Clueless Joe’s Hostage Crisis
Withdrawal of U.S. citizens from Afghanistan is becoming dicier by the hour.
by George Parry
August 22, 2021, 11:03 PM
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come down to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
— Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier,” 1890
The optics were going to be great. The Biden regime was going make history by announcing that it had finished a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan in time for the 20th anniversary of al-Qaida’s attack on America. As the assembled corporate media adoringly gazed into his vacant eyes, Joe Biden was going to be able to claim credit for ending America’s involvement in the Afghanistan war.
Unlike the failed “Vietnamization” of the war in Southeast Asia, this time the turnover of the conflict to the locals was going to work. The kleptocratic Afghan government and its Potemkin security forces would — on their own — be able to fend off the Taliban and prevent al-Qaida from using the country as a base for future attacks against the United States.
Maybe Biden and the social justice warriors who run our military actually believed this. Or maybe they didn’t and were just hoping that the Afghan house of cards wouldn’t collapse anytime soon. Either way, they had work to do.
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