It isn’t enough that Joe Biden left behind $7 billion (at least) worth of sophisticated military equipment that the Taliban quickly seized. It wasn’t enough, either, that he left Americans to die violent deaths in Afghanistan. Now the Biden administration is discussing giving the Taliban $7 billion more. Biden claims that any money donated to Afghanistan for relief will be kept out of the Taliban’s hands or used by the Taliban in a humanitarian fashion.
At it celebrates its windfall, the Taliban mocks America. Last year, Taliban members dressed up as US troops, as the NY Post reported:
After a humiliating swift takeover of Afghanistan amid President Biden’s botched troop withdrawal, Taliban leaders and fighters are now rubbing it in America’s face — showing off their new uniforms and gear taken from US special forces stockpiles provided to the Afghan army.
The Taliban are becoming wealthier and more powerful thanks to their chief benefactor, Joe Biden.
“Report: Biden Admin to Discuss Gifting Taliban Afghan’s Billions,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, August 22, 2022:
The Biden administration is proceeding with talks to unfreeze the $7 billion in Afghanistan’s assets held by the U.S. Federal Reserve, Reuters reported on Monday, despite the Taliban failing to meet human rights commitments and harboring al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul.
Reuters on Monday quoted “three sources with knowledge of the situation” who said the administration is prepared to overlook a great deal of misbehavior by the Taliban because of Afghanistan’s growing humanitarian crisis.
The United Nations and U.S. Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) both warned this month that nearly half of the Afghan population will experience “extreme levels of hunger” in the coming winter, with millions facing “near-famine conditions.”
SIGAR also warned about the Taliban’s growing “repression of women and girls,” a clear violation of promises the Islamist regime made to the United Nations after President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal one year ago brought the Taliban back to power.
The contrast between SIGAR’s warnings captures the dilemma facing the civilized world, as the Taliban refuses to hear Western demands or implement needed reforms until America unfreezes the funds it holds, while humanitarian groups warn they cannot deliver aid to sick and starving Afghans while the national economy lies in ruins.
On the other hand, unfreezing Afghanistan’s assets would put billions of dollars at the disposal of a violent extremist regime that was just caught giving aid and comfort to al-Qaeda leadership and would effectively reward the Taliban for taking the people of Afghanistan hostage.
The American people will not look kindly on handing $7 billion over to the Taliban after a failed 20-year, $5 trillion effort to turn Afghanistan into a democracy, especially since much of the Taliban leadership is currently under U.S. sanctions or wanted by the FBI on terrorism charges….
somehistory says
Rewarding evil. Treason. Stupidity. Recklessness. Arrogance. Foolishness. Despicable.
A pack of toilet tissue now selling for $30. But, the taliban don’t use toilet tissue. How much do their rocks cost?
No chili peppers to make hot sauce; no tomatoes to make tomato sauce; no mustard seeds to make mustard for sandwiches.
On what are the taliban going to be spending all these billions upon billions?
gravenimage says
I shudder to think.
Fitna says
I share your anger SH, what a way to ruin one’s day. How brain-damaged does one have to be to think that rewarding our terrorist enemies is a good idea?
Last I heard, there were about 70,000 members in the Taliban gang. Bullets cost 50 cents each, so it’d only cost the US govt $35k to wipe them out rather than reward them. Ofc there’s also the cost of putting soldiers there to actually shoot them.
What’s also discouraging, as others have pointed out, is that the US spent a trillion dollars to defeat Muslim terrorists, only to hand the nation back to Muslim terrorists? Is that progress?
These idiots in charge have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. They made a mess of Iraq and some other mideast nations as well.
If all you’re going to do is stir the pot, blow up a few buildings but then let the same scumbags take back power; you’re better off solving poverty at home and fixing infrastructure rather than wasting that money in the bottomless pit known as the mideast (same for Africa).
I’m really disgusted with western elites. As a child and teenager I used to look up to the leaders, and have the impression the elites were brilliant, and that good always conquers evil, etc. Much of that was Hollywood BS and propaganda from the MSM.
And maybe past leaders were a lot wiser than they are today… but a high school kid would probably do a better job in dealing with the Taliban than the Democrats, hell maybe even the Conservatives too, because they did jack-all in they had power.
Frankly, they shouldn’t be allowed to keep getting away with abusing taxpayer money to enrich evil people. Any of us would go to jaile for sending some cash to terrorists; why don’t these rules apply to them?
Fitna says
Excuse a few errors. The grammar app I use isn’t without its flaws.
*when they had power
*jail
John says
How could Afghanistan have $.10 in the bank prior to the Taliban anyway? We spent $1 trillion over there. That’s gotta be our money to begin with.
peacelover says
Can’t this ‘president’ be charger as a traitor?
peacelover says
charged
peacelover says
charged that is
somehistory says
Perhaps if an honest man is ever elected and cleans house of those who pervert Justice and arrest innocent people, while committing crimes worse than what they are charging the innocent.
peacelover says
+
Infidel says
Not just him, but every member of his administration who made this possible should be tried, since it’s obvious that the ‘president’ ain’t firing on all cylinders
peacelover says
+
Ade Fegan says
This putz must go
john smith says
I’ve nothing against sending them humanitarian aid such as food, but not a penny in cash.
somehistory says
John, I would not have a problem sending food if the little kids could be fed. In years gone by, the U.S. sent literally tons of food to africa to feed the starving children and it sat on the docks and the tarmac and rotted while rats ate their fill. Because those who rule over the poor and desperate are corrupt and don’t really care about the people they are supposed to be caring for and helping survive and perhaps even thrive.
the taliban are no different. They would eat, sell what they could and allow the rest to rot.
sending them cash…just a huge waste as they will be fully funded for terror…there and elsewhere.
peacelover says
yes,sad truth
gravenimage says
Sad but true. And the only reason anyone is going hungry in Afghanistan in the first place is because of the Taliban and their ilk.
somehistory says
OT
from the AP
“Oz’s Senate bid could be a Muslim first but is ‘complicated'”
“…Muslim ever to serve in the chamber. It’s something he hardly brings up while campaigning, his Democratic opponent isn’t raising it and it’s barely a topic of conversation in Pennsylvania’s Muslim community.”
mozlumx in PA are evidently pretending they ‘won’t necessarily vote for him’ just because he’s mozlum. haha I’ll believe that when he openly says he’s leaving islam. due to the falsehoods embedded within the death cult.
He’s not talking about it, because it would cause some people to avoid voting for him…those who know what mozlums are all about, such as, taking over the country for islam.
gravenimage says
Having a Muslim in the Senate is deeply disturbing. Of course he is largely hiding this until–as he hopes–he is elected. And while many believe that Oz is “moderate” he has been lobbying to have “Islamophobia”–any criticism of Islam–criminalized.
somehistory says
the article said his wife is Christan and he’s raising their kids as Christians; of course, mozlums would never recognize his kids as anything but mozlum. They are saying they won’t vote for him because Mr. Trump supported him and they hate Mr. Trump. They say none of them vote for republicans.
It isa, as they article says, “complicated.”
somehistory says
my fingers and my eyes are making errors. It should say, “it is, as the article says, “complicated.”
gravenimage says
Somehistory, if I lived in Pennsylvania I would vote for the Democrat–albeit not a great choice–over a Muslim babbling about “Islamophobia”. Sorry to see that President Trump was fooled by this huckster. I imagine he just considers Oz to be a savvy entrepreneur.
Keith O says
Gotta wonder how many vets could be helped with $7 Billion.
somehistory says
If my math holds up, there are a thousand million in a billion, that makes seven times that amount. There are fewer than four hundred million citizens and not all are military vets. I would say all vets could be helped if money would help them, and there would be money left over to help others who need it through no fault of their own.
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban are so intrinsically evil that all they can do is commit the most horrendous human rights violations against the people trapped in Afghanistan Joe Biden all the land to them, along with much state-of-the-art high quality US military equipment.to further oppress them.
Likewise, there is so much intrinsic evil in Joe Biden that he’s now supplying the enemy of America and the American people with seven billion dollars to enable the Taliban brutally and cruelly engage in further murderous harassment and severe sharia based oppression to all those poor Afghans.
They are , of course,the same Afghans who Biden had abandoned them to those vicious savage malicious Taliban by pulling the US military out of Afghanistan in the at the worst possible time and in the worst possible way.
To call Biden a “villain” is too mild of a word to describe that pseudo “president.”
gravenimage says
US commits $7,000,000,000 more to the Taliban despite severe human rights abuses
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What–their stealing 7 billion of our military equipment wasn’t enough for them?
We should of course not give these vicious Muslim thugs a penny.
peacelover says
+ !
gravenimage says
Thank you, peacelover. When the Taliban were last in power we did not actually fund them.
Andrew Blackadder says
Can Old Joe and his merry gang of morons possibly get any worse ?…..Thats not a trick question…
sidney penny says
“The Biden administration is proceeding with talks to unfreeze the $7 billion in Afghanistan’s assets ”
Did not know that Afghanistan had assets.
The money assets was from Western countries as aid.
Walter Sieruk says
The many evils of Joe Biden must , surely, have no limits , at all. Biden is an affront to the Office of the Presidency United States and a disgrace to the US Constitution as well as a disaster for America and a catastrophe for Afghanistan.
Kenneth J Johnson says
I have asked this before. W here is our congress in all this??? KEN
wpm says
Congress too concern with their insider trading deals, family connected government contracts, and lining up jobs in the “private sector” working the other side of the isle when they” retire “from congress. They especial the ones in the majority now the democrats have given free reign to a senile old fool who does what his puppet masters tell him to do .Give 7 billion to a terrorist group that is running a fourth world country with billions in arms we left there what could go wrong? Near to 21 years after 911 we have armed and are now financing the people who killed over 3000 American citizen whose only crime was going to work and being Americans in America. The Talban have not changed their mission or goals or what they believe in their “new” leaders have the same goals, mission ,as the old ones meet the new boss same as the old boss.