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As we face another extremely embarrassing chapter of history for the United States, I am struck by the similarity with regard to the inept and absence of leadership in Washington DC as regards the April 1975 situation in Saigon and the August 2021 situation in Afghanistan. Both times, we were "led" by a bumbling placeholder president that was not legitimately elected by the U.S. people. Gerald Ford in 1975 and Joe Biden in 2021. Both of these incapable presidents attained office when the Left forced out a popular Republican president, by hook or by crook. Ford was the unwitting beneficiary...

A heartbreaking video of an Afghan girl voicing her anguish at the world's treatment of her country has gone viral, days before the Taliban successfully established their control on Sunday. The emotional video has already garnered millions of views after being posted to Twitter by human rights activist Masih Alinejad, and features a crying girl whose identity remains unknown. 'We don't count because we were born in Afghanistan,' the tearful girl explains in the 45-second clip.

@LindseyGrahamSC When it comes to assigning blame regarding the debacle in Afghanistan: After speaking with various U.S. military leaders, one thing I am certain of is the military has consistently given sound advice to both Presidents Biden and Trump.

NOW - People seen holding on to a plane as it prepares to take off from Kabul Airport, where at least 3 people fell to their death. https://twitter.com/ThorDeplorable/status/1427251455933698051

“‘No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon’” (Matthew 6:24). The believer is to serve God, not riches. When reading Matthew 6:24, many people say, “I believe that you can serve two masters. I work two jobs.” The reason they say that is they don’t understand the Greek word translated “serve.” It refers not to an employee in an 8-to-5 job but to a slave. A slave is one who is constantly and entirely devoted...

It’s time for another edition of Weekend at Biden’s. Dementia Joe has been busy, accomplishing in a mere six months what it took Jimmy Carter four years to do — generally laying waste, both at home and abroad, to a once successful and prosperous society. No wonder Biden called a “lid” on his arduous schedule at 11:27 a.m. one morning last week, and then took a slide to Camp David on Thursday. Despite the horrific news on inflation, Afghanistan and the invasion of the southern border by hundreds of thousands of virus-infected foreign criminals, Joe took time out to announce...

Media outlets across the political divide in the US and Britain have united in their condemnation over Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan crisis amid what is being billed the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in 65 years. Even Left-wing outlets such as CNN and The New York Times that would traditionally back a Democrat president have hit out at Mr Biden for his role in allowing insurgents to take Kabul after routing Afghan forces in just a week. The Wall Street Journal condemned Joe Biden's statement 'washing his hands' of the situation, saying it should 'go down as one of...

How will the mainstream media spin the collapse of Afghanistan under the Biden presidency? My call: "You know, the Taliban isn't so bad now... being out of power for two decades has mellowed them."

Three stowaways fell hundreds of feet to their deaths from a military jet and at least five others have been killed at Kabul airport as thousands of desperate Afghans try to flee the Taliban by clambering on to rescue flights in increasingly chaotic scenes in the capital. Thousands of terrified people have descended on Hamad Karzai airport as the UK, US and other western countries fly out their citizens and diplomats on military aircraft following the lightning victory of the Taliban over the Afghan government. All commercial flights have been suspended, leading to the desperate civilians climbing on to the...

We’ve all heard the stories about how China is making people disappear in their reeducation camps in the western reaches of their nation, particularly the Uyghurs. But are they engaged in similar tactics in other countries? That’s the claim being made by one Chinese woman who says that she was detained in a secret black site in Dubai for more than a week. The woman claims to have been held without access to legal counsel or the ability to contact her family. She also was reportedly forced to sign legal documents incriminating her own fiance’ who is still back in...

The UK government has been talking to the Taliban through an intermediary and a pathway for the hardline Islamist terror group to be recognised as the government of Afghanistan exists, the defence secretary has said, as he defended President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal. British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace spoke to several UK broadcast networks on Monday morning amid emerging scenes of chaos and violence in Afghanistan and Britain’s re-committal to a group of Air Assault Brigade troops to the country to protect efforts to expatriate both UK passport holders and Afghan interpreters coming to Britain.

A White House tweet showing President Joe Biden appearing to be on top of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan may also have inadvertently revealed the faces and locations of intelligence agents. The official White House Twitter account posted a photo on Sunday of Biden meeting by video conference with intelligence officials to hear updates on the drawdown of civilian personnel, “the ongoing security situation in Kabul,” and evacuations of Afghan allies, including interpreters who helped US and NATO forces during the 20-year war. The picture showed other meeting participants on a large screen, including CIA officials and three...

Americans have been turning to the White House all day as Taliban forces have taken over Afghanistan in shocking fashion. But other than a couple of disastrous interviews Sunday morning, the White House isn’t saying much. This week, it appears they won’t be saying anything at all as Press Secretary Jen Psaki joins Joe Biden and others in the regime in a state of hiding. “Circle Back” Psaki should be the tip of the information spear with her boss, the alleged President of the United States, vacationing at Camp David with no intentions of talking to America. Instead, she’s on...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War. Follow him on Twitter @GordonGChang. Chang is also a Contributing Editor to 1945. The costs in blood of such a move would be high. Richard Fisher of the Northern Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center told 1945 that China could lose about 50,000 troops, sailors, and pilots even if it were able to both achieve complete surprise in mobilizing thousands of barges, ships, and planes and prevent others from coming to Taiwan’s rescue. “Should China fail to gain complete surprise and the...

Per Fox News - breaking - All flights out of the Kabul airport have been suspended due to the situation there. In other words, the only way out is to try to drive or walk to the border. Pray for those who have been abandoned by our government.

This video provides good information about the 'vaccine'.

DUBAI, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday the United States' "military failure" in Afghanistan offered an opportunity to establish lasting peace in the country. Taliban insurgents took control of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday following a rout of the U.S.-backed Afghan army as foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan. Washington has accused Iran in the past of providing covert aid to Taliban fighters against U.S. forces. Tehran, which supports an inclusive Afghan government that would include all ethnic groups and sects, has denied this. "America's military defeat and its withdrawal must become an opportunity to...

Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp? Posted on August 15, 2021 by prestonbyrne In the middle of a conflict, good analysis is hard to come by. Because adversaries do not telegraph their plans to one another, plans depend greatly on the fact patterns surrounding their execution, and no human mind can possibly observe, much less comprehend, the movements of all players on the battlefield, the prosecution of wars, no matter how meticulously planned and no matter how eminently credentialed the planners, frequently defies the will of the planners. This phenomenon is known as the “Fog of War,” a...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 136 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever. 4 to him who alone does great wonders, His love endures forever. 5 who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever. 6 who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever. 7 who made the great lights— His love endures forever. 8 the sun to govern the day, His...

San Francisco — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the situation in Afghanistan: “The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken. “The Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls. The U.S., the international community and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban. “Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed...