Blood On Your Hands

I am not going to pussyfoot around anymore:  Everyone who voted for Biden along with all who made his election possible have blood on their hands. 

Those of you who voted for Biden knowing his policies, inadequacies, and mental condition, I can at least acknowledge that you knew what you were doing and acknowledge if not accept that you hate America that much.

But those of you who voted for Biden without thought or independent inquiry into him, his record, his policies, his mental state, for you there is no excuse.  You failed in your responsibility as an American and as a voter.  You just did what you were told, whether by media or Twitter or friends on Facebook who said that you must (1) hate Trump and (2) vote for Biden.

The deaths of the brave 13 above are the first military deaths in Afghanistan in 18 months.  They died as a result of a fiasco orchestrated by our senile president.

The deaths of these young men and women are on your hands as are the deaths of all the others who died in the Kabul bombing Thursday and who have yet to die, but surely will, as we leave them stranded, leave the Taliban and its allied terrorists with our military equipment and our biometrics and the names of our allied Afghanis who fought for us – now they will die because of us.

“Oh,” you say, “this is all Trump’s fault.”  NO, it is not.  Yes, he negotiated a U.S. pull out with the Taliban, but that pull out came with strict sanctions.  And, at the time of the actual pull out there would have been a plan:  American civilians out first, then our Afghani allies, then refugees, then the military.  Only a complete idiot would do that in reverse, yet that is what Biden has done.  And you will recall that Biden has reversed nearly everything else Trump did while in office, so Biden could have reversed Trump’s Afghanistan policy as well.

This is all on Biden.  And his advisors (who have been more concerned with advancing various socialist agendas than with the safety, security, and international standing of our country).  And on all his supporters and all of those including the media and its misleading half-truths that helped lead to Biden’s election.  It is on his wife and family who had to know his mental condition yet encouraged him to run for President of the United States of America and put the country and the lives of all of us in it at risk.  And it is on everyone who voted for Biden or in any way aided in his election.

I am not feeling able to forgive you.  You owe America an apology.  Think about that as you continue to watch the demise of what was once a great nation.

Biden won’t take responsibility but perhaps you can. 

And, if this nation is fortunate enough to make it to the next election without first becoming a completely authoritarian regime, then please do your job as Americans and research for whom you cast your vote.  For your ignorance and malleability are a huge part of the problem.

Are You OK With Your Vote?

Friends and others who voted for Biden:  is this really what you voted for:

      ·        Abandoning America and American allies in Afghanistan and lying about it and about the numbers we are leaving behind;
·        Showing weakness, lack of credibility, lack of honor, lack of trustworthiness on the world stage;
·        Lots of talk about human rights, but actions that belie any real concern;
·        Huge increases in the national debt, inflation, energy and gas prices;
·        Varieties of shortages;
·        Policies that disfavor small business and individual initiative;
·        Extended, if not permanent, entitlements, often based on race or other identity group characteristics;
·        Open borders;
·        No transparency and divisive polices based on political favoritism and based in socialist philosophies;
·        Promotion of racist programs such as CRT than engender disdain if not hate for American history and ideals;
·        Censorship of independent thought and increasing government control over individual thought and action to the detriment of our First Amendment freedoms;

      ·        Acceptance of an obviously senile president with his hand in control of our nuclear arsenal?

Do you accept or ignore daily headlines such as this morning’s from CNN - headlines that are already out of date as the situation in Afghanistan grows increasingly dire by the minute?

Is all of the above what you voted for?  And if not, where are you?  

You were certainly vocal in your hatred for President Trump.  Your current silence is deafening, but more importantly it is frightening.  It is frightening on many levels, especially as it seems to reflect either your complete disengagement from the world or your total lack of ability to think about what is going on.  Moreover, it leaves America without the concern and defense of its citizens; it leaves those who would see this country completely remade into something else with a green light to do as they please.

It sure looks like your “concern” for America that you constantly proclaimed (often quite offensively) during the Trump presidency was not any sort of actual informed concern at all but rather just what you thought (I believe little thought was involved) saw as the “in-crowd” thing to do.  Perhaps you were simply accepting and parroting what you were told without question or thought.  Perhaps you might ask yourself “why?”

How about actually seeing what is going on and thinking for yourself?  Then tell us, with as loud a voice as you berated Trump and his supporters, if you are OK with the man you placed in the White House.  Tell us if you are OK with the destruction of America and Her ideals that he is fostering. 

Speak up.   Because soon it may be too late.

This is the End

Biden is not a competent president (and maybe not even a legitimate one).  But he is presiding over the end of America as we know Her.

Too many seem to have given up on Her honor and Her soul.
(Do I need to remind you of the details of how Biden and the Left have sullied these?  I have been warning you since this blog began over 4 years ago.  If you remain unaware you are blind, deaf, dumb and fully brainwashed by the soulless Left.)

            “Your eyes are open but you can't see
            Your mouth is moving but you don't speak"
                        -from “This is the End (For You My Friend”), full lyrics below

But what is currently happening in Afghanistan ought to wake you up.  Biden has betrayed our allies and deserted our American citizens; he has put a permanent stain on America’s honor and credibility around the world.  And he has overnight made the world a much more dangerous place.  This is not the behavior of a President (or of anyone) who has any love for or belief in America and Her ideals. It is a complete dereliction of presidential duty and responsibility.

Those of you who are silent, if you have any independent spirit left, at least say farewell to all you know.

It may not happen overnight (though it might), but this is the end, for you my friend and our country.

 

Some of my notes from today:
        Some of today’s Afghanistan headlines:          

      ·        US military starts withdrawing from Afghanistan as Americans remain trapped
·        Americans Abandoned in Afghanistan
·        Biden Decides Against Extending Evacuation Timeline After Taliban Threatens ‘Consequences’
·        Biden Admin Confirms 4,000 Americans And Their Families Have Been Evacuated, Potentially Thousands Still In Afghanistan
·        House Dems: It Is ‘Not Possible’ To Evacuate Americans And Afghan Allies From Afghanistan By August 31st, ‘Deadline Must Be Extended’
·        Afghanistan debacle upends Biden's upcoming summit with Israel's Bennett
·        Pelosi praises spending bill advancing as ‘great day of pride’ for US amid Afghanistan crisis
·        Why President Biden Just Made The Next 9/11 More Likely
·        The Biden Administration's Descent Into Unreality
·        8 Months In, Biden's Cascade of Failure
·        Biden pours salt into wounds of relations with Europe at G7 meeting
·        Can the U.S. Recover From the Afghanistan Debacle?

       ·        Biden reveals admin relying on bloodthirsty Taliban sticking to its word on crucial deadline

       ·         Arizona AG warns of potential border threat from terrorists freed by Taliban in Afghanistan    

       Notes made while listening to Biden speech this afternoon:

      ·        Begins with infrastructure and voting bills, praising those who are furthering the Left's socialist agenda, before turning to Afghanistan.  Praises himself. 
·        “If the Taliban cooperates, we will continue til Aug. 31” (does he really think the Taliban is cooperative when it beats Americans trying to get to the airport, goes house to house to find and “take action” against American collaborators?) 
·        “We are continuing our efforts.” Does he understand that “our efforts” are too little too late? 
·        Then he justifies (again!) his decision to pull out but does not address the disaster his failure to have a plan or to listen to experts has created for Americans, Afghans, and the world. 
·        Leaves without taking any questions.

This Is The End (For You My Friend) Lyrics

from album: For Blood And Empire (2006) by Anti-Flag
Songwriters: Christopher Lee Barker / Patrick C. Bollinger / Justin Cathal Geever / Christopher Mark Head
This Is the End (for You My Friend) lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
Music video:  LINK 

Seems every station on the tv
Is selling something no one can be
If every page was torn from the magazine
Would cash still drive the media machine?
The products, damage and pursuit are endless
Identity can leave you selfless

We will not witness this anymore
This is the end for you my friend
I can't forgive, I won't forget
On and on, we sing our songs and
On and on, the wars wage on and
On and on, we sing our songs for more
For more

Your eyes are open but you can't see
Your mouth is moving but you don't speak
A blitzkrieg of images to break your will
I hope you choke on every pill

We will not witness this anymore
This is the end for you my friend
I can't forgive, I won't forget
On and on, we sing our songs and
On and on, the wars wage on and
On and on, we sing our songs for more

We will not witness this anymore
This is the end for you my friend
I can't forgive, I won't forget...

This is the end for you my friend
I can't forgive, I won't forget
On and on, we sing our songs and
On and on, the wars wage on and
On and on, we sing our songs and
On and on, the wars wage on and
On and on, we sing our songs and
On and on, your wars wage on and
On and on, we sing our songs for more
We sing our songs for more

“Joe is Joe”

Fox interviewed people in Los Angeles about the crisis in Afghanistan.  One man told Fox News: "Obviously the people in charge should be held responsible."  But he added: "Joe is Joe … You’re not gonna get rid of the Joe just 'cause of a bad decision."

And therein lies the problem.  Joe is Joe.  We just accept him and his “bad decisions.”  We ignore the fact that this is far more than a “bad decision.”

Joe is lying to us.  Just this morning we learned that the White House readout from his phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron omitted an impassioned plea from Macron for the U.S. to share in the moral responsibility to protect Afghan nationals that are in danger.

Who called Biden out on this?  Not the American news media or the American people but rather the British news.

Indeed, who in this country is calling Biden out on any of his “bad decisions”?  Sure, a few Republican leaders whom the media is likely to paint as extremist for doing so.  But where is the press?  Where are the people?  Or has this country simply decided to accept that “Joe is Joe” and let him be while they go about the mundane tasks of their daily lives?  Do they not see that the very essence of those lives are changing dramatically under Joe’s “leadership” of bad decisions?

So, we’re “not gonna get rid of the Joe just 'cause of a bad decision."  OK.  But at least look at the ramifications of some of these bad decisions.  They include: an open border crisis; institutionalization of the hatred of identity politics using indoctrination and flawed theories like CRT; politicization of Covid; encouragement of silencing of opposition voices and hence weakening the First Amendment; energy dependence and higher gas and energy prices; highest inflation perhaps ever; weakened economy; rising crime; and, of course, Afghanistan.

Regarding Afghanistan, the President is for the most part secluded, perhaps in the same basement where he hid during the presidential campaign.  He pops out, perhaps when his handlers demand or drag him to the door, and gives an incoherent speech or interview that has no connection to the reality of what is happening in Afghanistan. 

He made a “bad decision”, one that he believes is the best that anyone could have made.  Rather than getting civilians out first and then military, he without warning pulled the military.  There was chaos.  The Taliban immediately seized the country, reinstituting their Sharia rules and terrorist behavior.  They seized American equipment and weapons. 

Today the Taliban mocked us with this photo of Taliban warriors recreating the iconic Iwo Jima photo – in both pictures the uniforms and arms are American but the flag being raised in the new photo is that of the Taliban.  Terrorism experts are telling us that the dangers of terrorist acts have hugely increased as a result of the Taliban takeover.  This takeover is seen worldwide as a victory for the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and terrorism and as an embarrassing defeat for America.

As Afghanistan fell, Joe started sending troops back in.  But at that point the embassy was closed and personnel were huddled at the airport.  Americans and American allies can’t get through Taliban check points to get to the airplanes waiting to evacuate them.  Today they were told not to come to the airport and also that we could not come to rescue them. 

Joe touts the few Americans who have been airlifted out, ignoring the 15,000 or so who remain (the administration says they have no estimate of how many Americans are in Afghanistan).  

As the Taliban was asserting its power which includes subjugation of women and complete intolerance of alternate lifestyles, Joe was celebrating World Humanitarian Day.  His mental competence apparently does not include an understanding of the word “irony” or “hypocritical.”

So, sure, Joe made a “bad decision,” but it does not, it cannot end there.  Every decision has consequences.  This one is abandoning Americans, turning Afghanistan back to terrorists, embarrassing America on the world stage, and acting with dishonor toward those whom we used to help us while there (e.g. Afghani translators) and toward the Afghani army and people who came to depend upon us.

I suspect most Americans believed we should get out of Afghanistan, but there were better ways to do it.  Trump’s plan included leaving some special forces there to ensure this debacle didn’t happen.  I think nearly anyone could have come up with a better plan than Joe for the actual withdrawal, beginning with removing civilians before the military.  There was no immediate rush – Americans were not being slaughtered.  It could have been planned and executed with more time and thought.  But it wasn’t and, again, Joe believes it is all good.

So, how many “bad decisions” will it take before the people decide that they are “gonna get rid of the Joe”?  I know if this were Trump, we would already have several investigations underway, an impeachment in progress, and serious talks about the 25^th Amendment as well as demands for his resignation.  Note, those Trump impeachments and investigations were all nothing but a waste of taxpayer money, as is the continuing investigations of Jan. 6 even though the FBI has found “scant evidence” of any coordination and “no evidence that Trump or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence.”

But that was Trump and this is Joe.  "Joe is Joe … You’re not gonna get rid of the Joe just 'cause of a bad decision."  But what you are going to “get rid of” is America as the shining beacon of democracy and freedom.  Complacency can easily become misery and despair.  Let Joe be “Sleepy Joe” if you want, but America and Americans need to wake up and confront what is going on.

Ask yourself if America can survive another 3 ½ years of Joe’s “bad decisions”. Ask yourself if you care.  And if you do, ask yourself what you are going to do about it.

Joe’s World

Welcome to Joe’s World, a place totally disengaged from reality.  Now even acknowledged by CNN, ABC, NBC, and other members of the mainstream media (aka the Democrat propaganda machine).

Anyone who has watched President Biden over the last few days has got to see how disconnected he is from reality, and especially from the reality of what is happening on the ground in Kabul.  Today in his rambling press conference he told us there is no problem getting to the Kabul airport to be airlifted out. 

Meanwhile, the media tells and shows us that the Taliban has set up checkpoints around the airport that may or may not let people, including Americans, through.  They show us the Taliban going house to house searching for American allies whom they beat or worse, they show us indiscriminate whippings taking place outside the Kabul airport.   Military and security officials state that Americans are being beaten, yet Biden tells us that no one is impeded as they make their way to the airport.

ABC’s Afghanistan correspondent Ian Pannell stated that “It just seems the reality and the rhetoric are miles apart. I’m not quite sure what advice the president is receiving. But the truth on the ground is that these people who are in fear of their lives can’t get through.”

The President told us that Al Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan.  Barely an hour later, a spokesman for the Defense Department stated, "We know that Al Qaeda is a presence as well as ISIS in Afghanistan."

Biden states we will get all the Americans out, but he has no idea how we will do so or how many Americans are in Afghanistan.  He won’t put up a secure perimeter around the airport.  He will not allow our troops to go outside the airport to rescue Americans or the Afghanis who aided our troops as translators and others.  Britain and France are doing this, but not Joe.   

Biden says that “any American who wants to come home we will get home.”  But then he says he “cannot promise what the final outcome will be.”   Perhaps he thinks that just saying everyone will get out will simply make it so.  It will not.

But beyond the lies spouted to create his fictional narrative that all is well in Afghanistan and that he is some sort of a hero for creating this mess (he stated the pull out could not have been done better than this), what was truly frightening when I watched today’s press conference (as well as much of the Stephanopoulos interview with him yesterday along with reading the transcript of the omitted parts of that interview) is the more general rambling dissociation that Biden seems to have.

Biden is truly disengaged from reality.  But I don’t know if it is lies or lack of mental competence.  Either way, it is embarrassing to see this behavior in the President of the United States of America.  And it is frightening.  To me he seems like a senile old man that I wouldn’t let near my kitchen stove for fear of some disaster, yet this is the man who has his finger on the button of our nuclear arsenal.  Think about that for a minute, especially those of you who wrung your hands for four years because Trump had that access, crying that the world would end.

Biden, like a cranky old man, decided to pull out of Afghanistan and so he did.  Period.  His mission was accomplished.  But it was done so without a plan, without thought, without listening or hearing the advice of his own experts, without any concern for the survival of American citizens and their allies.  This is not the behavior of a competent president of the greatest nation in the world.

Like a child, or like an adult with an infantile mind, Biden just did what he felt like - apparently without any thought. This is truly dangerous behavior for an American President.

So where is everyone who was so concerned about every daily word and gesture of President Trump?  Have you lost interest in America?  Are you ashamed that you voted for this sad excuse for a world leader?  Are the voices in your heads telling you “Walk on by, nothing to see here”?

If the past 8 months have not already convinced you that the mind of our current president is not up to the task, then certainly this Afghanistan debacle should persuade you.  Joe may or may not be a nice guy, but he is not competent to hold office. 

This country is in crisis.  Not because it is not woke, but because its President is asleep at the wheel.  His world, and his alleged leadership, is disconnected from reality.  As such, he is destroying America if not the world.  And too many Americans seem to be willing to just close their eyes and let him do it.

Now is not the time to turn your back on America like Joe seems to be doing.

Putting on a Show is Not Leadership

Just an update from this morning’s post regarding Afghanistan and Biden.

So Joe flew in from vacation, gave a speech that did not address the real issue, and flew back out again.  Back to a vacation that seems to be more important to him that his job as leader of this country.  And so we go back to black out silence from the White House.

The speech was off point.  Biden’s assertive claim that “the buck stops here” was meaningless in light of the fact that he took no responsibility whatsoever for the disaster of this pull out. 

Rather, Biden (as predicted) blamed everyone but himself:  Trump, the Afghan military, the Afghan leaders, even the Afghan people themselves.  Perhaps even the people of America as he seemed to think we needed some sort of schooling about the history of American involvement in Afghanistan.

Trying to deflect from the real issue, Biden presented this crisis as if it were about the choice to stay in Afghanistan or pull out.  That is a different question from the issue of the actual circumstances of the pullout itself.  (Or, maybe he doesn’t really understand what today’s issue is)

Since the beginning of our involvement in Afghanistan the American people have been divided on whether or not we should be there and if so, how long we should remain.  Four presidents have presided over that question.   Previous presidents have worked to decrease the size of our military presence there.  Trump had a plan to pull out our troops which he was doing slowly, and with a plan that included severe response if the Taliban acted to take over the country.  Every former president’s plans regarding Afghanistan have been met with criticism, but they have not resulted in the ruinous consequences that we are seeing today.

While Biden can point to other presidents as having some responsibility for what happened throughout America’s time in Afghanistan, he cannot place blame for the actual manner in which the pull out was handled on those prior administrations.

Biden alone made the decision to fully pull out at this moment.  He can do that as president, even against the advice of his own military advisors.  While he focused on the question of whether or not we should remain in Afghanistan and spent most of the time defending his decision to pull out, that is not the issue today.

Biden’s decision to pull out ended the pending question of whether or not we should remain in Afghanistan. 

The current issue is the atrocious lack of planning and foresight of the Biden administration in carrying out that pull out decision. 

Biden’s pull out began in the middle of the night with no warning to our Afghani allies.  The Taliban acted in a way that was apparently predictable to most military and foreign affairs experts.  Those predictions were carried to Biden, but he either did not understand or ignored them and simply pulled out with no plan.

This calamitous pullout is catastrophic for human rights in Afghanistan – for women, children, LGBTQ+, and others.  It is a death sentence for many Afghanis.  It is a gift to terrorists such as Al Qaida. 

Biden in his speech asserted his concern for human rights in Afghanistan – yet at this point and with the Taliban in control, it will be close to impossible for him to do anything for those rights.

Biden also said we would get both our personnel and our allies out, from the airport.  Does he understand that the airport is not yet secured and that there is only one road into the airport which is controlled by a Taliban roadblock?  Does he know that many whom he says we will fly out are not at the airport having been told by his administration to shelter in place?  Does he even know there is no plan?

Biden gave a speech full of tough words and crocodile tears and statements of his concern for human rights and assertions of what a great leader he is.  He put on a show that I think the American people are smart enough not to fall for.

I think that Biden has no real idea at all what is going on and he has no plan (never had a plan) for the actual pull out that he decided to order.  He belatedly floats in from vacation, gives a speech that ignores the real issue and deflects blame on everyone but himself, and floats back off to who knows where.  He claims to be a humanitarian, that humanitarianism is the core of his foreign policy, but ignores that the manner in which this pull out was executed is devastating for any humanitarian cause.

The situation in Afghanistan is frightful, the horribly executed pull out is the cause, and the blame for that falls entirely upon Biden – yes, the buck for that does stop with him, if only he would acknowledge that.

I am left with the same question that I had when I wrote this morning’s post:  Do we even have a President?  At this point my answer is:  Certainly not a competent one.

 

Do We Even Have a President? A Rant.

As I write this our President is still in hiding.  The press secretary has closed her press office for a week.  Democrats continue to simply point a finger at the previous administration for every failure of the current Biden administration.  Indeed, as noted in my previous post, blame seems to be the only thing this administration does well.  This morning, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the failure of the Afghan military is to blame for the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan.

As America and the world fall apart around us, I wonder what the Biden voters are thinking?  How do they feel when they learn that the people we abandoned in the middle of the night in Afghanistan are clinging to the final aircraft leaving Kabul and then falling to their death from 1000 feet in the sky?  How do they feel when they learn that gunfire at the airport involving our military has now resulted in at least two deaths?  How do they feel when our woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley tells us that terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda will now reconstitute themselves far more quickly than expected and in less than 2 years?  What about the Afghani women and children to whom we gave education and hope who now will be faced with the harshness of Sharia law for their progress?

Do you even know that this embarrassment that some experts call the worst blunder in American international history is even going on?  Where is the outrage?  You certainly had plenty over every word out of President Trump’s mouth.  Or are you now just too busy wondering if your neighbor is wearing their mask when they have visitors inside their own house?

Those of you that are old enough must be feeling some of the same as you did in 1975 during the final pullout from Vietnam.  Or doesn’t it matter any more just so long as we don’t have Donald Trump for president?

The terrorist threat is back.   Not from your neighbor who opposes vaccines and mask mandates but from the new power of the Taliban combined with our open borders.  You who voted for Biden were so afraid of Trump – do you feel safer now?

But you have all seemingly gone into hiding with our supposed President.  Do you have any idea how Biden is absolutely destroying this country beyond any hope of repair?  And now he is doing the same to the world.

Good luck when you can’t buy gas or food or other necessary or nearly necessary consumer goods; when inflation is so high that your paycheck becomes close to worthless.  Good luck when the big government entitlement and other help programs run out of money because no one is working or able to pay the taxes they require.  Good luck when your primary value in life becomes hate rather than tolerance for anyone who thinks, looks, or is in a different identity group from you.

And as to the world and America’s place in it:  Biden’s handling (or mishandling) of the Afghanistan withdrawal has put us in peril with both our allies and our enemies.  The allies will never trust us again, and the enemies know that if they just are patient, we don’t have the stamina to finish the fight and they can win whatever battle they have with us in the end.

Perhaps you don’t know what is going on.  Afterall, while the Taliban can still post on Twitter and other social media, Trump along with other conservative voices are banned.  You are fed only what supports the party line; contrary facts and expert voices are excluded.  Pelosi banned questions from Republican Congress people to experts about what is happening in Afghanistan.   Even the facts you are given by the administration and the mainstream media are often distorted.  But perhaps you don’t care.  You got rid of the “evil orange man” and so all is well.

I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are clueless about what is going on.  So, here are some current news pieces you may not have seen.  I hope that you will read and think about them and perhaps take a moment to speak up.  At least take the time to say a prayer for the American lives that were and are being lost in Afghanistan apparently for nothing and for the Afghanis who stood by us and helped us while we were there and whom we are now abandoning to the Taliban.

From former U.S. Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011 :

“This is the worst loss in American history. Our most popular president has vanished. Prove me wrong.”

“Everything Democrats touch turns to s**t. Prove me wrong.”

“My friends who died for no reason would be disgusted with this administration.”

“Have any of our generals and admirals resigned out of disgrace yet?”

“We’ve heard more from The Taliban than we have from the most popular president in our history. Anything @PressSec ?”

“People are being killed trying to evacuate Kabul. But don’t worry… Jen Psaki will tell us what’s actually happening once dips**t goes to sleep.”

“Do I have this all right?: Our border is wide open, China’s biological weapon is surging, we closed our pipelines but opened Russia’s, the Taliban is back in charge, we are defunding the police and people with penises are women. What did I miss?”

“Joe Biden opposed the raid to kill bin Laden. At least he lost Afghanistan in 7 months.”

“Remember when people held hands and jump to their deaths out of the twin towers? Neither does @POTUS”

From Kurt Volker, expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities.  “Afghanistan’s End Portends a Darker U.S. Future” LINK  

NY Time Guest Opinion “Biden could have stopped the Taliban, He Chose not to” LINK

The New Yorker – “Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era?” LINK

From USA Today,  “Biden's Afghanistan horror: A well-intentioned miscalculation with disastrous, predictable results”    LINK 

“Please America, don’t miss this one lesson from Afghanistan” LINK