Afghanistan

It’s remarkable how quickly liberals abandoned the women of Afghanistan.

Back in April, The Nation magazine told readers that the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would be “a welcome and long-overdue action.” The essay, by a scholar named Phyllis Bennis, sounded upbeat, even salubrious. It was the liberal case in full: We Americans were a wretched people to have gone there and a depraved people to have stayed for two decades. Some collateral damage upon our retreat was to be expected. We had spent too much time, she suggests, celebrating “the important but tiny gains in human rights won by the small sliver of women living in the cities, while the 75 percent of Afghan women who live in isolated villages and rural areas continue to face the highest level of infant mortality in the world.”

America and it’s allies forgot the lessons of WW II, whether the emperor worshipping Japanese or our modern day Islamists the only solution is to kill them all if need be. 

The ability of U.S. security officials to monitor and disrupt the activities of Islamist terror groups will be severely diminished as a consequence of the Biden administration’s catastrophic decision to end America’s military involvement in Afghanistan.

One of the most notable achievements of the US-led coalition’s presence in Afghanistan during the past two decades has been its relentless campaign to destroy the terrorist infrastructure of Islamist terror groups such as Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organisation.

In the years immediately following the September 11th attacks in 2001, American and other intelligence agencies estimated that around 80 percent of Islamist-inspired terror plots against the West originated from Afghanistan or the lawless tribal territories on the Pakistani border.

Afghanistan was a sinkhole for blood and treasure, getting out was long overdue. But bombs and drones work, get serious about Islam and they’ll have a change of heart, screw the collateral damage, act up and every scrap of infrastructure is gone, mass death from above can change minds. Domestically – deport whole families of terrorists.

US troops used teargas and fired warning shots to control crowds of desperate Afghans at Kabul airport overnight as they crowded entrances while Westerners in the city were blocked from making their way towards evacuation flights by Taliban fighters who stopped them on their journey.

The chaos in Kabul continued into its fifth day on Thursday as thousands of natives surrounded the airport, desperate to be put on an evacuation flight to anywhere by one of the many NATO countries that are sending planes out, some of them half-empty.

Overnight, 12 US Air Force C-17 jets removed 2,000 people from the region – an average of just 160 people per flight, despite the planes being able to carry 600 people – six fewer aircraft than in the previous 24 hours. Since August 14, the US has only removed 7,000 people in total from the region.