Kurt Schlichter [TOWNHALL] Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military big shot geniuses spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the Seventh Century — the real story is that, finally, America’s fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it's even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus differently abled.
Our broke, woke armed forces would be a hysterically funny punchline if the joke wasn’t, "The greatest military in human history walks into a bar, puts down trillions of dollars and buckets of American blood, and asks the bartender, ’So, what would it look like if all the generals and admirals sucked-up to the garbage establishment that has totally failed the people of the USA?’"
Yes, it is a joke, a sick one. Fire all the generals. Invite a few back, maybe a dozen. Clean out the Pentagon. Can all the "Diversity Consultants," "Equal Opportunity Officers," "Climate Change Mitigation Specialists," and every other strap-hanging oxygen thief who doesn’t contribute to the only thing the military should be focusing on right now — putting Chi Coms in graves.
Yeah, there’s been a strategic failure of epic proportions by our civilian establishment. We need to fix that at the ballot box by tossing out every Democrat and every Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... -esque combat tourist who delights in sending our young people overseas to get ground up in idiotic wars designed to enrich their cronies. Hardest hit at the end of Afghanistan: Haliburton, Raytheon, KBR, and a hundred other contractors you never heard of. Oh, and the Afghan people, but they never really figured into this calculus except in the abstract idea that we were going to convert a nation of savages into Lil’ Vermonters living the Norman Rockwell dream of community democracy. It goes on from there, pulling no punches and right as rain.
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[AmGreatness] Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them.
The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost unrecognizable.
"Workers of the world unite!" was the old Marxist internationalist war cry. The perceived enemies of coerced socialism were nationalism— and the idea of singular countries defined by borders containing unique citizens legally distinct from mere migratory residents, and sharing ties and traditions that transcended race and class. All that is now problematic.
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Yes Victor
We are in the midst of a take over, overall outcome is very murky for our future, since we are no longer the United States of America but rather the un united states in America.
Frankly, the country hasn't stood up to the illegality and corruption in our midst for a long time.
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I'm telling you again, folks. The only real change in AFG is created by media managed perceptions and the cries for help from people afraid of being punished for loyalty to Ghani. Others have always maintained their good relations with the turbans. Ghani's traitors will be top men this year. And the Taliban won't depopulate its hard won nation State. It will try and win hearts now, become the orderly junta it has been trained by the ISI to be. It will be life as usual in the shariah shithole, and the people know it too. Women are screwed of course, but they weren't exactly living it up in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, no matter what they tell you.
Any ensuing boo hoo hoo is classic media amplified bourgeois overreaction in the west, to what is to islamics just another takeover. These perceived outrages help in fueling 'good intentions' which then give justification for the military industrial complex to keep wading in.
Just say 'Fuck it!' and disassociate from this Wrong Turn in history.
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Since we are doing hollywood remakes, this is "Run Out of Town on a Rail."
This whole decade seems to be cursed.
Sheet Mohn, we're Americans, we're just getting started. Well, technically, Council of Cao Pi, but we can all point and laugh at President Rocky Road. Well, those of us who are allowed out of the house.
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Let it be said that the soldier doesn't really fight for the pogs insisting on long term strategy and the eggheads crunching numbers in their offices. The soldier does what his convictions tell him, that his country has decided, for whatever reason, that he is required to tear the designated enemy a new one. He goes where the enemy is, and kills him dead. And for me that is enough.
These ROEs dictated out of thinktanks and rights committees, droves of islamophile journos and legalist JAGs... it is them who neuter our best efforts even before we get there.
Pacifists and naysayers will never understand the concept of violence as the underlying principle of the universe, and how necessary it is to harness it without cracking.
[ZH] After two decades of unceasing conflict, the Taliban completed their return to power on Sunday, triumphing over the unparalleled American military machine and its puppet government in Kabul. And as Afghan women begin the process of readjusting to life under an ultra-conservative Islamic Emirate, even foreign journalists are donning the hijab.
CNN's Clarissa Ward, who has been covering the Taliban takeover live from Kabul (she even scored an exclusive interview with Taliban militants), donned the hijab on Sunday for a report on CNN's "New Day" program where she focused on the changes already underway now that American forces have fled and the Taliban has regained total control of the country.
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[Stars & Stripes] The spectacular collapse of Afghanistan's military that has allowed Taliban fighters to reach the gates of Kabul on Sunday despite 20 years of training and billions of dollars in American aid began with a series of deals brokered in rural villages between the militant group and some of the Afghan government's lowest ranking officials.
The deals, initially offered early last year, were often described by Afghan officials as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and U.S. official.
Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with over a dozen Afghan officers, police, Special Operations troops and other soldiers.
During just the past week, more than a dozen provincial capitals have fallen to Taliban forces with little or no resistance. Early Sunday morning, the government-held city of Jalalabad surrendered to the militants without a shot fired, and security forces in the districts ringing Kabul simply melted away. Within hours, Taliban forces reached the Afghan capital's four main entrances unopposed.
The pace of the military collapse has stunned many American officials and other foreign observers, forcing the U.S. government to dramatically accelerate efforts to remove personnel from its Kabul embassy.
The Taliban capitalized on the uncertainty caused by the February 2020 agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between the militant group and the United States calling for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some Afghan forces realized they would soon no longer be able to count on American air power and other crucial battlefield support and grew receptive to the Taliban's approaches.
"Some just wanted the money," an Afghan Special Forces officer said of those who first agreed to meet with the Taliban. But others saw the U.S. commitment to a full withdrawal as an "assurance" the militants would return to power in Afghanistan and wanted to secure their place on the winning side, he said. The officer spoke on the condition of anonymity because he, like others in this report, were not authorized to disclose information to the press.
The Doha agreement, designed to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan, instead left many Afghan forces demoralized, bringing into stark relief the corrupt impulses of many Afghan officials and their tenuous loyalty to the country's central government. Some police officers complained that they had not been paid in six months or more.
"They saw that document as the end," the officer said referring to the majority of Afghans aligned with the government. "The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself. It was like (the United States) left us to fail."
The negotiated surrenders to the Taliban slowly gained pace in the months following the Doha deal, according to a U.S. official and an Afghan officer. Then, after President Joe Biden announced in April that U.S. forces would withdraw from Afghanistan this summer without conditions, the capitulations began to snowball.
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It was like (the United States) left us to fail.
And you're importing thousands of these habitual ingrates. Think of what sentiment their offspring will grow up bearing. Think of when they'll find the BLOMs and teefas and CAIRs and ISNAs.
Thanks to Joe Biden, the Taliban returns to power stronger, more secure, and well-equipped to wreak havoc on anyone in the world of their choosing. He turned over military bases and the records of those who helped the CIA and the USA, which now allows the Taliban to collect and torture thousands of those who foolishly trusted Biden and the USA.
It did not have to end this way.
President Trump gave Biden a plan to evacuate Afghanistan, saving lives and dignity, while not arming the Taliban with the best equipment in the world. He learned from the Fall of Saigon, which happened on Biden's watch as a senator. America left behind equipment and people who helped us. Worse, we left behind our own children, the GI babies who were ostracized by society.
Donald Trump was determined not to do that again.
Biden did it anyway.
President Trump told Miranda Devine of the New York Post what his plan was.
He said, "We were going to not let people get slaughtered. I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect."
His plan was an American one in which women and children leave first.
He said, "All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out."
Amen.
The richest men on the Titanic went down with the ship. That is how honorable men behave.
Our soldiers are honorable. They would have been the last to leave. And they would have left no equipment or base behind. Read the rest at the link
[The Blaze] On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere agreed that a Taliban takeover might have happened eventually under President Donald Trump — especially with plans to pull U.S. troops out of the nation entirely — but there's "no way" it would have happened the way it did under President Joe Biden.
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Oh, yes he would because the mutinous GOs at DoD obviously refused to have plans in place. Those he could 'fire', removed from their billets. See - Truman/MacArthur.
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