Posted on 08/19/2021 7:35:59 AM PDT by Heartlander
The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul.
Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern United States—despite its deterrent embassy pride flags, powerful diversity training programs, and indomitable new Afghan University gender studies majors.
Forces more powerful than the Taliban, in places far more strategic, will now leverage a cognitively challenged American president, an ideologically driven but predictably incompetent administration, a woke Pentagon, and politically weaponized intelligence communities.
Why not, when Biden trashes both American frackers and the Saudis—only to beg the kingdom to rush to export more of its hated oil before the U.S. midterms?
Why not, when Biden asks Putin to request that Russian-related hackers be a little less rowdy in their selection of U.S. targets?
And why not when our own military jousts with the windmills of “white supremacy” as Afghans fall from U.S. military jets in fatal desperation to reach such a supposedly toxically racist nation?
Biden keeps repeating that he was bound by Trump’s planned withdrawal.
Really?
A mercurial Trump repeatedly demonstrated he was willing to use air power to protect U.S. personnel and to bomb the “sh-t” out of an Islamic would-be caliphate. The Taliban knew that and so struck when Trump was gone.
Biden claims he was bound by the Trump decision to withdraw and thus cannot be blamed for his reckless operation of a predetermined departure. But all Biden has done since entering office was to destroy Trump pacts—overturning past agreements on energy leases, protocols with Latin America and Mexico on border security, the Abraham Accords, and pipeline contracts.
No sooner did Biden claim he was straight jacketed...
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I know I likely get some blowback here, but really can’t blame them for tucking tail and running.
The world knows our own anti-American leftist revolutionary deep state (= IC/DoD+likely Obama/Clinton/VJ/Pelosi-uniparty), fraudulently installed a fake puppet president, who was then ordered to practically let the Taliban and Chinese run the Afghan government and control all of its society.
There were no “odds” of surviving such a scenario, of you were an American derived entity. And you just watched America break its word, and tuck and run faster than a rabbit being chased by a bobcat.
The like the Afghan Army was going to single handedly stand up to China, and Chinese backed Taliban, after the US is gone.
What a dumb notion.
Any US success would have had everything to do with how we would carefully exfilled, and future economic and Western support of the Afghan government
We just gave it all to the Taliban, China (and now being learned Russia), ran like rabits, and cutting off pretty much everything.
Even American citizens. Yes, they were naive, but still American citizens.
Oh well... less mouths to feed, Gates and Greta Thunderberger get less Co2, amd more pensions and property available to the US government to just have.
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