Lessons to Learn from the Loss of Afghanistan
By Mark Jarrett
Basically, there were not enough good Afghan leaders at all levels of the security forces to beat the Taliban. This is why the Afghan forces did not fall apart until U.S. forces withdrew completely. Afghan forces may not have trusted their own leaders, but they had some confidence in the U.S. forces. Only a very small number of U.S. forces fighting alongside the Afghans during the Trump years was enough to hold the Taliban at bay.
August 16, 2021
Biden administration turns into a dumpster fire of blame-evasion
By Monica Showalter
Sheer cowardice has always been a Biden hallmark, so it might at first glance seem to be why Joe Biden is now in hiding as Afghanistan's collapse, the biggest foreign policy failure since Vietnam, engulfs the news.
Joe and his media allies made a big deal about all the wonderful harmony and comity within this administration, but the Afghan fiasco reveals just how badly plastered together these venal leftist creatures are. One can soon likely look forward to Pentagon officials attempting to evade blame or point fingers at one another, and same with the CIA swamp things. This is one lovely group of failures. The fallout is likely to continue so long as Joe tries to evade blame for this one and can't count on the media to carry water for him this time.
August 16, 2021
Videos: Yes, Joe, it's like Saigon
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden made a big deal about his rigid, hasty, ill-planned, badly executed Afghan pullout not being another Saigon, a reference to the disgraceful final pullout of the U.S. presence in Vietnam in 1975.
The Wall Street Journal -- never a Trump-friendly outlet -- has a stellar, insightful, lead editorial pinning the blame
for this kind of humanitarian crisis straight onto Joe Biden:
With Biden in charge, America's enemies can rest comfortably and carry on their evildoing. But for the people fleeing, whether Americans evacuating the embassy, or actual Afghans engaging in desperate bids to freedom, it's the same horror and it's on Biden.
August 16, 2021
Biden's Afghanistan Failure
By Chet Richards
Unless a miracle happens Afghanistan is a lost cause. Our friends there now face slaughter and slavery because of our betrayal. Too bad. Although Afghan society is, by our standards, corrupt from top to bottom, it is their culture, not ours. In Afghanistan, we were winning militarily despite major strategic blunders. We only needed to stick it out long enough for its society to transform itself into something the world could live with. The developing disaster there is entirely of our own making.
For many years to come our shame from the debacle will not be quenched. Trust in America may be depleted for generations. We can now reasonably expect that the Afghanistan disaster will trigger an avalanche of other foreign policy disasters. Our leadership has gravely wounded the United States in the international arena.
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