"... chaos and fear gripped the city, with tens of thousands of people trying to escape.... In a lightning offensive, the Taliban swallowed dozens of cities in a matter of days, leaving Kabul as the last major redoubt of government control.... Al Jazeera reported that it had interviewed Taliban fighters who were holding a news conference in the presidential palace in Kabul, the capital. The fighters said they were working to secure Kabul so that leaders in Qatar and outside the capital could return safely. Al Jazeera reported that the fighters had taken down the flag of Afghanistan. As it became clear that Taliban fighters were entering Kabul, thousands of Afghans who had sought refuge there after fleeing the insurgents’ brutal military offensive watched with growing alarm as the local police seemed to fade from their usual checkpoints. The U.S. Embassy warned Americans to not head to the airport in Kabul after reports that the facility was taking fire..."
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No amount of money, technology, American lives can overcome poor political decisions made by politicians who believe if we through enough money and American military at a problem they can change a political outcome as they dream it should be. It doesn't matter if it is to stop the advance of what they see as the Communist threat, or the Terrorist threat. The problem rests with a political zeal where failure can never be admitted, and accountability not expected. Vietnam, Afghanistan, drugs, welfare, and social justice. A war without a defined endgame just goes on until at some point we run out of money, technology, or will.
So, has Biden found a way to create a hostage situation? You gotta hand it to Biden- he might well have found a way to turn a sure cluster fuck into a bigger cluster fuck.
Now THAT'S what an "armed insurrection" really looks like.
It's like the obituary waiting for the person to die.
When did the NYTs write the headline?
Yancey,
Ol'Jo sent 5,000 GIs into Afghanistan this week. We've already got a hostage situation.
The people in charge of our government are delusional. According to a Newsweek article, "Just four days ago, U.S. defence officials had estimated that it would take Taliban insurgents 30 days to isolate Kabul and possibly under 90 days to take it over." This reminds me of stories of Hitler in his Fuhrerbunker, giving orders to his generals for units that had already been destroyed. Apparently the Biden* maladministration were the only ones who didn't foresee the Taliban blitzkrieg. Not just bad planning on their part but a spectacular failure of imagination as well.
We have screwed this up so badly, it is difficult to see how much worse it could be. Tens of millions of dollars of state of the art equipment, from trucks to drones, are either in the hands of the taliban or in Iran.
It is a lasting national disgrace, as it seems we aren't even trying to get out those Afghani's who foolishly sided with us.
I thought bidens regime would be bad, but everywhere, in every matter, he is a clueless fool. and our enemies know it. Stand proud Democrats, you voted for this mess. but at least our generals are up to date on feminism, gender theory, and how to beg on your knees.
Our current leaders, on both sides of the aisle, are so incompetent,they make Jimmy Carter look good.
Biden-"are you tired of losing and being humiliated yet?"
I used to speculate to my wargaming friends that it might turn out to be worse than Vietnam
eventually. That was in the early 2000s. Hostages is exactly what all the Westerners in A-stan have become. It never made strategic or geographic sense to insert a lot of Westerners into that place, dangling, and surviving only by the whim of nasty neighbors.
I saw Ghani and his flop-sweat last night, direct from the presidential seat; today there are grim looking men in the same place. Men who don't look happily triumphant, but like men who have a big job ahead.
It's about to get much much worse, live; what worries me is the prospect that the great victory over the infidels will spark some Muslim bucks in the West to displays of gloating, and . . . ebullience.
Spook: Mr. President, we have the intelligence estimate for Kabul ready.
Biden: Come on, man. Give it to me straight.
Spook: We figure Kabul will fall in ten-
Biden: Ten what? Months, weeks, days?
Spook: Nine, eight, seven . . .
People can get into arguments about whether the "Afghan War" was won or lost, they can trot out clichés about the "Graveyard of Empires," and they can argue about blaming one political side or another, but a few things are clear:
If you live in a country where US forces land, you should go about your business as best as you can, and you should do nothing to assist the US. You cannot trust the US government to be your ally. It will not care about any risk or danger you place yourself into, whether you do so in common cause or for purely mercenary reasons. If you have some hope that working with the US might improve your country or your life, weigh that hope very carefully against the lives of your family members. When the political winds change in Washington, the feckless hacks in charge will abandon you and your family to your fates without warning or concern.
If you are an American and feel called to something like military service, consider the Coast Guard. It's not what it used to be, but it still has some memory of its primary missions, and it is relatively unlikely that you will be called upon to shed your blood for some fleeting, strategically half-baked purpose.
What do you think is on the minds of people in Beijing and Taipei today, not to mention Moscow, Kiev, Vilnius, Warsaw, Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut, Tokyo, Canberra, and New Delhi?
Prescient:
Face the Nation May 13, 2019
'...CBS's "Face The Nation" host Margaret Brennan asked [Robert] Gates [Secretary of Defense in the Obama Administration] if he stood by a statement from his memoir that Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
"I think I stand by that statement," Gates said.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I was rereading your memoir before we sat down to talk and you said in your memoir, Joe Biden is impossible not to like.
Quote: "He's a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you could turn to for help in a personal crisis. Still, I think he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/13/gates_stands_by_statement_that_biden_has_been_wrong_on_nearly_every_major_foreign_policy_question.html
Even my progressive friends are stunned that not only Afghanistan collapsed overnight without any sort of contingency planning put in place but that their president is AWOL and hiding out at Camp David hoping it will all blow over. Yeesh, I knew Joe was going to be a failure but didn't believe it would be this epic so soon.
Thousands a day pour through the southern border, many with criminal records and previous deportations. Thousands of Afghans who risked their lives to help us are left to die. I've never felt such shame.
From Instapundit:
"The CIA’s failure, however, shows that as US forces withdrew, they were essentially blind and that the White House built America’s post-withdrawal strategy on a rotten foundation."
Are we any less blind about China? Does China policy, whatever it is at the moment, have a less rotten foundation?
Flat Tire: "Thousands a day pour through the southern border, many with criminal records and previous deportations. Thousands of Afghans who risked their lives to help us are left to die. I've never felt such shame."
Careful there.
Our Stasi wanna-bes at DHS and the FBI have already explicitly stated that criticism of the federal government is domestic terrorism.
Imagine the howling if Trump were at the helm of this disaster. Crickets from #the resistance on social media.
"Joe was going to be a failure but didn't believe it would be this epic so soon."
bin Laden predicted it.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency," bin Laden wrote to a top deputy.
"Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11465886/bin-laden-assassinate-barack-obama-so-totally-unprepared-joe-biden-president/
Screw your freedoms and get to the choppa!
Of course
Ashraf Ghani: Following his PhD degree, he was invited to teach at University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and then at Johns Hopkins University from 1983 to 1991. He has also attended the Harvard-INSEAD and World Bank-Stanford Graduate School of Business
Imagine the planning and logistics that had to go in to conquering so much territory in so little time. Everything was in place before the American withdrawal, just waiting for the word to strike. Any yet our intelligence agencies (how big is our intelligence budget?) seem to have been taken entirely by surprise.
Apparently the Taliban had more planning and logistics in their operation than did the U.S. How do you have a "planned withdrawal" and fail to have measures already in place to evacuate American Embassy personnel? How do you manage to wait until the Taliban is entering the city to start destroying sensitive information? How do you leave millions of high-tech communications and weaponry in the hands of terrorists? Who exactly planned this sh#t-show?
Yeah, but what kind of ice cream did Joe have? Ohhhhhhhhh
NPR was interviewing some spokesweasel from State, or the White House. All is proceeding according to long-laid plans, of course--this is just a hiccup in the masterful D strategy of making American respected again.
We. Are. Doomed.
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