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Biden Is Lying. We Are Going To Leave Behind Thousands Of Americans In Afghanistan
In Biden’s remarks to the press Friday, he was either openly deceiving the American people or he is completely unaware of conditions in Kabul. President Joe Biden finally took a few questions from a handful of reporters Friday after delivering remarks on the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan. What he had to say did not inspire […]
China’s Xenophobic Plan to Shut Out the World
On August 11, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and the central government’s State Council issued what the official Xinhua News Agency called “an outline on promoting the building of a rule of law government from 2021 to 2025, on the basis of the successful implementation of a previous 5-year plan.” The Chinese party-state’s announcement […]
Ripples of Kabul
In the aftermath of the Afghan debacle, we must depoliticize and de-weaponize these warped agencies and incompetent institutions. The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul. Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern […]
Will America Be Held Hostage?
Many in the media are raising legitimate questions about tactical aspects of the Biden Blunder in Afghanistan. Among them are things we have questioned ourselves, such as why was Bagram Airbase abandoned, why dismantle the intelligence capabilities, long before consideration was given to the U.S. citizens likely to still be in-country? The military leaves last, […]
Behold: Diversity in Failure
We would not for one moment diminish the seriousness of the debacle Biden has made of his “withdrawal” from Afghanistan. When a great superpower is this badly managed, history suggests ugly and terrible things will follow. It is said that nature abhors a vacuum and that has always been the case in foreign policy. Weakness […]
Congressmen Double Down On Calls To Impeach Mayorkas
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, repeatedly called for his impeachment, and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is calling on him to resign over the southern border crisis. The Department of Homeland Security has been releasing a countless number of illegal […]
A Required Course For Americans: Strategic Failure 101
How another botched withdrawal reveals the deeper issues affecting U.S. military leadership. The last convoy of U.S. troops left Iraq under cover of darkness on December 18, 2011. To keep the U.S. military withdrawal secret from insurgents—or Iraqi security officers secretly aligned with militias—U.S. interpreters called local tribal and government leaders the day before to […]
VIDEO: Biden’s Debacle in Afghanistan
During this special Center for Security Policy webinar, three top national security experts who worked for the Trump National Security Council discussed the current crisis in Afghanistan caused by President Biden’s decision to abruptly withdraw all U.S. troops from the country. Moderating the panel was Center President Fred Fleitz. Fleitz served as National Security […]
What Makes the Taliban Tick?
It is horrible to see the collapse of Afghanistan and thousands trying to flee the country before the Islamists take complete control there. What motivates the Taliban who once again are violently asserting power in that country? What makes the Taliban tick? There’s no mystery here. In some ways, it’s the same impulse at work […]
BRUTALITY: Harrowing Images Show Barbaric Taliban Imposing Islamic Law
Islamic rule. Or as Biden clown show says, “inclusive.” Democrat say, “Respect it, islamophobes!” Watch the Biden clown show: State Department joins U.N. Security Council in calling for "inclusive" government in Afghanistan, with the "full and meaningful participation of women." pic.twitter.com/nToe6noFrJ — UN Watch (@UNWatch) August 16, 2021 ‘Taliban is coming’ Crying Afghan woman pleads for […]
VIDEO: Woke Military Led to Defeat in Afghanistan
Daniel discusses How a Woke Military Led to Defeat in Afghanistan, and he asks: Guess what Gen. Milley and Biden’s military brass were doing while the Taliban conquered Afghanistan? Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center and editor of The Point at Frontpagemag.com. RELATED ARTICLE: Christians Fear for their Lives as Biden Weighs Resettling 30,000 Afghan Refugees RELATED TWEETS: Then […]
Senate Intelligence Chairman Intends to Probe Calamitous Afghan Exit
The Democrat chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has called for an investigation into the Biden administration’s execution of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan that led to the rapid collapse of that country’s government. “Intelligence officials have anticipated for years that in the absence of the U.S. military the Taliban would continue to make gains […]
On Afghanistan Fiasco, Biden Says ‘Buck Stops With Me’ While Blaming Everyone Else
The buck stops with me,” said President Joe Biden in an address to the nation on Monday after blaming his presidential predecessors for continuing a long war in Afghanistan. Biden gave the speech in response to criticism of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. After a weekend in which the Taliban effectively took over much of […]
Different Policies For Northern And Southern Borders
Those most likely to have COVID are given the green light, but people with passports from places with high vaccination rates see red lights. President Biden seems to have taken to heart the biblical injunction not to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. When it comes to immigration on our […]
Who Do You Think Will Be Listening, Mister President?
On Monday afternoon, while audiences around the world watched the unfolding of the evacuation of Kabul, President Biden offered the American people the rationale behind his decision to order the end of America’s commitment to its longest war. The story isn’t over, of course; six thousand U.S. military personnel have been ordered to Afghanistan to […]
Obama Freed The Taliban Leader Who Engineered Kabul Takeover
Former President Barack Obama didn’t listen to Pentagon officials when they told him Taliban mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa was too dangerous to release. Instead, he freed the group that came to be known as the ‘Gitmo five’ — Khairkhwa alongside four of his buddies — from the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2014 in exchange for a […]
Our Military Leaders Are Traitors With Ribbons On Their Chest And Stars On Their Shoulders.
Afghanistan: Missing In Action — The World is Laughing At Us. My elder cousin, BG John C. “Doc” Bahnsen, Jr. (ret.), is one of the Vietnam War’s most decorated combat officers—Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star (5), Distinguished Flying Cross (4), Legion of Merit (3), Bronze Star (4), Air Medal (51) and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. […]
Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in U.S.
Biden administration, meanwhile, focuses solely on “domestic extremists”. The twentieth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 is just a few weeks away. The first step in solving a problem is to acknowledge that there is a problem. The good news is that the Biden administration acknowledges that America faces an increased threat […]
How Joe Biden failed the people of Afghanistan — and tarnished U.S. credibility around the world
In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in foreign policy took a battering as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a covert action against the Cuban government that collapsed within a matter of days. The collapse […]
Running Away From a ‘Nation-Building’ Mess
Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Joe Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic. After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. West Germany rebuilt West Germany. Sure, America helped, but you can’t […]
CEO Of Fact-Checking Website Snopes Suspended For Lying
The co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, David Mikkelson, is a self-proclaimed arbiter of truth. That is, of course, when he’s not reportedly plagiarizing. A recent BuzzFeed investigation discovered that between 2015 and 2019, the CEO wrote and published at least 54 plagiarized articles containing material from outlets such as The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. […]
Army Recruiting Videos: Every American Needs to Watch These!
They have sissyfied our military and with it, this whole country! We are in deep trouble as a nation. I served for 23-years in the U.S. Army. After watching this video I was speechless. The Russian recruiting video compared to the American video made me sick. The narrator gets it right when he says, “we’re […]
‘Biden’ Won’t Prioritize Americans Over Afghans in Afghanistan Evacuation
Americans last. Biden Will Not Prioritize Americans Over Afghans in Afghanistan Evacuation By: John Binder, Breitbart News, August 16, 2021: President Joe Biden is not planning to prioritize thousands of American citizens stranded in evacuations from Afghanistan, as the country falls similar to that of the Fall of Saigon in 1975, over Afghan nationals applying […]
Rape of Afghanistan: Taliban Go Door-To-Door, Forcibly Taking Little Girls To Be Sex Slaves [Sanctioned by the Quran]
And CNN has en-robed their female reporters covering Afghanistan in burkas. The Taliban are devout Muslims who follow Islamic texts and teachings. Sex slavery and rape of the infidel is sanctioned and rewarded under Islam. Muslim clerics all over the world confirm the right to have sex slaves. It is in the Qur’an — the word of […]
As Kabul Falls, Joe Biden Poses for a Photo-Op
My latest in PJ Media: As U.S.-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and Taliban leaders posed for pictures inside the presidential palace in Kabul, Old Joe Biden’s handlers published a photo of their own. The White House Twitter account posted a photo of Old Joe sitting alone at a massive conference table at Camp David, with the caption: “This morning, the […]
Initial Public Reaction Negative For Biden
In politics, often it is the optics of a situation, not necessarily the facts that determine the eventual political repercussions of a particular event. Sometimes no amount of effort can undo the impact of the striking visual message. The Economist, the reliably left-leaning publication of the international business elite suggests the implications of Biden’s botched withdrawal […]
Reimagine Competence
To “reimagine” is a favorite buzzword on the Left. Embedded in the idea is that imagination alone can change reality. The reality you see is a social construct. All previous people were idiots and what they learned about living together is nonsense. We don’t need nation-states or nuclear families; we don’t even need the sexes… just […]
VIDEO: Extortion 17 – 10 Year Anniversary. Never Forget Our ‘Fallen Angels’!
On August 6, 2011 – three months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden – Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign Extortion 17. The attack killed the Air National Guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and 17 members of Navy SEAL Team Six – […]
Biden’s Rout in Kabul: You own this, Joe!
For decades, Joe Biden has touted himself as a foreign policy genius. As a United States senator, he never had to make a decision or bear responsibility for running off at the mouth. As vice-president, he was given backwaters such as Ukraine that he reportedly turned into a family piggy bank. But now he is president. He […]
Girl Weeps As Taliban Approaches: ‘We Don’t Count Because We Were Born in Afghanistan. No One Cares About Us.’
My latest in PJ Media: On Friday, the courageous Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, whom the Islamic Republic recently tried to kidnap in New York and take back to imprisonment, torture, and death in Tehran, posted a video on Twitter of a young Afghan woman. As the tears fall down her face, the woman says: “We don’t count because we were […]