I’m glad Jimmy Carter lived long enough to prove that the Biden administration wasn’t the worst president in history. Even Jimmy Carter was starting to compare Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter.
Having undergone minor surgery this week, I am submitting a reprint of my August 2021 column about one of the Biden administration’s biggest embarrassments. That’s America hunkering down and fleeing yet another country where it should never have had a military presence. What would it take to limit Washington’s power in all important matters?
The chaotic footage of the failed evacuation from Afghanistan should further emphasize what we all need to know by now: we are not the world’s police officers. Looking at what’s happening in New York, Chicago, Portland, Atlanta, etc., it’s clear that we can’t even police our own cities.
The failure to withdraw from Afghanistan and the incoherent and disingenuous speeches about it are what we get when we elect Joe Biden, a 78-year-old career politician with early stage dementia. The rescue of the Afghan interpreter who helped us was considered essential by the Americans. They were needed in the White House because then-press secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of State Antony Blinken took turns every day trying to interpret what Joe Biden was trying to say.
After Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan, when will we learn? We slipped many times. It’s like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell walking through the Capitol Rotunda and seeing a banana peel 20 feet in front of them. They say, “Oh, shoot, here we go again!”
This passage is not clean on either side. Dick Cheney led us into a war with non-existent yellowcake and weapons of mass destruction. He overthrew Saddam Hussein, caused chaos in the region, and escalated the war. For Cheney, war is like love. War always finds a way.
In 2001, Cheney/Bush sent Colin Powell to dramatically display vials of chemical agents to the United Nations and Congress. C-SPAN was first allowed to televise this shocking testimony and then went on to install C-SPAN cameras in other crime-prone areas.
A Taliban victory would further strengthen the Taliban. If we had left them alone, they would not have become so powerful and bold. The only thing that spread faster than the coronavirus was Sharia law under the Taliban. The problem with the US negotiating with these thugs based on international law is that they are using Islamic law, whereas US “diplomats” appear to be negotiating according to Murphy’s Law. is.
U.S. military personnel sit on a plane before departing for Afghanistan from the U.S. transit center Manas, 30 kilometers outside Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, on March 27, 2012. The planned withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces by the end of 2014 depends on a military buildup. Afghan army and police The surge in “fratricidal” attacks has strained NATO relations and marked distrust and cultural clashes between the Afghan army and the Afghan military, which could threaten to undermine its strategy. (Photo: VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images)
We must not only protect the people on the ground who helped us, but also deprive the Taliban of 600,000 weapons, 75,000 military vehicles, $85 billion in funding, and 200 aircraft. had plenty of time to plan their retreat. The next Taliban attack won’t involve a beat-up Russian machine gun in the back of a 1981 Toyota pickup truck. It will be mounted on one of our own armored tanks.
Think about it for a moment. The Biden administration and Democrats have turned over 600,000 assault weapons to the Taliban while actively seeking to seize and restrict the guns of law-abiding Americans. The weapons we leave behind will lead to more deadly wars in the Middle East.
U.S. soldiers with the 703rd EOD Company, 2nd Platoon, Team 6 fire a 155mm howitzer round from a shell casing before a controlled explosion outside Camp Clark in Mandozai District, Kost Province, eastern Afghanistan, on July 4, 2011. Take it out. Top US lawmakers on July 3 denounced President Barack Obama’s military force reduction plan for Afghanistan as “dangerous” and unsupported. Threats to his military commanders and the progress of the past year. (Photo: TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images)
We should have taken our tax-funded guns and weapons with us on our departure. Joe Biden’s messy withdrawal from Afghanistan was like a drunk high school student on prom night.
Generals in the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex love war. When you have a hammer, you’re always looking for a nail. Now, Raytheon has a new customer for weapons parts: the Taliban. But the good news is that voters no longer support wars on lands in which we have no strategic interest or do not understand. (Related article: Top U.S. military general warns Biden administration that conditions in Afghanistan will get “very bad, very quickly” after withdrawal)
After our recent departure, the sight of the Taliban frolicking and roaming the streets has haunted us. They laugh at us as they ride bumper cars in the park, play cricket, eat gelato at open-air markets, and enjoy other leisure activities in Kabul. Personally, it bothers me that they seem to have a better work-life balance than I do.
It’s interesting to watch the lame stream media, usually Mr. Biden’s spin doctor. Many criticize his incompetent response to the crisis. ABC and NBC appear to be leading the way in this rare feat of journalism. CNN hasn’t gotten into it yet. They were eager to pin Jussie Smollett’s fake hate crime on Trump.
A libertarian editorial humorist and award-winning author, Ron provides commentary on radio and television. Contact him at Ron@RonaldHart.com or @RonaldHart on Twitter.
