This is a painful interview between furrowed brow Jake Tapper, painfully wanting to defend the administration and yet the total failure is too insurmountable to defend, and an abjectly overwhelmed and clueless Secretary of State Anthony Blinken – who is trying to explain the complete mess they have created.
The background here is the history of foreign policy failures and boondoggles by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton…. and the transferring of those same geopolitical outlooks into the Biden administration. Blinken talks in platitudes of diplomacy that are irrelevant today. The Chinese, Russians and Afghanistan Taliban don’t give a tinkers-damn what the dementia nurses around Biden are talking about.
The pearl-clutching Biden/Blinken approach is just as irrelevant as the bomb-dropping Obama/Clinton approach. Team Biden act as if the Taliban cares about what Facebook, Twitter and Instagram voices say about them; it’s nuts. The single-minded totalitarian Taliban don’t care about the United States or United Nations any more than they care about Tik Tok or CNN opinions.
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I’m left wondering where Ayman al-Zawahiri is in all of this?
Ayman Al Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden
Cliffs Notes version of Blinken on Tapper show:
”It’s Trump’s fault. Now we surrender to the Taliban we have, not the Taliban we want or wish to have.”
This is far worse than the Fall of Saigon. Those choppers taking off from the Kabul Embassy tell it all. There is NO way Joe’s Bidet and his handlers will ever be able to paper this over.
Those pictures are simply too raw. Too graphic.
I lived in Pearl Harbor when Saigon fell. I recall the ships coming home. It was a pretty dim moment but at least the DOD had been preparing and executing the evac because they were paying attention, making plans and putting them into action right after Da Nang fell.
Then you got the thousands of Americans, and the tens of thousands of our allies left behind.
Do you recall the Tehran US Embassy hostages? I do, vividly.
Will now CNN start carrying the number of American Hostages in Kabul with a day counter? Just like ABC (the American Media) did during the Carter Administration?
People like the Taliban respect strong leaders who send clear and unambiguous signals, like Trump and Reagan did. Buffoons like Joe’s Bidet and his handlers are clearly incompetent…. and unlike Carter who at least was a patriot, these a$$ho!es are clearly unAmerican.
And now, NOW, the Bidet administration is sending more military to Kabul. Seriously? This is gonna be a Black Hawk Down moment. Times a thousand…
Have you noticed how it’s always Democrat presidents that drag us into the worse wars?
God help us.
The Taliban don’t ‘send clear signals’. They were too busy being insurgents.
That’s American media-messaging talk. Is that why we were in Afghanistan? To polish our messaging capability? Maybe you’ve been watching too much TV.
I think you didn’t properly read the poster’s words: “People like the Taliban respect strong leaders who send clear and unambiguous signals. . . .” Clearly, the poster is saying that the Taliban only respect strength and clear, unambiguous signals from other leaders.
We were in Afghanistan to back channel money to elected representatives families.
And to protect the heroin drug trade money for the CIA’s use.
Just wait till the mass execution of those trapped begin. And then we send our troops back in an attempt to save those people. And then wait till Biden finally resigns or is removed and the other half takes over.
All I have to say is that they Breyer expose this fraud election for people to realize that we’ve been duped into all of this misery.
If those “trapped” are Afghan, why do we care? We wasted 20 years of blood and treasure trying to get them civilization and a functioning democratic government. If they lost, it’s because they are cowards and dropped their U.S. issued firearm and ran from 75k Taliban like they were pursued by the devil. Stand. Fight. Dare the Taliban to try and take your country! If not, this American could not care less what happens to you, Afghan. You must like the Taliban, you keep letting them rule you.
Silly you. Thinking like a American standing and fighting.
Unsolicited FOG tip (f&$king old guy). Folks in the Middle East don’t fight for their country only their families. Reason government doesn’t do anything for them.
Deep state will sacrifice Afghans and Americans to preserve their money train. Soon they’ll find another country to save while destroying it and more Americans.
Not worse. We left Vietnam leaving 55,000 dead soldiers in our history books.
Hyperbole shouldn’t be employed in this situation.
So far, have we seen the local cowards and street walkers hanging off the struts of departing aircraft yet? That was my most vivid memory of the fall of Saigon.
People to sorry to fight for their land should never be allowed to come pollute mine.
You have no understanding of the situation.
Does anyone knock on your door and hand you a bullet telling you to leave because of your religion?
Do you tremble because a military officer can send you to a desert outpost, never to see your family for duration of service?
Do you live in fear of death because you helped Americans get rid of murderous terrorist in your neighborhood?
America desperately needs some Taliban. Men and women determined to take back their country from illegitimate interlopers. Comparing/ contrasting a Red Quigley with a Blue Quigley (and alleging there’s a qualitative edge of one over the other) doesn’t scratch this itch. That kind of analysis is analogous to political class policy failure. Same culture, same failing?
The problem lies with the People and their shocking inertia. It’s the peeps that keep pearl-clutching through half-a-dozen indignities done to them daily. Swapping the deckchair color scheme on the Titanic will not melt the iceberg. That’s Critical Race Theory.
We’re choked with twitter stars and MAGA media luminaries. What we’re short on are Taliban insurgency advisers. Good luck to them as they rebuild their nation via self-determination. Because THAT’S what nationalism is all about.
The black eye goes to the globalists who stole America for their own ends. Shame on Americans for permitting their kids to serve in a 20 year conflict that no one could ever furnish a rationale for.
-FSD
You will be amazed at how far some LEO will go to protect their pension.
Some will step right in line with the ruling ideology and not hesitate to pull the trigger on Quigley Americans.
The first major move should be to free the 1-6 political protesters. Step two should be to celebrate their freedom and ours.
Then get after the bastards who’ve created all this woe.
“The black eye goes to the globalists who stole America for their own ends.”
With the help of elected representatives, compliant media and private corporations b
July 8th. Biden: Afghan has 300k troops as well equipped as any world military vs 75k Taliban. Afghans will not fail nor fall.
Aug 13: Afghans fall in 72 hrs….AND ALL that military equip in hands of Taliban, China, Iraq, Iran, Al Queda…..and Joe at Camp David, ON VACATION, Kamala is where? And Milley…is where??
Yet, Bliken says, Afghans could never stand on their own???
Gees louise…are we in trouble….
This Admin is being run by 2-3-4 factions and NONE have a clue…they are blithering idiots…very left-wing zealots that think CRT, wokeness, p.c, gayness, closures, masking, illegal immigrations and their disbursement across our USA into our communities with welfare and lives totally pd for on the backs of US taxpayers, destroying American fuel capacity and production, shutting down nuclear energy and ‘green’ everything, electric cars………..is the priority and making dam** sure American freedoms and liberties are destroyed and eroded every day….EVERYDAY. another chink in the armour of our natural born, constitutional rights…
Note to the Professional Left (including “journalists”: THIS is what an insurrection looks like.
And Marsha Blackburn laments the loss of “the gains we made over the last 20 years”.
Beyotch…..THERE WERE NO GAINS.
It was all fake.
GAINS??
R’s want to find solace in their votes, supporting, war neocons heroes and act as if they have NO contribution or are hands-off. R’s just as dam* guilty as Dems in this fiasco. And it will END very badly…VERY badly.
She’s just a talking heard Breitbart uses weekly to be ‘conservative’….
She’s a Cruz, Rubio, Cotten, et als….conservative in name only BUT dollar-driven, greed driven and not worth one DAM***
On the other hand, T winning next election just became exponentially more likely. Thought there was no chance…
What a mess.
I know it hard to comprehend. You must flush that thought from your head.
From November 2020 forward ALL elections will be stolen for the progressive project.
Think Ryan Crocker suddenly went out on a limb all by himself in directly criticizing Biden and facing the full wrath of media, deep state, Obama, et al?
Very doubtful.
Milley resign yet?
While we know RATS are always wrong and always destructive … the reality of the ACTUAL wrong and destruction is still stunning!
At some point, this regime in DC needs to be relieved of their duties. They stole the country from us. We are gonna have to take it back. Preferably peaceably. That is up to the crooks who did this to us. Whether it’s this year, 2022, or 2024, we are taking it back and we are going to put those responsible in jail. The uniparty is running on credibility fumes. Happy talk time is over. This is OUR COUNTRY AT STAKE.
And total silence from filthy RINO traitor bush43.
The esteemed Colonel ‘O Say Can You See Vindman’ (Rush) should be set down at Kabul’s airport in full uni with two flags and a flare gun to supervise the orderly air evacuation. Of course Ukraine will need a new Defense Minister. These deep state progs never stop lying.
This is so. It’s too bad so many of them don’t even know it.
I can remember when private citizen Donald Trump questioned the excuses for why we were in Afghanistan at all.
How many conservatives bought into the ludicrous “we can’t find him, he’s in a cave” fable? Way too many.
Dips**t and what would have been my replies to him.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken on ABC’s This Week:
“This is manifestly not Saigon.”
Correct. It is Kabul.
“We went into Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind, and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11, and that mission has been successful.”
Yes. It was. Way back in 2002.
All part of Nancy’s plan to get herself into the Oval Office. It’s been a long-term plan and she’s played it well. Amazing she’s been able to stay so focused. But soon will come the calls to remove Biden from office then, before a new VP can be named, it’ll be Kamala’s turn to go. Then, viola!!!
Perhaps. But if her opponents play her recent statement about Afghanistan’s women over and over again she will not make it. “’Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table,’ the Speaker added. Gotta love that “must.” That should impress the Taliban as it closes schools for girls, forces marriages to Taliban fighters, and bars women from public or prominent commercial life. Mrs. Pelosi is so used to giving political lectures she doesn’t seem to realize she is detached from reality.” Or even better, “The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions.” The world is watching (and laughing) all right which is exactly what the Taliban want. And I’m sure the Taliban gives a royal crap about what Nancy, the U.S. government, the international community, or anyone else says they should/must do. They have won and Nancy and her boy, Biden, and the rest of the Democrat party are right at the center of that.
There must be some veterans groups of families that had members serve and later be maimed/killed. What are they saying ? Are they just going to go along with our corrupt government and pretend all sorts of good was accomplished ?
We will “pin” this event, and remember it when the neo Marxists purge of all American free speech occurs. It is, of course. only one inflection point in a deep swamp full of inflection points.
I’ll try to manage a wry grin when the government, google, twitter and facebook eliminate all private media broadcasting that doesn’t toe the line.
Only a minute or so in, I had to stop. Losing too many brain cells trying to keep up with so early in a new week.
Now, I see where they made a great announcement that they’re going to move hundreds of thousands of mooslims to the USA onto our military bases! WTH?!?
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Here are part of our Mass Readings for today. This evil is here and we know how God Himself tried to make people listen. Are we awake yet?
Reading I Jgs 2:11-19
The children of Israel offended the LORD by serving the Baals.
Abandoning the LORD, the God of their fathers,
who led them out of the land of Egypt,
they followed the other gods of the various nations around them,
and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD.
Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the Ashtaroth,
the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,
and he delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them.
He allowed them to fall into the power of their enemies round about
whom they were no longer able to withstand.
Whatever they undertook, the LORD turned into disaster for them,
as in his warning he had sworn he would do,
till they were in great distress.
Even when the LORD raised up judges to deliver them
from the power of their despoilers,
they did not listen to their judges,
but abandoned themselves to the worship of other gods.
They were quick to stray from the way their fathers had taken,
and did not follow their example of obedience
to the commandments of the LORD.
Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, he would be with the judge
and save them from the power of their enemies
as long as the judge lived;
it was thus the LORD took pity on their distressful cries
of affliction under their oppressors.
But when the judge died,
they would relapse and do worse than their ancestors,
following other gods in service and worship,
relinquishing none of their evil practices or stubborn conduct.
Responsorial Psalm 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They did not exterminate the peoples,
as the LORD had commanded them,
But mingled with the nations
and learned their works.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They served their idols,
which became a snare for them.
They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They became defiled by their works,
and wanton in their crimes.
And the LORD grew angry with his people,
and abhorred his inheritance.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
Many times did he rescue them,
but they embittered him with their counsels.
Yet he had regard for their affliction
when he heard their cry.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
If all of the western women, girls, and boys do not get airlifted out of Kabul then that raping will all be on Biden. The murdering and torturing of the Afghani men and women who worked with the Americans, just as in Vietnam, will also be on Biden. The deaths of our soldiers in the coming weeks, months?, in Afghanistan will also be on Biden. I hope that the powerful people behind the “steal” are happy with their coup.
“We’d Be Back At War With The Taliban If We Hadn’t Withdrawn From Afghanistan Now” translation: we would not be able to grease the wheels of the MIC…
Good grief I couldn’t make it all the way through. Blinken didn’t listen to the interviewer he was just having his own conversation.
Not only is Biden (obozo III) our worst president ever, so is his cabinet. What a bunch of sponge heads.
Where did they find this blinken screwball. Has he been hiding behind a desk inside the state dept for the last 20 years, or something?
Were I an Afghani, I’d have packed up and left for a safer clime the day after our faux election..
They knew what was going to happen, you and I knew what would happen, and even a random American teenager waiting on the new Congress to approve his bonus unemployment checks could have predicted what would happen.
All the things Biden said wouldn’t happen just six weeks ago have happened??
If Biden can’t predict outcomes in 6 weeks, how’s he gonna lead US??
PS The World is watching/listening.
They understand our Leader is compromised and inept.
All of which reinforces two things..
1. Commencing the day after our election, the Taliban’s primary front men, the Pakistanis, no longer had any serious interest in negotiations, because they no longer had to fear what Trump might do to them.
2. And this is yet another jaw dropping example of the stunning incompetence and duplicity of Mitch McConnell, who after years of interfering with “his” President’s plans to bring this two decades long armed conflict to some sort of “draw,” simply walked away from the pending disaster he created at the behest of his Masters!
Correct.
1. Traitor JUDAS-pence
2. Filthy RINO devils McConnell, judges & “generals”
3. bush43 never-Trump “leader”
Are 100% responsible for this grossly incompetent “presidency” … destroyed economy … and Afghanistan nightmare.
Things will only get worse.
Two Communist Morons in a Q/A session…What could Possibly go WORNG?
Go back and pull out some of the old Fox news video of the pundits (specifically Ralph Peters) when we first went into Afghanistan. Better yet, go to your local library or bookstore (or even, gasp, check on Amazon) and buy or check out The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk and read it. The current debacle is Biden’s but the war in Afghanistan belongs to Bush, who went there in the first place – good on him – but then didn’t recognize when he had done what he could do; Obama, who declared it the good war and dragged it on with no clear objective except to keep it off the front pages; Trump, who probably understood it had to end but had other fish to fry and didn’t make it happen, and finally Biden (and his administration) who has been completely wrong on every foreign policy issue for forty years but on the one where he was not was (with his incompetent but politically correct cohort in the Pentagon were completely naive and inept in doing it. Did I miss anything?
Yeah, I failed to close parentheses after . . . Pentagon.
Leave it to a radical Marxist to defend the indefensible. Blinking and Arthur were involved in the same fiascos under Barack Insane Obamao. They facilitated the rise of Isis. This is part two.
I have no doubt in my mind that this was exactly their desired outcome. It is not an accident that they left all that military hardware for the Taliban. That is part of their plan – to aid Islam in the destruction of Western civilization. That’s why Obamao delivered a drone to Iran.
Don’t be fooled. This is what they want:
The utter disgrace and demise of the United States.