First things first, the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS-k, are all factions of the same ‘authentic Islam’ ideology under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood. The U.S. and Western media, as well as the State Department and Intelligence Branch of the U.S. government, like to create false distinctions when it fits their need. However, the groups are aligned – not adversarial, unless there is a geographic contest for power in a specific place. That’s essentially the only time they are in conflict.
The ‘extremist’ (by our standard) factions, under the political cover of the Muslim Brotherhood, are united in their dislike of The United States, most of Europe and ‘The West‘ writ large. They hate our filthy money and the politics that comes with it.
The two U.S. internal groups attempting to avoid accountability for the mess in Afghanistan break out to: (1) State Dept, CIA, Intelligence community; -vs- (2) WH, Pentagon and NatSec Council. Currently the State Department and Intelligence Community are winning the blame game. The White House and Pentagon are being identified by most Americans as responsible for the mess.
This duality of the State Dept (olive branch) -vs- Pentagon (arrows) is the internal dynamic depicted on the presidential seal. However, when the internal mechanisms are trying to save their institutional credibility; and those internal motives are based on trying to retain corrupt systems for affluence and influence; the modern battle is distinctly different.
U.S. money needs to flow somewhere in order for those who skim and direct the cash to have a cover for the business model created by the flow itself. The State Dept., CIA and Intelligence Community wants to send money to Afghanistan so they can position their friends and family to benefit from the business end of the process.
As a result of the State Department winning the blame game, they are now in a great position to flip the narrative and position the Taliban to need financial assistance. However, before they can pull off that shift, they need to change the public impression of the Taliban. After all, the U.S. has been calling the Taliban terrorists for decades….
… Insert ISIS-k!
The magical mythical ISIS-k becomes the new enemy allowing the “Good Taliban” shift. The Taliban go from being terrorists, to being U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS-k. See how that works?
By shifting this dynamic the U.S. State Department, CIA and Intelligence Community do not need to take apart their business model. Remember, the U.S. Senate is aligned in this group. The Senate supports the Dept of State and Intelligence Branch of government, writ large. This is also a mutually beneficial financial arrangement for the Senate members, their staff, their families, and the various NGOs that operate as beneficiaries of the support system.
You might think this is crazy conspiracy theory. Surely no-one is going to believe the same Taliban that was our mortal enemy a few weeks ago is going to become our ally in the same month as an outcome of U.S. policy? Well, yes, that’s exactly what is happening – and you don’t need to take my word for it.
How does the U.S. State Department pull this off? They do it by positioning the Taliban as poor misunderstood rebels who need “support” to run the country or else… wait for it… yep, a humanitarian crisis will unfold:
(Reuters) […] The legitimacy of the government in the eyes of international donors and investors will be crucial for the economy as the country battles drought and the ravages of a conflict that killed an estimated 240,000 Afghans.
Humanitarian organisations have warned of impending catastrophe and the economy – reliant for years on many millions of dollars of foreign aid – is close to collapse.
Many Afghans were struggling to feed their families amid severe drought well before the Taliban militants seized power and millions may now face starvation with the country isolated and the economy unravelling, aid agencies say. (read more)
And there, right there, is where the United Nations will step in.
Which is exactly why I said a few weeks ago: “Team Barack H. Obama is curiously silent as this dynamic plays out. I would advise to watch for signs of Obama aligning with Team State Department. The ideological alignment between Team DoS and Team Obama is much stronger than the Pentagon; and Team Obama would like nothing more than to see the U.S. military weakened on the international stage, because that makes their forward efforts (think United Nations) easier to achieve.”
Barack Obama is smiling. The newly mechanized army of the Muslim Brotherhood (Taliban Regiment, Afghanistan Division ) will need to be supported; and the people of Afghanistan will need the magnanimous assistance of Western nations to avoid a humanitarian crisis. Afghanistan 2022 stops being a terrorist haven and shifts into the Haiti assistance model of 2010. There are hundreds of billions to be made by groups who will organize that support… and the United States Senate will distribute it.
But first, the United States will need to beat the Chinese:
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has told an Italian newspaper that the group will rely primarily on financing from China following the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan and its takeover of the country. In his interview published by La Repubblica on Thursday, Mujahid said the Taliban will fight for an economic comeback with the help of China. (more)
If we don’t act quick, we will lose our ability to influence Afghanistan. That will be the pitch…. Obviously, those voices need us to forget how we spent 20 years and untold trillions there until, well, like a few days ago. But that’s the way it works.
And so it goes…. Watch for it.
And everybody better light up the phones to DC. Let them know we aren’t buying this crap after the Biden tuck tail and run exercise that cost us 13 patriots and left pretty much every US citizen behind enemy lines.
Make their lives miserable.
They’re all in on it.
Love the Lab…I have 7. Best dog God blessed this earth with.
What about the CASH? Piles high in stacks of $100 bills on the tables in the warehouse where all the guns were stored. Millions of dollars in CASH.
why does no one mention or question the CASH?
That’s Buraq’s way of leaving a tip.
https://trendingpolitics.com/as-taliban-offers-biden-deal-to-unfreeze-assets-to-extend-deadline-huge-stacks-of-cash-reported-left-behind-in-afghanistan-knab/
Each individual packet of money (what is in his hand) is $10,000.
Each individual stack of packets is 10 high x $10,000 or $100,000
Each segment is arranged in 5 count batches stacked or $500,000
There is approximately $30,000,000 on the two tables (maybe more)
But, but but that was 5 days ago! *sarc/
OUR money – may God richly dam these evil bastards!
And, to think it came from us, the taxpayers , makes me SICK.
They get our money and I’m driving a Ford with 260,000 miles on it.
Infuriating. I could really use that tax money back.
Speaking of stacks of cash where, did Ghani get his that he took out of the country with him?
Just wondering.
Reported to be 169 million in cash.
Not bad for a former US college professor.
And his two adult children are living very comfortably here in the States. No doubt they are citizens too.
Have they bought homes in the Hamptons yet, with the windfall.
Cash is King. Always.
Yea, and he just had it laying around, probably in pallets.
Billions spent there supporting the Taliban while billions are spent here supporting “refugees”.
…and wondering if those battle lines are now here.
Done. Felt it was a big waste of my time.
mmmm…that’s pretty shaky…I know they’ll try it..but most Americans still associate the Taliban with 9/11…which is curiously coming up
Many Americans are stupid @sses who believe whatever TV tells them. So this newest gaslighting will work on those @sses, just like Covid and the ‘vaccine’ did.
Even stupid assery goes so far…we’re talking about 9/11….the reason Biden is so despised right now is the ridiculous idea that we can count on the Taliban as our “partners” after 20 years of fighting them after they assisted in 9/11…this is baked into the contempt for Joe’s Bidenloo…
“Some people did something”
Thats what 9/11 has already evolved into.
How many young people have not been taught about 9-11 and can’t relate to it.
They can indicate it,
and they can do it,
just like they can shut down pipelines, open the border, and try to lock us down,
But that doesn’t mean we will be fooled into believing in it
need more pain, personally felt by the sheep, and they MIGHT wake up
I mean, I’m already planning a 9/11 FB post congratulating the Taliban on their War on Terror victory (with the twin towers smoldering in the background)…just to shake everyone up…I suggest others do the same…throw sand in the machinery
A few of us here called this yesterday. Taliban will have a political face backed by China. China wont go in with tanks it will go in with money and expertise. The Taliban will have a “legit”face while it carries out whatever purges it chooses. The terror activity will be handled by Haqqani network al qaeda and ISIS. Dont forget we said we ll be sharing intel with Taliban on terror groups there. Do you think they’ll go after them or use the knowledge to improve terror tactics.?
You’re looking at Iran 2.0. Biden is the new Carter.
“The Taliban go from being terrorists, to being U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS-k. ”
We’ve always been at war with EastAsia.
See how that works?
Jihad joe.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/afghan-interpreter-who-helped-rescue-biden-in-2008-left-behind-after-u-s-exit
Wasn’t it Oceania? or was that so last week???
Hard to keep track of it all.
And the dummy public believes it all 100% . Just pathetic.
And just in case they don’t, the elections are rigged for the enemy to always win.
What a country. God help us.
It’s only the coastal elites. Flyover country does not see it that way. Don’t forget trump won with the most votes ever. Think about it. 75 mil AND they cheated hardcore. WE are the majority.
Do not be dejected. They FEAR US. Remember that.
75 million after vote skimming, so was definitely much more.
God is helping us.
And I disagree with your premise.
You can fool all of the people some of the time BUT you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
So, Time is running out for the fraudulent election we have been living through.
I pray you are right, abilgail. I keep hoping those who voted for Biden awaken to the results of the theft. I just remember what Mike Lindell has said — if Trump wouldn’t have “lost” then we all wouldn’t have awakened to the utter corruption throughout our government. Now, we (on the right) know what we are up against. Let the truth set us all free. God bless.
The USA is one of the highest “educated” people in the World. What is it the American Left-wing Libtards the most dumb and stupid?
Because they’re stinking drunk on their own virtue
K-POP partners with The Tolly Bon to Take on ISIS-K.
Makes perfect sense.
On a historical note, the Brits and the Russians messed around in A-Stan for 200 years, with nothing to show for it but ignominy and pointless deaths.
Teaching a pig to dance is like occupying Afghanistan: It accomplishes nothing, is an enormous waste of time and resources, makes you look foolish, and annoys the pig.
ISIS-K has the same great taste as original ISIS but twice the potassium.
The ISIS-K variant, twice as deadly as the al-Nursa variant due to the “Black Hawk” mutation.
Poor? Thanks to us abandoning our people they just sold a trllion of minerals to China didn’t they? On top of that we left them billions. You want to know who is poor??? It’s the American taxpayer!
I am just livid!
Looks like China gets the poppies too. Lol
Within hours of the Kabul Airport bombings, while the bodies of our dead Marines were still warm, the American media was beginning to seed this narrative. What sundance lays out here is almost verbatim what the CBS affiliates were promoting as the top story of their evening broadcasts.
“ when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces — at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy…
The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia!”
The United States spent the 1980s arming the Taliban, spend the 1990s supposedly ignoring it, the 2000s and 2010s fighting it, and will now spend at least the next decade supporting it…
Wow..1984. Frightening in its foretelling of the future.
I feel like Charlie Brown, “Good Grief” . .
Anything to separate us from our money and spend it to destroy it. We are turning up the heat and sitting in the kettle simultaneously.
Well we are already building a border fence between Tajakistan ( May be misspelled) and Afghanistan so I think you assessment is accurate.
However it will be interesting to see if the American public will support this “transition”. From enemy to ally.
I think most Americans did not realize their tax dollars were paying the 300,000 Afghan army until recently.
With inflation rising and U.S. economics decreasing not sure that a plan to aid a terrorist organization is going to sit well. But considering they are controlling elections, the globalists likely don’t care what the American populace thinks.
We need a reset on Congress!
Yeah border security is important, as long as it’s not the US borders.
https://trendingpolitics.com/biden-to-help-build-border-facilities-but-theres-a-catch-theyre-in-a-different-continent-crugg/
“Islam is a religion of peace!” Is it Mr. Bush? For twenty years America has placed troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. For twenty years I have not seen nor heard from major leaders of this religion come before the cameras and state that they are against this terrorism that it’s member claim is Allah’s way, not one time!
Jihad may take forever, why? Because the end goal of such a campaign is that Islam becomes the dominant religion or and this is really what their true believers seek, the only real religion. That means other religions must go by the wayside.
And how is that to take place? Jihad baby, that’s how. For twenty years in Afghanistan where American troops and State Department peoples roamed all about that country those young new born sons were being taught Islam and guess what else? That’s right, Jihad. These young boys grew up…
You saw their faces at the Kabul airport, many with guns. Young and happy terrorists for Islam. Pride month by the State Department in Afghanistan and the country came under control of the Taliban. How diverse and inclusive America tried to make those citizens who eat with one hand and wipe themselves with the other.
And now we are told they may come here again…how sweet the sounds of the “call to worship” Obama told us. We worry about Covid, our betters plan a game where “Covid Forever” is a campaign that keeps on giving…them more control over us!
And now the girls want a fight with the boys over abortion. How many times during these past 50 years since Roe Vs. Wade have you seen “public service” commercials where a woman tells other women to be more responsible in their sexual behavior to avoid confronting a decision about abortion? I don’t recall one time seeing such an ad.
Keep believing Islam is a religion of peace, China is our friend (who gave us Covid with American help), Russia wants to help the Germans, and only democrats have the best answers and solutions to any problem in America.
Islam is the religion of submission. The main goal is that EVERYONE submits to Allah. Submit or die.
Two religions are allowed to submit by accepting a second class citizenship and paying an extra tax for the privilege of living. But they still get systemically harassed and killed until they submit directly and convert.
Some background on Taliban
https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/afghan-taliban
“The Afghan Taliban is an Islamist militant organization established in 1994 during the civil war that followed the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Taliban seeks to establish a strictly Shariah-governed Afghan state. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 and provided a base for Al Qaeda to organize the 9/11 attacks. “- Thanks. This is an excellent primer on our new ‘allies’.
“Many Afghans were struggling to feed their families amid severe drought well before the Taliban militants seized power and millions may now face starvation with the country isolated and the economy unravelling, aid agencies say. “
If Afghan families are starving, now, it sure as hell isn’t from drought, but from the billions in US aid already poured into that country and stolen.
Dumping in more would make little difference.
Is it too much to wish those grifters one and all to choke on all of that funny money circulating around?
Doesn’t matter, they do not care if 25% of us know. They don’t care if all of us know anymore. They called our bluff. Western civilization has been pacified. We won’t raise a hand, we won’t hurt a fly. They’ve pushed us pass the breaking point aqnd we did nothing. They have us now. The rest is just, decline and millions and millions of deaths.
When did the CTH comment section turn into the literary equivalent of the Billy Bob Thornton Tombstone character in the Faro Casino?..Good God, where’s Wyatt Earp to dare us to skin that smoke wagon and see what happens….seriously Sundance, I almost cringe at every new post, just knowing all the doom and gloom comments I’m going to have to read…Dennis Prager was on the other day, saying despair at a time like this is a sin…as it leads to inaction…buck up, everyone..for God’s sake
Amen!! The Lord works in mysterious ways. We do not know His timetable…but He is working. Let us all stay positive and do what we can at whatever age we are to fight for our freedom!
Is “brotherhood” pc? (sarc)
They all face east; twisted savages.
~Their feet are quite telling. Look at their shoes; phonies.
Absolutely not!
Businesses exist to make money. A good business that solves problems makes money. A cleaner wants you to have a dirty house so they can have a job. A cab driver wants you stuck in the rain so you need a cab. Unions need conflict in the workplace so they can save your job.
Suppliers of glass windows thrive when rioters break windows.
Suppliers of fire fighting equipment thrive when bushfires burn.
Suppliers of human refugee services thrive when the border is open.
Suppliers of humanitarian aid thrive when there is war and suffering.
Suppliers of military equipment thrive when there is conflict and war.
“First things first, the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS-k, are all factions of the same ‘authentic Islam’ ideology under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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All variants of the same virus.
The one that shall not be named, all virulent variants and mutations of which that have plagued the world for centuries.
Watch the NGOs and “humanitarian non-profits” set up shop to launder “foreign aid” and “charitable donations” for Afghanistan, with the funds flowing back into the DC political coffers and private pockets.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing. Do not trust them. Do not show weakness. Do not bow to their caliphate.
“Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with
Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now
completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books,
pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs–all had to be rectified at
lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that
the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference
to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in
existence anywhere. ”
— George Orwell, 1984 (published 1949)
First thing I thought of was that quotation: everything down the Memory Hole!
Of course, Orwell was satirizing his country and ours embracing Stalin suddenly overnight, when Hitler invaded Russia.
Stalin, ally of Hitler for two years, which allowed him to swallow eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and other countries, murderer of millions (12 million Ukrainians in the early 1930’s, and the body count continued to rise until his death in 1953), suddenly became “Uncle Joe Stalin,” who needed our help!
A similarly reprehensible alliance would be impossible to imagine…until now!
As I understand it, Roosevelt had quite a bit of help.
don’t care and let them killed eachother,
Let the cult of islam go back to killing each other off.
IMO the only reason we stayed in the Middle East was to sell weapons.
We’ve armed every side of every conflict for decades. Big money for a long time.
Maybe you will think differently, when the Afghans coming into the USA now are coming into a community near you and maybe they will want to blow up an American community in retaliation…happened before, and it will happen again.
Beware, with the open Borders and the Afghans coming into our country right now..Islamic Terrorists are living amongst us and planning a big time bombing party.
They don’t care about me or about anyone in this country; they just want to kill and win more territory and fight for their Islamic Religion.
Our criminal politicians don’t care either, as long as they get their Benjamins out of the deal.
Sad!
I pray they hit them first (our criminal politicians). They are moving them into NC (Raleigh, Durham area)…and other states they claim can go either way during elections (like all of those that were stolen this last election). I live in NC!
The problem is that they are here, and want to kill us.
Yes, The Obamas, Clintons and Bidens need a big cash payout in the middle of the night to the Taliban just like what they did for Iran so that they can skim off their cut. But I think to show how the Taliban have changed , just like Joe says they have, the Taliban will escort Americans and some Afghans out of country in a great publicized caravan.
Let me break this down.
1. Taliban soldiers were brought in. It makes logical sense. Taliban controlled airport. They told biden who was coming and who wasn’t. All terrorist for the most part.
2. These military aged afghans are gonna be let into America. They will cause chaos. People will fight back.
3. People fighting back will be called white supremacy. Media and LE will agree.
4. Covid restrictions will serve as a back up to keeping us held down.
5. Please wake up America.
American soldiers should NOT leave the military. If they do that then the shitbags will say we need to fill the lost soldiers roles. They will fill them with antifa and Taliban. Then we are F’d. Soldiers stay the course. Don’t leave. Fight back against the shot legally. Tie it up in military court. STAY in the military. Those saying you should leave aren’t think about what I just posted. Please stay.
Remember what I just wrote here tonight.
The CIA runs the Towely Ban.
The CIA runs the Towely Boy called Obama-K.
Secretary Cohen: “I think the Taliban are going to need our help. Economically to be sure, but they may come under severe attack by Al Qaeda or ISIS-K. They may need intelligence that they don’t have, that we may be able to provide them under certain conditions…”
17 Intelligence Agencies All Agree: “We Work For the Taliban Now!”
Of all the things I worry about, and all the issues Sundance posts about…the idea that a sizable percentage of Americans are going to start having good feelings toward the Taliban is very last on the list…first, ISIS-k was already blamed for the 13 deaths and most people were like Taliban, ISISk, it doesnt matter, they’re all terrorist bastards…second, yes, the media and Administration are going to try to use it to justify their spending, but at this point, the Adminstration would speak in tongues to try to justify almost anything they want to do now…no one believes anything coming down from the Tower of Biden
lOOKS like they just walked out of bed bath and beyond in San Francisco
Here’s Bill Whittle’s response to Milley:
https://rumble.com/vlpa5z-schooling-mark-milley-a-general-idea-of-critical-race-theory-for-the-chair-.html
“First things first, the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS-k, are all factions of the same ‘authentic Islam’ (no need to put even single quote marks here) ideology under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood. “
Today they bake, tomorrow they brew
Then all humanity in shariah and death they plan to stew
For still far too few understand their devious game
And fewer still will say it aloud, that simply Islam is the evil’s name!
Heard Seb Gorka on his radio program today claim that the Biden Junta was — get this (not a Babylon Bee headline) — going to help fund the building of a border wall between Afghanistan and Türkmenistan. If true, you can’t make this stuff up …
[Searched online for confirmation but thus far, no joy.]
It appears to be true.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-administration-border-enforcement-facilities-afghanistan-tajikistan
John Guandolo at Understanding the Threat points out that MB, et al, are all fighting together.
http://www.understandingthethreat.com/the-blog
Whenever any Mohammad and Koran commanded murder, rape, torture, enslavement was committed it became usual to attribute it to “Radical Islamists” presumably practicing “Radical Islamism” or sometimes even simply “Extremists” practicing “Extremism of unknown origin”, rather than Muslims simply practicing Islam itself as practiced by all Muslim’s “Perfect Man”, Mohammad, and has been practiced for more than 1,400 years.
In fact many of these claims begin to sound completely ridiculous to the objective mind that has any grasp of reality. Of course, the Islam Deniers mission is to keep everything confused and misdirected in the minds of the Sheeple Infidels as they are prepared for shariah and slaughter.
Well Stated. Insightful and Useful Summary.
If Isis is so bad, why did Taliban tell Joe “No Go”on the drone strike locked in on airport suicide bomber?
Or was that the State Dept’s No Go?
My memory is longer than that of a goldfish. This is the third time in the last decade that the US has raised the specter of the mythical Khorasan bogeyman. Every time the US pulls out, Iraq, Syria, etc., we are told we now need to arm and pay our former enemies or else the mean old Khorasan will sneak up and catch us. It’s a pathetic joke and a tired cliche.
I have no words for this debacle of events playing out. I fear & pray for the USA . Please Lord return our real President Donald
Trump the office we all here on CTH know he won.
Reminds me of the perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia:
The Eternal Jihad: Afghanistan in Context09/02/2021 by Raymond Ibrahim
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2021/09/02/the-eternal-jihad-afghanistan-in-context/
Ending part:
Now consider how this “ancient” and “distant” history applies to recent events. At the height of U.S. victory in Afghanistan in 2005, when both al-Qaeda and the Taliban had been all but rooted out, Ayman al-Zawahiri (current leader of al-Qaeda) was asked about the statuses of those two organizations’ leaders, who were missing in action. His response, which follows, has, in the aftermath of August 15, 2021, proven true:
Much more recently, consider what Muhammad Arif Mustafa, a Taliban commander, said just two weeks ago:
When one considers the state of the world—the current military and economic dominance of the West, and the general weakness of the Muslim world—surely such claims sound laughable. As seen, however, time has a way of switching the tables, making what once seemed impossible imminent.
In short, as long as Islam exists, the jihad may be down but it is never out. It may take years, decades, and centuries; its name and guise may morph and change from eighth century Arab caliphates, to fifteenth century Turkish sultanates, to the twenty-first century’s loose amalgam of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, etc.—but it is always there, often lying dormant, but always ready to strike at the first opportunity.
What will it be called, what guise will it take, and what new inroads will it have made in the decades and centuries to come?
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center; a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum; and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
When one considers the state of the world—the current military and economic dominance of the West, and the general weakness of the Muslim world—surely such claims sound laughable. As seen, however, time has a way of switching the tables, making what once seemed impossible imminent.
In short, as long as Islam exists, the jihad may be down but it is never out. It may take years, decades, and centuries; its name and guise may morph and change from eighth century Arab caliphates, to fifteenth century Turkish sultanates, to the twenty-first century’s loose amalgam of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, etc.—but it is always there, often lying dormant, but always ready to strike at the first opportunity.
What will it be called, what guise will it take, and what new inroads will it have made in the decades and centuries to come?
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center; a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum; and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
Islam is patient.
This reminds me of the Ben Rhodes Iran “treaty” dupe on America and how he laughed about getting away with it on a TV interview.
The Obama rankings–
ISIS: junior varsity
ISIS-k: intramural team
Taliban: excused from gym class, unable to do jumping jacks. Therefore, billions are needed for personal trainers and equipment.
Even the amazing Lara Logan is buying into this narrative about how we need to help these poor Afghans.
Is life in Afghanistan about to become a nightmare for citizens who aren’t fundamentalists? Yes. Is the United States supposed to rescue every person in the world who is living in poverty and/or under the boot of tyrants (which is the majority of the worlds population)? No. Unless you’re an America-hating globalist, in which case, the answer is yes simply because it destroys America and moves the needle that much closer to one world order.
It’s so tiresome to see lots of good people get swept up in the drama/crisis of struggling peoples. No person with half a heart wants to see human beings suffering. But that doesn’t mean we need to ditch all reason and dive in to save the day. Even if one wanted to, it is not even feasible.
Yet here we go.
Islam does not teach the same sort of compassion for the other that virtually every other religion including today’s “secular humanism” teaches. Muslims murder and torture each other without compunction and their own ummah, “brotherhood” has no condemnation to offer. That’s because they don’t value individual human life the way Christian westerners do. It’s not a concept in Islam, which means it’s not a concept in Muslims “hearts and minds”. Their hearts and minds instead understand what Allah teaches them in the Koran, namely, the Collective Will to Power.
It is necessary in the end to treat Muslims in the way they themselves understand moral principles. Which ultimately means that they must be beaten back and vanquished and humiliated by a greater strength. That is clearly what they understand. Every move to win their hearts and minds only strengthens them, emboldens them to advance their own peculiar ethics of the world, which couldn’t give a damn about “hearts and minds”, as we understand the term. They will accept the shehada from anyone they can swindle and connive to recite it while at the same time are willing to kill anyone who leaves Islam. Whatever it takes to build the army of Islamic soldiers is what their ethics is about.
There is no way of avoiding the reality that the adults in this world are going to have to act like adults and step up and slap, and in a big way, Muslims who have made of their own societies the equivalent of “Lord of the Flies” and who now threaten to overrun every more advanced society with their mayhem. We’re going to have to come to terms with this reality. Either that or it’s simply going to be cruel for all of us, with no kindness in sight, and no one left to come and rescue us off an Island from Hell that in our passivity and cowardice we allowed to be taken over by moral pygmies.
Hi Sarah,
Putin said no to accepting Afghan refugees, to militants showing up under the cover of refugees.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch the Biden/Obama, open door policy, of the ‘great unvetted ‘ continues.
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What is the Fatal Attraction the American Swamp has for Afganistan? It’s a land of dirt and rocks living in the 12th century.
Imagine if we had spent 10% of what we spent and put it in Central America? We would be much better off.
Indeed….
If the Taliban are misunderstood and are weely trooly the enemies of Weely Bad muslims like ISISk, it won’t matter that $billions of US gear was left and they are hanging comedians.
It is therefore imperative that State sets up ISISk as the new Al Qaeda as soon as possible.
But they already tried with gate bombing…it was that darned ISISk that broke through our great friend the Taliban’s benevolent lines…and almost no one bought it…ISISk, ShmISISk…the Taliban are hanging guys from our Blackhawks, raising their flag over Iwo Jima, and having our public funeral processions with our gear…oh, yeah…hurray for the Taliban
Like I said- we are never leaving Afganistan.
Now we’ve imported Afghanistan.
Insert ISIS(k) and we will be inundated with images of beheading, torture, killing of every horrific nature of men, women, children. Some will be Americans “left behind’, left behind for this intended purpose, to get us to go back. The MSM will screech we have to go back and save the women, save the children. And so it will go, wash rinse repeat. As Trump has repeatedly said “these people are sick”.
Although we have seen stupid haste in war, there has never been a case of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
– Sun Tzu
We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. What do we have for it? Nothing.
– President Donald J. Trump