BREAKING: U.S. and U.K. Embassies Issue a Security Alert, Get Away From The Kabul Airport, Leave Immediately and Do Not Come

♦ 82,300 people have been evacuated by U.S. personnel.  ♦ 4,500 of them are Americans.

The U.S. and U.K. officials are warning American and British citizens to leave the vicinity of the Kabul airport immediately. [BBC Alert Here – and – State Dept. Alert Here].

The State Department warning reads:

“Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so.

U.S. citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately.” (link)

The U.K. Foreign Office said: “move away to a safe location and await further advice.”  Commanders dealing with vast crowds around the airport are increasingly concerned about the possibility of suicide attacks.  What the new advice means for the British evacuation operation is not clear.

From Earlier Reporting there were an original 6,000 Americans in the region  – “U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that 4,500 Americans have been “safely” evacuated from Afghanistan in the last couple of weeks, with up to 1,500 more remaining in the country.

“Blinken added that, of the 1,500 who may still want to flee Afghanistan, the U.S. has been in direct contact with 500 who have been given “instructions on how to get to the airport safely.” “For the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan, we’re aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication,” he said.”

From the data shared by the secretary of state 4,500 Americans have been evacuated.   However, “Since August 14, more than 82,300 people have been safely flown out of Kabul. In the 24-hour period from Tuesday to Wednesday, approximately 19,000 people were evacuated on 90 US military and coalition flights,” Blinken said in the briefing today (video below).

82,300 people evacuated by the United States, and only 4,500 of them are Americans?  Good grief, that means we are evacuating 78,000+ non-Americans.

Are we bringing the entire Afghan army into the United States?

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Emboldened Iran To Hold War Drill With…

 Emboldened Iran To Hold War Drills With Russia and China

Adam Kredo for Washington Free Beacon

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi / Getty Images

Iran is set to hold a series of war drills with Russia and China, as the hardline regime celebrates the United States' bungled evacuation in Afghanistan and boosts its enrichment of nuclear weapons-grade uranium to historically high levels.

Iranian and Russian leaders announced on Monday that their countries, along with China, will hold joint maritime war exercises in the Persian Gulf later this year or early in 2022, according to Iran’s state-controlled media. The countries said they will focus on "shipping security and combating piracy" as the United States reduces its military footprint in the region following its marred withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The announcement comes as the rogue countries step up their involvement in war-torn Afghanistan amid a hurried effort by the Biden administration to evacuate U.S. personnel from the country. Iran, Russia, and China have all expressed an interest in replacing the United States as a powerbroker in the nation and working with the newly installed Taliban government. Iran's foreign ministry announced that "Iran is in contact with all parties in Afghanistan to pave the ground for dialogue and reconciliation" and that the Russian and Chinese embassies remain functioning.

Iran's new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, celebrated what he called America's "military failure" in Afghanistan last week, saying the Biden administration's "military defeat and its withdrawal must become an opportunity to restore life, security, and durable peace in Afghanistan." Iranian officials also have sought to increase ties with the Taliban, historically a regional enemy, as it expands its footprint in the region.

As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates for the United States, Iran has increased its enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency reportedlate last week that Iran produced uranium metals that were enriched up to 20 percent purity for the first time in its history. It also amped up its uranium enrichment program to 60 percent purity, a threshold level that allows the regime to produce the fuel needed for a nuclear weapon.

The move was met with consternation by the United States and its European allies, but they did not take any steps to sanction Iran or issue penalties for its breach of the 2015 nuclear accord. The United States said Iran must cease its enrichment, but would not go further than a public reproach. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom also acknowledged their concerns on the IAEA report in a joint statement on Thursday.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Free Beacon that "the botched Afghanistan drawdown is a propaganda coup for Tehran."

The Islamic Republic "has long advanced the idea that America can be forced from the region through a sustained death-by-a-thousand-cuts military strategy," Taleblu said. "Moreover, it is trying to get local actors who are pro-American to accommodate rising Iranian power by saying those who work with Washington will one day be abandoned."

Iran's latest enrichment levels are a signal to the U.S. administration that the country "is increasingly comfortable with escalation and has survived peak pressure," Taleblu said. "Would you be afraid of a state which has denigrated instruments of national power like economic sanctions and military force in a bid to change your national security policy?"

As Iran increases its regional footprint and funds terrorist groups operating in and around Afghanistan, the Biden administration is pursuing negotiations aimed at securing a revamped nuclear agreement.

The State Department has made clear that it remains open to talks even as Iran refuses to come back to the bargaining table. Tehran wants full-scale sanctions relief and access to hard currency, but claims the Biden administration is not going far enough in its concessions, which are rumored to include the removal of sanctions on Iran’s financial system and other sources of revenue for the regime.

U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley said last week the Biden administration is prepared to present Iran with a new nuclear deal should talks on reentering the 2015 accord fall apart, accordingto Politico.

Iran recently enlisted U.S. ally Japan in its pursuit of sanctions relief. Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi landed in Tehran over the weekend to discuss ways both countries can pressure the Biden administration into granting Iran sanctions relief.

"To revive the [nuclear deal], the United States must abandon its excessive demands," Motegi was quoted as saying following meetings with high-ranking Iranian government officials.

CRT is the dialectic of suicide

Why are white people so reluctant to tell the truth about CRT?

written by Pedro L. Gonzalez for SpectatorWorld

Some things in this world go so beyond the pale that it becomes absurd to weigh and measure them upon the cool, dispassionate scales of reason. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is one.

There are different definitions of CRT, most of which contain cute elisions. Sharif El-Mekki, CEO at the Center for Black Educator Development, offers a typical one. ‘Critical race theory is a legal framework,’ he says. ‘It’s a lens for people to be able to apply to law and see how racial injustice and how racism has been baked in many laws in the history of America’. That is partly true about some of CRT’s applications. But the political activist Susan Sontag, not known for mincing words, provided a fuller picture.

‘The white race is the cancer of human history,’ Sontag wrote in Partisan Review; ‘it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself’.

The purpose of CRT is to ‘prove’ why this is and how it affects nonwhites, not only as applied to law but every aspect of life. Health care, classical music, climate change, dating markets, the great outdoors, botanical nomenclature, and math class – all are touched by the stain of racial bigotry. In a world where everything is racist, CRT is the cipher disk that reveals the how, why, and who.

The real reason CRT is intolerable, then, is also the one many people have trouble saying aloud: it is explicitly anti-white. For people like me, this is not merely a game of semantics. My wife is white; my son may as well be. CRT is a threat to my family because it declares their genetics to be ‘the cancer of human history’. Whether something so evil ought to permeate society is not a matter of bloodless democratic debate when blood is at stake. On at least a subconscious level, most white people seem to understand this. But why do so many of them appear incapable of articulating a defense of themselves? Stigma is certainly a factor; the fear of social and professional reprisal is powerful. That can’t be it, however.

This, anyway, was my impression on Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a social-media app that offers virtual ‘rooms’ for the pursuit of digital conversation. As this is modern America, the conversations frequently lead to the smashing of virtual furniture and the closing of rooms in the way that the police will close a bar after a fight.

After stumbling into a room where the topic of discussion was CRT, I noticed that the ethnics outspokenly favored extirpating it because it is anti-white. The whites, meanwhile, were either indifferent or less radical with their proposals. The pro-white minorities, myself included, advocated legislative bans, schoolboard takeovers, firing educators, financial warfare, civil disobedience, and ignoring court rulings such as Loewen vs. Turnipseed — approaches like those taken by the civil-rights activists of yore.

One of the most ardent speakers was a Pakistani woman living in the United States who formerly worked in media. When a white interlocutor called CRT bans bad for a free society, she gently breathed a disappointed sigh and remarked that some whites seem to have a kind of civilizational death wish. I asked her afterward why she cared so much about the issue. She spoke to me but asked to remain anonymous.

CRT, she said, once seemed harmless and well-intentioned. But she recognized the danger ‘once it became clear that the theory ‘brazenly posits one group, white people, as innately irredeemable and predisposed to stealing land and claiming innocent lives and the other, nonwhite people, as inherent victims incapable of transgressions and infractions, while also writing off legal reasoning, advanced math, merit-based achievement, disciplines dedicated to studying history and civilizations like Rome as white-supremacist’.

I asked her about the ‘suicide of the West’ comment. I mentioned that France considers CRT a national security risk: a hostile American export, threatening to destabilize French society and delegitimize the government. If the French view CRT as a poison, why doesn’t, for example, a self-identified conservative like David French?

CRT is fundamentally opposed, she said, to the things that sustain a civilization: ‘conquest, innovation, collaboration and a healthy sense of pride in its ancestors’. To her, pro-CRT liberal whites have ’a civilizational death wish, the kind that [Michel] Houellebecq hints at in works like Submission. This ‘inclination to self-flay for woke points is a natural product of deracinated filial piety, a disregard for family, hedonism masquerading as self-fulfillment, and a self-imposed rejection of one’s heritage’.

Indeed, CRT often comes wrapped in the crimson bow of Christian theology and ethics — but the devil can cite Scripture, too, as Isaac knows. He is a Palestinian union worker and Orthodox Christian living in Montana. I asked him what was behind his outspokenness about eradicating CRT. ‘I believe it is a threat because it ultimately destroys the cultural cohesion and national identity of this nation,’ he told me. ‘America isn’t an “idea,” it’s a nation founded by a people, from a particular culture, specifically, Anglo-culture.’ He said America is a good place, and there is nothing ‘inherently evil’ about it or white people.

The funny thing is that many nonwhites actually agree with one premise in CRT: white people ‘built’ America, by which they mean that the Europeans who settled this country laid the institutional groundwork for its government and basic culture. Writing in National Review, Rong Xiaoqing recalls an illustrative conversation with Chinese Trump supporters in 2019. When she mentioned the Chinese Exclusion Act to them at a meeting in Queens, New York, they countered that it was created partly because Chinese laborers were used as strikebreakers. ‘American culture is white men’s culture. We came to this country because we like this culture,’ said Lucy Tan, a Chinese Trump supporter. CRT proceeds from the first claim but concludes that this is precisely why America is evil.

Thus, CRT works to discredit, discard and replace the holidays, public anniversaries, songs, statues, symbols, customs, practices, and heroes of a nation that represents a ‘self’ with which people like David French no longer identify. French and his ilk and the coalition of the aggrieved to whom they acquiesce naturally do not see CRT as an existential threat because they identify with the emerging nation that is being built on the foundation of CRT more than they do with the ideas, laws, and people that are in the process of being abolished and replaced. This kind of white collaboration is not merely self-loathing; it is a signifier of status. French is the token ‘good white,’ an emasculated kapo hoping to be remembered for slithering on his belly before the new masters.

But a question remains: why do nonwhites seem acutely attuned to the perils of CRT? One explanation is that unlike many whites—especially college-educated whites—they are more likely to think in terms of groups, something considered atavistic in much of the high-brow West. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence for this all around us, and data also bears it out.

The University of Chicago’s GenForward Survey records the views of 1750 young adults ages 18 to 34 on how race and ethnicity shape the way they experience and think about the world. It is the first nationally representative survey of its kind. Among other things, it measures respondents’ feelings about identity by assessing to what degree an individual feels their fate is linked to others in their racial or ethnic group.

At 55 percent, African Americans report the highest level of linked fate, followed by 42 percent of Asian Americans, 34 percent of Latinos, and 26 percent of whites who feel they have ’a lot’ of linked fate with their racial group. The survey found whites are the most likely to say they have no linked fate, with 29 percent saying they have none compared to 25 percent of Latinos, 20 percent of African Americans, and 17 percent of Asian Americans.

Simply put, nonwhites are acutely aware that CRT targets whites as a group because they are more likely than whites to consciously connect their individual well-being to that of their respective group. The implications, however, extend beyond the fate of whites themselves. History shows that diverse empires tend to devolve into authoritarian regimes, and CRT provides the implicit and explicit justification for that process in our time. As CRT scholar Ibram X. Kendi put it: ‘The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination’.

The idea that it should be a matter of reasoned debate whether my wife and perhaps my children are to be discriminated against on the basis of race is not only absurd but infuriating. I imagine that agreement lurks in the subconscious of many whites.

America’s Failure In Afghanistan Is A…

 America’s Failure In Afghanistan Is A Call To Ordinary Americans To Clean House

When empires go to die on Afghanistan’s plains, it is not the mujahidin’s sword or bullet that kills them. It is their own hubris.

Max Morton for The Federalist 

People are fond of saying that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Historically speaking, this is true—Alexander the Great, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and now the United States of America have all failed in their geopolitical efforts there.

Often, “experts” attribute this failure to the courageous and noble tribes of Afghanistan who are committed to defeating the invading armies of the West. In reality, when empires go to die on Afghanistan’s plains, it is not the mujahidin’s sword or bullet that kills them. It is their own hubris that keeps them on those plains while they bleed out from mostly self-inflicted wounds.

From 1979 through 1989, the Soviet Union fought in Afghanistan. A Soviet client state at the time, Afghanistan was embroiled in a struggle between large swaths of the country’s people and the unpopular communist government.

To prop up this government, the Soviets deployed combat forces directly into Afghanistan. For the next decade, the Soviets and their well-trained and equipped Afghan Army were pitted against a ragtag coalition of Afghan and foreign Islamic mujahideen. Their Afghan experience went about as well as ours.

In May 1988, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ordered the military to begin a complete withdrawal of all Soviet combat forces. With considerable fanfare and celebration that belied the embarrassment of their defeat, the last Soviet armored convoys rolled across a bridge over the Amu Darya River into Uzbekistan in February 1989.

The next three years for the Soviet Union were marked by increasing civil and political unrest and the progressive disintegration of its territory. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned the presidency, the Soviet Union officially dissolved, and the Soviet flag was permanently lowered from the Kremlin.

When the Ruling Class Goes South

The catalyst for the Soviet Union’s fall was widely attributed to their military loss in Afghanistan. The dissolution of the union, however, was due to a number of internal issues: political revolution between the “old guard” political class and the Gorbachev reformists, corruption across nearly all Soviet institutions, a failing economy, a lack of confidence domestically and across the Warsaw Pact states in the ability of the Soviet Union to fulfill its political and economic promises, and the inability of the Soviet central planners to deliver the barest essentials to ordinary Soviet citizens. In 1989, there were two classes of Soviet citizens: the ruling class and everyone else.

The Soviets’ ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan pulled the curtain back on the myriad failures of the Soviet state. It laid bare the glaring truth that there was no benefit or future for client states to maintain the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet ruling class was unfit to lead and uninterested in the purported values and principles of socialism.

America is currently suffering its own humiliating Afghanistan defeat and messy withdrawal. The whole-of-government approach to failure in a 20-year, $2 trillion fraud and money-laundering scheme has resulted in an epiphany for Americans: their country is ruled by crooks, liars, and thieves.

The abysmal failure of America’s once-vaunted and widely respected military to even face the truth of its own incompetence heaps salt on the wounds of this epiphany. What country leaves thousands of its own citizens behind enemy lines to fend for themselves, with nothing more than an apathetic shrug of its shoulders? A country ruled by arrogant fools looking to line their own pocketbooks and who care little or nothing for the citizens that are their nation’s raison d’être, that’s who.

What This Means for Our Future

What does the American failure in Afghanistan portend for the future of America? America, like the Soviet Union in 1989, is facing an internal political and cultural revolution that has divided the nation and brought it to the brink of civil war. Our national institutions are corrupt, ineffective, and out of touch with regular America. Our government is bent on subduing the ordinary citizens it views as its greatest enemy.

If there was any doubt about the illegitimacy of this police state, one only need look at the FBI’s latest fabricated terror plots or the Department of Homeland Security’s alarmingly evidence-free security warnings that we, the people are the main enemy of America. Expect to see DHS warnings that Americans who are unhappy with the United States’ wholesale surrender and foreign policy incompetence are potential terrorists. America is now a clown show where everyone who doesn’t clap is labeled a terrorist.

The military, the intelligence community, academia, journalism—the list of institutions plagued by moral bankruptcy and Baghdad Bob-level f-ckery goes on and on and on. Few Americans have confidence in America. Pile on a huge helping of COVID-19 hysteria, lockdowns, mounting shortages in housing and basic consumer goods, a quickly growing income gap between society’s poor and wealthy, and all-around lies and gaslighting—America is in trouble.

Like with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, our defeat there has exposed the nation’s failed leadership busy looting and wrecking what is left of our country. We can now see that we are led by the worst of humanity—a collection of garbage elites, tyrants, and political grifters. Like the Soviets before us, there are two only two classes in modern America: the ruling class, and everyone else.

Not only can we now finally see our dysfunction, our adversaries can too. They are laughing at the weakness of America and will likely take advantage of it in the near future. These are dangerous times. If our garbage elite drive us into a collapse or into war against a modern enemy, it is we ordinary Americans who will suffer.

Time to Clean House

What can Americans do about our current predicament? How do we keep our nation from meeting the same fate as the other empires in the graveyard?

We have to get up off the couch and do some badly needed house cleaning. We must get our house in order while we still have the chance—before America becomes a fire-sale nation bought up by the Chinese and kicked around by the world’s petty dictatorships. We need to replace and repair the broken elements of our culture and governance, and we need to start both at home and in Washington, DC.

The greatest threat to America is the current leadership in DC. They are the epitome of Dunning-Kruger syndrome and are immune to shame or hypocrisy. They will not leave of their own accord, because in their minds, they deserve to rule us.

Don’t be confused by thinking this is a Republican versus Democrat thing. This is an America versus the uniparty of failed elites thing.

An American Yellow Vest Movement

As Rod Dreher writes, we need an American yellow vest movement. Americans should get into the streets to demand the resignations of the Biden administration’s entire national security apparatus.

This includes, but is not limited to, the secretary of defense, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state, director of national intelligence, the entire National Security Council, the leadership of the Department of Justice, and the president himself. If we are to survive as a nation, it is imperative that the individuals responsible for this abomination are held accountable by the people.

America still has a semblance of representative governance. We the people must now exercise our citizen responsibilities while we still can. If we cannot muster the strength of will to put our house in order, we will be complicit in our own demise. Like the Soviet Union that collapsed under the weight of its own corruption and incompetence, America will doom itself to a similar end.

Our experience in Afghanistan has not broken us. Rather, this experience has identified to the American people the cancer that is killing our nation. It has shown us what we need to do.

If we fail now, it will be from our own moral cowardice to put our nation back in order. That cowardice is being demonstrated to a world that is watching and marveling at the speed this once great beacon of liberty has fallen from grace.

Max Morton is a retired USMC lieutenant colonel and former CIA paramilitary operations officer. He is a veteran of multiple armed conflicts, revolutions, and contingency operations.

Hey, Biden Voters!

You didn’t have a clue about how power works in the real world. 

You should have. You were a grown-up. You had no excuse. 

by Bruce Bawer for American Greatness

Damn you all.

You’re American citizens, with the right to vote in presidential elections.

For four years, we had a president who, over the course of a single term, managed to undo a great deal of the mischief wrought, and a great many of the mistakes made, by his recent predecessors. Trump revived America’s economy, shored up Americans’ individual liberties, forged several remarkable peace agreements, and greatly strengthened our international position—thus firmly checking the ambitions of our powerful adversaries. 

But, Biden voters, he had a personality that rubbed you the wrong way. He wrote nasty tweets. In the language of TV production, he was too “hot.” You wanted “cool.” 

The Democrats put up a candidate who was plainly in mental decline. It was obvious every time he spoke. But you didn’t pay terribly close attention to his speeches. The sources from which you get your “news” carefully clipped out all of the bits of his appearances in which his befuddlement was manifest. If you heard someone speak out about his senility, you dismissed the charges out of hand.  

Biden also had a less-than-stellar professional history. He’d spent decades in the Senate as little more than a fixture, an empty suit, a vapid, smiling shill for the credit-card companies and other corporations based in his shabby little state. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, mountains of evidence were made public indicating that Biden was even more deeply corrupt than we already knew, taking massive bribes from nefarious foreign powers. 

Yes, that story was banned from social media. Still, you could have known about it if you’d had the slightest bit of curiosity—and the slightest sense of civic responsibility. 

For years, your trusted news sources fed you lies about Trump and Russia. Those lies, which anyone with any sense recognized from the outset as preposterous, were finally disproved. But your sources never showed remorse or shame. Most of them never even corrected their stories—not really, not with any class or conviction. They just moved on—smoothly, slickly, smarmily—to other slanders, such as the ludicrous case of the Trump’s phone call to the president of Ukraine. 

If you’d really been paying attention, you’d have noticed at least some of this. But you were as caught up in the shell game as they were. It didn’t matter to you that Trump was exonerated. In fact, you really didn’t care what was true and what was false. You just wanted more reasons to hate him. 

It was the whole Emmanuel Goldstein thing, right out of Nineteen Eighty-Four. If you don’t get the reference, read the book.

So it went. Year after year during the Trump era, you didn’t bring an ounce of reflection or judgment or self-examination (why did you hate Trump so much?) to bear on anything. When your sources told you that Trump was alienating our foreign friends by pressuring NATO members to pay up, you bought it without applying the slightest bit of common sense to the situation. When several of those allies did pay up, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg thanked Trump effusively for making the alliance stronger, you didn’t care. 

Or maybe you didn’t even hear. 

But you must’ve heard about the Israeli peace agreements. You must’ve heard something. If Obama had pulled off these deals, it would have justified his Nobel Prize. 

But even if you did hear, such accomplishments just didn’t do it for you. What mattered in your book was that Obama was suave and Biden was, well,  grandfatherly or something, while Trump was a blustering loudmouth. He walked in front of the queen! He threw his weight around at the G7! Remember him staring Angela Merkel down while crossing his arms! How uncouth! 

You looked down on Trump voters. “How can you be so stupid?” you actually asked us to our faces. Because you saw Trump as stupid. You weren’t able to explain how somebody stupid could achieve the kind of spectacular success he did in New York real estate. You also saw him as evil—which meant we, his supporters, were evil, too. How, you demanded, could we be so evil? 

It never occurred to you to reflect on the fact that Trump the businessman had never been accused of racism or homophobia or any of the forms of bigotry of which Trump the candidate and Trump the president was accused every day. It never occurred to you that those of us who hadn’t taken Trump seriously when his campaign began, but who later cheered him on enthusiastically, might have been paying closer attention—or might know more, or both—than you did. 

It never occurred to you that knowing some history might count for something. Nor did you once step back and ponder the fact that your own interest in politics, in most cases, dated not much further back than the first presidential run of the glorious Barack Obama, whom you loved not because of anything he did or said but because—well, need it be spelled out? 

Anyway, you railed against Trump. But Biden? You showed no interest in knowing who Biden really was. You were so full of hatred for Trump—a hatred reinforced every day by the rote lies you heard from your sources on CNN, MSNBC, and elsewhere—that you took it for granted that Biden could only be better. 

You went by the most superficial of impressions. He looked presentable. He looked like a senior senator from Central Casting. He didn’t yell onstage. He didn’t swagger. He spoke slowly, in a low voice. (And eventually, he even started to whisper!) You liked that. 

Presumably you don’t like Alpha Males. Most likely you saw Trump as a wellspring of toxic masculinity. 

It never occurred to you, apparently, that in a complex and dangerous world, it might be a good thing for the most important and powerful country to have a strong, self-assured, can-do individual at the helm—a man who knew how to reassure allies and strike fear into enemies. 

But, no, Trump’s enemies in the media told you that he alienated allies. Biden would win them back. Biden was pleasant. Biden was liked. And you bought it. You seem to have viewed the world as something not unlike some old-fashioned ladies’ sewing circle, or a children’s soccer team, where the idea is to get along and work together, and where a boor or a bully can be taken aside by the others and told to be nice. 

You didn’t have a clue about how power works in the real world. You should have. You were a grown-up. You had no excuse. 

Trump understood power. He’d made his fortune in the toughest arena in American business: New York real estate. His experience in the private sector made him a perfect choice for president: for four years, he used the talents he employed to make himself rich to make America great again. 

But you didn’t see it. 

Biden was rich, too. Not as rich as Trump, but plenty rich. The difference was that he’d amassed his millions not through hard work or talent but by selling his influence. Like many another politician, he whored himself out, betraying his voters, his state, and his country. 

But what did that matter to you? You acted as if you were voting for a morning talk-show host or veteran local news anchorman. Or a maître d’. It’s as if you didn’t even have a concept of the role a president of the United States plays on the global stage.   

Well, now you know. At least I hope you know. If you don’t know now, you never will. And if you’ve still managed to miss all the obloquy heaped on the man you voted for—well, congratulations. That’s quite a coup.

Thanks to you—yes, you (look in the mirror!)—Biden, in the eyes of military experts around the world (and, for that matter, the eyes of anyone on the planet with an ounce of sense), has pulled off the most disastrous military operation in modern times.

As a result, America has reached perhaps the lowest point in its history. Biden has betrayed every member of our own armed forces. He’s betrayed every Westerner stationed in Afghanistan. And he’s betrayed every last one of our allies, none of whom he even bothered to consult with before issuing his catastrophic orders.

In doing so, he’s dramatically increased the likelihood that China will invade Taiwan or that Russia will invade some place in Eastern Europe. Commentators who a couple of weeks ago were still covering up for Biden are now admitting that he’s beyond incompetent and that this single event could spell the end of America as a superpower.

Last Saturday, in an impassioned j’accuse, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr asked: “Are you happy now, Biden voters?”

Carr’s assumption was that any cognizant, conscientious Biden voter must now, at long last, be feeling buyer’s remorse. But I suspect otherwise. Of all of you Biden voters, the one I know best has just celebrated on Facebook the fact that Rachel Maddow—the individual who has perhaps done more than anyone to demonize Trump and whitewash Biden—has signed a new contract with MSNBC.

So I guess even the catastrophe in Kabul isn’t even enough to make you rethink your vote. Even now, you’re still not through coughing up your anti-Trump bile.

I guess that the question, then, is this: will you ever be? In the times to come, as you witness the consequences of Biden’s incompetence, will any of it affect your opinions? Years from now, will you be crawling around the rubble in the remains of the world whose destruction Biden has precipitated and still be howling about the evil that is Donald Trump?

Biden Bows to the Taliban Timeline, as his CIA Director Negotiates Jizyah Fees to Keep Airport Safe During Final Week

Jizyah, also spelled jizya, historically, a tax 

paid by non-Muslim populations to their Muslim rulers.

Biden Sticks to the Taliban Demanded August 31st Deadline, as CIA Director William Burns Negotiates Payments and Indulgency Fees to Keep Airport Safe During Final Week

posted by Sundance at Consrvative Treehouse

The term “indulgency fee” is so much more appealing than “extortion“, just ask U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens; oh,…wait. I digress.

It is being reported that CIA Director William Burns flew to Afghanistan to negotiate with Taliban leadership yesterday.  Earlier today,  Joe Biden tells the G7 nations that he is sticking to the August 31st withdrawal deadline imposed by the Taliban who are in control of almost all regions of the country including the capital city of Kabul.

For future reference, remember this CIA meeting with Taliban leadership in case the administration ever tries to say we do not negotiate with terrorists.  The Biden administration doesn’t have a choice.  The Taliban circle the airport in Kabul. The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat.   As a consequence, the Taliban could easily begin shooting down any airplane attempting to take-off or land from the airport…

Hence… CIA Director Burns is almost certainly negotiating payment terms with the Taliban for safe passage.  We can only imagine how much money the Biden administration is paying the Taliban leadership to permit ongoing operations at the Kabul airport.   Think about how much Biden would pay to avoid the optics of a U.S. airplane carrying hundreds of Americans being blown out of the sky on CNN and BBC news.   That is how much we are paying.

Biden is telling everyone at the G7 he is sticking to the August 31st deadline date.  Biden addressed the leaders on the call for about seven minutes. The NATO allies are worried they will not be able to get their people out.  However, undoubtedly the extraction of Americans and allies AFTER August 31st is part of the agreement between the CIA (on behalf of Biden) and Taliban leaders.

The Taliban are not stupid, they have all the leverage in this dynamic.  The Taliban know this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain massive ransom payments without the international media visibility of physically holding hostages.  They also know the desperation of the Biden administration to avoid any painful optics.

Earlier today, the Taliban announced they will not permit Afghan nationals to travel to the airport in Kabul.  The Taliban are not going to permit U.S. embassy staff who are Afghan nationals to leave.

BBC is reporting that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid said: “Afghans should not go to the airport or try to leave the country.”  At the press briefing, Zabihullah Mujahid also said, “Women should stay at home for now, for their safety.”  The Taliban spokesman added it would be a “violation” of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond the 31st of August.

This is the problem with, and motive for, the Biden administration refusing to quantify the number of Americans and SIV’s who remain in Afghanistan.  As long as the American public do not know how many are there, the administration can use any arbitrary number to claim they have all been removed regardless of their actual disposition.

If you don’t think a Democrat administration is willing to sacrifice a few thousand pesky Americans to save themselves the political issues of their abandonment; and if you think the Democrats are genuinely worried about the disposition of Afghan nationals that will likely be killed silently by Taliban enforcers….  please, remind yourself of Benghazi.

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Joe Biden Afghanistan Coordination Call With 

G7 Leaders Lasted a Total of Seven Minutes

It’s all a pantomime folks.  According to BBC News reporting on the Joe Biden teleconference call with G7 leaders, the sum total of the call lasted seven minutes.

Think about that.  With so much at stake and so much to be discussed and coordinated within the emergency situation in Afghanistan, the discussion between Joe Biden and the allied leaders of the U.K, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, lasted only seven minutes:

(LINK)

It takes longer to get through the drive-thru at a McDonalds than the G7 spent on their Afghanistan briefing and coordination.

That conference call was for two reasons: (1) the White House talking point of a ‘collaboration with G7 leaders’; and (2) a photo-op.  That’s it folks, nothing more.

(LINK)

All of this in 7 Minutes…

(White House Link)