The Taliban is going door-to-door killing people who helped American forces in the war effort. They’re making kill lists. They’re going to brutalize women again. We all know this. They haven’t changed. They’re terrorists. We knew the parade of horribles awaited the citizens of Afghanistan as soon as the Taliban retook the country. They rolled into Kabul last weekend. They set up checkpoints all around the Hamid Karzai airport in the city. This is the only place where Afghans desperate to flee can roll the dice and hope to get out. We abandoned Bagram Air Force base a month ago. We didn’t commence evacuations sooner. This is on Joe Biden. Did we know the Taliban could take over? Yes. A reconquest this fast is up for debate for some, but a State Department memo from July said that the situation was rapidly deteriorating. It was obviously ignored by the Biden White House who now must deal with finding the evacuating 10-15,000 Americans still trapped in the country.
We’re trusting the Taliban to not kill anyone pretty much—which is shows the level of disorganization from the top down here. Biden apparently didn’t care about the chaos that could ensue. He went back on vacation after some brain-dead remarks about the situation on the ground, how he was so awesome about the exit, and how it was everyone’s fault but his own. Jen Psaki was going to take this week off. This administration thought that a massive foreign policy collapse like this could be ignored. The adults are in the room, they said. Leadership is back. Diplomacy is back. The entire basis of the Biden presidency, their selling points, have all been torched in less than five days.
There are too many cooks stirring this pot, none of whom is commander-in-chief material, let alone bears the title with any sort of mental clarity. That one’s on a one-way journey that begs blessings from Saint Joseph and Saint Jude.