Posted on 08/17/2021 5:18:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Taliban’s triumphant road to Kabul is paved with woke intentions.
If stagflation, rising urban crime, and a weak Democratic president did not remind us enough of the 1970s, we now have our very own fall of Saigon.
To the astonishment of many naïve observers, especially those among the polite and orderly caretakers of America’s decline (for whom I suggest the acronym “POCAD”) now so foul misplaced atop our discredited foreign policy establishment, Afghanistan’s Taliban shrewdly—and predictably—waited until U.S. forces had nearly completed their withdrawal from the country before launching a massive offensive that has conquered almost all before it.
Outside Kabul’s precariously held airport, the capital has fallen. Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani fled the country and was within a matter of hours replaced by a Taliban mullah. U.S. diplomats destroyed the secret papers (and, reportedly, images of the American flag) while pusillanimously begging the new regime not to attack the embassy, over which the colors no longer fly. Taliban fighters are joyfully lounging in captured bases where they have won huge caches of American military hardware for use against their doomed countrymen, or to supply whatever other terrorist groups take refuge with them.
The Biden Administration rushed in 3,000, then 5,000, then 6,000 troops to cover a helter-skelter airlift of U.S. personnel and vulnerable Afghan allies so numerous that video shows them trying to hold onto C-17 military transport planes rather than the traditional helicopters.
The blame game has already started to assign responsibility for this catastrophic blow to American power and prestige.
Is it the fault of Donald Trump, whose administration negotiated what many regard as a one-sided agreement that ceded the initiative to the Taliban by announcing a unilateral intent to withdraw?
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The left instinctively sides with evil. Don’t expect them to see this in the same light that we do.
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!
Hmmm, I wonder how many of the taliban subscribe to the ‘white rage’ concept?
Just remember everyone..... the Taliban are simply freedom fighters. Not religious murderous zealots. Now theyve ‘won’ and the population is so excited for their return...things should go pretty smoothly.
And the MSM instinctively sides with the left. Don't expect to see a lot of negative news about this debacle from them. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. got together and banned non-positive stories about Afghanistan also. That's the way it is now.
Trump definitely started this train, when he started bypassing the Afghan government and negotiating withdrawal term directly with the Taliban.
But, we will never know whether he would had changed course when the Taliban started taking over large parts of territory and capturing Provincial capitals? Maybe, the Taliban would have waited longer to mount their offensives, if Trump were still around? Even if they waited until we will completely gone, that would have been better than the way this has played out.
What we DO KNOW is... Biden didn’t have a clue and he was never prepared to lift a finger to help the Afghan government.
This particular crisis takes some of the veil off the fact that Biden is a card board cut out stand in who is personally in charge of nothing. His administration may be in charge, he is not. He is merely sent out to speak for the real decision makers behind him that are actually running things and telling him what to say.
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