My latest in PJ Media:
The war is lost, but no one is going to be held accountable and the same blinkered woke dopes are in charge. In fact, the one whose very name is Blinken, the secretary of State, explained Monday how the Taliban could gain the “international legitimacy and support” that is obviously such a high priority for them, and explained that even if it didn’t become the Leftist woke paradise of Blinken’s imagining, the American money will still flow. Of course. It always does.
Blinken claimed risibly that henceforth, the America-Last administration of Biden’s handlers would be guided by a concern for something that has never appeared on its list of priorities up to now: “our vital national interests.” Yeah, sure, Tony. Pull my other leg. More plausibly, Blinken assured the world that despite the last few weeks of catastrophe and humiliation, the American taxpayers will still be filling their cars with $4-a-gallon gasoline and driving to their pathetic nine-to-fives so that the elites can demonstrate their concern for the people of Afghanistan: “If we can work in the new Afghan government in a way that helps secure those interests … and in a way that brings greater stability to the country and the region, and that protects the gains of the last two decades, we will do it.”
The gains of the last two decades? What were those? Blinken didn’t say. He was too busy promising the Taliban American money: “The United States will continue to support humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. Consistent with our sanctions on the Taliban, the aid will not flow through the government, but rather through independent organizations, such as U.N. agencies and [non-government organizations.] And, we expect that those efforts will not be impeded by the Taliban or anyone else.”
Of course the Taliban won’t impede the money flow. They’re much more likely to appropriate it. Just as UN agencies in Gaza are wholly compromised by Hamas, it strains credulity to think that UN will be able to operate freely and independently of the Taliban in Afghanistan, or will even try to do so. But in Antony Blinken’s blinkered world, the UN is an incorrupt and thoroughly uncorruptable organization, and so no American taxpayer should object to his or her or xer money going to UN outposts in the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Really, what could possibly go wrong?
Blinken demonstrated his lack of acquaintance with reality yet again when he explained that if the Taliban wanted international approval, it would have to become a Leftist nanny state like the U.S. and its allies, all concerned with diversity and inclusiveness: “The Taliban seeks international legitimacy and support. Our message is: any legitimacy and any support will have to be earned.”
Is that right? And exactly what leverage do you have on the Taliban if they don’t earn it, Mr. Secretary?
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mortimer says
Failed US president, Joe-mentia Beijing Baqsheesh Bribed-man only understands BRIBERY … given and received. He doesn’t understand diplomacy.
It is the greatest insult to Americans that he has not resigned.
mortimer says
Blinken should do the honorable thing and resign in disgrace. He insults us with his crafty lies. We are not stupid. We have eyes. Blinken is a dishonorable, disgraced failure.
gravenimage says
Biden’s America-Last Administration: U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban
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So beheadings and stonings–and the return of Al Qaeda–will be funded by American taxpayers. Suicidal insanity.
mortimer says
Americans have to find a way to stop this MAD ADMINISTRATION. The lunatics are in charge.
mortimer says
The Bribed-man administration is a runaway train steaming rapidly towards a wrecked bridge.
gravenimage says
“Polls: Americans back end to Afghanistan war but fault Biden’s execution”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/polls-americans-back-end-afghanistan-war-fault-biden-s-execution-n1278180
“just 27 percent rated Biden’s handling of the situation as “excellent” or “good,” while 29 percent rated it “only fair” and 42 percent rated it “poor”…
James Lincoln says
Just wondering who those 27% are, gravenimage.
The far Left, antifa, BLM, never Trumpers, muslims / muslim apologists, etc.
gravenimage says
Good quesion, James. My guess is that they would just knee-jerk approve of anything a Democrat president does.
Walter Sieruk says
That treasonous despicable villain, Joe Biden, will continue to send “aid” in reality bribes, to the Taliban.
Likewise , Biden will keep on supporting the brutal ,cruel ,murderous , misogynistic opressive Islamic tyranny of the Taliban in many ways.
It’s almost unbelievable that such a evil, sinister subversive vile horribly destructive old man , Biden , is actually sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real , genuine, US President.
roberta says
Did Joe get a chance to speak of his late son today? If the answer is no, then we lost no US soldiers today, and Im happy about that at least.
CogitoErgoSum says
Biden’s son, Beau, served in Iraq from Oct. 2008 to Sept. 2009. His death was in 2015 due to an aggressive type of brain cancer; however, Biden talks as if somehow his son’s death is related to his service in Iraq. I think in some way he ties his son’s death to war in general and that caused him to end the war in Afghanistan. It’s just another indication of his muddled way of thinking. Parents of some of the Marines who were killed in Kabul who met with Biden said he was more interested in talking about his own deceased son than he was theirs and that he grew angry when they tried to talk about their grief instead of his.
Rbla says
One good thing re the Afghan debacle is that it has exposed the bankruptcy of our governing, academic and media elites. Back in the 80s and 90s the members of our genius elite trashed all attempts to rationalize our immigration policy allowing millions of illegal aliens amnesty, opening the borders, not vetting entrants and thereby enabled a handful of terrorists to murder thousands of Americans which is the only reason we went to war in Afghanistan in the first place. And at the same time the Clinton Democrats and RINO cheap labor Republicans trashed our manufacturing in order to build up our Covid spreading friends in China.
These steps are needed to save our republic:
Moratorium on all immigration until we can clean up the mess. No amnesty; those illegally here must go.
Bring our manufacturing back from China as Trump began to do.
Defund our elite and Ivy League universities who are simply producing useless idiots (Blinken is one example) to fill the ranks of the ‘elite’.
Infidel says
For the first time ever, I think that the US constitution should have built in an allowance for a military coup to overthrow a treasonous government. Of course, in this case, it doesn’t help that Gen Millie is completely compromised
sidney penny says
“Translation: the U.S. aid will continue, and possibly even to the Taliban if they keep their word. If they don’t, there’s always the UN. The money will keep on flowing in any case. It never runs out.”
Just ask Pakistan.
Western money ( especially USA money) to Pakistan never runs out