"That's not who we aren't!" |
You can say that this is “only” symbolic, that we haven’t really been humiliated by a bunch of primitive terrorists. But symbols can be powerful, and this one is especially galling because it capitalizes on the fact that the Biden administration couldn’t even be bothered to bring our war-fighting materiel with us–not just uniforms, but airplanes, helicopters, guns, ammunition, night-vision goggles, and so on–when we bugged out of Afghanistan. To the victor goes the spoils, but the spoils didn’t have to include millions or billions of dollars in military equipment.".......
Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama bin Laden Says Biden “Surrendered to the Taliban” (townhall.com):
Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill: “We have these people who are in charge who are a disgrace. I’m amazed that there hasn’t been at least 30 generals and admirals that haven’t resigned or been fired today.”
Q: "We were pretty good for the past four and a half years at impeaching a president for no reason. If anything deserves an impeachment, it’s right now because we don’t do this. We don’t ask the enemy for permission. We go in there. We crush them. We win. Every single time. And we leave with our people.”
A: “This is nonsense. It’s insulting. We don’t ask the Taliban permission. You know what we do? We kick their ass. That’s it. Why did we fight? For these people to just live there until we elected people in suits who can’t do anything and they surrender? Are you kidding me? This president surrendered to the Taliban. Should I not be embarrassed as an American right now? I think that everyone wearing a suit and tie or a pantsuit right now in Washington D.C. should step down. And I think the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should not be a four-star general. Everyone get out of there. Just leave. We have people that can handle this. We have people who can fight. Get rid of these politicians.”
Fake SecDef Austin is there to dismantle the military. His concept of "Over-the-horizon" is 1,000 yards outside the concertina--the same view they have of America. His enemy is not the Taliban. It's Toledo.
Biden considers activating Civil Reserve Air Fleet to aid Kabul airlift | Daily Mail Online:
Pentagon reveals only 2,500 US citizens out of 15,000 have been evacuated since Kabul fell a week ago: Biden puts commercial airlines on notice that the Civil Reserve Air Fleet could be activated to help get them out
- Pentagon said Saturday that only 2,500 Americans have been rescued from Afghanistan in the past week
- Up to 15,000 Americans need airlift and the administration hopes to get out a further 50-60,000 Afghans
- US Embassy in Kabul tells citizens not to go to the airport amid threat of Islamic State attack
- White House is considering activating the reserve fleet of commercial airliners to ferry refugees
- Civil Reserve Air Fleet was created after post-WWII Berlin Airlift for activation times of emergency
- It was last used to repatriate Americans stranded abroad as the pandemic descended in March 2020
- Now Biden considers conscripting commercial airlines to ferry thousands in Kabul evacuation
- They would not fly into Kabul, but help ferry refugees from staging bases in German, Qatar, and Bahrain
- Situation remains chaotic in Kabul on Saturday with at least 12 dead so far in crush to escape
"So now the Admiralty wireless whispers through the ether to the tall masts of ships, and captains pace their decks absorbed in thought. It is nothing. It is less than nothing. It is too foolish, too fantastic to be thought of in the twentieth century. Or is it fire and murder leaping out of the darkness at our throats, torpedoes ripping the bellies of half-awakened ships, a sunrise on a vanished naval supremacy, and an island well-guarded hitherto, at last defenceless? No, it is nothing. No one would do such things. Civilization has climbed above such perils. The interdependence of nations in trade and traffic, the sense of public law, the Hague Convention, Liberal principles, the Labour Party, high finance, Christian charity, common sense have rendered such nightmares impossible. Are you quite sure? It would be a pity to be wrong. Such a mistake could only be made once—once for all."—1923, recalling the possibility of war between France and Germany after the Agadir Crisis of 1911, in 'The World Crisis'
Ripples of Kabul › American Greatness -Prof. Hanson: "No sooner did Biden claim he was straight jacketed by Trump, than he reversed course to defend not just his own withdrawal but the disastrous manner of it. In his dotage, Biden claims that he has no free will, while insisting he would have done nothing differently had he such. In a sane world, the Joint Chiefs and the secretary of defense would resign. We have heard for too long their careerist boasts about assigning climate change as their chief challenge. For too long they have virtue signaled their critical race theory credentials to Congress. For too long, they have bragged about rooting out alleged “white supremacists” from their ranks. For too long they have sparred with journalists, while fighting twitter wars and issuing cartoonish commercials attesting to their woke credentials. In other words, they sermonized on anything and everything—except their plans to prevent a humiliating military defeat of U.S. forces and their allies. Our intelligence and investigatory agencies are just as morally suspect. The legacy of John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe has been the destruction of the reputations of the CIA, NSA, and FBI. Current and retired intelligence lackeys and careerists all wasted years promulgating Russian “collusion.” They swore Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian “disinformation.” They doctored evidence, surveilled and unmasked officials, and hatched adolescent plots against an elected president. All that was more important to their careers than warning of the growing existential threats in Afghanistan. In the aftermath of the Afghan debacle, we must depoliticize and de-weaponize these warped agencies and incompetent institutions.".......
Whenever I hear any of these Military/Industrial Occupation Government stooges speak, I have only one thought: “That’s not who we are.”
It is not just that General Milley and the Joint Buffoons of Staff cannot plan; they cannot execute. Compare the 2,500 Americans evacuated from Kabul over this last week to the 7,000 Americans and allies choppered out of Saigon in just nineteen hours. Can Milley do anything in nineteen hours other than call his tailor and order up his next row of ribbonry? ...
...The big picture is that, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States blew its unipolar moment and has chosen to surrender the world, after half-a-millennium, to post-western dominance. Whatever the truth of Biden's charge that the money-no-object Afghan National Army went over to the other side, there is no question that key elements of American national power have gone over to China's side: the Chamber of Commerce, Hollywood, the NBA, not to mention the Wuhan Institute of Virology's protectors at the CDC and NIH; oh, and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, at least two of whom have checked out with respect to anything to do with China...
Beijing has won without firing a shot, which is the way to do it. They have no desire to occupy Afghanistan or to prioritize (as did Washington, confusing the Great Game with the Gay Games) Pride Month in Kandahar. Your average goatherd will barely notice the ChiComs' presence, except insofar as the best tables at the only Michelin restaurant in Spin Boldak seem to go to the visiting Chinamen. But, an hour south of Kabul, Chinese development of the world's second largest copper mine will proceed apace. We were there for two decades, but all the lithium will go to Chairman Xi, just in case you thought the Chinese didn't have a tight enough hammerlock on the world's batteries, without which all your high-tech toys are novelty paperweights and doorstops.
After the US abandonment of Bagram air base, the Germans began moving their people out last month, quietly and without fanfare. Also in July, Mullah Baradar, the Taliban honcho now back in Kabul, flew to China to meet with Xi's Foreign Minister. And the government of Greece (which no German or Scandinavian would consider a functioning administration) somehow managed to anticipate a looming Afghan migrant tide and construct and complete a border fence with Turkey, in order to prevent another 2016 "refugee" stampede.
Everyone - Greeks, Germans, Chinese - knew where this was headed (and very quickly) ...everyone except the decadent, decayed hyperpower in nominal control of the timeline.
On Friday the chump who serves as US Defense Secretary was asked why his US troops at Kabul Airport couldn't do (as the French, British and others are doing) and fan out into Kabul and surrounding provinces and extract their nationals. Mr Austin replied that American forces don't have "the capability" - and, as a hack lobbyist formerly on the board of Raytheon, he should know.
But what exactly does America have "the capability" to do? The "Special Immigrant Visa" for loyal Afghans who made the mistake of trusting the infidel takes two years to process. What's so "special" about that? Well, the regular visas take five-to-ten years. Impressive as the government's comparative SIV urgency is, if you're in Jalalabad and your application isn't already in the mail, you'll find it quicker to bicycle over the Khyber, take a rusting steam packet from Karachi to Mexico and use the Rio Grande express check-in.
Which is what will happen. The implosion in Afghanistan and the dissolution of America's southern border will converge, and thousands of excitable young Mohammedans will wind up in the Lower Forty-Eight - while the few actual loyal Afghan support staff get stuck back in Kabul to be beheaded on jihadist snuff videos.
Why cannot the great flabby leviathan rouse itself? Why do French paratroopers have the "capability" and not their more lavishly funded Yank counterparts? Why can the Greeks build a border wall in a month but in America a winning presidential candidate can merely campaign on it for a year and a half and then get screwed over by his own corrupt donor-beholden party leaders?
Last week I was chided by a couple of commenters for not proposing "solutions". The solutions are being enacted by everybody else, in the face of a crapped-over superpower's meltdown:
~The soi-dissant Euro-pussies leave the airport every hour, go out and get their people, bring them back to "Hamid Karzai International" and fly them home - and by "home" I don't mean the now overflowing "processing" center in Qatar: Every day the BBC shows flights from Afghanistan landing back at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
~Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria build border barriers; America's "conservative" party thinks border chaos in a pandemic is a fundraising opportunity, and, after raking in the dough, they'll do nothing. ...
Our "experts" have expertise in nothing that matters - identity politics, micro-aggressions, statue-toppling, transgender sports... Much of American "conservatism" meets the civilizational vandals halfway - no, two-thirds of the way - so that the conversation is never anywhere near where it ought to be: No one could look objectively at an American TV network or newspaper and think this the public discourse of a serious power.
And yet apparently over half the nation does.
Until that changes, this is China's world.".......
"You want their lithium, Mr. President? You can have it! It makes me feel funny." The True President: "America’s warriors are the single greatest force for justice, peace, liberty, and security among all the nations ever to exist on earth. God bless our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, Airmen, and Marines. We honor them today, forever, and always."....... Nobody made these 2019 cadets pose with the Actual President. Even as the Garbage Elites throw away love of country, they wanted to be there because the Heart of Liberty beats in them, too. "Joe Biden gave our enemies all around the World a great and lasting victory when he unexpectedly and inexplicably removed our great soldiers from Afghanistan before taking out our U.S. citizens and allies, along with abandoning many billions of dollars of highest-grade Military equipment. Leaving our Military till the end was such a simple decision that anyone with intelligence and common sense would have made, but he called it wrong and instantly created perhaps the greatest embarrassment for our Country in its history—and it is far from over!" |
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