The Other McCain

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John McCain Was … Right?

Posted on | August 20, 2021 | Comments Off on John McCain Was … Right?

Everybody who knows me knows I was not a fan of the distant relative I called “Crazy Cousin John.” The whole point of naming this blog “The Other McCain” was to ensure nobody confused me with the Arizona senator, whose advocacy of amnesty for illegal aliens I abhorred.

So it was interesting to see my late kinsman “go viral” this week:

A recently resurfaced video showing late Senator John McCain warning colleagues of an “unqualified” and “dangerous” Antony Blinken, who served as deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama at the time, specifically blasting Blinken’s desire to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The nearly two-minute clip, which comprises excerpts from December 2014, depicts McCain approaching the Senate floor to oppose Blinken’s nomination as deputy secretary of state.
“Madam President, I rise to discuss my opposition to the pending vote concerning Mr. Anthony ‘Tony’ Blinken, who is not only unqualified, but, in fact, in my view, one of the worst selections of a very bad lot that this president has chosen,” McCain began.
“I hope that many of my colleagues will understand that not often do I come to the floor to oppose a nomination of the president of the United States because I believe that elections have consequences,” he continued.
McCain is also seen slamming Blinken, deeming the then-deputy national security advisor a danger to the United States.
“In this case, this individual has actually been dangerous to America and to the young men and women who are fighting and serving it,” he said.
McCain also noted Blinken’s role in “conceptualizing and furthering” a failed foreign policy.
“U.S. foreign policy is in shambles,” he said. “It’s at best a strategic, and at worst, anti-strategic.”
Quoting Blinken himself, McCain then described his concerns that the then-Obama official would push for a complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, leading to a “replay” of war-scarred Iraq:

“I’ll move on to Afghanistan. Mr. Blinken said, ‘We’ve been very clear, we’ve been consistent. The war will be concluded by the end of 2014. We have a timetable and that timetable will not change.’ This is why I’m so worried about him being in the position that he’s in because if they stick to that timetable, I am telling my colleagues that we will see the replay of Iraq all over again. We must leave a stabilizing force behind of a few thousand troops or we will see again what we saw in Iraq.”

Seven years after McCain’s opposition to Blinken’s nomination, the latter serves as Secretary of State, with many claiming the events from this week proved the necessity of McCain’s warning.

OK, so you may be among those conservatives who don’t like the idea of the U.S. playing global policeman, with our troops deployed hither and yon to prop up weak “allies,” but we’ve still got 36,000 troops in Germany, some 30 years after the end of the Cold War, and I don’t think it would have been too much to leave 3,000 or so in Afghanistan.

Keep in mind what Senator McCain was referencing in Iraq, namely that the U.S. pullout had given rise to ISIS which, in the wake of the 2011 “Arab Spring,” was setting up its caliphate in Syria. However much we may deplore the “imperialism” of the United States trying to impose its will in Mesopotamia and the Levant by force of arms, pragmatism is a better guide than ideological abstractions. The crazy zig-zagging of our foreign policy, from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden, must leave our allies dismayed and our enemies emboldened.




 

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Category: Foreigners, John McCain, Military

In The Mailbox: 08.19.21

Posted on | August 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.19.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Who says A must say B, and since I posted a pic of Ryuko from Kill La Kill yesterday, I feel obligated to post this promotional pic showing her in her combat suit, Senketsu, along with her antagonist and [SPOILER] Satsuki Kiryuin, President of the Honnouji Academy Student Council, wearing her own combat suit, Junketsu. I was so impressed by this series that I actually paid for six months of Crunchyroll so I could see the whole thing. Well worth it. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuin.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: Appomattox & Robert E. Lee
357 Magnum: Jake Sullivan, Architect Of Disaster
EBL: Jonah Goldberg Has Nothing But Contempt For Y’all
Twitchy: “Even Worse Than You Imagined”, also, TX Legislature Resumes Work After Fleebaggers Slink Back To Their Jobs
Louder With Crowder: Fat Guy Wearing Communist Hat Wants You To Know There’s No Difference Between The GOP & The Taliban
Vox Popoli: Six Reasons The U.S. Will Abandon Taiwan, also, Noone Saw This Coming

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: “The Centre For National Resilience”
American Greatness: Pentagon Buying Fuel From The Taliban To Evacuate People From Afghanistan
American Power: Protests Threaten Taliban Rule
American Thinker: The Problem With Public Health, also, Biden’s Surrender Presidency
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily EV News
Babalu Blog: Some Good News For Cuban Medical Slaves – Uruguay Cancels Medical Brigade Contract
BattleSwarm: Video Shows Women Stealing California Recall Ballots
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, The Knives Aimed At SpaceX Are Getting Sharpened
Cafe Hayek: On Corporate Social Responsibility
Da Tech Guy: We’re Now Paying A Tremendous Price For Surrendering The Culture War To The Left, also, Administration Channels Yes, Prime Minister
Don Surber: Christianity Built This Nation; Slavery Almost Brought Her Down, also, Do What Trump Did To Terrorists
First Street Journal: The Decrease In Philadelphia’s Homicide Rate, also, The Unintended Consequences Of The Do-Gooders
Fred On Everything: Despair In The Empire Of Graveyards
The Geller Report: DNA Evidence Proves Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother, also, GOP Flips CT State Senate Seat In District Biden Won By 25 Points
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I Zwicky 1
Hollywood In Toto: Gutfeld! Takes Down Truth-Denier Colbert In Late Night Wars, also, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Trust “First Reaction” Reviews
The Lid: Where’s Kamala?
Legal Insurrection: Nebraska Board Of Regents Votes Down Effort To Restrict Critical Race Theory, also, Missouri School District Employees Sue Over “Equity Training”, Claim It’s Unconstitutional
Nebraska Energy Observer: Tears, And Pride
Outkick: Shohei Ohtani Not Offended By Jack Morris Comment, Madden 22 Has Kaepernick Rated Higher Than These Three NFL QBs, and, OnlyFans Pulls Out Of Sex Content Biz – Former Teachers, Nurses & Instagram Models Screwed Hardest
Power Line: Kabul As Seen From London & Jerusalem, also, Annals Of Liberal Cluelessness
Shark Tank: Fried & DeSantis Both Endorse Monoclonal COVID Treatment
Shot In The Dark: Reckoning, also, This Is #NeverTrump
STUMP: COVID & Simpson’s Paradox
The Political Hat: Metal Musical Interlude
This Ain’t Hell: Nos Morituri…, also, The Austin/Milley Dog & Pony Show
Victory Girls: British Parliament Holds Biden In Contempt
Volokh Conspiracy: DOJ Press Release – Young Soldiers Admit To Transporting Illegals
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Garamendi (D-CA) “Not Sensible” To Provide Safe Passage For Americans From Afghanistan, also, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) On Biden’s Bugout – “No Sense Crying Over What’s Happened”
The Federalist: Who’s Running The Government Now? It Sure Isn’t Joe Biden, also, Rep. Jim Jordan Launches Investigation Into Federal Agencies Hiring Private Companies To Spy On Americans
Mark Steyn: Corpsing With The Taliban, The Politics of Fiasco, and, The Desert Before The Storm

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Even With Friendly Media, ‘Sundown Joe’ Continues Embarrassing Himself

Posted on | August 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Even With Friendly Media, ‘Sundown Joe’ Continues Embarrassing Himself

Glenn Reynolds describes the media as “Democratic Party operatives with bylines,” and this is quite literally true in the case of George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, who worked for Mike Dukakis and Dick Gephardt before joining Team Clinton in the 1992 campaign. So when Joe Biden’s handlers needed a friendly venue for the alleged president’s first interview since the Kabul catastrophe, George got the call.

Stephanopoulos did his best to help the Alzheimer’s patient, as for example, giving Sundown Joe an opportunity to display his famous (or perhaps I should say, mythical) “compassion,” with this softball:

STEPHANOPOULOS: But we’ve all seen the pictures. We’ve seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17. You’ve seen Afghans falling–
BIDEN: That was four days ago, five days ago.
STEPHANOPOULOS: What did you think when you first saw those pictures?
BIDEN: What I thought was we ha– we have to gain control of this. We have to move this more quickly. We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. And we did.

Do you see how off-key that was? Stephanopoulos was trying to pitch an easy one at Joe, with the idea that he would react with expressions of sympathy. Bite your lip. Shake your head. Use the word “tragic” — any skilled politician knows how to respond appropriately. But instead, Biden lashed out and got the number of days wrong, too.

It “is spectacularly odd . . . that Biden is reacting as if he thinks Stephanopolous was bringing up irrelevant ancient history,” Jim Geraghty writes. “Why was Biden indignant that Stephanopolous was asking about those horrifying sights?” The emotion was inappropriate, as if Biden believed Stephanopoulos was deliberately unfair to him.

This kind of inappropriate anger is symptomatic of Alzheimer’s. Any clinician would recognize the symptoms, but you don’t need a medical degree to see that Joe’s mental function is declining rapidly. His handlers at the White House obviously know this, as Geraghty notes:

This is a highly unusual schedule for a president during a foreign-policy crisis. . . . Biden is barely appearing in public, not saying much of anything when he does, not answering any questions outside of his lone scheduled interview, and sounding angry when he did face questions from Stephanopoulos. . . .
The obvious answer to why Biden rarely appears on camera or takes questions is because every time he does it, he inflicts more damage upon himself and his agenda. The president whose empathy is endlessly touted now sounds cold and dismissive when asked about Afghans’ desperately crowding into American planes or falling to their deaths. All of the available evidence indicates that the president ignored the warnings of his foreign-policy team, withdrew the armed forces before evacuating the civilians, gave up Bagram Air Base, and now is in a large-scale foreign crisis that is mostly the result of his own choices. . . .
Something is wrong with President Biden, and we are all being asked to pretend we don’t notice.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Charlie “Three Wives” Sykes is rightly embarrassed:

It’s. Not. Good. And I say this as someone who supported, touted, and embraced Biden’s candidacy. Because competence, normalcy, decency, empathy. . . .
Instead, we were reminded of some hard truths about the man some of us thought might restore the soul of the country: He is a vastly better man and president than Donald Trump, but he’s got a long, long record of getting foreign policy wrong.

Why did Sykes let hatred for Trump wreck his mind to the point that he could be so deluded as to view Joe Biden as a potential secular savior?

I could probably expend a couple thousand words on an attempt to explain the motivations of Sykes and the other #NeverTrump types, but to quote a former Secretary of State, what difference at this point does it make? Their fate is ironic, in that they wanted to be perceived as mature and serious, but ended up looking ridiculously childish.

Probably best to ignore them, to let them languish in irrelevant obscurity, as the unavoidable consequence of their own foolish choices.




 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 08.18.21

Posted on | August 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.18.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Ryuko Matoi, the heroine of the surreal anime Kill La Kill, in an equally surreal wedding dress.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1448
Red Pilled Jew: Play The Clottery
357 Magnum: In The Least Surprising News Out Of Afghanistan
EBL: North American Man Boy Lincoln Association Realizes They Have A Lot In Common With The Taliban
Twitchy: Wolf Blitzer & Glenn Kessler Remind Us Of Biden’s July Comments On The Afghan Government
Louder With Crowder: Teacher Caught On Video Indoctrinating Students On First Day Of School
Vox Popoli: Ticking Time Bombs, also, Australian Self-Genocide
Stoic Observations: What If…A Black Supervillain

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australia Is Effectively Alone
American Conservative: Political Life In The Lottery Of Babylon
American Greatness: Afghanistan & America’s Ruling Class, also, Leave Our Kids Alone!
American Power: Liz Cheney On “This Week”
American Thinker: The Day Reagan’s America Died
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Despite COVID Plague Crisis, Havana Sends Slave Medics To Guyana, also, Castro Supporter Running For Senate
BattleSwarm: Follow-up On Dr. Dan Stock’s Virus Comments
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Revolt In San Diego Over Democrat-Imposed Mask & Jab Mandates?
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: How Do You Recover From Humiliation?
Da Tech Guy: The Business Of Writing, -30-, and Afghanistan & The Border – Reality Upstages The Left’s Spin
Don Surber: It’s Cuomo Time For Biden, also, Does NATO Still Love Biden?
First Street Journal: The Lord Hears The Cry Of The Poor, also, No #FakeNews Here, Huh?
The Geller Report: Taliban Declares Girls Above 15 To Be “Gifted To Fighters As Wives”, also, Administration Tells Thousands Of Americans Stranded In Afghanistan “You’re On Your Own”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, About That Speech, and The Inner Party’s Dilemma
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s What Dee Snider Misses About Cancel Culture 2.0, also, Guess Who The Hollywood Reporter Left Out Of Its Afghanistan Reporting?
The Lid: Is The Red Cross Promoting Illegal Immigration?
Legal Insurrection: RI Mom Nicole Solas Demands “Compensatory & Punitive Damages” Against Teachers Unions Under State’s Anti-SLAPP Law, also, U. Mich. Prof Claims Math & Science Classes Are Racist
Michelle Malkin: Endless Wars = Endless Refugees
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosis, Chapter 2
Outkick: Jack Morris Suspended Indefinitely After Shohei Ohtani Comment, also, Criticism Of Tim Tebow Says A Lot About Those Doing The Criticizing
Power Line: Midweek In Pictures – Afghan Bugout Edition, also, Afghanistan? It’s A-OK!
Shark Tank: Broward County School Denies Teacher Entry Over Mask Mandate, Calls Cops
Shot In The Dark: The Triumph Of The Trite, also, Success Is Not An Option
The Political Hat: Gleiwitz Redux
This Ain’t Hell: Biden & His Administration Lied About What They Knew About Afghanistan, also, Fall Of Saigon Veteran Was At Fall Of Kabul
Transterrestrial Musings: Farewell To The Bourgeois Kings, also, Our Whole National Security Apparatus
Victory Girls: Rental Hypocrisy From Tlaib & Pressley
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judge Orders Jab As Bail Condition
Weasel Zippers: Biden Inexplicably Sends Kamala Harris To Vietnam, also, This Is How It Looks For Americans Trying To Reach Kabul Airport Now
The Federalist: General Milley Deserves To Be Fired & Court-Martialed For His Afghanistan Lies, also, FBI Knew Of Hunter Biden’s Missing Laptop As Early As December 2019
Mark Steyn: Hey Mr. Taliban, Terrorist Bonanza, also, Theme From “New York, New York”

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Gaslighting Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster

Posted on | August 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Gaslighting Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster

It has been pointed out that Joe Biden’s 19-minute Monday speech about the Afghanistan debacle was a masterpiece of gaslighting, in which he engaged in a straw-man argument, as if the point of contention was whether or not U.S. troops would be withdrawn, rather than the incompetence that turned the withdrawal into a shameful humiliation, abandoning not only our allies in Afghanistan, but also thousands of American civilians who are now stranded in a country controlled by the Taliban. Trump adviser Stephen Miller said on Twitter:

Biden’s speech is one of the most dishonest straw man arguments in history. He debated reasons for exiting Afghanistan. Not many dispute we should end war. This is about the unimaginable, inconceivable incompetence of Biden’s exit plan & the global humiliation it has wrought.
I must also reiterate that Biden abandoned & rejected the Trump peace plan. Under Trump, there was zero chance our flag would not by flying right now over the American Embassy, our staff working safely inside.
Biden cannot escape his own malfeasance, ineptitude & incapacity.

Even many liberal voices in the media are dumbfounded by Biden’s big blunder, and angry about the dishonesty of his excuses and blame-shifting. A basic claim of the anti-Trump media — that Biden’s presidency would mean “the grown-ups” were back in charge, an end to what the elites viewed as the crude amateurism of Trump — has now collapsed. Biden alone is to blame for a catastrophe that the actual grown-ups in his administration sought to prevent. Biden’s decision “was made against the recommendations of his top military generals and many diplomats”:

The president’s top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, urged Mr. Biden to keep a force of about 2,500 troops, the size he inherited, while seeking a peace agreement between warring Afghan factions, to help maintain stability. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who previously served as a military commander in the region, said a full withdrawal wouldn’t provide any insurance against instability.
In a series of meetings leading up to his decision, military and intelligence officials told Mr. Biden that security was deteriorating in Afghanistan, and they expressed concerns both about the capabilities of the Afghan military and the Taliban’s ability to take over major Afghan cities.
Other advisers, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, raised the possibility of Taliban attacks on U.S. forces and diplomats as well as the Afghans who for two decades worked alongside them.

So it wasn’t as if this catastrophe was not predicted, or that it could not have been prevented. Biden was warned, but did it anyway. And by the way, here’s a quote from 2002:

“History is going to judge us very harshly, I believe,
if we allow the hope of a liberated Afghanistan
to evaporate because we are fearful of the phrase,
‘nation-building,’ or we do not stay the course.”

Who said that? A senator named Joe Biden.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Foreigners, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 08.17.21

Posted on | August 18, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.17.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It really is a sweet song.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Families of Dead People Don’t Like Self-Defense
Red Pilled Jew: Tyranny, COVID, Genocide, Endless War, And All That
EBL: Taliban Calls Out Facebook For Free Speech Hypocrisy
Twitchy: Guess Who? “You Will NOT Pin This S**t On Me!”, also, ABC News – Republicans Pounce!
Louder With Crowder: Tucker Carlson Nails Afghanistan Problem – “We’re Led By Buffoons!”
Vox Popoli: Taiwan Is Nervous, also, How Zimmerman Sold His Soul
Health Impact News: Occupational Therapist Says More Patients Dying From The Jab Than From Corona-chan
Gab News: How Big Tech Helped The Taliban Overrun Afghanistan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Daddy, Tell Me Again How You Didn’t Take The Jab
American Conservative: Crawling Out Of The Swamp
American Greatness: Terrorist Exchanged For Bowe Bergdahl By Obama Played Key Role In Return Of Taliban, also, 1/6 As A Distraction From Afghanistan & Other Crises
American Power: Afghanistan War Ends In Shame, Ignominy
American Thinker: The Dystopia Of Progressivism
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Afghanistan Shitshow News
Babalu Blog: Another General Dead – Eighth Or Ninth In The Past Month, also, Dozens Of Police Patrols Roam The Streets Of Havana – But No Buses
BattleSwarm: The Inevitable Disaster, Made More Disastrous Than Necessary, also, Blue Alert In Texas
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Blue Origin Files Lawsuit Against SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract
Cafe Hayek: All Benefits Have Costs
CDR Salamander: This What A Whole-Government Epistemic Failure Looks Like
Da Tech Guy: Now Comes The Election Steal Body Count, Katla, and Report From Louisiana – Fete Dieu De Teche
Don Surber: Trump Would Have Left Nothing Behind, also, What About The Mexican Girls? What About The Afghan Boys?
First Street Journal: The Left Blames Republicans For Lower Vax Rates, But Black Americans Are The Least Jab-Compliant
The Geller Report: Leading Feminist Groups Typically Silent As Afghan Girls Face Brutality Of Sharia Law, also, Biden Must Answer for The Horrifying Disaster In Kabul
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Star Is Born
Hollywood In Toto: The Not-So-Hidden Meaning Behind Adam McKay’s Anti-GOP Rant, also, Conservatives May Never Have A Pop Culture Chance Like This Again
The Lid: Rashida Tlaib Gets Torched For Ridiculous Taliban Claim
Legal Insurrection: Colbert – Trump Supporters Are Just Like The Taliban, also, MN School Principals Sign “De-Centering Whiteness” Pledge
Michelle Malkin: Return Of The Fleebagger Democrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Here. Here It Is.
Outkick: Stephen A. Smith Still Lying About White Privilege & Tim Tebow, also, Jaguars Release Tebow
Power Line: More Voodoo Epidemiology At The CDC, also, The Incoherent Biden Administration
Shark Tank: Possible Corruption At Florida GOP Could Threaten DeSantis In 2022
Shot In The Dark: This Is Today’s DFL, also, Lie First, Lie Always – Career Epilogue
The Political Hat: Scotland, Where Toddlers Are Transgender & Crayons Are Trans-Color
This Ain’t Hell: Another Echo Of Saigon Seen In Kabul, also, Is Taiwan Next?
Transterrestrial Musings: The 25th Amendment
Victory Girls: Afghan Reporter Pleads For Her People, But The Left Is Silent
Volokh Conspiracy: The Irrepressible Myth Of Jacobson Vs. Massachusetts
Weasel Zippers: Administration Flack – No Plans To Rescue Americans Trapped In Kabul, also, Pentagon Has No Answers On Any Plan To Destroy Materiel Abandoned In Biden’s Withdrawal 
The Federalist: NIH Director Admits Kid Masking Rules Are Based On Rare Anecdotes, Not Data, also, Biden’s Disappearing Act Isn’t New – It’s How He Became President
Mark Steyn: Nice While It Lasted – Two For The Seesaw, also, Dead Superpower Walking

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In The Mailbox: 08.16.21

Posted on | August 17, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.16.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The news today depressed me enough that I was seriously considering punting this until tomorrow – but it’s not going to be any better, and will probably be even worse. Nothing for it but to cowboy up and carry on.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Affordable Bail Working Out?
Red Pilled Jew: A Hat Trick + One
EBL: The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan
Twitchy: Former Advisor Embedded With Afghan Security Forces Goes Scorched Earth On Biden & His Media Apologists
Louder With Crowder: Pay Attention, America – Taliban Seizing Weapons From Civilians As “No Longer Needed”
Vox Popoli: The Game Of Corporate Chicken, also, The Scale Of Humiliation
Stoic Observations: Schmigadoon
Gab News: Happy Fifth Birthday, Gab.com!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: No More Modern Man
American Conservative: Reflections On The Looming Revolution In America
American Greatness: Is This Anything? also, Are We In a Revolution & Don’t Even Know It?
American Power: Abject Desperation As U.S. Runs From Afghanistan, also, Over Kabul, Tragedy In The Sky
American Thinker: We’re Fleeing Afghanistan. Now What? also, Biden’s Afghanistan Failure
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Doctors Denounce Regime’s Handling Of COVID, Collapse Of Healthcare System
BattleSwarm: Thomas Sowell On Uncomfortable Truths About The Slave Trade, also, I’m Too Pissed Off To Post About Afghanistan Today
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, A Martian River Of Ice
Cafe Hayek: Teaching Principles, also, A Low-Information Citizen
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Senior Military Leadership In Afghanistan – A 19-Act Play
Da Tech Guy: Biden’s Afghan Debacle, also, The Unexpectedly Chronicles
Don Surber: DC Knew Biden Would Botch Afghanistan, also, Fire Them All
First Street Journal: The Failure In Afghanistan Was A Failure Of Understanding, also, Yup, We Could See It Coming!
The Geller Report: The Rape Of Afghanistan, also, Fulton County Election Registration Chief Resigns
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Afghanistan’s Future
Hollywood In Toto: Ken Burns On The Woke Chopping Block, also, Tom McDonald Does It Again
The Lid: “Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability To F*ck Things Up”
Legal Insurrection: Gavin Newsom’s Fear Of Larry Elder Proves Elder Could Win, also, Alabama State Board Of Education Bans Critical Race Theory
Michelle Malkin: Feds’ Bill For No-Fly Secrets – $4,536
Nebraska Energy Observer: That 70s Show, also, Kabul & Chicago
Outkick: Taliban Spokesman Gives Updates On Twitter While Trump Remains Suspended, also, Rams Break In Their New Stadium With Huge Brawl
Power Line: Accountability For Afghanistan, also, Exit From Kabul
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Silent On Afghanistan As Taliban Takes Over
Shot In The Dark: Kiel Over, also, As Expected
STUMP: Meep’s Recommendations
The Political Hat: Administration Considers Interstate Travel Ban For The Unjabbed
This Ain’t Hell: Biden Returns – Walk Of Shame, also, Red China Mocks U.S. Regarding Vietnam, Afghanistan, & Taiwan
Transterrestrial Musings: The Vanishing Legacy Of Barack Obama, also, Seventeen Years Later
Victory Girls: Inshallah, Outright Lies, & Piss-Poor Planning
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Hawaii Gun Regulations Struck Down
Weasel Zippers: Trump Calls On Biden To Resign In Disgrace Over Afghanistan, also, Former SecState Pompeo Calls Out Biden For Trying To Blame Trump For Afghanistan Debacle
The Federalist: No, Biden Can’t Blame Trump For His Afghanistan Disaster, also, As Kabul Burns, Biden Is AWOL & Bad Orange Woman Is On Vacation
Mark Steyn: The Men That Got Away, also, The Scale of Humiliation

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Where Is Biden? UPDATED: The Big Lie of ‘Fighting Indefinitely’ in Afghanistan

Posted on | August 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Where Is Biden? UPDATED: The Big Lie of ‘Fighting Indefinitely’ in Afghanistan

Probably snorting coke off a Chinese hooker’s tits.

Oh, wait . . . You meant Joe Biden?

Well, our alleged President is preparing to deliver a nationally televised speech in which he will, predictably, blame everyone else but himself for the dreadful mess he’s made of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the media are spinning so hard they’re liable to go whirling off into orbit any moment now. NBC White House correspondent Monica Alba, acting as propagandist for the Biden regime, complained that “Republicans have seized on” the visual comparison between the situation in Kabul in 2021 and Saigon in 1975. Yes, I missed the memo from GOP headquarters and was left wondering whether to “seize” or “pounce” on this comparison. Last week, we were all pouncing, but now we’re back to seizing again.

UPDATED: Biden’s speech was a masterpiece of mendacity. The heart of it was a deliberate misrepresentation of the situation:

In his remarks, Biden insisted the rapid collapse of the country only reinforced his belief that bringing troops home was the right thing to do.
‘American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,’ he said.
Biden also pointed a finger at former President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban to pull out American troops by May 1, 2021.
‘So I’m left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay: How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan’s civil war, when Afghan troops will not?’ Biden said.
‘How many more lives, American lives is it worth? How many endless rows of head stones at Arlington National Cemetery?’
‘I’m clear in my answer: I will not repeat the mistakes we’ve made in the past. The mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interest of the United States,’ he continued.
‘Of doubling down on a civil war in a foreign country. Of attempting to remake a country through the endless military deployments of U.S. forces,’ the president added.

This was not the issue, because our troops were not — repeat, were not — “fighting in a war and dying in a war” when Biden took office. There was no prospect of “endless rows of head stones” from casualties in Afghanistan, and no matter how many times Biden repeats this idea, it is and always was a false dilemma. U.S. combat casualties in Afghanistan since 2017 had been minimal — you can look it up. Even in the worst year in Afghanistan, our total KIA (killed in action) was less than the number of people shot to death in Chicago so far this year. In the four years 2017-2020, the total number of U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan (including accidents, etc.) was 63 — an average of about 16 a year. So this insistence from Biden that the U.S. forces in Afghanistan were “fighting indefinitely” in a civil war that was producing “endless rows” of casualties is simply false — unless you consider the current situation in Chicago an “endless deployment” from which we must hastily evacuate our forces.




 

Category: Foreigners, Joe Biden
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