Posted on 08/15/2021 6:46:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To reprise a line from a decade-old column of mine:
Afghanistan is about Afghanistan – if you're Afghan or Pakistani. But, if you're Russian or Chinese or Iranian or European, Afghanistan is about America.
That's the point to remember: if you're an Afghan schoolgirl, today is the fall of Kabul; elsewhere, in the chancelleries of allies and enemies alike, it's the fall of America. Even by their usual wretched standards, the world's most somnolent media are struggling to stay up to speed on the story. Here's the scoop from USA Today:
Taliban's Afghanistan Advance Tests Biden's 'America Is Back' Foreign Policy Promise
You don't say! Did he misread the prompter, or mishear the guy in his ear? "America is on its back", surely?
But don't worry, the world's most lavishly over-funded "intelligence community" is on the case:
Kabul Could Fall To The Taliban Within 90 Days, U.S. Intelligence Warns
Thank you, geniuses. That was Thursday. So it turned out to be well within ninety hours - which is close enough for US intelligence work.
Was this the same "seventeen intelligence agencies" who all agreed Russia had meddled in the 2016 election - and with whose collective intelligence only a fool would disagree?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“The good news: It’s a brilliant piece. The bad news: We really are that screwed.”
When you are right...You are right!
Amen
Pretty much
Yup!
~Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires~
Another one bites the dust.
He should win a Pulitzer Prize for this column.
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