DC Media Say Kabul Airport Surrounded by Taliban Checkpoints, No Safe Way to Get Past

We must be cautious in reviewing any/all media articles about the fluid situation in Afghanistan, as both Leftist and NeoCon media are framing the crisis story to fit their preferred narrative.  All DC media reporting should be viewed through the prism of cynicism and skepticism.

CNN is reporting the State Dept. Narrative that Taliban have surrounded the Kabul airport and there is no safe way for Americans to reach the evacuation point.   However, the Pentagon is reporting that the Taliban is “not interfering in their mission” to facilitate the evacuation of Americans, and  Taliban members “are not stopping U.S. citizens with American passports” from traveling to the airport.

When we review a State Department position (DoS) on anything, it should be noted that DoS personnel are, by ideological tribe, very dramatic, tender and pearl-clutching leftists in their worldview.  State Department officials are the wokeist of the international woke community. As a consequence of their alignment and role,  CNN is almost identically predisposed to the dramatic flair.

CNN takes the DoS bulletin and proclaims that Americans are trapped outside the airport by the Taliban. There is no evidence of this claim being accurate. There’s a difference between “we cannot ensure safe passage”, and “your passage is unsafe.”  Yes, things are sketchy and unstable, but there have been no reports of safety incidents with any Americans.

There is also an effort by media to parse the Biden administration into segments, and position blame according to their ideological unit inside the tribe. Watch for this to appear in the reporting, and we should not allow it.

The U.S. State Department, the U.S. Defense Department, The White House, the National Security Council and all officials in positions of leadership within the entirety of the Biden foreign policy establishment are equally to blame and all attached to this failure.

Their foreign policy ship is sinking and they were all on board.

Do not allow them to reach shore and excuse themselves from their crisis.

U.S. Military leadership was wrong in their claims, plans and risk assessments prior to the collapse.  The U.S. State Department was wrong and inept in their planning to secure the Embassy mission in Kabul for all Americans.  The White House failed to organize, coordinate and manage the draw-down of military action in Afghanistan.  The President made the wrong decisions.  Those in political position advising the President were inept.

The Biden administration and foreign policy team is weak, ineffective, ideological and functionally flawed.  Everything they do is exactly the opposite of what should be done.

Just like Obama before him, the Biden foreign policy is a joke.