The neocon fantasies of 1945 Germany need to get thrown in the trash. Once the Nazis were deposed, Germany was able to revert back to its parliamentary pre-Nazi past. Afghanistan never had any such parallel. Additionally, the neolib fantasies about imposing New York gender norms on Afghanistan need to get thrown out. I saw an article not too long ago saying that we need to support more women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. No, we need to start with "child rape is bad" first. Treating Kabul like it's New York or London, well, got us to exactly where we are now.
I mostly agree with you, except Nazism, Fascism, Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, and Communism are now and always have been leftist ideologies. The only thing right of a Conservative Republic and less Government is Zero Government and Anarchy. Right wing fascist is a bogus fabricated term and literally an oxymoron. Those two things can not occupy the same space at the same time.
You’re lack of knowledge is astounding, since Rome was actually founded as a Republic! Exactly the same as the United States, and it was eventually destroyed first from within by its own Democratic members long before being sacked by the Goths. Sound familiar laser brain? Solon was a Greek Aristocrat whose idea it was that the laws should Control the Government and that the peoples rights were God Given. It was his principles which Rome adopted in their founding. Try reading sometime and not the OP-EDs From the New York Times etc… by the way I live in the Milky Way Galaxy on a planet called Earth.
Completely agree with this. I was draft age during the Vietnam War (1960's). Never was drafted, but my opinion of American military adventures and who benefited was formed as a result. The Dems & GOP are equally at fault. Treason is, if anything, too weak a word for what the political class has done to us. If it was possible to take all the benefits from war from those who received them, and punishment to every one of them for all the dead and wounded, it still would be too little.
Thank you for this article. You also have the right solution: Turn to God.
Let's not forget former ISAF Commander General John Allen who evidently spent most of his time emailing a big-titted Tampa socialite (not his wife) while his marines and soldiers were dying in the field. 30,000 pages of emails.
"United States has a moral and biblical obligation to protect the Afghan people from the Taliban"
I was there as reserve Civil Affairs NCO 2002-2003, 2009-10. The Taliban and people are one and the same outside Kabul, 90% of Pashtunwali. Told more than once, "You Americans will eventually leave."
I know that Dan Bongino reads your stuff and quotes your stuff occasionally. If you didn’t watch his 8/17/2021 podcast yesterday, you probably should as he gives a good explanation of what all of those people died for. It wasn’t them who made this huge screw up. That was Biden and Company. I will add that while it seems like it was all for nothing it really wasn’t. Our soldiers saved lives and made a difference. Despite the feckless Biden administration dropping the ball.
"The Bush administration was in a rather bizarre bind after 9/11. They had to take out the Taliban. And they knew that to take out the Taliban, that would mean doing some rebuilding of the country. However, this should not have been a 20-year open-ended commitment. Just like an addict who can't get off the meth, you can't make someone do what you want him to do, even if it's in his own best interest. There is a saying among Afghans: you can't buy their loyalty, but you can rent it for a little while. These words are prophetic and sad — yet also so very true. Many Afghans also do not understand the concept of working together; thus, the concept of trying to make an army out of a group of people who view themselves as members of a tribe rather than as a united country was bound to fail."
Prophetic. Too bad the pinheads in DC cannot grasp such a simple set of facts.
Guess who trained the Afghan Army? If you guessed General Mark "Woke Mark" Milley, then you guessed right.
Biden: “The Taliban is not remotely like the Vietnamese army. They are not comparable.”
"The Afghan army was trained and supervised by General Mark Milley, the US Commander that insisted before Congress a month ago that he is fine with military officers and soldiers being indoctrinated with the divisive racist critical race theory which will leave brothers in arms looking suspiciously at each other, questioning the moral strength of their racist country as they go into battle against lethal enemies."
Milley: "The Afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country. I want to emphasize, repeatedly, a negative outcome, a Taliban military take-over in not a foregone conclusion."
"Milley never saw this coming. He was too busy indoctrinating his officer corps in BLM ideology while failing to see the corrupt misuse of the $130B that the United States gave the Afghan regime to pay ghost soldiers. These are the non-existing soldiers whose money was pocketed by lying Afghan warlords who fiddled the uninspected books."
I WANT to see a list of every item that these gutless traitors left behind for the Taliban and how much THAT cost us. Indeed, then I want to see what the COST to replace those items in the military inventory will be.
As far as I can see, the ONLY Winners in this are: a) the Taliban, b) insider trading politicians like Nancy Pelosi, and c) the MIC who made what was left behind and reaps big money making the new stuff to replace it. Just like Big Pharma and the fake vaccines for a fake pandemic.
The Losers? The American People and the men and women who went to do their Duty...as usual.
I remember that figure. Between DoD and the CIA, there is probably at LEAST 7-10 Trillion dollars unaccounted for!
As a Marine, running a shop, I was accountable for EVERY DAMN NICKEL in my budget and we were strict on spending.
Dad told me about dumping gear after WW2 ended, my Uncles told me about gear in Korea either left to the enemy when the Army fell back or destroyed in place. Then Vietnam, Bosnia, and on and on.
I don't like to quibble - "lying Afghan warlords". The Warlords (tribal leaders) were not the crooked ones you are right to condemn but the army's senior officers. Unbridaled corruption within the army and police was one reason Afghan senior citizens wanted the Taliban whose religion detests bribery.
The neocon fantasies of 1945 Germany need to get thrown in the trash. Once the Nazis were deposed, Germany was able to revert back to its parliamentary pre-Nazi past. Afghanistan never had any such parallel. Additionally, the neolib fantasies about imposing New York gender norms on Afghanistan need to get thrown out. I saw an article not too long ago saying that we need to support more women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. No, we need to start with "child rape is bad" first. Treating Kabul like it's New York or London, well, got us to exactly where we are now.
I mostly agree with you, except Nazism, Fascism, Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, and Communism are now and always have been leftist ideologies. The only thing right of a Conservative Republic and less Government is Zero Government and Anarchy. Right wing fascist is a bogus fabricated term and literally an oxymoron. Those two things can not occupy the same space at the same time.
So according to you the ancient Romans were leftists? What universe do you live in?
You’re lack of knowledge is astounding, since Rome was actually founded as a Republic! Exactly the same as the United States, and it was eventually destroyed first from within by its own Democratic members long before being sacked by the Goths. Sound familiar laser brain? Solon was a Greek Aristocrat whose idea it was that the laws should Control the Government and that the peoples rights were God Given. It was his principles which Rome adopted in their founding. Try reading sometime and not the OP-EDs From the New York Times etc… by the way I live in the Milky Way Galaxy on a planet called Earth.
“police and soldiers did not want to put their lives on the line for a government that was corrupt and prone to neglect them.”
Pay attention. The same will be true in the US.
Completely agree with this. I was draft age during the Vietnam War (1960's). Never was drafted, but my opinion of American military adventures and who benefited was formed as a result. The Dems & GOP are equally at fault. Treason is, if anything, too weak a word for what the political class has done to us. If it was possible to take all the benefits from war from those who received them, and punishment to every one of them for all the dead and wounded, it still would be too little.
Thank you for this article. You also have the right solution: Turn to God.
Let's not forget former ISAF Commander General John Allen who evidently spent most of his time emailing a big-titted Tampa socialite (not his wife) while his marines and soldiers were dying in the field. 30,000 pages of emails.
"United States has a moral and biblical obligation to protect the Afghan people from the Taliban"
I was there as reserve Civil Affairs NCO 2002-2003, 2009-10. The Taliban and people are one and the same outside Kabul, 90% of Pashtunwali. Told more than once, "You Americans will eventually leave."
I know that Dan Bongino reads your stuff and quotes your stuff occasionally. If you didn’t watch his 8/17/2021 podcast yesterday, you probably should as he gives a good explanation of what all of those people died for. It wasn’t them who made this huge screw up. That was Biden and Company. I will add that while it seems like it was all for nothing it really wasn’t. Our soldiers saved lives and made a difference. Despite the feckless Biden administration dropping the ball.
Great read and on point sadly.
Hey Milley, Are you concerned with Afghan rage?
Wish we could hold any number of these people to account for this!
Americans did not die for this, but Americans who voted for Biden voted for this and blood is on their hands. Whether they realize it or not.
Brutal truth in that there. Now scooch over: 30,000 ilhan omars are on their way.
America did nothing but import corruption(its best known feature) to Afghanistan
Free Assange now!
"The Bush administration was in a rather bizarre bind after 9/11. They had to take out the Taliban. And they knew that to take out the Taliban, that would mean doing some rebuilding of the country. However, this should not have been a 20-year open-ended commitment. Just like an addict who can't get off the meth, you can't make someone do what you want him to do, even if it's in his own best interest. There is a saying among Afghans: you can't buy their loyalty, but you can rent it for a little while. These words are prophetic and sad — yet also so very true. Many Afghans also do not understand the concept of working together; thus, the concept of trying to make an army out of a group of people who view themselves as members of a tribe rather than as a united country was bound to fail."
Prophetic. Too bad the pinheads in DC cannot grasp such a simple set of facts.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/afghanistan__the_disaster_everyone_could_foresee.html
Why aren't we turning that palace into rubble?
Guess who trained the Afghan Army? If you guessed General Mark "Woke Mark" Milley, then you guessed right.
Biden: “The Taliban is not remotely like the Vietnamese army. They are not comparable.”
"The Afghan army was trained and supervised by General Mark Milley, the US Commander that insisted before Congress a month ago that he is fine with military officers and soldiers being indoctrinated with the divisive racist critical race theory which will leave brothers in arms looking suspiciously at each other, questioning the moral strength of their racist country as they go into battle against lethal enemies."
Milley: "The Afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country. I want to emphasize, repeatedly, a negative outcome, a Taliban military take-over in not a foregone conclusion."
"Milley never saw this coming. He was too busy indoctrinating his officer corps in BLM ideology while failing to see the corrupt misuse of the $130B that the United States gave the Afghan regime to pay ghost soldiers. These are the non-existing soldiers whose money was pocketed by lying Afghan warlords who fiddled the uninspected books."
I WANT to see a list of every item that these gutless traitors left behind for the Taliban and how much THAT cost us. Indeed, then I want to see what the COST to replace those items in the military inventory will be.
As far as I can see, the ONLY Winners in this are: a) the Taliban, b) insider trading politicians like Nancy Pelosi, and c) the MIC who made what was left behind and reaps big money making the new stuff to replace it. Just like Big Pharma and the fake vaccines for a fake pandemic.
The Losers? The American People and the men and women who went to do their Duty...as usual.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/biden_is_about_to_follow_ford_and_carter_in_the_us_hall_of_shame.html
“I WANT to see a list of every item that these gutless traitors left behind for the Taliban and how much THAT cost us.
Indeed, then I want to see what’s the COST to replace those items in the military inventory.
Unfortunately the DOD has NEVER passed an audit… EVER. Accountability … well, as they say, security by obscurity… or over classification…
(Just prior to 9/11, Rumsfeld found $2.3Trillion missing, )
I remember that figure. Between DoD and the CIA, there is probably at LEAST 7-10 Trillion dollars unaccounted for!
As a Marine, running a shop, I was accountable for EVERY DAMN NICKEL in my budget and we were strict on spending.
Dad told me about dumping gear after WW2 ended, my Uncles told me about gear in Korea either left to the enemy when the Army fell back or destroyed in place. Then Vietnam, Bosnia, and on and on.
I'm simply disgusted with DC.
I don't like to quibble - "lying Afghan warlords". The Warlords (tribal leaders) were not the crooked ones you are right to condemn but the army's senior officers. Unbridaled corruption within the army and police was one reason Afghan senior citizens wanted the Taliban whose religion detests bribery.