In Wednesday’s article, I discussed Secretary of State Blinken’s culpability.
23 staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul signed a memo warning that the Taliban were about to take over Kabul and that evacuations needed to begin. The date was July 13, 2021. There was still a month left until the Taliban would enter Kabul. And that should have been plenty of time to conduct an evacuation and get American civilians safely out.
Weeks after the memo, Blinken was still insisting, all evidence to the contrary, that, “No one has an interest in a military takeover of the country by the Taliban, the restoration of an Islamic emirate.”
Notably, the letter that Blinken dispatched to Afghanistan’s president at the time, warned that the Taliban could “make rapid territorial gains”.
The letter, which Tolo got a copy of, shows that Blinken actually knew the risks of the game he was playing.
Further, Blinken writes that even with the continuation of the US financial assistance to Afghan forces after an American withdrawal, he is “concerned that the security situation will worsen and that the Taliban could make rapid territorial gains” and that he shares this so that President Ghani “understands the urgency of my tone regarding the collective work outlined in this letter.”
So much for the “I Knew Nothing” game.
PMK says
Blinken was too busy developing CRT classes for State Department employees to worry about Americans in Afghanistan.
mortimer says
Mr. Blinkered is not the innocent he claims to be. They are all INCOMPETENT together and don’t know the meaning of the word ‘RESIGN’.
When you work with bumbling fools like the Bribed-man who is in serious COGNITIVE DECLINE and perhaps in MULTI-INFARCT DEMENTIA, you simply should not HUMOR THEM as they are all doing.
It’s time to clearly say the ‘EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES ON’. Bribed-man is senile and an incompetent bumbler.
Phil Copson says
“…Mr. Blinkered is not the innocent he claims to be. They are all INCOMPETENT…”
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They are not remotely incompetent; they are achieving the result they want and planned for.
Vicky says
Perfectly summarized. Have you noticed Blinkered’s dark circles under his eyes? He knows he’s incompetent but enjoys his status. What a doomed situation we are in!
Kepha says
So 23 embassy staffers warned [Winken-,] Blinken [–, and Nod] of impending disaster? I’m glad that it appears that at least some in the professional Foreign Service still know how to keep their ears to the ground.
Buit, Mr. Blinken is doing his job as the front man for an American alite that believes nothing is more important than teaching that white Americans are responsible for every earthly ill, making the world safe for same-sex “marriage”, and ensuring that confused seven-year-olds are condemned to a lifetime of expensive hormone “therapies” and irreversible surgeries. Blinken stands for a world in which image is far more important than substance, and platitudes ever triumph over truth. He, Milley, and the whole Biden Swamp are the end result of more than half a century of Treason Chic and the promotion of degeneracy. Can we be surprised that under their leadership, the USA was beaten by people for whom rise with a gobbet of greasy goat meat is a holiday feast and hunger is a frequent companion, and who have been taught since childhood that martyrdom for their creed is the highest honor?
Abetted by a servile media, our current leaders are caught in their vision of the world sighing and pining for the rights of bra-burning and wearing pussy hats, and eager to have the USA bomb them to bring such things about. Further, if we Americans are bothered that we are led by such nonentities-cum-iunjustifiably inflated egos, we have only ourselves to blame.
gravenimage says
Blinken Warned Taliban Could ‘Make Rapid Territorial Gains’ in March Letter
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Anyone paying the vaguest amount of attention knew this would happen.
David M says
And Blinken knew if the Taliban ever looked to take Kabul they would be driving there in a long convoy of vehicles & be an easy target from any aerial attack from western forces. Obviously the western forces weren’t interested in taking out the Taliban.