Biden’s Folly. By John Ellis.
Handing over Afghanistan to the Taliban is President Biden’s idea, if that’s the right word, and his alone. It is terrible policy, on any number of levels. …
What we’re witnessing, in real time,… is the Taliban’s reimagining of The Killing Fields. Mullah Pol Pot comes to Kabul in a Toyota pick-up truck. Prepare your 13-year-old daughters for “marriage.”
The U.S. military, especially the special operators, must be beside themselves. Abandoning the Kurds under Trump was bad enough. But this makes that look like home leave. This is an epic betrayal and strategically foolish to boot.
How long do you suppose it will take for Afghanistan to once again become a “terrorist safe haven?”
About 18 to 36 months according to the recent the Afghanistan Study Group report.
Taliban message to Americans:
“It's our belief that one day … Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world … Jihad will not end until the last day.”pic.twitter.com/tggPSfKqI1
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 15, 2021
Now the world adjusts to the newly revealed reality:
The question on everyone’s lips is: How’s everyone in Taipei doing today? Any update on America’s “strategic flexibility” regarding Taiwan? …
If you’re President Xi, you see Afghanistan, clearly, for what it is: a humiliating defeat for the United States. He might call it “flexible humiliation.” And what he knows from history is that defeated nations have little appetite for war in the immediate aftermath of losing one. Taiwan is there for the taking. …
The left will blame Trump for the disaster, naturally:
But this one is all Biden. What Trump left behind could have been undone with the stroke of a presidential pen. The idea that Trump made them do it is risible.
And just for the record, what Trump left behind was not 3,000 US personnel in Afghanistan. That’s not how it works. If you include everyone in (just) the special operations “network,” including the locals, logistics, coordinators, intelligence analysts and air support, the numbers (at least) quintuple. We were spending a lot of money in Afghanistan and spreading it around. It was effective. We had eyes and ears everywhere. (And by the way, NATO is evacuating 8000+ personnel).
When President Biden first announced that the US would be “leaving” Afghanistan, he set September 11, 2021 as the date when every last one of our people would be out. The announcement was greeted with astonished disbelief around the world. Could it really be possible that the US would officially hand over Afghanistan to the people who made it possible for Al Qaeda to attack it 20 years ago………on the very day of that attack?
This may become the most infamous — and devastating — press conference ever held by an American President. pic.twitter.com/j4kKwyPDVm
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) August 15, 2021
The French Bourbons of 1788 are Biden’s role models. Such arrogance and unawareness. So confident that reality will bend to accommodate his wishes.
