A TABLIBAN BLITZKRIEG
gears of a C-17 Air Force plane in flight. Outside the still-secured gates of the airport, reports are mounting of Taliban going house to house in the capital city looking for collaborators to execute. SAIGON ON STEROIDS For the Biden White House, this is a disaster on every level... President Biden promised the American people in July that the Afghan national army was large, well-equipped, and more than capable of taking on the Taliban. As Commander-in-Chief, he assured us that the situation in Afghanistan would in no way resemble what the North Vietnamese did to the South in 1975. Then, photos of Chinook transport helicopters were published evacuating the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as the Taliban closed in. Some described the unfolding scenes of Afghan despair as “Saigon on steroids.”
The mirage of Afghanistan as an enduring, stable democracy evaporated. America spent 20 years, almost a trillion dollars, and thousands of U.S. casualties – all for this outcome? There is a widely circulated video of an Afghan man falling to his death from the from a total withdrawal of military forces in Afghanistan and has now had to re-deploy 6,000 troops just to secure our hasty exit. It’s a total debacle. A humanitarian disaster is also unfolding, as evidenced by desperate Afghans rushing out onto the runways at Kabul’s international airport, pleading to get on flights to anywhere outside of Taliban control. The overthrow of the central government and total victory of the Taliban happened so rapidly, Americans are still in disbelief... The United States was still weeks away
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