Day of infamy vietnam10/5/2023 ![]() Ayman al-Zawahiri, in downtown Kabul on August 2. because the Taliban already have given sanctuary to both Al-Qaeda and possibly ISIS as evidenced by the drone assassination via two Hellfire missiles of Osama Bin Laden’s replacement, Dr. However, the Taliban, who are extremely close allies with Iran, are still a serious national security threat to the U.S. The military debacle in Kabul and throughout Afghanistan on Augwas much worse than Saigon’s fall and South Vietnam’s capture because Communist Vietnam after 1975 never once threatened the United States. was indeed correct in his criticism of the Pentagon’s leadership and their disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. It appears that Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller Jr. I suppose that twenty years was simply not enough time for the Pentagon’s overcompensated “genius generals” to come up with a viable worst-case contingency plan if Kabul fell to the enemy? I also suppose that the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was just too busy for such mundane matters? Unfortunately, the “lifeboat was full” because Biden’s White House and the Pentagon’s military planning was disgracefully poor. Two or more them, who had successfully clung to the jet, later tragically fell thousands of feet to their deaths. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III jet while slowly taxiing down the runway.Īnd guess what? The transport jet’s pilot never once stopped to pick up any of these men. If one image could succinctly depict our disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan, it would be the hundreds or more of desperate young and middle-aged Afghan men on Augrunning on the tarmac at Hamid Karzai International Airport with some of them frantically trying to cling to both sides of the underside of the fuselage of a huge gray U.S. This airlift lasted seventeen days and nights around-the- clock for all the world to see, especially Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Communist China’s Xi Jinping, from Augto Augresulting in the evacuation of over 122,000 people. Embassy’s rooftop in downtown Kabul on August 15, 2021, a worse chaotic evacuation was taking place four miles away at the Hamid Karzai International Airport. While no Marine helicopters were desperately evacuating fleeing Afghans from the U.S. ![]() It appears that a half century of foreign policy expertise completely failed Scranton Joe aka “The Big Guy” despite his “golden” resume. Biden was shamelessly wrong despite having been a Delaware senator (1973-07), who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee three times, and vice president (2009-17) before becoming president on Januafter campaigning for the White House from his basement. On July 8, 2021, which was over five weeks before the fall of Kabul, President Joe Biden repeatedly and optimistically assured the American people that Kabul would not resemble the chaotic fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The death of our Afghan allies was much, much higher. ![]() soldiers, 3,846 contractors, 1,144 coalition troops, 444 aid workers and a countless number of wounded and maimed-for-life soldiers, who will require expensive medical care and rehabilitation in the trillions of dollars through 2070, along with over 30,000 Afghan (and Iraqi) veterans who have committed suicide from PTSD. As usual Congress paid for another endless war for endless peace on credit with interest. It was the end of the longest undeclared or declared war in American history, which began on September 11, 2001. August 15 was the one-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan to the uncivilized, throat-cutting and medieval Taliban.
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