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The Afghanistan Debacle is Exactly What the Left Wanted
American Thinker.com ^ | August 20, 2021 | Christopher Skeet

Posted on 08/20/2021 2:51:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

There's not much to say that hasn't already been said regarding Biden's unconditional surrender to the Taliban, and it's only the first week. Bookshelves will be filled with analyses of these events, and we won't understand their full ramifications for decades. My two cents, for what they're worth, are that the left doesn't consider the fall of Kabul and the betrayal of our allies to be a tragedy. Rather, this is deliberate foreign policy strategy, and it's right on track.

The pattern is clear for those who wish to see. Simply put, the left thinks America is not only evil, but irredeemably so. Hence, any policy, be it foreign or domestic, that weakens our nation-state should be pursued, the goal being that the nation-state will eventually corrode to the point of collapse. They don't care that the hollowed-out dystopia will be long past its desirability for subjugation, so long as they get to be in charge. As Lord Varys said of Littlefinger, "He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes".

What started with Woodrow Wilson finally came into full force and in open view under Obama. Every time he could, Obama favored strict Islamist regimes over Western-friendly governments. Whenever overseas pro-democracy demonstrators flew American flags, Obama reflexively sided with their oppressors. He removed sanctions from Cuba and Iran and asked for nothing in return. The JCPOA, the Paris Accords, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership were specifically designed to weaken American power behind the flimsy guise of noble causes.

What would strike the neutral observer as unabashed idiocy comes across as cold, deliberate Machiavellianism to anyone reading between the lines of Obama’s head swivel speeches. Obama is a mechanical Leftist, harboring the paint-by-number faculty lounge dictums of America as a negative historical force.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; wot
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1 posted on 08/20/2021 2:51:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
As Lord Varys said of Littlefinger, "He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes".

I think they actually believe that rot gut. The bastards.

2 posted on 08/20/2021 2:59:20 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: Kaslin

My new tagline:


3 posted on 08/20/2021 3:02:42 AM PDT by Does so (The USA is run from 2446 Belmont, (Kalorama), NW, DC. Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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To: Mark17

Simple folks, The American people must cry out loud & clear, with all their voices and demand that the leaders of the Democrat Party be removed from or thrown out of office immediately...like right now...Biden, Harris, Pelosi & Schumer..period!!! The once great nation of the USA is dying on the vine...being killed by the Democrat Party!!!
SAD”!!!


4 posted on 08/20/2021 3:07:26 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Kaslin

The media and big tech shouldn’t escape blame for this.


5 posted on 08/20/2021 3:13:09 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Vision

Blame ??? This is the plan.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 3:16:52 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: Kaslin

Our enemies are all leftists, blm, antifa, news media, democrats. Hopefully many took the vaxx shots. In 5 ish years the global population will decrease.


7 posted on 08/20/2021 3:19:14 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: Kaslin

The left wants to see the US humiliated and diminished, because of our country’s systemic racism.


8 posted on 08/20/2021 3:33:28 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The crowd was chanting "Death to America", but they were a mostly friendly crowd.)
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To: Kaslin
We abandoned Bagram Air Base on July 4, 2021. Biden originally planned to complete the withdraw on September 11th. These aren’t flukes, nor the clockwork stupidity of our government’s well-credentialed experts. These were specifically designed as symbolic humiliations of America, by people who hate America, who are being paid six figure salaries to do so by America.
9 posted on 08/20/2021 3:37:17 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Kaslin

Excellent observations. I have been thinking the same thing, namely, that there are people in our government who are not at all unhappy with the fall of Kabul and the erasing of US power on the world stage.

The Obama years were full of blatant anti-Americanism and pro-Islamic and pro-Marxist policy decisions. Obama had eight years to spread his malevolent influence throughout every branch and level of government, and that was why the entire US governmental bureaucracy was so enraged when Trump came along and challenged their anti-Americanism.

Obama also profoundly damaged the military in every respect, in terms of policies and personnel and discipline and even strategy. Remember the Obama era ROE that got so many of our troops killed?

I keep wondering who is running Joe. His fundamental impulses, which survive even through his dementia, are bad - anti-American, radical leftist, authoritarian - and always have been bad. Biden is so stupid and stumbling that Obama rarely let him speak in public or represent the US as VP and pretty much left him free to roam the world engaging in corruption and self-enrichment with the rest of the Biden family. But Obama did control him, and I think Obama still does and is the one behind the scenes who is working the sock puppet.

I thought it was Nancy Pelosi (who has been conspicuously silent over the last few days) but, while people are afraid of her, I don’t think she could really call the shots on her own. She was very active in getting Milley and other military leaders to reject and defy Trump during the BLM/Antifa attack last fall, which is something that should have resulted in their immediate removal from their positions. The fact that they were not removed or disciplined in any way is why we are where we are now. But Pelosi alone wouldn’t have been enough to protect them. So while she’s been a busy little bee, she could only do it knowing that she had the approval and protection of someone much more powerful overall.

So I think the real source of it all is Obama, who sees Biden’s faux “presidency” as another four years in power for Obama, and the policies you see are actually Obama’s third term policies.


10 posted on 08/20/2021 3:37:25 AM PDT by livius
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To: The_Media_never_lie

What they WANT out of this disaster is a distraction while they ram through some of their equally disastrous domestic programs.

Schmucky Schumer held a 3:00 AM session just a few nights ago to slip the egregious HR1 election takeover bill through “by acclamation”. Thanks be to God that Ted Cruz was wise to him, and single-handedly prevented it. The only Republican in the chamber. Sainthood is not good enough for Cruz, for this one action alone.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 3:43:34 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Kaslin

We get 10 deaths a day in Texas. In traffic accidents.

No ones shutting down over that


12 posted on 08/20/2021 3:43:42 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Mark17

Yes, they do.


13 posted on 08/20/2021 4:12:55 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: Kaslin

They want a crisis with the potential to drag on for months or years.

... Day 300 of the Taliban Hostage Crisis...

They don’t want anything but power. They don’t care how and they don’t think about tomorrow. They don’t even know why.


14 posted on 08/20/2021 4:18:37 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Kaslin

“Simply put, the Left thinks America is not only evil, but irredeemably so. Hence, any policy, be it foreign or domestic, that weakens our nation-state should be pursued, the goal being that the nation-state will eventually corrode to the point of collapse...so long as they get to be in charge.”

Half the people here simply DO NOT BELIEVE the above, or they’d NEVER, for a moment, consider playing a part of putting the Left in charge of this country...yet they do, when they sit out November elections because our side has a RINO running.

Very sad, and thing is most here have kids and even grand kids...and are simply so mad at RINOs (or trolling) that they’re willing to condemn those kids/grandkids to live under our own Taliban rule (or worse).


15 posted on 08/20/2021 4:19:44 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Kaslin

>>>>The same fool-me-once suspicion that Americans apply to the supposed 99.99998% of FBI field agents who, we are assured, are disgusted at their “few bad apples” who tried to overthrow a presidential election...yet from whose noble ranks emerged not a single whistleblower...should now be applied with equal force to the Pentagon.<<<

The article make a number of great points. That said:
Beware the run on sentence. These wordsmiths need to remember when to use a period. I had to read this s l o w l y three times to understand it.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 4:27:53 AM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: Kaslin

Bkmk


17 posted on 08/20/2021 4:28:26 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
You are absolutely dead on in your analysis but I fear that we are beyond the point of making our voices heard. We are dealing with a mindset, an epistemology, that is utterly impervious to appeals to patriotism, reason, or decency.

So profound is the new ideology that has captured a huge portion of the American conscience that the appeal to reason is about as effective as willpower is against diarrhea.

We must aim at the root of the problem, we must attack the mindset itself. Many of us have been preaching thus in this forum for about a decade when we first began to warn of the dangers of The Frankfurt School.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 4:42:47 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Schmucky Schumer held a 3:00 AM session just a few nights ago to slip the egregious HR1 election takeover bill through “by acclamation”. Thanks be to God that Ted Cruz was wise to him, and single-handedly prevented it. The only Republican in the chamber. Sainthood is not good enough for Cruz, for this one action alone.


Where are my Senators? AWOL, or indifferent? Careerists?
19 posted on 08/20/2021 4:45:50 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The crowd was chanting "Death to America", but they were a mostly friendly crowd.)
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To: livius
soetoro is a puppet, too.

He is too stupid and lazy to have thought this up, himself.

vj, the Lizard Queen, is the conduit for his orders.

20 posted on 08/20/2021 4:58:36 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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