Good day all. With the Fall of Kabul, people are starting to compare what is happening now with what happened with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. While the collapse of South Vietnam had many “Fathers,” such as the Democrat controlled Congress refusing to resupply the ARVN and President Ford not sending in air cover, the Fall of Kabul and Afghanistan has but one “Daddy.”
Currently there are helicopters flying around Kabul evacuating Americans and other western citizens. The pictures coming out are reminiscent of the evacuation of the United States Embassy in Saigon in 1975.
This has led the Secretary of State, Antony “Rapid Eye” Blinken to state categorically that this is nothing like Saigon. Here are the details, (And his excuses), from Fox News:
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper asked Blinken whether the U.S. was “already in the midst of a Saigon moment” as the Taliban continues to sweep major cities in the region since the U.S. began withdrawing troops.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Sunday that the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan since the withdrawal of U.S. troops is nothing like the fall of Saigon in 1975.
“This is not Saigon,” Blinken responded. “We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission, and that mission was to deal with the folks that attacked us on 9/11, and we have succeeded in that mission. The objective that we set, bringing those that attacked us to justice, making sure they couldn’t attack us again from Afghanistan, we’ve succeeded in that mission. And in fact we succeeded a while ago.
This is both accurate and inaccurate. First, it is even worse then the Fall of Saigon. It took about 6 weeks for the NVA to overrun South Vietnam, and they were far better trained and equipped then the Taliban. The Taliban pulled this off in about a week or so using pickup trucks and horses. As to completing the mission?
Again questionable and inaccurate. Most of the blame can be laid at the feet of President George W. Bush and the Neocons and Globalists. We did a great job in the first months, but then the boneheads, blowhards and idiots started tying the hands of the troops and thought that it would be far more profitable, (For them), to do a little nation building and infrastructure construction. (We should have just gone full on scorched earth)
“And at the same time, remaining in Afghanistan for another one, five, 10 years is not in the national interest,” he added.
Oh there I agree with you, but pulling the usual Progressive Communazi tactic of “Cut and Run” rather then a careful plan was doomed to failure, as you have once again proven.
Blinken argued that had thousands of troops remained in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline set by former President Donald Trump, then “attacks would have resumed on our forces” and “we would have been back at war with the Taliban.”
“The idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there, I think, is simply wrong,” he said.
There you go again, blaming your failures on President Trump. One of the problems President Trump had was the flat out lying by people in the Intelligence community, The State Department and the Pentagon. I don’t mean the people that President Trump put into the upper management, I mean the rank and file staffers who hated him and didn’t care what it took to “Get Trump!”
President Biden has responded by authorizing the deployment of 5,000 troops to the region to ensure what he calls an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel.
Yeah that isn’t happening. Most of those troops won’t have anyplace to land in short order, although the 82nd could jump in using parachutes.
Tapper asked Blinken during his interview whether the Biden administration would ever recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government, amid reports that China is preparing to do so.
Rapid Eye Blinken came up with the standard non-answer answer.
A future Afghan government that upholds the basic rights of its people and that doesn’t harbor terrorists is a government we can work with and recognize,” Blinken answered.
Tapper, for once, was having none of that.
Tapper replied, “that sounds like a no,” given the Taliban’s treatment of women.
Rapid Eye Blinken has shown himself to be pretty incompetent as Secretary of State. Of course, incompetence is the general business model of the maladministration of President Dementia. He’s no Mike Pompeo, or even Rex Tillerson, who President Trump had to fire. The last halfway decent Secretary of State the Democrats came up with, and she was mediocre at best, was Madeleine Albright.
You have to go back to Dean Rusk to find one who was reasonably competent and loyal to the United States. I put Blinken into the same category as John Forbes “Ketchup Boy” Kerry and Felonia von Pantsuit. Incompetent, not that loyal to the United States and not all that bright. I doubt he’s selling his office the way Felonia von Pantsuit did, and he hasn’t had the opportunity to sell out the United States the way ketchup Boy Kerry does. Still, it’s early days yet.
Thatisall
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