Posted on 08/17/2021 4:43:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
There will be blood! That’s the one thing that can be said with any certainty about the catastrophe in Afghanistan. The ensuing question, of course, is who is responsible for the inevitable bloodletting?
The Taliban obviously. Their record for savagery long precedes the current debacle. But the cast of characters is much larger. There are a series of corrupt Afghan governments that despite the deluge of American treasure and blood failed to create a meaningful military force. There were the neo-cons whose delusion of regime change and nation building appealed to American hubris but had no correspondence to political realities.
There was the American failure to acknowledge history. Afghanistan has always been the graveyard of empires. Ask the British and the Russians or Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great.
But most of all there is the Biden administration that conducted an asymmetric negotiation in Doha for withdrawal without getting anything meaningful in return. The agreed upon intra-Afghan negotiations will not take place.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this not Vietnam. But we must wonder if he has seen the chaos at Kabul’s airport. The last days of Saigon and Kabul are strikingly similar.
Foreign wars have never been a political winner for any candidate, and 2022 is an election year. Most Americans could not find Afghanistan on a map, and the Taliban is less important to them than the price of gasoline or the employment rate.
Those who will applaud the decision to leave will point out that twenty years of blood and treasure have not defeated the Taliban, and another five years will not make a difference. To them, Afghanistan was lost from inception, and once Osama bin Laden was out of the picture, we had no business there.
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I don’t know about Genghis Khan but Alexander the Great (Greeks) conquered and held Afghanistan for many years.
The Kabul Airport can quickly turn into Dien Bien Phu.
Prepare yourselves.
Watching this government in action is like watching a Wal-Mart on Black Friday with only two cashiers and nobody can find a manager.
(borrowed from Larry the Cable Guy)
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So did the British.
Blaming it on Trump. Are people getting tired yet of democrats not owning their failures? What an asshole. But for the Commiecrat media to pile on Biden makes you think it was planned. Ivan always has a plan.
Bactrian empire held for about 150 years.
Let’s put this into perspective, Biden is a place holder put into the office to front for the Deep State and Obama. All the blame needs to go to the Deep State and Obama. When Biden becomes a liability then Ms Harris becomes the next place holder for Deep State and Obama. It is time to point the criticism at the real power structure and not poor, past his sell date Joe. We just play into their hand when we attack Joe, time to attack the real Puppeteers!
Ask Biden to count to Taliban.
Exactly
Okay. True.
But WHY aren’t our citizens being RESCUED from afganistan ?
Channeling the late, great Fred Thompson...
Exactly. Fred Thompson.
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