by neo-neocon
To a certain extent, when the Vietnam-era draft ended people lost interest in news of Vietnam. There was a flurry of renewed attention when we finally left and then cut off most of the military aid years later, including the famous “helicopters on the roof” story. After that, every now and then some boat people would arrive and that would get a bit of coverage, too.
But for the most part we turned our backs on the suffering there. It’s not just that we weren’t intervening any more, it’s that most people simply weren’t aware of what was happening and of the role our abandonment played in it.
The left was rather happy about that because it got them off the hook, and they learned that they could repeat the process when they caused us to exit any war. In fact, none other that President Biden is reported to have explicitly cited this in 2010 when he wanted to get out of Afghanistan and the Obama administration wasn’t doing his bidding:
Holbrooke, who was the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2010, asked Biden whether the US had a moral obligation to remain in Afghanistan to protect people like that little girl.
“F— that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it,” Biden replied, according to Holbrooke’s diary, as cited by the Atlantic.I would argue that it wasn’t Nixon and Kissinger; it was the Democrat-controlled Congress (with some Republicans voting along with them) that pulled the plug on the South Vietnamese. The Democrats didn’t pay any price for that, either. Au contraire. Carter was elected in 1976 and the Democrats continued to have huge Congressional majorities.
So it was not difficult to predict that, once the nasty and actually disastrous pullout occurred in Afghanistan, coverage would fade and we would not learn the details of what was happening in that country as a result. Perhaps a few stories here and there, but whatever horrors are presently being perpetrated there are not going to get major coverage from an MSM dedicated to supporting everything Democrat – although you know that there would be wall-to-wall coverage of atrocities if the pullout had happened with Trump at the helm.
As far as I can tell, only the right is reporting on things like this:
As the Taliban consolidates its hold on power, reports of executions and mass killings are coming in from all across Afghanistan. The Islamist militia beheaded two boys aged 9 and 10, the media reports on Wednesday said.
Taliban fighters are hunting down former Afghan government officials and security personnel. Besides targeting people connected to the deposed government, the Taliban death squads are murdering their family members — including minors, Jean Marie Thrower, a former U.S. Army officer working on getting stranded Americans out of Afghanistan, told the National Review.
The National Review reported the gruesome beheadings, citing Afghan Rescue Crew‘s (ARC) Jean Marie Thrower:
Even retired members of the Afghan army are marked for death by the Taliban. “We’ve got people who retired, ten, 15 years ago. They killed the Taliban, and the Taliban don’t forget,” Thrower says. “We have one guy who was just working on cars. He said, ‘I haven’t done this, I haven’t been in the resistance for 15 years, but they have my name and they’re calling me.’”
Thrower disputes the U.S. State Department’s characterization of about 100 Americans being left on the ground; she said that as of a few days ago, the figure her group had was closer to 1,000 — although she noted that every group making a rescue effort has its own list, potentially leading to overlap with one another in certain cases. The 1,000 figure may include U.S. green-card holders, too, which the State Department is putting in a separate category. (…)
She describes the case of an American child whose Afghan uncle was recently killed by the Taliban. “We have had people shot, beheaded. They’re taking the kids. If you’re on the run, and they find your family, they’ll hurt your family and put the word out in the neighborhood that ‘we’ve got your brother or son or daughter.’ They cut off the heads of two boys that were nine and ten.”You might ask why we should care at this point; after all, awful things happen all over the world with great regularity. And while that is the case, it is also the case that these things were not happening in Afghanistan when we were there, and they are happening now as a direct result of our leaving in the obscenely stupid and/or purposely destructive manner in which we departed, and it’s happening to people who had helped us and whom we had promised to rescue if it ever came to that.
Biden and the rest knew it would happen and they did what they did anyway, and shrugged at it. And the Democrats and the MSM not only shrug right along, but praise the administration and Biden himself for what they did.
Idiot Biden has done irreparable damage to the honor of the United States of America. Or, if repairable, it will take decades and more lives to repair.
And Democrats simply don’t care.
Americans Are Still Being Held Hostage by the Taliban. Dear Leader Biden Is Headed to the Beach.
I thought is was President Trump who would because of his involuntary response of breathing, would destroy relations with allies.
“This is Not What Allies Do” – France Cancels Dinner, Blasts Biden After Being Excluded From Tri-State Defense Agreement #BidenEffect
The Taliban Now Have Encrypted Comms – Courtesy Of Joe Biden
internet and satellite relay is controlled via an encrypted link by saudi arabia communications. northwestern iran cups turkey. soon turkey will annex the northern part of syria. the taliban via the saudis have cut all civilian communication, no civilian cell phone access. iran is the interface between turkey and Afghanistan. Inlight of the recent defeat of the US, the old ottoman empire is rising again, just as germany did under hitler.
What is more morose is the fact that from 1894-96 and again in
1915 turkey engaged in the genocidal slaughter of the Armenian
population, similar to the Holocaust in Germany under hitler. True to muslim tradition , jihad culture , turkey is 99% muslim, the populous were bayoneted, slashed and behead by bayonet or sworn. no one was spared, young woman became slave after being raped multiple times, all older women and all men of all ages, boys and the unborn were butchered. Welcome to the improved taliban Afghanistan.
Very good read is the “Burning Tigris” by Peter Balakian. It will over a historical insight into the current chaos in the middle east.
Iranians To Get Uranium For Their Nuclear Weapons Courtesy Of Biden Administration
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/09/18/iranians-to-get-uranium-for-their-nuclear-weapons-courtesy-of-biden-administration/
What’s happening? The new Chinese Empire is happening, made possible by that puppet they bought, Joey Gropes Biden.
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Plato
Rest in peace for all that have died. The current marxist gov. will leave your marked and unmarked grave sites a new housing projects for the mass of illegal, virus positive, drug dependent, rapist, murderous immigrants.
Said many times Joe was born a mental defective! Nixon did not “get away with it.”! Nixon was run out of town half way through his second term. But Joe was dumb 50 years ago; still just as dumb.
Thanks DOMINION!
This is soo true but for the fact that Trump did not commit treason of sedition as miley did:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—During testimony in front of Congress Thursday, General Mark Milley admitted that he committed treason but pointed out that he had to do so in order to prevent Trump from committing treason.
The general gave an emotional testimony today recounting his brave acts in betraying the United States to a hostile power in order to prevent even worse betrayals from the president of the country.
“I had to commit treason to prevent Trump from committing treason,” he said to a panel in the House of Representatives. “Trump was going to betray the interests of the United States, and I had to beat him to the punch to make 100% sure that would never happen.”
“Also, he posted a lot of mean tweets. And I couldn’t let that stand. They were… hurtful.” Milley then asked for a recess, as he was tearing up and needed some time to control his emotions.
According to Milley, after he committed treason to stop Trump from committing treason, Trump threatened to commit treason to stop Milley from committing treason to stop Trump from committing treason, but Milley put a stop to that by committing treason to stop Trump from committing treason to stop Milley from committing treason to stop Trump from committing treason.
At publishing time, Trump had blasted Milley, saying that his treason would have been “the best treason of all time” and that Milley’s treason was “lame and pathetic” in comparison.
The Bee
Xiden calls this success. It is more than obvious Xiden is getting marching orders from the CCP…
Bagram Lights Up – Chinese Military Land At Bagram Airbase Tonight
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/10/02/bagram-lights-up-chinese-military-land-at-bagram-airbase-tonight/
Idiot Biden has already gone down in history as the worst, most disastrous, most damaging person occupying the White House ever. Perhaps he will escape being deemed the worst President, since he never really won but was illegally installed through fraud.
That would make Obama still the worst.