, and with an Afghanistan that is once again ruled by the Taliban.

[C19fan]

How many sons and daughters of Deplorables were killed and maimed for these debacles caused by our Ivygarchy?

[bhl]

Cowardly Biden didn’t take any questions from the press after his session reading from the teleprompter.

[rdcbn1]

Partially correct.

This is the first shoe drop in the fall of Western Civilization if we don't wake up and fight back.

America is one of the last bastions of Western Civ left

[escapefromboston]

We are a republic not an empire and our elites would do well to realize this.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Back in 1999 (I remember that because I was waiting in a doctor’s office for my wife to get a pre-natal exam) I read an article in “Newsweek” that proposed this as an American policy in the Mid-East: a series of wars to pacify the area and install friendly governments that would make the region safe for democracy and trade.

Well, we got the wars but not the intended outcomes.

[AndyTheBear]

Its heartbreaking what is happening to regular people at the hands of the Taliban thugs. But
It doesn’t seem the culture in Afghanistan wanted to Westernize, even when our forces were there to keep the thugs at bay for a while.

[dfwgator]

They sat on their butts for 20 years expecting the US to do all the heavy lifting for them.

[dblshot]

The Taliban’s ability to link their cause to the very meaning of being Afghan was a crucial factor in America’s defeat.
And I expect that BLM, Antifa, and the democrat party will continue to make being American less and less important.

[Arlis]

The fact that we are a Republic has nothing to do with our real world if the majority of our nation rolls over and lets the leftist have their way - as we have since the theft of the election.

The leftist oligarchs rule, hidden behind their puppet Biden......and finding no resistance for the last 7 months, they roll on........