Posted on 08/18/2021 5:04:12 AM PDT by billorites
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about the possibility that there might be a “significant deterioration” of the security picture in Afghanistan once the United States withdrew its forces, said, “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”
Blinken’s Nostradamus moment was somehow one-upped by that of his boss, Joe Biden, who on July 8th had the following exchange with press:
Q: Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.
BIDEN: That is not true, they did not reach that conclusion… There is going to be no circumstance where you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy… The likelihood that you’re going to see the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
Down to their own stunningly (perfectly?) inaccurate mis-predictions of what would take place once our military forces left the country, Biden administration officials could not have scripted a worse ending to the twenty-year disaster that has been our occupation of Afghanistan.
Every image coming out of Afghanistan this past weekend was an advertisement for the incompetence, arrogance, and double-dealing nature of American foreign policy leaders. Scenes of military dogs being evacuated while our troops fire weapons in the air to disperse humans desperate for a seat out of the country will force every theoretical future ally to think twice about partnering with us: Twitter avatar for @ABCABC News @ABC U.S. military dogs in Kabul evacuated from the city’s airport among other officials as Taliban takes control of Afghanistan.
News that the military was forced to re-deploy troops to Afghanistan in order to ensure an “orderly and safe” withdrawal is being met with justifiable eye-rolling worldwide. It’s a little late for that:
The pattern is always the same. We go to places we’re not welcome, tell the public a confounding political problem can be solved militarily, and lie about our motives in occupying the country to boot. Then we pick a local civilian political authority to back that inevitably proves to be corrupt and repressive, increasing local antagonism toward the American presence.
In response to those increasing levels of antagonism, we then ramp up our financial, political, and military commitment to the mission, which in turn heightens the level of resistance, leading to greater losses in lives and treasure. As the cycle worsens, the government systematically accelerates the lies to the public about our level of “progress.”
Throughout, we make false assurances of security that are believed by significant numbers of local civilians, guaranteeing they will later either become refugees or targets for retribution as collaborators. Meanwhile, financial incentives for contractors, along with political disincentives to admission of failure, prolong the mission.
This all goes on for so long that the lies become institutionalized, believed not only by press contracted to deliver the propaganda (CBS’s David Martin this weekend saying with a straight face, “Everybody is surprised by the speed of this collapse” was typical), but even by the bureaucrats who concocted the deceptions in the first place.
The look of genuine shock on the face of Tony Blinken this weekend as he jousted with Jake Tapper about Biden’s comments from July should tell people around the world something important about the United States: in addition to all the other things about us that are dangerous, we lack self-knowledge.
Even deep inside the machine of American power, where everyone paying even a modicum of attention over the last twenty years should have known Kabul would fall in a heartbeat, they still believe their own legends. Which means this will happen again, and probably sooner rather than later.
It’s been a long 7 months. And just think, we have at least 3 years and 5 months left of this administration. Will we survive as a nation?
Hail the New World Order! Heil Pelosi! Heil Shumer! Heil das Drei Amerikaner Reich!
why Obama won’t be complaining - it’s been a Muslim Brothrhood success story:
25 Nov 2020: JNS: Antony Blinken’s track record
by Yoram Ettinger, former ambassador and head of Second Thought: A U.S.-Israel Initiative.
Blinken’s close ties with Biden, dating back to Biden’s chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, make him, potentially, as influential as were Henry Kissinger and Jim Baker during the presidency of Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush respectively.
He also objects to the aggressive Saudi policy towards Qatar, which is a strategic ally of Iran’s ayatollahs and Turkey’s Erdoğan, as well as a chief financier of Muslim Brotherhood terrorists—three major threats to the House of Saud.
In 2009, Blinken supported the human rights-centered U.S, policy toward Egypt, courting the Muslim Brotherhood opposition, which led to its 2012-2013 rise to power, while toppling the pro-U.S. President Hosni Mubarak (similar to President Carter’s policy, which betrayed the Shah of Iran, providing a tailwind to the rise of Iran’s ayatollahs)...
Driven by his globalist, multilateralist, joint leadership worldview (contrary to unilateral U.S. national security action), Blinken was closely involved in the formulation of the game-changing 2015 nuclear accord with Tehran...
https://www.jns.org/opinion/antony-blinkens-track-record/
21 June 2021: World Tribune Special: Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s family ties to George Soros run root deep
There is an archive at George Soros’ Central European University in Hungary named for Donald Blinken, now 95, and his second wife, Vera, who survived the Holocaust, in part for their support of the “democratization process in the United States and in Hungary.”
The archive is actually named the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives.
Donald Blinken is mentioned in Soros’s Open Society Foundations’ 2005 Annual Report as a Board of Trustees member (right alongside George Soros himself) for the progressive globalist billionaire’s Central European University, which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has labored to shut down as an institution seeking to destroy Hungary...
https://www.worldtribune.com/secretary-of-state-antony-blinkens-family-ties-to-george-soros-run-root-deep/
Wikipedia: Antony Blinken
Blinken attended the Dalton School in New York City until 1971. He then moved to Paris with his mother Judith and Samuel Pisar, whom she married following her divorce from Donald. Pisar was the lawyer and confidant of British publisher Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken
Who’s we? Kimosabe.
18 Aug: Arutz Sheva: Erdogan has a warm spot for the Taliban
It is no coincidence that the only embassy of a NATO member country left open in Kabul is Turkish.
Op-ed.
In mid-July, the al-Arabiya broadcaster reported that the Muslim Brotherhood was moving its leaders from Turkey to Afghanistan, a rumor that, at least for the moment, has not yet found official confirmation. When General Al Sisi deposed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Taliban immediately sided with the latter...
Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan (and China) are the four countries on which the Taliban are counting in building their new Islamic Emirate. Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan are the triad of the new Sunni Islamic power, but also of the link with Beijing...
And the talks between the Americans and the Talina for the de facto surrender of Kabul took place in Doha, Qatar, which has very strong ties with Erdogan.
Finally, it is certainly no coincidence that Erdogan has offered to take charge of the security of the Kabul airport and that the only embassy of a NATO member country left open in Kabul in these terrible hours is the Turkish one...
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/311983
Erdogan, the godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood; Qatar (Aljazeera) the home of the Muslim Brotherhood.
16 Aug: Eyewitness News: AFP: HAMAS CONGRATULATES TALIBAN ON ‘COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP’
The group, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, has fought four wars against Israel.
https://ewn.co.za/2021/08/16/hamas-congratulates-taliban-on-courageous-leadership
Has our government ever told the truth about anything?
Does the name Saul Alinsky ring any bells.
Wrong again, Tony. It happened from Friday to Saturday afternoon.
Depends which nation you mean.
Valiant effort Trump.
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“There is going to be no circumstance where you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy.”
Biden is referring to Vietnam. A recap. Richard Nixon won the war, a peace was negotiated. The US would provide funds for the defense of South Vietnam. The US would aid in the defense of South Vietnam in the event of a conventional attack from North Vietnam. Dealing with internal, non-traditional uprisings, for example the Viet Kong, was totally the responsibility of South Vietnam.
Democrats forced Richard Nixon from Congress. A new, more radical Democratic Congress defunded the defense of South Vietnam. The Boland Amendment was interpreted by Department of Defense lawyers as prohibiting the use of US forces above, within, or outside of South Vietnam. Democrats effectively and publicly abandoned South Vietnam. The Soviet Union supplied North Vietnam so that they could resume the war. Two years after the Paris Peace accords, South Vietnam fell.
Democrats had effectively snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Their actions defeated America, strengthened communism, and denied Richard Nixon victory. Democrats won the trifecta.
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