Moral Blackmail

The American Mind ^ | 08/19/21 | Sean Davis

[PoliticallyShort]

The fall of Afghanistan should have shocked the architects of its failure back into reality. Instead, they’ve moved on as if nothing much happened at all and are now arguing that America should, nay must, allow tens or even hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into America immediately. Being wrong means never having to say you’re sorry and being wrong about every failed foreign policy endeavor of this century apparently means you get to blather your way past America’s worst defeat since Vietnam so you can instead talk about the need for open borders. The solution for failing to export American democracy to Afghanistan, you see, is to import Afghanistan into America. And wouldn’t you know it, the same arguments and epithets deployed against opponents of America’s failed wars are now being deployed against opponents of unchecked immigration. Moral blackmail is the stock-in-trade of the failed internationalist.

The same people who tried to morally blackmail you into supporting a failed Forever War in Afghanistan—the ones who declared that you were either on board with the new international interventionist imperative or you were with the terrorists—are now trying to morally blackmail you into supporting open borders with Afghanistan and every other country that America’s incompetent elites thought they could turn into Stepford if only they invaded it hard enough. In truth, the entire foundation of the Washington establishment’s failed foreign policy is its members’ own feelings of guilt.

[DownInFlames]

We will reap the Afghan crime wave of rape due to most of these evacuees are men of fighting age.

[Lurkinanloomin]

And wouldn’t you know it, the same arguments and epithets deployed against opponents of America’s failed wars are now being deployed against opponents of unchecked immigration.
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COMPLETELY BIPARTISAN!

Same as the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

Same as the Big Steal.

[blueunicorn6]

The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate is doing just fine.

[Sertorius]

And they will be released without bail.

[Grampa Dave]

The same people who tried to morally blackmail you into supporting a failed Forever War in Afghanistan—the ones who declared that you were either on board with the new international interventionist imperative or you were with the terrorists—are now trying to morally blackmail you into supporting open borders with Afghanistan and every other country that America’s incompetent elites thought they could turn into Stepford if only they invaded it hard enough. In truth, the entire foundation of the Washington establishment’s failed foreign policy is its members’ own feelings of guilt.

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Anyone missing me, yet?

Arguments can be made about the US policy to pull out - there is a strong feeling that US involvement couldn't continue ad infinitum. But the manner of the withdrawal has been hapless, with a mass of miscalculation, warnings ignored, and - critically - a wild over-estimation of the capability of the American-trained Afghan armed forces.

The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.

Anyone missing me, yet?

[yoe]

[M Kehoe]

The consequences of this disaster will reverberate for years to come.

Mainly for the U.S., but the western world also.

5.56mm

[Kazan]

The old narrative -- invading and nation building doesn't work - is a lesson learned long ago.

The morale of the story in Afghanistan is that we had control of a nation and base of operation to combat Islamic terrorism and gave that strategic advantage and turned the nation over a terrorist group. That was incredible stupid.

[Ancesthntr]

“ The fall of Afghanistan should have shocked the architects of its failure back into reality. Instead, they’ve moved on as if nothing much happened at all and are now arguing that America should, nay must, allow tens or even hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into America immediately.”
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The chaotic fall of Afghanistan was no accident, it was done purposely so that hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees would be admitted into the US with no questions asked.

Convince me that I am wrong.