We should have left Afghanistan to its own Islamic self-destructive
devices long ago. Islam demands complete devotion to a supremacist
theopolitical ideology that specifically denigrates Jesus as the Resurrected
Son of God and encodes Jew-hatred in ALL its revered writings. I suspect
Beijing Biden’s dementia will not recall on how his coup-Administration has
ordered a debacle of a withdrawal rather than an orderly withdrawal that gives
a Terminator, “I’ll be back!” warning. At any rate, here’s a Justin
Smith analysis on the idiocy of how Biden leaves Afghanistan.
JRH 8/18/21
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Kabul, Saigon and Shades of Benghazi
Afghanistan: America Behind the 8 Ball
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 8/16/2021 1:46 AM
Rome burned and Nero fiddled. Kabul falls and Joe Biden is
out to lunch and having big fun at Camp David watching it unfold on television
screens, while vacationing, and not once has he seen fit to address the
American public on the [JOS] most
incredible and massive policy failure in U.S. history, that
surpasses Carter's failed attempt to rescue the Embassy hostages from the
Iranian Guard in 1979 and Obama's assertion that ISIS was "the JV
League" of Islamists, bringing back shades of Benghazi and the destruction
of Libya in its wake, especially in light of the known escalations and
increasing power of the Taliban that preceded this lightning quick conquest of
the country's provinces and major cities.
Imagine the shock felt by thousands of U.S. Armed Forces
Veterans as they heard the breaking news that came across the airwaves around
12:26 PM on Sunday August 15th 2021 that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
was being evacuated -- as smoke rose from the burning top secret files --
and [JOS] the
U.S. flag had been lowered and removed, while panicked Embassy
personnel were being flown to the nearby Hamid Karzai International Airport,
now closed to all commercial flights, as the situation worsens by the second.
Veterans who occupied most of the land now occupied by the Taliban are
extremely troubled to see the country fall apart as the U.S. withdraws, since
it evokes complicated, mind-numbing thoughts and feelings on just what did they
and so many others sacrifice so much for in this war, drawing stark comparisons
between Saigon in 1975 and Kabul today.
Biden's protestations and denials that the intelligence
community and the Defense Department never briefed him on the dire consequences
that would follow if he pulled out of Afghanistan too precipitously, just as
Obama did in Iraq, [JOS] are
very similar to his 2012 denial that the Mission in Benghazi asked for more
security, and the evidence revealing his lie is well
documented and [JOS] reported
by Michael Gordon in the Wall Street Journal this Sunday morning:
"In contrast to the
numerous Trump policies he reversed, he opted to carry out Mr. Trump's deal
with the Taliban instead of trying to renegotiate it. In so doing, he overruled
his top military commanders:
Gen. Frank McKenzie, the
commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East; Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who led
NATO forces in Afghanistan; and Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
Citing the risks of removing
American forces to Afghan security and the U.S. Embassy, they recommend that
the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan while stepping up diplomacy to try to
cement a peace agreement."
President Trump wanted to remove our troops by May, much
sooner than Biden, but with supposed safeguards for the Afghan people
previously agreed to by the Taliban. Trump's naivety in this regard would have
fared no better, since the Taliban never intended on honoring the agreement
from the beginning; they used the new found relief from the Trump agreement to
strengthen their position in preparation for just this moment. Biden's
weakness and inability to alter course on this matter and break with Trump's
withdrawal plan speaks to his own hypocrisy.
Biden does make a bit of sense as he suggested that added
time was just more waste of American lives and resources - if the Afghan
military still couldn't or wouldn't defend its own country after twenty years
of U.S. training and being armed with the latest weapons. However, while nobody
wants America to stay in Afghanistan forever, Biden's logic ends there, since
it is nothing but incompetence and sheer idiocy that would have any force
announce their departure far in advance and then proceed to withdraw during the
height of the enemies fighting season and at a time they have reinforced their
own ranks and armaments.
Even more troubling, relief and final evacuation for U.S.
Citizens is being directed along some of the most ineffective paths imaginable,
as the Biden administration has thrown unnecessary obstacles and delays in
the way of Americans seeking to leave the country swiftly. Incredibly, the
security alert from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul directed Americans to shelter in
place and register through a repatriation form if they wanted assistance to
leave Afghanistan, as if they don't already know who in the hell is working
there for U.S. contractors and NGOs. They also cautioned against trying to make
one's way to Hamid Karzai International Airport. And taken together on the
whole, this sounds more like a certain death sentence than any sort of rational
plan that will get our people out of there, with more shades of Benghazi
and what America witnessed at the Mission and the CIA Annex on September 11th
2012 in Benghazi, Libya.
With Biden's people running this Clusterf**k no one
should place too much confidence in being rescued soon, and they shouldn't just
sit there waiting to be taken by the Taliban or recently freed Al Qaeda
prisoners. Everybody should be heading for a known point of evacuation, no
matter what, rather than waiting in a room somewhere in hopes that help
arrives, and one can only imagine that those stuck in this jam are already
thinking the same thing, as events on the ground continue to take a turn for
the worse.
Shelter in place? That sounds exactly like "Fend for
Yourself" to me. No, people with any sense will be getting the hell
out of there as quick as they can, by any means they can find.
And in story after story, the Afghan people themselves are
stunned by the speed at which the Taliban was able to sweep across Afghanistan
taking 21 provinces and 24 capitols within a matter of days, but one young
woman told Al Jazeera News this occurred largely due to a lack of any
resistance from the government forces. She is [JOS] quoted in
Economic Times echoing the sentiment of her countrymen:
"They literally sold us
out. There was no government resistance. I never imagined that Kandahar would
be taken so easily."
Never a fan of staying in Afghanistan after we killed Bin
Laden in 2011 on the never-ending somewhat opaque and ambiguous mission of
exporting Western style "democracy" and nation building in
traditionally Islamic nations that neither respected or desired such from us,
and short of a clearly stated mission statement or real purpose serving a truly
vital U.S. interest, I had stated for many long years that we should
extricate ourselves from the situation, just as quickly as possible, without
abandoning the Afghans who helped us, before they had time to properly prepare
for our departure. But without a mission of purpose and no recent leaders
trustworthy enough and worth following to one's death in "the service of
America", I wanted to see us leave Afghanistan, before we saw one more
poor unfortunate young woman or man sent home maimed and minus one or more
limbs or in a body-bag.
Most Americans have long lost the will to fight any longer
in Afghanistan, after nearly twenty years of war, tens of thousands injured and
maimed, and 2,312 Americans who died fighting it. They now see it as a
"forever war", and they know not what it is they do not know, about
the Big Picture that the U.S. Department of Defense and the Pentagon has always
seen and the long term plan since 1973, to eventually have a forward position
established in Afghanistan to somewhat leverage and constrain both China and
Russia from the vantage point of their vulnerable southern border.
America lost sight of this mission and purpose and got placed
behind the 8 Ball by subsequent Marxist administrations, during the Obama years
when the so-called "rules of engagement" were untenable and a damned
deadly joke for our members of the U.S. Armed Forces, and we hurt ourselves
by focusing on nation building and winning the hearts and minds of an Islamic
tribal people who were never going to love us, rather than fighting to win.
No, America shouldn't be fighting "forever wars",
but Afghanistan would never have become one, if our country's leaders had entered
it with the same attitude that witnessed America nuke Nagasaki and Hiroshima
and fire-bomb Dresden. Our soldiers could have and should have made quick work
of the Taliban, even if it meant killing them down to the last man, and in
turn, maybe someone would have soon had the epiphany that we had just created a
breast-work barrier of sorts in the region that would keep China's eastern
border and Russia's southern border exposed and vulnerable to any defensive
measure America might need utilize in the future -- something we will be soon
wishing we had in light of China's current saber-rattling against America and
its continued aggressions and belligerence in all parts of the world.
There has been little to zero discussion of the strategic
importance of our bases in Afghanistan, although even many enlisted cadre full
well get it. Russia is north -- approximately four hours away by jet, China
lies to the east, Pakistan to the South and Iran to the West. Without any
presence there, U.S. interests in Central Asia are pretty well strangled, and
Biden's regime will soon miss the added leverage this provided our country with
our enemies.
But, this was never the stated mission, and now it is all
but a mute topic and something that will be thrown in the ashcan by this
feckless, dangerously incompetent regime and Joe Biden, who has yet to be right
on anything that pertains to U.S. foreign policy.
And so it is only natural that everybody is asking
"What was it all for", as we see Biden's do-nothing, know-nothing appeasement
policy and his grandstanding gesture aimed at officially being done in
Afghanistan, on the anniversary of the worst attack on America in U.S. history
on September 11th 2001, turning into a massive failure of epic proportions.
As reported by Kipp Jones on August 14th, Jeong Jangsoo, a
retired Colonel of the South Korean Army and a Veteran of the Coalition Force
in Afghanistan, who commanded 300 soldiers in 2007 in the fight against the
Taliban, expressed his thoughts in telling fashion, [JOS] stating:
"I felt disappointment ...
a sense that all had been in vain, and thought, 'So this is how it ends, huh'".
This is actually a worse moment than Saigon in 1975, because
Saigon wasn't harboring international terrorists who would pursue the war in
the U.S. after its withdrawal. The Afghan Security Force in charge of Bagram
Air Force Base, just abandoned it this morning (August 15th), and
along with it they abandoned the [JOS] Pul-e-Charki
prison that housed some 5000 prisoners, including a maximum security cell
containing some of the worst Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists ever captured
over the course of this war, now free to once again wreak havoc, mayhem and
murder at will.
And in the meantime, as I saw images across the media
outlets revealing numerous Muslim groups celebrating this turn of events, such
as the leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Nazryate distribute candy and cakes
among the people in the markets of Quetta, Pakistan, as the Taliban rolled into
Kabul, I wondered how many days would pass before cooperation between the Taliban,
several thousand recently released Al Qaeda terrorists and the terrorists of
Pakistan's Jaamat
e-Islami and other Islamic terrorist groups results in renewed and
exponentially increased terrorist attacks against the Western world and across
the globe, especially here on U.S. soil and against U.S. interests
abroad.
Jamiat Ulema-e Islam
Nazryate party distribute sweets among people (Photo from USA
Today photo-collage of Afghan-Taliban)
For many Americans there was never any doubt that we must
leave Afghanistan at some point, but they did want the departure to be orderly
and honorable, and something far different from what we are receiving under the
Biden regime and from the man, Joe Biden, who has been wrong on every major
policy issue of the day over his forty some odd years career in politics, from
the Persian Gulf War to the surge in Iraq and on to opposing the raid that
killed Bin Laden.
This morning America witnessed one military helicopter after
another leaving the Embassy compound, which makes it impossible not to draw
comparisons with the iconic scene of people fleeing the North Vietnamese Army
from the top of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. Although it was
only a month ago that Biden denied this sort of scenario and a Taliban takeover
was possible, anyone paying attention knew he was wrong, and now we see
Biden's administration rush thousands of U.S. Marines and U.S. Soldiers to
Afghanistan to try to stave off the inevitable, as translators and other Afghan
allies and civilians wait for flights that may never arrive for them.
Many older Americans have never forgotten the genocides that
occurred as millions of people from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were murdered by
the Communists of the North Vietnam Regulars and the Vietcong, the Khmer Rouge
and the Pathet Lao, as the Soviet and Chinese Communists rolled in with them in
support. Approximately
five million men, women and children were murdered in a four year period in
these countries by the Communists who rose to power after America's retreat
from Southeast Asia, the doctors, lawyers, teachers and anyone even
remotely associated with these countries' infrastructures or previous
government.
Many of us also remember the Taliban's rise to power between
1994 and 1996, when they destroyed all sculptures and art and any writings
deemed "against Islam", as [JOS] they
destroyed the centuries old massive Bamiyan Buddhas in central Afghanistan and
beheaded or otherwise executed infidels and non-believers, or
those deemed insufficiently "Muslim", in Kabul's stadium, in 1996.
These days will be a walk in Disneyland compared to what is coming.
The last days of Kabul are going to be every bit as ugly and
chaotic as the last days of Saigon, because too many of the thousands of newly
freed Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters and terrorists are on the prowl, vicious as
ever, and seeking revenge. And as the hour grows late for Afghanistan, all
doubt has been removed that this recent Afghan fiasco is Biden's Taliban Baby
and Kabul is most definitely his administration's fall of Saigon.
As I write this, I'm thinking of a conversation I had with a
dear friend this very morning, who asked that we pray for the safety of all
these fine young American men and women, as she told me her nephew had just
flown a mission to Afghanistan in a USAF-KC-10 a few days ago. He was just sent
back to Afghanistan, flying out with jets on Saturday morning, in what was
described as a "sudden" and "immediate" event.
This is where the hearts and minds of the good and decent
Americans lie today, with America's warriors who served Her in unquestioning
fashion and all too often gave their lives in the process, to ensure another
attack like September 11th 2001 would never be possible again from a force
similar to Al Qaeda that was given sanctuary by their Taliban allies and hosts
in Afghanistan. And in praying for all our dead and their families and all the
soldiers still serving in Afghanistan, we also pray for the Afghan people who
opposed the monsters of their own country, those Afghans siding with America
and the millions of Afghan women and men who sought a future for their families
without oppression.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
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Text embraced by brackets are by the Editor. Bold text indicates this
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