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Days after the Biden administration finished evacuating about 124,000 people from Afghanistan, it’s coming to grips with the reality that it doesn’t know who many of those people are.
I knew immediately that was the situation when US clamped down on people getting through at Kabul a day or two after evacuations began, insisting USpassports and/or approved SIV's, not just apps. And, then further restricted after that. It was obvious the first few flights contained anyone - there was no serious screening at first - as we soon discovered when they disembarked at Doha. Look at all the Afghanis on the airfield, hanging on to the plane. These were kids, many of them. They had no papers. They had no business on that airfield. Yet, they got through the gates.
There is no putting lipstick on this pig. Biden didn't need to draw down troops beyond the 2,500 there when he took office. He didn't need to withdraw at all. Taliban was not complying with the original agreement. Everyone knew Afghan govt was shaky. Yet, Biden, for his own selfish, political reasons continued the drawdown until only 600 troops remained to secure the airport and an orderly withdrawal. That his generals allowed this is unforgivable. Someone should have resigned before executing this failed mission.
We now have an international security threat in Afghanistan. ISIS-K, al-Qaeda have a safe haven in Afghanistan. Taliban won't be able to control either group. These are ragtag teams, illiterate, primitive, barbaric, whose only reason for existence is to fight. There is nothing going on their brains other than rape women and kill people. Taliban will have its hands full trying to control either group. If Taliban isn't careful, they may yet be overthrown.
Biden clearly doesn't have an A-team. Austin chosen b/c he wouldn't buck authority. Not sure what's going on with Milley. Blinken has been rubbing me the wrong way for a while. Mike Wallace said today Blinken talking like a competent staffer, not a leader - and has verbalized my unease with this guy. He appears weak.
We've now inflicted upon ourselves and the world a whole new set of problems - refugee resettlement (as if that wasn't already bad enough), resurrection of terrorism - far worse than if we had just stayed in Afghanistan with enough ground troops to keep things under control.
saw this coming miles away Male Afghan evacuees trafficking their child brides into the US: State Department seeks 'urgent guidance' on older men presenting underage girls as their 'wives' at intake centers https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...brides-US.html
This explains the deafening silence in our local media on the refugees at Ft. McCoy, WI. I've been wondering at the lack of coverage. Nothing in our local paper, which is very good as far as papers go these days, which I read front to back every day. I saw a small segment on local news last night, some people in this rural area concerned about the "other" - but nothing about child brides/trafficking/polygamy, etc. This debacle is a gift that keeps on giving.
This explains the deafening silence in our local media on the refugees at Ft. McCoy, WI. I've been wondering at the lack of coverage. Nothing in our local paper, which is very good as far as papers go these days, which I read front to back every day. I saw a small segment on local news last night, some people in this rural area concerned about the "other" - but nothing about child brides/trafficking/polygamy, etc. This debacle is a gift that keeps on giving.
That is the silence the Jewish people heard in Nazi Germany prior to the terror raised against them.
Multiple incidents have been identified at these intake centers where Afghan girls have been brought to authorities as "wives" of men much older than them, according to The Associated Press. Child marriage isn't a rare occurrence in Afghanistan.
Alleged child brides were brought to Wisconsin's For McCoy, leading the State Department to seek "urgent guidance" on the matter, according to an internal document seen by the AP.
Officials familiar with another document explained that it described Afghan girls at an Abu Dhabi, UAE transit site alleged they were raped by older men who forced them into marriage to escape from Afghanistan, the AP reported.
It made sense. Biden Admin wanted to "fly-out" as many as they could. This would make them look good. In fact, MSM should ask where were those Afgh coming from since taliban controlled all the checkpoints?
Nonsense. Trump and Biden and others were all blindsided well before Biden was sworn in.
The issue is whether Trump could have done a better job on the withdrawal.. He might also have reengaged and continued the war without end. Lots of American dead as we took control back. So yeah Trump might have done better but he also could have done far worse.
As I've said before, timing would have been everything. Or at least a hell of a lot of things. If the withdrawal had started during the winter and completed by May 1, it would have kept the Taliban out of the picture. That would have changed the entire character of the withdrawal even if nothing else was different.
The September 1 timing was optimum for a Taliban advancement. That was a critical Biden error--purely political because there was certainly no tactical reason for a September 1 withdrawal deadline.
You have to laugh when liberals thought our involvement and tax dollars in Afghanistan would ever come to an end.
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The American military’s involvement in Afghanistan could soon become largely the Navy’s responsibility, an ironic twist for a counterterrorism mission in a landlocked country.
Although the Navy has long privately bristled at the requirement to deploy one or even two aircraft carriers at a time to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf to support the ground fights in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the lack of U.S.-controlled airfields near Afghanistan could mean more planes taking off from decks at sea.
Even if the lie that the ceremony was over when Biden looked at his watch, it still reflects poorly on Biden, the Commander-In-Chief. This country is now a joke in the eyes of the world, thanks to Biden's botched withdrawal.
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Male Afghan evacuees trafficking their child brides into the US: State Department seeks 'urgent guidance' on older men presenting underage girls as their 'wives' at intake centers
