Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Will Become A Hostage Crisis

[Ptarmigan]

Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Will Become A Hostage Crisis
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/bidens-afghanistan-disaster-will-become-a-hostage-crisis/

The 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis defined the Carter administration. Iranian students allied with Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini seized the US Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. The episode sapped American morale, humiliated the United States on the world stage, and ended any possibility of Carter’s re-election.

The Afghanistan debacle may now make that look like the good ol’ days.

The rapid Taliban advance stranded several thousand Americans in Kabul and across Afghanistan. The US Embassy in Kabul has urged Americans first to shelter in place and then to make their way to the airport for evacuation. It warned, however, that it could not guarantee the safety of the routes to the airport. That may be sage advice: The Taliban have shut off access to the airport. Bold Afghans now share videos via social media of Taliban thugs using whips and pipes to beat men, women, and children who try to go to the airport. Administration officials like National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, White House Spokesman Jen Psaki, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin refuse to guarantee that they will evacuate all Americans.

What a disaster.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Sounds like there are mini hostage/blackmail situations from checkpoint-to-checkpoint.

[Eupher]

Never let it be said that Ann Coulter is a wuss. She's as cold-blooded as they come.

On Monday, Biden gave the best presidential address in recent memory -- a full-throated, America-First statement of our interests. "I want to remind everyone," he began, "how we got here and what America's interests are in Afghanistan."

That seemed to bring some conservatives back to reality. They must have overheard themselves talking and realized, Wait, I'm against permanent war! But they had to come up with some reason to be against Biden, so they temporized, Of course we want the war to end, we're just upset at how he did it!

Oh, give it up, conservatives.

1) How smoothly did you expect the withdrawal of American troops from a country of warlords, brigands and pedophiles to go?

2) Our military brass, upstanding folks like Gen. Mark "I Want to Understand White Rage" Milley, may be incapable of creating the most minimal fighting force given $1 trillion and 20 years. On the other hand, they are fully equipped to create colossal fiascos -- say, making the withdrawal as messy and embarrassing as possible, so that no one will ever try to end this war again.

But for maximum brain-deadery, nothing beats the liberal media's incessant bleating about our moral obligation to Afghans who "risked their lives to help us!"

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