No, it isn't.
This generation is incapable of learning much of anything at all.
My fear is that yesterday’s suicide bomb attack was just a stray cannonball “recon by fire” lobbed into the Alamo by one of General Santa Anna’s gunners.
The Kabul Alamo Airport is indefensible, with no overhead cover for our troops. It’s surrounded by hills on three sides, and it’s inside a city of over 4 million. At any time, the airport can be hit with mortars, with no way to stop them.
The order to leave Bagram should have generals court martialed and jailed in disgrace. They should have resigned en-masse rather than agree to put troops into the Kabul Alamo with no local air base from which to cover them.
Kabul Alamo Airport should have just been a collection and ferry point for moving evacuees to Bagram by helo and only then onto C-17s. Now, if we move to retake Bagram, the Kabul Alamo will be mortared and massacred.
I saw a photo of about six C-17s wing parked tip to wing tip at KIA. A single mortar could wipe out billions of dollars of our best platforms in 5 minutes. And this can happen at any moment of the enemy’s choosing.
And now our hands are tied, like a man on a gallows with his neck in a noose. We have been left with no options, we are at the mercy of the Taliban, thanks to the fools, cowards and traitors we call our leaders.
So, the ends justify the means? Handing over billions fo dollars worth of arms, ammo & aircraft and losing 13 American lives (so far) was an equitable trade? Sorry, Pat, but it did NOT have to happen this way (and you know it).
Especially when Biden screwed this up from the beginning and this disaster of a withdrawal id entirely his. Pat, you are so ignorant to praise the dumbest man in the Senate.
We can all sleep peacefully knowing that G.I. Joe is on the job protecting Americans ...
Watch out terrorists !!!
He’s coming for you !!!
Afghanistan was always going to fall to the Taliban regardless of who oversaw the withdrawal and regardless of whether it was done now or ten years from now.
“It now seems inevitable that the withdrawal will be completed by Aug. 31, with all U.S. military forces following the last civilians out”.
What???
There will be American civilians left to fend for themselves.
Pat is jumping the gun talking about ‘after Aug 31’ .... our soldiers are in a kill zone on the tarmac/in the air over KIA now, TODAY. Whether they live or die depends on the ‘tender mercies’ of the Taliban as KIA is an indefensible position.
Think about Daniel Pearl. Think about that happening to women and children on prime time. To innocents handed to the Taliban by Clueless Joe. Will the media be able to save him?
LOL. There is no such thing as ISIS-K. The Taliban did this crap.
Pat Buchanan is out of it, as his screed reveals. A series of mindless sound bites about “forever war”and “blood and treasure” etc. Sad fact is that at 82 he is older than Biden and just as demented. Too much Irish whiskey over the years takes its toll in the end. Bye Pat.
This is so cute. He speaks of Biden as if he’s actually making decisions on his own and isn’t just a puppet.
Are We to Be the World’s Greatest Force for Good or Not?
https://dennisprager.com/column/are-we-to-be-the-worlds-greatest-force-for-good-or-not/
Dennis Prager
Tue, May 11, 2021
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I remember the shame I felt as an American when I saw crowds of Vietnamese who had helped America begging to be taken out of Vietnam along with American troops when the last American helicopters left Vietnam. And who were simply abandoned to their fate.
Now America is poised to do in Afghanistan what it did then — abandon the people it defended to the Islamist sadists known as the Taliban. How many Afghan boys and women will be raped when we leave? How many Afghan men will be tortured to death? Only God knows. But you don’t have to be God to know that it will be a large number.
So, why would we do such a thing — again?
Three reasons are given.
One is, “We cannot stay in Afghanistan forever.”
That argument is offered as if it is so self-evident that it needs no explanation. Which is probably why no one seems to offer one. But why can’t we stay there “forever,” if doing so saves a country and tells the world that America sticks to its commitments and protects its allies?
We have stayed in Germany and South Korea “forever.” Is the world better or worse for it?
The second argument is, “We cannot nation-build.” That argument, too, is offered as if it is self-evidently valid. But it’s a phony argument. No one argued that we were in Afghanistan to “nation-build.” We were there because 9/11 was launched against us from there. And there is every reason to assume more terror will be directed from Afghanistan if we leave. And our presence there has kept Pakistan from falling into the control of Islamists.
We were not there, as Bret Stephens recently argued, “to kill Osama bin Laden, who was just one in a succession of terrorist masterminds. It was to prove Bin Laden wrong about America’s long-term commitments, especially overseas. In August 1996, Bin Laden issued his notorious fatwa declaring a war on the United States that he hoped would be long and bloody. He observed that, in one conflict after another, the Americans always cut and run.”
The third argument is that remaining in Afghanistan costs America blood and treasure. The blood argument is emotionally irrefutable. Every American killed in Afghanistan is an immeasurable tragedy. But in the last six years, the U.S. has lost fewer than 20 service members annually in hostile engagements in Afghanistan. Between 2006 and 2018, we lost twice as many service members to training accidents than to all overseas actions. As for treasure, we spend between $50 and $100 billion a year in Afghanistan. That is far more morally justifiable than the trillion or more dollars we have spent in the last year to bail out Democratic governors and mayors and the unions they serve.
For the record, I would have made the identical argument if Donald Trump were president and removed us from Afghanistan. But the actual withdrawal is being conducted in a different administration.
Moral arguments didn’t matter to one Democratic senator in 1975. As he put it in a Senate speech on April 23: “I do not believe the United States has an obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals … The United States has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese.” That senator was Joseph Biden of Delaware.
To Democrats and Republicans who support the retreat from Afghanistan, I have a question: If Afghanistan comes to resemble Cambodia’s killing fields, will you still think it was the right decision? Or, to put it another way: Is there any level of evil, any emboldening of America-hating Islamists, any effect of an American defeat on the world or on America that would make you regret your decision to withdraw?
Quoting NWO’s Henry Kissinger, that’s rich.
I don’t have any faith in that number. Earlier in the week State dept. admitted the had no idea how many Americans were still in Afghanistan.
the BLOOD of the INNOCENT is on the hands of the RINOs
who attacked a good POTUS in the back, and cut the
neck of American Patriots.
RINOs and Democrats should abdicate, and then
HIDE in GITMO for the rest of their lives.
As a long time PJB reader and supporter, he is past his due date.
Biden is an unmitigated disaster. He cannot do anything correctly, likely because he has a committee inside his head arguing policy.
This generation cares about pot, tattoos and free stuff. The idea of losing a war doesn’t register with them.
Pat Buchanan sucks.
Slow Joe is responsible for this disaster.
Period.
Buchanan has always worshipped the power in the Oval Office, and given little thought to the nature or character of the person sitting behind the desk.