Biden's Afghanistan Bungle: Wrong Man, Right Thing, Worst Way
Let's hope in transition from failed Global War on Terror to Domestic War on Wrongthink against dissenters from America Last that those seeking absolute control show same competency here as abroad
Biden's Afghanistan Bungle: Wrong Man, Right Thing, Worst Way
When it comes to the fast-accelerating calamity in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden is the wrong man, doing the right thing, in the absolute worst way.
It is for this reason that in his brief, no questions-allowed White House remarks on Monday, the president created the ultimate straw man, defending the decision to withdraw rather than his disastrously executed withdrawal itself.
Afghanistan, and the “Global War on Terror” more broadly, have proven an utter failure in which America frittered away its dominant position in two decades. That failure is a consequence of our ignorance of the enemy, arrogance/naïveté in thinking we could, or should turn Islamic, tribal backwaters into Jeffersonian democracies, pervasive corruption, and the bureaucratic and economic imperative among those invested in this project to keep the charade going.
All of this undermined our national interest.
These and other points ought to be addressed—though they won’t be because our establishment is so overwhelmingly complicit—but they are not the primary issue of the day.
At issue today is the disgracefully botched execution of an exit by a leader who, unlike his predecessor, is self-evidently neither feared nor respected.
At issue today is the failure of the Woke military and intelligence apparatus that the president commands.
At issue today is the propaganda coup our adversaries are enjoying, the strategic vacuum they will now fill and the reality setting in that while Emperor Biden meanders with no clothes, Emperor Xi may well make a move at Taiwan and beyond.
And at issue today, while the administration admits it can’t evacuate Americans, as I write in part, is this:
That the administration is poised to compound this disaster by layering on top of it another refugee-driven immigration crisis only further demonstrates the insane priorities of our current leaders, sure to be seized upon by those who wish us harm. It only further demonstrates that the elites have learned nothing—simply moving from the politically correct naivete of a generation ago to the cynical, Woke "equity" agenda of today.
And what should they have learned, having paid no price for their folly? How else to explain that while the Biden administration has articulated no plan to do the bare minimum of protecting Americans stuck in Afghanistan, it is fixing to take in up to 30,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. military bases? While betraying those Afghans who did courageously fight alongside us would be wrong, how does the administration justify not putting Americans first? Does anyone believe the U.S. government is capable of vetting these individuals? If not, doesn't prudence demand that if we're going to be in the refugee resettlement business, we do so at a safe distance from our shores, at minimal cost and in a place they are likely to assimilate?
Think about this: The 9/11 terror attacks were at core a failure of immigration, as well as related intelligence. Twenty years on, we're inviting tens of thousands from the first country we targeted in response to those attacks, again under control of the very regime that had harbored the very 9/11 attackers, to immigrate here. What could possibly go wrong?
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