If You Think Afghanistan Is a Disaster, Get Ready for the SPIN; 'It Is the New Berlin Airlift'
While most of the world looks on in horror at the epic incompetence of Joe Biden and his sycophants in creating and carrying out a once-in-a-generation tragedy in Kabul, the foundation is being laid to convert this goat-rope into a major Biden political success.
The first hint that that came to my attention was from Politico’s Alex Thompson. He observes that White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweeted a comment from a Twitter user with 257 followers.
It doesn’t follow that Klain is sifting through comments of rando Twitter users. Cawley, though, is a former IBM executive whose portfolio included corporate strategy.
About the same time, Cawley was tweeting this to Klain; he was also “teeing up” the same comment to others.
Then we have Democrat fangirl Lawrence O’Donnell parroting a similar take.
This is from the head of a nonprofit that focuses on turning out young voters for Democrats.
The White House is putting it out.
And by Congresswomen.
This is from the CEO of Google/Alphabet’s autonomous automobile spinoff.
In President (so-called) Biden’s “news conference” today, he, for the first time, started touting numbers of persons airlifted out of Afghanistan. The numbers sound impressive until you realize that he’s ignoring months of inaction.
As of this afternoon, we’ve helped evacuate 70,700 people just since August the 14th, 75,900 people since the end of July. Just in the past 12 hours, other 19 U.S Military flights, 18 C17s and one C130 carrying approximately 6,400 evacuees, and 31 coalition flights carrying 5,600 people have left Kabul just in the last 12 hours. A total of 50 more flights, 12,000 more people, since we updated you this morning.
It is tempting to think that America is on the cusp of finally realizing what an inept and imbecilic cretin Joe Biden is. Please don’t count on it. As soon as the last plane lifts off on August 31, you are going to see a blackout on what happens to the people we left behind. You won’t hear stories of abandoned Americans or Afghans who loyally supported us and were left behind. The media will suddenly discover that by golly! they were mistaken. That far from being a disaster the destroyed US credibility everywhere for a couple of generations, that this was actually a stroke of genius. By next year Amazon Prime or Netflix will be flogging an “original” production starring a virile Joe Biden completely in charge of events. If Cinemax gets into the game, we’ll probably see a softcore porn scene with Frau Doktor Professor Jill in the Oval Office.
No matter what they say, this is a national disgrace. Americans and friendly Afghans will be left behind. The Taliban controlled access to the airport as well as setting the deadline for finishing the mission. Our troops were not allowed to leave the airport to try to find US citizens and loyal Afghans. This was not the Berlin Airlift. We’ll be damned lucky if it doesn’t turn out to be Dien Bien Phu.
Politico national security reporter Alex Ward released leaked U.S. State Department evacuation numbers from Kabul, Afghanistan on Twitter Tuesday. According to Ward, within 15 hours on August 23 (midnight-3 p.m.), the United States evacuated a total of 6,916 people from the country. Of those, only 483 were American citizens. The vast majority of evacuees were Afghan nationals, numbering 6,425. The remaining eight were either from a third country or their country of origin was unknown.
Since the evacuation effort began, the U.S. has evacuated a total of 26,582 people from Afghanistan, according to Ward. American citizens make up 4,407 of the rescued, while Afghans make up 21,533, and third-country nationals represent 642.
The newly released numbers — revealing the U.S. evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan refugees — are amplifying serious concerns over our national security and the vetting process for rescued individuals. The leaked numbers also come in the wake of dangerous national security mistakes made by France and the United Kingdom.
Just Tuesday morning, the BBC reported that the U.K. accidentally evacuated a person on its no-fly list from Afghanistan. Despite the unnamed individual being identified on the no-fly list after landing in Birmingham, England, U.K. officials decided to allow the person to enter the country.
The same day, a government spokesman for France announced that as part of an investigation into links with the Taliban, they have detained an Afghan whom they evacuated. The detained man admitted to being a member of the Taliban “and said he had worked as the armed head of a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul.” French officials also believe he is close to another Afghan evacuee suspected of working for the Taliban.
Unanswered questions about the U.S. vetting process are mounting. Many wonder if the Biden administration has any plan for safely letting people into the United States, given that the lack of preparation has left the administration scrambling to even get people out of Afghanistan before the Taliban takes total control.
As of now, the Biden administration has yet to reveal how thoroughly it is vetting individuals evacuated from Afghanistan. Even if they are checking everyone, we do not know how many have been turned away or where the administration plans to take them if they do not pass a basic background check.
Biden said on Sunday that evacuees from Kabul would be “landing at U.S. military bases and transit centers around the world” for screening, before Afghans were welcomed “to their new home in the United States of America.” The president said these evacuees would be processed at U.S. bases including those in Qatar, Germany, Kuwait, and Spain.
Leaked emails reported by Axios, however, described conditions where Afghans are being held at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, as a “living hell” with a rat infestation and “trash, urine, fecal matter, spilled liquids and vomit cover[ing] the floors.” It remains unclear how thorough vetting of thousands of Afghan nationals can take place under such circumstances.
The resettlement process itself has also sparked serious concern among those who believe rescued Afghan people should be brought to countries where they can best assimilate.
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