Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Has Left the West Defenseless against Islamist Terrorists

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.

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Taliban Going Door-To-Door Seeking Christians, Searching Through Phones For Bible Apps: Report

Afghan Christians are reportedly fleeing to the mountains in a desperate attempt to escape the Taliban who is going door-to-door trying to kill them.

An underground church that partners with Frontier Alliance International (FAI) has reported that the Taliban are targeting Christians for death.

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Duh: ‘Almost impossible’ for Canada to get everyone out of Afghanistan: Trudeau

OTTAWA – Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said Thursday his government is unlikely to get everyone who has asked Canada for help out of Afghanistan, because of the Taliban’s stranglehold on the country.

At a campaign stop in Victoria, B.C., Trudeau said Canada now has massive transport aircraft on the ground in Kabul and has staff that are working with Afghans to get them out of the country, but he cautioned the planes may not leave with everyone Canada wants to help.

Damn those Afghans for drawing attention away from your election campaign!

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Pakistan rejoices at Taliban victory as West flounders

Afghanistan has a familiar power back in place. Kabul has fallen. The Taliban have won. And Pakistanis are euphoric.

To many a foe, but to others a friend, the cloistered group of extremists has long held cordial ties with Islamabad, and the Taliban’s recent rise from the flames has left many Pakistanis in raptures.

Even the country’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has been waxing lyrical, heaping eulogies on the group of militants, who openly violated women’s rights, in addition to flouting a number of other norms of the civilized world, during their stint in power from 1996 to 2001.

Khan, who often resorts to anti-West rhetoric, said Monday during a ceremony in Islamabad that Afghans have broken the “shackles of slavery.” It was seen as a clear endorsement of Afghanistan’s new rulers, but also as a sideswipe at those who invaded Pakistan’s neighbor in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States.

h/t John

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Biden Snaps, Falls Apart in Interview on Afghanistan Crisis

President Joe Biden continued to struggle with his response to the crisis in Afghanistan after days of hunkering down and seemingly waiting for the storm to blow over.

Faced with an outcry from the press over the president’s unwillingness to answer questions about the chaotic conclusion of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, Biden did an interview with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos at the White House to defend his actions.

“That was four days ago, five days ago,” will haunt Senile Joe.


Defiant Biden Bristles, Refuses to Admit Mistakes in First Interview Since Fall of Afghanistan

Even among friendly company, President Joe Biden gets defensive. Sitting with Democrat-operative-turned-political-commentator George Stephanopoulos, Biden said he doesn’t see how the United States could have avoided “chaos ensuing” during the ignoble effort to evacuate people from Afghanistan.


Something Is Wrong with the President

The transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos dropped, and the president’s incoherence, insistence that he was incorrectly briefed, denial that he was warned by his military advisers, and oddly low profile in the past week raise troubling questions about his ability to perform his duties.


‘We are literally screwed’: The hits keep coming as Joe Biden repeats WH’s lie that ‘we don’t have military in Syria’

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US troops fire shots into the air and use teargas on desperate crowds as chaos at Kabul airport enters fifth day: Taliban block Westerners from reaching flights and Afghan mothers give their BABIES to soldiers

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.

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‘First-Come, First-Serve’: US Military Can’t Ensure ‘Safe Passage’ to Kabul Airport as Taliban step up hunt for collaborators

‘First-Come, First-Serve’: US Embassy Says Military Can’t Ensure ‘Safe Passage’ to Kabul Airport

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said Wednesday the federal government and military cannot ensure the safe passage to the Kabul airport after Taliban extremists took over the capital as video footage shows throngs of people trying to enter the facility.

“The United States government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport,” the U.S. Embassy wrote in a security alert issued on Wednesday, adding that “the security situation in Kabul continues to change quickly, including at the airport.”


‘Taliban intensifying hunt for people who collaborated with US and Nato troops’

A UN document says the Taliban are intensifying their hunt for people who worked for and collaborated with Nato and US forces.

The confidential paper was produced by the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses, which provides the UN with intelligence information.

“The Taliban are arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban,” the document, seen by the BBC said.

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Here’s all the US military equipment that likely ended up in Taliban hands

The Biden administration admitted on Tuesday that the Taliban had captured a significant amount of U.S. military equipment originally supplied to Afghan security forces during the militants’ blitzkrieg on Kabul in recent weeks — and the U.S. doesn’t know exactly how much American gear they’ve lost to terrorist hands.

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Taliban makes Democrats, Joe Biden, and social media into figures of fun

The terrorist dirtbags of the Taliban, having had the entire nation of Afghanistan handed to them by Joe Biden, are now having a grand old time mocking the media world the Democrats have created. They’re gibing at Democrat-endorsed social media censorship, making Joe Biden and his fawning press a figure of fun, and using their own access to social media to consolidate power. Grotesquely enough, they know where the U.S. vulnerabilities are, given the house the Democrats have built.

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Three things to know about the Taliban

The Taliban view themselves as the humble servant of God on Earth. Their name literally means “students,” in this case, “students” of medieval-era extremist teachings under the Sunni-Hanafi Islamic school. But where terrorist allies of the Taliban such as al Qaeda are centered in Salafi-jihadi narratives, the Taliban are more complicated. They also have roots in Pashtun tribal politics, a dynamic that has given the group enduring influence in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

h/t Canuklehead

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Biden’s most heartless betrayal – America cares more about pronouns than the fate of Afghan women

“I’ve been clear,” President Joe Biden told the American people on Monday, “that human rights must be the centre of our foreign policy, not the periphery. But the way to do it is not through endless military deployments. It’s with our diplomacy, our economic tools, and rallying the world to join us.”

As I listened to those words, I found myself admiring the political skill of Biden’s speechwriters — and despising their utter callousness. I wanted to shout at the TV: But what about the 19 million women now sentenced by American foreign policy to a life of darkness under the Taliban? Surely they deserve human rights, too?

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The Afghanistan Lessons America Refused To Learn

A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government’s failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.

As the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan continues to brutally unfold, there are not a few “we told you so” lecturers out there. But nobody has earned their stripes more than the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Created by Congress in 2008, SIGAR’s job is to serve as independent oversight over the more than $140 billion dollars appropriated for the country’s reconstruction efforts.

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Pentagon: No plans for rescuing Americans in Afghanistan who can’t get to the airport

There are no plans yet to aid Americans unable to make it past the tight cordon the Taliban has placed around Hamid Karzai International Airport, the base of the expanding U.S. evacuation effort in Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s spokesman acknowledged Wednesday.

In the last 24 hours, 18 Air Force C-17 cargo jets lifted off from the airport with about 2,000 passengers, of which 325 were U.S. citizens. The remaining numbers were Afghan civilians and some NATO personnel, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.

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