When it comes to the fast-accelerating calamity in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden is the wrong man, doing the right thing, in the absolute worst way newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
We should have struck AQ and Taliban protectors w such shock & awe that neither would ever dare so much as think to touch an American again. This would have sent a message to Islamic supremacists the world over. Then we should have left newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
The core reasons for the failure in Afghanistan?
1) Didn't know the enemy
2) Fought him w/ suicidal rules of engagement
3) No clear/realistic goals, objectives, exit strategy
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1) Didn't know the enemy
2) Fought him w/ suicidal rules of engagement
3) No clear/realistic goals, objectives, exit strategy
newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
GWOT should've been rooted in deterring jihadists/harborers through use of overwhelming force in select spots, defending homeland against Islamic supremacists by vigorously pursuing those here, aiders, abettors, enablers, preventing others from entering newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
In Afghanistan, elsewhere, we bound ourselves to farcical, rudderless, morass of war—binding our hands, burning $tns, wasting countless lives in an effective racket. War was a zombie engagement that not only failed to serve natl interest, but undermined it newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
Our "reps" must do a real postmortem. Record should document causes of failure: Ignorance, arrogance, greed, imperative among invested actors to keep charade going. Countless heads should roll. Lessons should drive new policies/mandate reforms of old ones newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
We will almost certainly not get a real Afghanistan post-mortem. At best, we'll get toothless Kabuki hearings. Too many in DC are implicated in catastrophe, so no one will be held accountable for it. Same as many Ruling Class scandals of recent vintage newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
Withdrawing from Afghanistan is not the issue of the day. At issue is the disgracefully botched execution of an exit by a leader who, unlike his predecessor, is neither feared nor respected; failure of Woke military and intel apparatus he commands newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
At issue today in Biden's Afghanistan bungle is propaganda coup our adversaries are enjoying, strategic vacuum they'll now fill and reality setting in that while Emperor Biden meanders with no clothes, Emperor Xi may well make a move at Taiwan and beyond newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
That the administration is poised to compound Afghanistan disaster by layering on top of it another refugee-driven immigration crisis only further demonstrates insane priorities of our America Last leaders, sure to be seized upon by those who wish us harm newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
AFG trajectory from sharia-compliant nation-building to importation of 30k Afghans while we can't evacuate Americans only further demonstrates elites have learned nothing—moving from PC naivete of a generation ago to cynical, Woke "equity" agenda of today newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
While betraying Afghans who fought alongside us would be wrong, how does admin justify not putting Americans first? Anyone believe USG can vet? If we're in refugee resettlement biz, should be far from our shores, in culturally similar land at minimal cost newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
9/11 was at core an immigration failure, and related intel failure. 20 yrs on, we're inviting tens of thousands from 1st country we targeted in response, again under control of very regime that harbored AQ, to immigrate here. What could possibly go wrong? newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
9/11 is the Afghanistan elephant in the room. The greatest travesty—on top of incalculable loss of blood and treasure—is that two decades later, efforts putatively aimed at avenging our dead, defending progeny, have largely failed newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
America's elites even rescued defeat from jaws of one of sole victories by converting disarmament of Qaddafi into Benghazi. Israel/several Sunni nations were initially driven together inadvertently--bc Obama empowered top jihad sponsor Iran—protector of AQ newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
Biden's the wrong man, doing the right thing by withdrawing from Afghanistan, in the absolute worst way. But he's also the perfect man to do it—the ultimate DC Swamp creature uniquely culpable for US FoPo that frittered away America's strategic position newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
Biden response to criticism of Ruling Class for which he serves as avatar further makes him a perfect man for the times. Ruling Class, which has led failure after failure, doesn't engage in introspection; hold itself accountable; reform itself newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
When faced with its myriad failures, Ruling Class makes enemies of those calling failures out. It casts them as racists, bigots, and yes, terrorists. Transition from failed GWOT to Dom War on Wrongthink against dissenters from America Last is only logical newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
Trump and the tens of millions of pesky like-minded Americans make for the only thing separating the Ruling Class from complete, unmitigated power. Americans can only hope those seeking absolute control show the same competence at home as they have abroad newsweek.com/bidens-afghani…
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