Say what you will about President Joe Biden, he has stuck to his guns on ending America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan’s forever war.
His decision not to delay our departure after Aug. 31 was fortified by hard intel that the terrorist ISIS-K was preparing attacks at Kabul airport.
Thursday evening, the two bomb attacks occurred.
It now seems inevitable that the withdrawal will be completed by Aug. 31, with all U.S. military forces following the last civilians out.
Before yesterday’s attacks, the airlift had been going far better than in its chaotic first days. Some 100,000 Americans and Afghans had gotten out of the country since Aug. 14.
Biden held his ground, refusing to be stampeded by Democratic critics, NATO allies, Republican hawks or media demanding he extend the deadline for departure until all Americans were out.
His adamancy testifies to the convictions Biden came by during decades at the apex of the U.S. government during our longest war.
Those convictions:
Even if the end result of a withdrawal is that Afghanistan falls to the Taliban, the cause is not worth a continuance of the U.S. commitment or the blood and treasure that four presidents have invested.
Better to accept a U.S. defeat and humiliation than re-commit to a war that is inevitably going to be lost.
Biden’s decision and the botched early days of the withdrawal have not been without political cost. Polls show the president’s approval rating sliding underwater. A Suffolk poll has him down to 41%.
Of Course it is !!! Just the Beginning & Biden Should be Impeached by December !!!!
Isis is coming for the Taliban and they are not a rag tag fighting force. It is all about to get very interesting. Oddly modern conflicts have not been fights over essential resources they are Ideological oppositions much like Crusades over Communism or Religious separations and zealot notions of who is in the right. Sad part the little little people that just want to live and procreated and die peacefully in their gift of life get caught in these shifting tides of the absurdist . Rich Poor right or wrong Ruler or Slave no one gets out alive anyway and if there is no afterlife we have all wasted our precious short camping trip on this cosmic dust ball and if there is an afterlife I am sure they are waring there too over who’s right or wrong.
Just enjoy your short lives people embrace it’s most unlikeliest of miracles and pleasures and pains. I may very well be all there is and if it is it won’t matter you won’t remember it for eternity.
Here is what will happen & everyone knows it > Women & Girls RAPED & Inslaved , Many SHot , Many Tortured ,
Hell is what it is !!!