Thursday, August 26, 2021

What final US days in Afghanistan will look like: Scaling back evacuation flights, destroying weaponry

 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.

What Will Become Of California Students and Parents Stranded in Afghanistan Now That Terrorists Attacking?

 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. 

Biden; the leader of the Free World's major power

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 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.//

Nile Gardiner: Brits feel betrayed by Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. Our 'special relationship' is on ice | Fox News

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."...


This Horrible Fiasco Demands Change

 


This Horrible Fiasco Demands Change › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  "The Biden Administration, after seven months, has shown no competence whatever in foreign or national security policy."...
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.

"Joe Biden’s inability to control his faculties has become more and more obvious over the last seven-plus months of his presidency. In what is almost certainly a symptom of his declining mental state, the president has had numerous angry outbursts and tone-deaf moments since taking office. Today was the scene of another awkward interaction that crossed the line into being outright offensive." . . .


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."...




America Is Now the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump –


  PJ Media ..."Objectively, the first three years of the Trump era were damned good ones for the republic. Unfortunately, American Democrats all live on a subjective moon that orbits a navel-gazing planet. Rather than just sit back and enjoy all of the peace and prosperity that President Trump helped bring about, all they could do was rend their garments over the fact that he had dared to defeat the least likable presidential candidate in history fairly and squarely.

"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.”...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

"Go to Hell, Biden!" - Afghans Curse Joe Biden after Infants Are Abandoned by their Parents Outside Kabul Airport

 The Gateway Pundit  "British, French, US, and Western nations scrambled this week to get their citizens out of Afghanistan before Joe Biden’s evacuation deadline hits on August 31.

The scene outside the Kabul Airport is complete chaos with mobs of Afghans and foreigners begging US and British soldiers for entry into the airport.

"In one video an Afghan interpreter is filmed screaming, “Mr. Biden, you were against Trump, now we are against you! Go to hell, Biden!” after two young children were abandoned by their parents outside the airport!"

"What kind of parents would do this?". . .


Teaching Psycho Flintstones About Women's Equality

  Ann Coulter


The universal panning of President Biden’s decision to finally leave Afghanistan is the mirror image of the one time the media loved Trump. Remember that joyous occasion?
"It was when he bombed Syria two months after taking office.
"Here’s a sampling of the mash-notes to Trump for sending 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike a country 6,000 miles away from us.
"The New York Post: “A New Sheriff in Town: Trump’s Strike on Syria”
"New York Daily News: “KICK IN THE ASSAD! U.S. blitzes Syria with missiles to avenge atrocity.”
"The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof: “Trump Was Right to Strike Syria.”
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York: “[It was] the right thing to do.”
"And of course, MSNBC’s Brian Williams famously soliloquized the attack on his TV show that night, saying: “We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two U.S. Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” adding “I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.'”
"The very Europeans who are so testy right now about Biden’s decision to end a war, were thrilled with Trump for bombing a country that posed no conceivable threat to us. France, Italy, Israel and the U.K. all sent their hearty support!
"That’s quite a contrast from the remarks this week from former prime minister Tony Blair about Biden’s ending a war: “tragic, dangerous and unnecessary.”
"I was, and remain, more pro-Afghanistan war and Iraq war than Donald Rumsfeld, but not so we could hang out for 20 years and teach them to respect transgenders.
"Unfortunately, once we’d accomplished everything that could possibly be accomplished in Afghanistan, the war became a joint venture of the neocons and the feminists. Instead of punishing anyone who’d had a pleasant countenance upon seeing the World Trade Center collapse, our new mission became: Bring gender studies and gay rights to a Stone Age culture!". . . More...

In Democrats Hall of Heroes; Nancy Pelosi

 Pelosi Parties Maskless With Democrat Big Wigs in Napa (legalinsurrection.com)

One Twitter user: “Exclusively old white liberals at a super spreader event while their ethnic, masked staff wait on them hand and foot.”

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is okay with DC police arresting people who do not wear masks on the House side of Congress.

"The woman once again shows she does not care about anyone but herself.

"Remember when Pelosi went to a San Francisco salon in 2020 when the city closed down salons?

"Videos recently exposed the supposed mask-loving queen partying with rich Democrats in Napa…without a mask." . . .

The tickets for the 2021 Napa Frontline Event cost from $100 to a whopping $29,000. Video

The end of America as a world power, thanks to Democrats

 Americans Await Evacuation As Biden Takes A Knee To Taliban – Issues & Insights  

Begging terrorists for help is a huge mistake for a superpower. Our willful weakness makes the world a far more unstable and dangerous place than it already is.


SHAME: Biden Caves to Taliban – PJ Media  "The Biden administration’s attempt to negotiate with the Taliban to help get our people out of Afghanistan safely has resulted in yet another embarrassing defeat.

"After sending CIA director William Burns to secretly meet with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul to ask him to extend the August 31 deadline for U.S. troops to airlift American citizens and Afghans out of the country, the deadline remains the same—and Taliban claims another victory over the United States. The plan to have U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by August 31 has been approved by Joe Biden."....

CIA Director Meets With Taliban Leader Begging For an Extension – PJ Media 

The Taliban is scoring propaganda victory after propaganda victory. The U.S. appears as a supplicant coming before the mighty Taliban begging for consideration for their helpless ones.

 Comment in Legal Insurrection  

For guy who goes by Quid Pro Joe, he really isn’t any good at it.He just gave the enemy 600,000 brand new advanced weapons.You’d think he could get them to cut him a little slack. Clearly the art of the deal is not his forte.

 Muddled, late, and disorganized: Joe Biden sends the Taliban a mixed message - American Thinker

 The Taliban can also see that Biden's disorganization and muddled declarations seem to be progressively getting worse.

With Biden's latest statement, we know who's calling the shots in Afghanistan - American Thinker  

Meanwhile, in Europe, the same G7 leaders who were so thrilled to be dealing with Biden — because he gave them anything they asked for, unlike Trump, who put America first — are very worried about Biden's willingness to cave to the Taliban:

 Afghanistan evacuation: Man beaten bloody by Taliban as airlift nears its end | Daily Mail Online

"Bloodied and beaten by Taliban guards - this was the fate of one Australian citizen as he tried to reach Kabul airport as the Islamists defied Joe Biden's demand to let evacuation flights continue unimpeded with just hours left to get civilians out of the country. The man, who was born overseas but has a wife in Adelaide and a brother in Sydney, was beaten as he headed to the airport today along with his cousins - thought to include three men and two women - who were also beaten by the Taliban before the family was hauled away.Video shows the man with blood running down his face."



 

Gavin Newsom Blames Everyone Else for His Recall. Here Are 100 Reasons That Might Jog His Memory. –

Pat Cross Cartoons

  PJ Media  "California Governor Gavin Newsom faces a recall on September 14 and the more desperate he gets,  the lower he goes to save himself. Odds are 50-50 that Newsom will survive. It’s not a good place to be for an incumbent. Newsom and his supporters hope to distract from the copious reasons that Californians signed the recall petition to get rid of him.

"Union bosses, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley are flooding money into marketing, direct mail, online ads, terrestrial radio, TV, and making sure that Google puts Newsom’s “Stop the Recall” campaign website at the top of the page for Newsom-related search inquiries.

"The way Newsom has used the power of his office to save his own hide helps explain why at least 1.7 million Californians of all political backgrounds want him gone.

"The governor’s campaign has attempted to tar recall proponents, including Democrats, independents, Libertarians, and Republicans, as “radical, right-wing,” “anti-vaxxers,” “QAnon conspiracy theorists,” and racists, who “could threaten California’s efforts to fight COVID-19.” We don’t know what that means but oooh, scary!. . . ."

California's Liberal Utopia: Blackouts, Bacon Shortages, and Maxi Pads for Boys – PJ Media

..."So, how is it going in the Golden State? Is California implementing what Americans really want to see as national policy? You could place a fair wager that the answer to that question is no just from watching the viral videos of criminals emptying the shelves of retailers like Walgreens and Neiman Marcus. Then there is the problem of out-of-control homelessness. And don’t forget the annual purge of accumulated woodland undergrowth by raging forest fires rather than reasonable conservation policy."

They Fear Him Part 2: California Investigating Larry Elder’s Financial Disclosure (legalinsurrection.com)  ..."In doing so, the editorial board also identified who the progressives in charge of the state don’t fear."...

Gov. @GavinNewsom is leading California through unprecedented crises—he's a key partner in fighting the pandemic and helping build our economy back better. To keep him on the job, registered voters should vote no on the recall election by 9/14 and keep California moving forward.
...I’ll believe it when I see Joe Biden come here. I’m not sure he’s going to. I understand he’s supposedly going to come here to campaign on behalf of Gavin Newsom. His popularity now is in the low forties — I think I saw 41%. Most Americans don’t even believe he’s home — that somebody else is in charge. So it’s going to backfire. But let him bring it in. Let him have him come in, and try to defend Gavin Newsom’s record on crime, and on homelessness, and on the outrageous cost of living, and on the way he ignored science and shut down the state to the point where a third of small businesses are gone forever. Let Joe Biden make that case for him. I want him to come here.. . . 

Trump's epic attack ad against Joe Biden -

Now, with America's ship of state foundering badly, the world's bad actors will see their opportunities. Most people are making bets about when China will move against Taiwan. There'll be realignments in the rest of the world, too. Already, the Saudis have entered into a joint military cooperation deal with Russia.


 American Thinker  "If you were wondering whether President Trump intends to run again, the ad he just dropped attacking Joe Biden seems to say, "Yes, I'm still in the game."  It is one of the most vicious (and deservedly so) ads that I have ever seen.  That's not because Trump has unusually mean or brilliant people working for him.  The sad fact is that the ads against Biden write themselves.

"Usually, political ads are made for a specific purpose: "Vote for me."  "Block that initiative."  "Donate money to someone."  This ad, though, exists solely to destroy Joe Biden — or rather, considering that Biden is destroying himself, to give Biden the coup de grâce.

"The ad is formulated as so many political attack ads are: it has a voice-over from the politician under attack, paired with footage of events that show how dismal his predictions and promises were or how badly he lied to the American people.  What makes it so powerful is the growing list of Biden's terrible failures." . . .


Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Liberal Media Scream: CNN regular says Biden’s doing a heck of a job

 Yahoo  "It is no surprise that some in the liberal media are running block for President Joe Biden’s bumbling in Afghanistan. But CNN took the Liberal Media Scream prize this week by featuring a pundit who thinks the president is doing a heck of a job.

"It came on CNN’s Sunday Reliable Sources show hosted by Brian Stelter when consultant Matthew Dowd said that the media isn’t giving Biden credit for a great mission accomplished, especially when compared to deaths related to the COVID and crime fights he is struggling with.

"Dowd, the former chief political analyst for ABC News, said, “the press has a tendency to judge things by anecdotes,” but “data for the last week shows Joe Biden has basically gotten 30,000 people out of Afghanistan without a single loss of an American life.”

"From the Sunday, Aug. 22 Reliable Sources:

BRIAN STELTER: So, Matthew Dowd, you would describe the media coverage this week as what?" . . .

Responding to this CNN report is Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, who explains our weekly pick: 

“Dowd is one of the Baghdad Bobs of the current debacle, ignoring the dire reality that looks very bad for his favored political side. He’s a sycophant in defense of President Biden spinning liberal talking points about the supposed misdeeds of Trump and conservatives instead of offering any kind of honest assessment about Biden’s bungling.”