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"Perhaps, just perhaps, the only way to turn Australia into the modern incarnation of the Third Reich is to flat-out convince people that every single breath they take will likely kill them unless it is regulated by government authorities.". . .
"U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn, a new Republican from North Carolina, calls on Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment and impeach President Biden following the murderous and botched US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“ 'Our nation is at a critical point,” he wrote in a letter Thursday to Harris and the rest of the cabinet.
"He warned of China’s ambitions on the world stage, the resurgence of Russia, rising inflation, chaos on the southern border and other global predicaments threatening the United States – and called argues that tackling them would require strong and decisive leadership.
“ 'Joe Biden’s physical inability to lead is not a matter of political discussion – it’s a demonstrable fact,” Cawthorn told Fox News Thursday night. “He is not mentally fit to serve as President of the United States. “
The congressman said he did not believe Biden was capable of serving as commander-in-chief after the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left thousands of Afghan allies stranded, the country to hands of the Taliban and the highest number of Americans killed in a single attack in Afghanistan in more than a decade." . . .
Afghan Fallout: Biden Blows Up His Entire Case For Being President – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) ..."Biden’s utterly inept Afghanistan withdrawal, his bumbling lies and obfuscations, his callous disregard of those put in harm’s way, his refusal to take responsibility, and the devastation his stupidity has caused to America’s “role as a global leader” have undercut every premise of his presidency."...
Kill list: Biden's team hands American and Afghani names to the Taliban - American Thinker Quote:
Biden’s Legacy Is Reducing The United States to Groveling“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean.”
..."Add up the damage of his 7 months in office. Serious damage to our energy independence. Making a mockery of our sovereignty on immigration and the border. Weaponizing federal law enforcement for political purposes. Obscene spending plans. All of this and more is serious and long lasting.
"But the unconditional surrender to the Taliban takes it to a different level. It’s a self-inflicted national humiliation in a way that canceling the Keystone Pipeline never will be."...
“In one night, they lost all the goodwill of 20 years by leaving the way they did, in the night, without telling the Afghan soldiers who were outside patrolling the area,” said Afghan soldier Naematullah, who asked that only his one name be used.
Biden Admin Gave Taliban List Of ‘American Citizens, Green Card Holders And Afghan Allies’ That Needed To Get Into Airport: Report | The Daily Wire ..."The Biden administration reportedly gave the Taliban a list of the names of United States citizens, green card holders, and other Afghan allies that needed to be allowed into the airport so they could be evacuated — a decision that sparked widespread outrage from officials and critics."...
Biden Turns Afghanistan Into A Slaughterhouse, Taliban Into A Military Superpower – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) "A day after at least 13 U.S. soldiers were killed at the Kabul airport, it’s still unclear how many Americans will be abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden administration. What we do know, though, is that most of the U.S. weaponry in the country will not be recovered. It’s as if Joe Biden himself was the military procurement chief for the Taliban."...
Don’t bet Thursday’s deaths will be the last. The country is now a modern arms bazaar, overflowing with designed-to-kill equipment for the Taliban to use on Americans and anyone else they choose to murder, or sell to unsavory characters who want to massacre Westerners. Remaining in Afghanistan after the U.S. quits will be nearly 76,000 military vehicles, 208 American airplanes and helicopters, and almost 600,000 arms.
American Thinker "One of the things that disgusted conservatives following news of the bloody terrorist attack in Kabul that killed twelve Marines and one Navy corpsman was the fact that Nancy Pelosi, during a public appearance in San Francisco, not only didn't mention it, but was also in an exceptionally jovial, joking mood. My bet is that this wasn't mere callousness on her part. Instead, she was engaged in a form of gaslighting because she knows that many of her constituents pay little attention to the news and don't want to hear negative things about Democrats.
"Here's Pelosi, a woman without a care in the world:"...
Nancy Pelosi jokes around for 6 minutes while completely ignoring the 12 U.S. service members killed by terrorists in Afghanistan. Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/dvzc0V376K
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 26, 2021
..." I believe that the reason Pelosi is behaving in this way is to keep her base from realizing that something bad happened. It's a form of gaslighting that involves her shaping their reality through lies, not to drive them crazy, but to keep them ignorant."...
Check this current issue of the SF Comical; what reference do you see to Afghanistan?
American Thinker . . . "British M.P. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean claimed, "It is very hard to overestimate the scale of the catastrophe following the Biden administration's disastrous implementation of the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan." British M.P. Lord Blencathra believes that "Biden may have condemned the world to Chinese domination in future and the end of western liberal democracy." He continued, "This is not like Saigon; it is far worse. The Viet Cong had no agenda outside Vietnam but Afghanistan is now under the control of Islamist fanatics who want to wage war on every Western democracy." Former British prime minister Tony Blair stated, "America's retreat is imbecilic — and tells our enemies we don't have any interests or values worth defending. Friends and foes ask: is this a moment when the West is in epoch-changing retreat?"
"How will the Biden administration deal with the massive hostage crisis we are about to witness? When not on vacation, its first response is to deny that there is a problem.
"In her August 23 press briefing, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki indignantly stated, "I think it's irresponsible to say that Americans are stranded. They are not." However, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told Meet the Press on August 22 that there are "several thousand" Americans still stranded in Afghanistan. On August 17, the Daily Mail reported that 40,000 Americans were stranded in Afghanistan. No one knows the actual number. How do you plan an evacuation when you don't know how many people need to be evacuated? Press secretary for the Defense Department John Kirby told reporters the U.S. military does not know how many Americans remain in Afghanistan."...
Moreover, the US did so with the appearance of being run out of the country in shame and defeat.
"It would be easy to attribute the disaster of leaving Afghanistan, both human and strategic, to the incompetence of President Biden and his administration. After all, human incompetence normally explains a lot. But the affairs of a great nation like ours and its military are not the work of one man. There are generals, well-credentialed foreign policy experts, and senior intelligence officials who have devised how best to leave Afghanistan in order to achieve certain strategic and political objectives. The notion that there was a single incompetent decision made to abandon Afghanistan defies both logic and common sense. It was a matter of high government policy that the United States depart Afghanistan, abandon military equipment, and leave both Americans and our allies to the tender mercies of the radical Islamic Taliban.
"The exit from Afghanistan, then, appears designed to accomplish two things: first, to demoralize the American military and the American people. Over 22,000 American service personnel have been killed or injured in Afghanistan. Every American knows someone who served there. Knowing full well that the Afghan military would not defend the country, there could be little doubt that the United States was turning the country over to the Taliban.". . .
Bare Naked Islam.com "Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a retired Navy SEAL, offers his perspective on the current situation in Afghanistan. He says we could still pull this out and save our citizens and those who helped us by telling the Taliban that we won’t leave until we are ready to leave."
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2 suicide attacks outside Kabul airport; Russia says 13 dead (yahoo.com) "Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded, Russian officials said.
"Several Marines were killed and a number of other American military were wounded, a U.S. official said. It was not clear if those deaths were included in the Russian toll.
"One of the bombers struck people standing knee-deep in a wastewater canal under the sweltering sun, throwing bodies into the fetid water. Those who moments earlier had hoped to get on flights out could be seen carrying the wounded to ambulances in a daze, their own clothes darkened with blood.
"A U.S. official said the complex attack was believed to have been carried out by the Islamic State group. The IS affiliate in Afghanistan is far more radical than the Taliban, who recently took control of the country in a lightning blitz and condemned the attack." . . .
For some vulnerable Afghans, there is little hope of rescue from U.S. commandos. Instead, people such as Najeeb Rahimi, a translator who worked for the U.S. Army a decade ago, make the hazardous trek to the airport every day, braving Taliban checkpoints and hoping for a chance to escape.
Legal Insurrection UPDATE: Six students and two adults returned safely. 16 parents, two-dozen students still remain.
..."The Daily Mail reported six students and two parents returned. At least 18 students plus five other families are still waiting to get home:
The Cajon Valley Union School District announced Thursday that a family of eight — six children and two adults — has returned home safely.
‘One of our families did arrive in the United States and are home safe. Which we are completely ecstatic about,’ Michael Serban, Director of Family and Community Engagement, told NBC 7.
Officials have not revealed how the family managed to get back to the states or indicated if they have actually made it back to San Diego.
Sixteen parents and more than two-dozen students, ranging from preschoolers to high schoolers, from the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, which has a large Afghan refugee population, traveled to Afghanistan over summer break to visit grandparents and other relatives.
When has any US elected official ever resigned because they knew they had failed in their duties? TD
Nigel Farage: 'No way' British parliament would vote for military cooperation with America under Biden admin | Fox News "Nigel Farage, former Brexit party leader, slammed the Biden administration’s Afghanistan blunder Tuesday, arguing the crisis has led his country of Britain feeling "betrayed." Under Biden, Farage told "Fox & Friends First" that "there is no way a British parliament right now would vote for military cooperation with America.' "
...Certainly, if it's a Biden or Harris administration, honestly, there is no way, there is no way a British parliament right now would vote for military cooperation with America led by this administration. And that's a very sad thing to say, because since 1917, the U.K. and America have been side by side in virtually every major conflict. We've been the closest allies in terms of military action, in terms of intelligence sharing, in terms of culture, in terms of business. You couldn't have a better ally in the world. And right at the moment, I'm sorry, but there's no way we could enter into another operation with you.//
How Biden Broke NATO - WSJ ...."Remember when candidate Joe Biden said America “needs a leader the world respects”? Apparently President Biden forgot. Of the many consequences of his misbegotten Afghanistan withdrawal, one of the more serious is the way it has damaged America’s relationships with its allies, especially in Europe....
US allies tear into Biden administration over Afghanistan 'failure' | The Times of Israel
..."The agreement, signed under former president Donald Trump last year, would have seen the US withdraw all its troops by May 2021 in exchange for security guarantees from the Islamist hardliners. When Joe Biden took power earlier this year, he pushed back the deadline for the withdrawal to August 31."
Nato allies urge rethink on alliance after Biden’s ‘unilateral’ Afghanistan exit (irishtimes.com)
..."The agreement, signed under former president Donald Trump last year, would have seen the US withdraw all its troops by May 2021 in exchange for security guarantees from the Islamist hardliners. When Joe Biden took power earlier this year, he pushed back the deadline for the withdrawal to August 31."
..."After the fall of Kabul, EU defence and security officials have been critical of the US decision to send home its 2,500 troops, saying it has weakened Nato and raised questions about Europe’s security dependence on Washington. Their reaction marks a bitter end to the alliance’s longest-running mission, which involved 10,000 personnel from 36 countries."...
No American, consuming only mainstream media narratives, would realize that there were three times as many allied forces from assorted NATO countries in Afghanistan as there were Americans, or that they were not consulted before the Americans abruptly departed and brought the roof down on all of them.
What made the exchange so maddening was the fact that it was a reminder that this was a back and forth that should have occurred between Alexander and Biden, not Doocy and Psaki. Though you can’t believe a word this administration says, Psaki at least sounded like she knew what she was talking about while Biden made a highly insensitive and flippant quip to a reporter while Americans in Afghanistan are desperate to get home and are looking to the Biden administration for answers and help.
Commercial: Surrenderer-In-Chief (donaldjtrump.com)
"Joe Biden promised Americans a future of growth, strength, diplomacy, and power. He told us “America was back.” Instead, he withdrew troops from Afghanistan before removing our weapons, our allies, or even our own citizens. Joe Biden has backed down to our enemies and failed to protect our allies. Under Joe Biden, the Taliban is back – not America."...
..."There are really no words to adequately describe the sh*tshow that is taking place on Biden’s watch in Afghanistan. Brit Hume was tweeting about the very things we’re seeing this morning two days ago … almost like he knows what he’s talking about. If only Biden and his team could figure it out."...
"Were you, however, to have been a regular consumer of the mainstream media in the United States of America, all you read or heard was that this great land had been ruined forever by ORANGE MAN BAD.
"The MSM kept the fever-pitch wailing going all day and night while Trump was in office. There was nothing that was reality-based that fit their narrative, so they lied all the time, especially about Russia. "...
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Calls Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘A Moment of American Humiliation’ ...“If you step back and you look at what is going on, this is the United States after 20 years. This war used to be called ‘Operation Enduring Freedom,’ and it’s turned out not to be enduring, and they’re not leaving behind a society that is free. It is only free according to what the Taliban says it will be free, if the Taliban promises that it will be free,” Engel stated. “You could also look at this as a tremendously humiliating – moment of American humiliation – leaving, forced to leave, on the Taliban’s clock and with the Taliban’s good graces. Tactically, it makes sense, but I’m not sure how history will – I think history will judge this moment as a very dark period for the United States.”...