Posted on 08/19/2021 3:43:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Biden’s pullout from Afghanistan has been the worst managed event in American history. With Saigon as an example, the administration knew exactly how bad it would be. There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on now but, at bottom, people are wondering if the unconditional Taliban takeover, including the trapped Americans, is a deliberate policy. On Tucker Carlson’s Wednesday show, Lara Logan said, “Yes, it is. This was what the government wanted.”
A little background: We’ve been in Afghanistan for 20 years now, ostensibly to “nation build,” à la Germany and Japan. Back then, though, we completely defeated them and installed ourselves in power, only slowly releasing power but they’d fully embraced Western democratic values. And we still stayed for over 70 years keeping an eye on things.
We never flattened Afghanistan. Instead, we imposed ourselves on top of a medieval Islamic country, including the whole LGBTQ+ madness. It worked for those already geared to Western values and those looking to take American money. The Afghan military, many members of which were brave fighters, clearly would never be ready to lose their training wheels – with our military being the training wheels. Some of you may remember this video, which embodies problems of both culture and competency:
In addition, knowing the good guys from the bad was always an issue. Sean Parnell’s story makes that point:
In 2020, Trump announced that he was beginning talks with the Taliban to effectuate a peaceful withdrawal. Trump explained that there were myriad conditions to the withdrawal, all aimed at forcing the Taliban to let people and military equipment out safely. It's likely that, if Trump had been in charge, scenes like this one wouldn't be played endlessly across Afghanistan:
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I heard her interview.. was excellent.
She lived in Afghanistan.
I saw her on Tucker last night. She said this is happening because someone WANTS it to happen. Very interesting.
Obozo and his evil America hating, muzzie loving scum are calling the shots, not the clueless imbecile drooling in the Oval Office. Pulling out of Afghanistan like they did fits the pattern of sopplying weapons to Al Quida, billions to Iran, assault rifles to Mexican cartels, etc.
“If the winds ever blow against Islam... I will be on THEIR SIDE.” - Obozo Scum
Raheem Hassan says the same thing.
Days after the September 11 attacks, she asked a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her a visa to travel to Afghanistan. In November 2001, while in Afghanistan working for GMTV, she infiltrated the American-British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.[9]
CBS News offered her a full-fledged correspondent position in 2002. She spent much of the next four years reporting from the battlefield, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often embedded with the United States Armed Forces.
She received the Murrow Award for “Marines on Patrol in Afghanistan” 2010
Logan was criticized in June 2010 for her remarks about another journalist, Michael Hastings, and her view that reporters who embed with the military ought not to write about the general banter they hear. An article by Hastings in Rolling Stone that month quoted General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff—comments Hastings overheard while traveling with McChrystal—criticizing U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and other officials, after which President Obama fired McChrystal as his commander in Afghanistan.[16][17] Logan told CNN that Hastings’ reporting had violated an unspoken agreement between reporters who travel with military personnel not to report casual comments that pass between them.[18]
Quoting her statement, “I mean, the question is, really, is what General McChrystal and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like McChrystal’s? I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.” CNN’s former chief military correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, said that what they did was indeed egregious, and that her comments “unfortunately reinforced the worst stereotype of reporters who ‘embed’ with senior military officers but are actually ‘in bed’ with them.”[19] He went on to quote Admiral Mike Mullen’s statement that military personnel must be neutral and should not criticize civilian leaders.
Glenn Greenwald, commenting on the incident for Salon, wrote that Logan’s segment was an example of what journalism had “degenerated into”. Greenwald said that Logan had done courageous reporting over the years, but had come to see herself as part of the government and military.
1 May 2011; she said she was speaking out because of the prevalence of mass sexual assault in Egypt, and to break the silence about the sexual violence women reporters are reluctant to report in case it prevents them from doing their jobs.[24][25][26][27]
She said the incident involved 200 to 300 men and lasted around 25 minutes. She had been reporting the celebrations for an hour without incident when her camera battery failed. One of the Egyptian CBS crew suggested they leave, telling her later he heard the crowd make inappropriate sexual comments about her. She felt hands touching her, and can be heard shouting “stop”, just as the camera died. One of the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli, a Jew, a claim that CBS said, though false, was a “match to gasoline”. She went on to say that they tore off her clothes and, in her words, raped her with their hands, while taking photographs with their cellphones. They began pulling her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp. Believing she was dying, she was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping. One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd. A group of soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital.
Many of us said time and time again during the reign of Obozo The Wicked Devil that if it was incompetence, you would get some bad policies, some neutral and some good, BUT WHEN EVERY POLICY/DECISION HARMS AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE, THAT SHOWS WILLFUL, PUPOSEFUL MALEVOLENT INTENT !!
In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before the annual luncheon of the Better Government Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama Administration’s statements about the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world. In particular, Logan criticized the Obama Administration’s claims that the Taliban was weakening in Afghanistan, calling such claims “a major lie” made in preparation for ending the U.S. military role in that country. She also stated that she hoped that the United States would “exact revenge” for the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which U.S. diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in Libya.
I’m starting to wonder if this was done to make the whole “civilized” world despise the USA - so they’ll just shrug their shoulders at whatever happens here as our nightmare unfolds (socialist takeover, perhaps) and say it’s what we deserve. Who would come to our aid, seeing the way we stab our friends in the back?
The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal is not a screw up, it’s the desired outcome,
I’ve been guilty of calling certain government actions stupid, when in hindsight they’re more likely the actions of evil sociopaths.
She said this is happening because someone WANTS it to happen
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There was a post in another thread that said something like: the whole war was about laundering money so that it wound up in certain elite hands and was never about winning the war - an endless supply of money from an endless war.
I have pondered that also, a screw up this bad could not just have randomly happened, this was planned.
Yes, intentional. Freepers figured this part out. But 'why'? Who has the power AND motive to be this destructive?
Spoken from a truly American standpoint, but no one was ever going to come to our aid under any circumstances. We're uncle sucker helping out the entire rest of the world, never getting anything in return.
Fundamental Transformation on steroids.
You ain’t seen nothing yet...
China wants it for mining rights. So they paid off Biden. Why else would they leave all those weapons behind?
The Obama/Jarret/Rice muslim cabal.
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