Posted on 09/02/2021 2:33:23 PM PDT by gattaca
The Afghanistan fiasco is the worst strategic blunder since 1938: the year that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waved around a copy of the Munich Agreement and proclaimed “peace in our time.” Chamberlain’s failure to understand the enemy gave Germany the space it needed to invade Poland — the event that marked the start of World War II. Chamberlain resigned in 1940 when his political support evaporated. Winston Churchill assumed power, ultimately snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.
President Joe Biden’s debacle will have no such savior; the Islamic jihad isn’t that kind of war. Instead of getting us out of Afghanistan, and bringing peace in our time, he’s opened the gates of hell. In one disastrous and grossly ill-conceived strategic move, Biden has armed and empowered the Taliban and elated every Muslim fanatic from Morocco to Mindanao. Not since 9/11 have events so galvanized our enemies — U.S. forces abandoning the field; the Afghan military laying down arms; and the Taliban reestablishing their Islamic Emirate.
Of greater consequence, Biden has handed over to our enemies the geographical heart of Khorasan — the historic Islamic cultural, intellectual and theological center that was overthrown by the Mongols in the 14th century. It included parts of what today are six Asian countries stretching from Iran to Kyrgyzstan. For the Salafi jihadists, the heart of Khorasan is Afghanistan. And for the last several years, the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) has been establishing a center of operations there for its global Islamic caliphate.
We got a taste of what to expect from ISIS-K on Aug. 26, when 13 American soldiers and 169 Afghans were killed in two suicide bomb attacks on the Kabul Airport.
ISIS-K isn’t alone. The Afghanistan-Pakistan region hosts the largest collection of terrorist organizations in the world, including 20 of 61 groups designated by the U.S. State Department as foreign terrorist organizations. All of them — including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State — are now celebrating this epic victory over the infidels.
We don’t need a blue-ribbon beltway panel to see what comes next. Afghanistan is evolving before our eyes into the Asian epicenter of the global Islamic jihad — exactly what we set out 20 years ago to stop, and did stop for 20 years. Now, we’re left watching the slow train wreck that U.S. strategy set in motion.
After 20 years of fighting, the Taliban are meaner, harder, more fanatical and more experienced than they were a generation ago. They’re also far better equipped, with vast stores of military equipment left behind in the U.S. bug-out. Moreover, they’re enjoying a bumper crop of fanatical recruits. The Afghan prisons are wide open, with the worst of the worst now running loose and gunning for revenge — thousands by one estimate, just from the Bagram Air Field prisons alone.
Terrorists freed from Gitmo are helping lead the new Islamic Emirate. Gholam Ruhani, Gitmo Prisoner No. 3, goaded America in a victory speech from the presidential palace on Aug. 15. Mulla Khairullah Khairkawa, freed by former President Barack Obama as one of “the Taliban Five” in exchange for U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, is now described as the mastermind of the overthrow. Late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) described these five — the only Gitmo “forever prisoners” released without the parole board’s approval — as the hardest of the hard core, and the highest risk of those incarcerated.
But the biggest problem is the influx of jihadist groups now rushing in to make Afghanistan a safe haven and a base for international operations. The vanguard is already bleeding in from Pakistan. In addition to ISIS and Al Qaeda, among the first to arrive has been the Pakistan-based Haqqani network — a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization that helped enable bin Laden in the lead-up to 9/11.
Since then the Haqqani network has been cultivating links with Al Qaeda and other jihadist organizations while building a reputation as the most lethal terrorist network that ever operated in Afghanistan. Its head, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is one of the top three deputies in the new Taliban leadership. Khalil Haqqani is in charge of Kabul security, and collaborating with the leaders of other terrorist organizations like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
One Afghan evacuee in custody after security screening at US military... GOP senators call on Biden to release info on Americans, visa... Those who are celebrating an end to “the war in Afghanistan” haven’t been paying attention. Afghanistan has never been more than just one theater in the real forever war — the global Islamic jihad. That war will end when the Salafists end it. For now, the loss of Afghanistan marks the start of a far more dangerous phase of the conflict.
Fourteen centuries of war between Islam and the West just got ramped up on steroids.
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When you run out of things to say, just say “end times.”
When you run out of things to say, just say “end times.”
Pen Farthing brought our son’s dog home to us after he was killed by Taliban’
September 2, 2021
Pen Farthing decided to do everything in his power to reunite Tony Lewis and wife Sandi with the dog Peg, who had been their brave son Conrad’s companion after receiving a heartbreaking phone call.
n February 2011, Pen Farthing picked up the phone at his Nowzad animal shelter in Kabul to the father of an Army hero in England asking for his help.
“I understand you bring soldiers’ dogs home,” said the man, wanting to know if he could repatriate the homeless mongrel that had kept his son company while he served in Helmand.
Pen said the region was one of the most dangerous on earth, and asked if his son could help get the animal to the Afghan capital.
But the man replied: “No, he died there two weeks ago.”
The former Royal Marine, who won a special recognition award at the Daily Mirror’s Animal Heroes Awards in 2015, would later remember how, at that moment, he decided to do everything in his power to reunite Tony Lewis and wife Sandi with the dog who had been their brave son Conrad’s companion.
Within days he had mounted a complex operation to have the pet, called Peg, flown out of the battle zone in a Chinook helicopter to Camp Bastion, then put in a Humvee and driven to Kabul
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pen-farthing-brought-sons-dog-24889646
Bttt.
5.56mm
The reconstituted Al-Qaeda only attacks blue cities.
I’ve learned a lot since September 11, 2001.
I no longer give a rats ass if they attack New York City on a weekly basis.
No more red blood for blue cities.
We will probably end up with a half million or so of their inhabitants being settled in this country so we can't call it a "complete" loss. We can still enjoy the finer points of Jihad.
Those voices need to be found and their necks stretched before becoming boar food.
...help to drive this "Hindenberg" administration...
Or we can get them before they get us...Oh, dear.
...almost like this was planned...
Precisely.
This wins the award of most wrong/stupid article of the year.
Chamberlain’s Munich agreement wasn’t a strategic blunder, he was buying time to rebuild Britain’s military to get it ready for war.
The stragetic mistake was Stanley Baldwin’s continued downsizing of Britain’s military even as Germany rearmed. Baldwin deserves more blame than Chamberlain. Chamberlain was at least buying time with his appeasement policy to gear Britain up for war.
Biden is doing absolutely nothing except sabotage the US.
We live or die as a consequence of the fight at the COUNTY LEVEL. Keep your eyes on the ball.
#BidenEffect
Biden just followed the orders from Obama. That is who is in control.
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