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Questions for Blumenthal, Murphy

Marine Sargent Nicole Gee, political victim

 

 

There are some important differences between the Trump and Biden approaches in Afghanistan. Trump was willing to end America’s presence in Afghanistan in May, and his was a conditional withdrawal the most important provision of which was that the United States would agree to leave Afghanistan if – and only if – the Taliban were to agree to share power with the government of Afghanistan.

Biden’s surrender to the Taliban was unconditional, and that is why the Taliban was able to dictate to Biden the terms of surrender. The victors in any confrontation always spoil the best laid plans of the losers. Because his surrender was unconditional, Biden found it necessary to leave both Americans and friends of America behind enemy lines following his self-imposed exit-date of August 31, surely a day that will live in shame and ignominy

U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, a Marine, said on August 28, according to CTInsider, that “he and other members of Congress met with the administration in April and May ‘pleading’ to start a mass evacuation effort ’I hope that our military will remain as long as possible to enable as many as possible Afghan allies to escape torture and murder that the Taliban may impose on them or their families,’ Blumenthal said Saturday.”

Given the nature of the Taliban and Biden’s perverse insistence on a deadline (no pun intended), Blumenthal’s hope will likely be a fugitive hope.

There is much we do not know concerning the meeting between Biden, Blumenthal and others. Just to begin with, who were the others? Did Blumenthal and the nameless others agree to the apparently non-negotiable set-date for evacuation of August 31?

Did Blumenthal protest that the set-date would make it nearly impossible for the American military to assure all Americans and friends of America in Afghanistan could be safely removed by August 31?

If it could be shown that the number of American left in Afghanistan after August 31 was larger than 350 souls – the undercount of remaining evacuees given by Blumenthal on August 28, three days before E-Day (Evacuation Day) -- would Blumenthal agree to a reentry of the American military to accomplish their safe removal?

If the fears he expressed on August 28 – that the Taliban may impose torture and murder upon Americans and the friends of American remaining in Afghanistan after E-Day – turn out to be true following the evacuation, will he denounce both Biden and the Generals who misadvised the President that the Taliban would live up to their own propaganda and stop behaving, once control over Afghanistan had been surrendered to them, like the Taliban of old. Blumenthal, in his August 28 statement, seemed to be suggesting that 10th century Taliban habits die hard, along with their numerous victims.

Following the post-Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, Blumenthal must know, it will be as difficult for the US to rescue Americans and friends of America from behind Taliban lines as it had been for the Afghan military to defend a helpless country that had been deprived by Biden of necessary, reliable on-the-ground intelligence and air support supplied by retreating Americans, one of the reasons surely that Biden was forced to maintain his self-enforced deadline of August 31.

The end of the 20 year peace in Afghanistan, George Will – no friend of the Trump administration – notes in a recent column, was a “made in America” rout.

Especially poignant are quotes from British politician and diplomat Rory Stewart, who was “incensed about Biden’s ‘incredibly offensive’ Aug. 16 address, in which Biden disparaged the Afghans’ ‘will to fight.’”

The United States, Stewart said, “provided all the air support for the Afghans. [The Americans] didn’t just take their own planes away. They took away 16,000 civilian contractors who were maintaining the Afghan helicopters. … So those things can’t even fly. And the morale damage. They left in the middle of the night from Bagram [air base]. They didn’t even tell the commander that they were leaving. The Afghans woke up in the morning. All their planes disabled, the Americans have left, no support of any kind. And you’re asking who exactly? Who is President Biden asking to fight?”

Indeed, what we – including Blumenthal -- will be witnessing in days to come is what happens when a “friendly” supportive state pulls the rug out from under its “friends” and throws them into the jaws of ravening jackals.

Blumenthal’s Democrat companion in the US Senate, Chris Murphy, is threatening a broad based congressional hearing examining the last 20 years of American support in Afghanistan, when what is desperately needed at our moment of crisis is a fiercely focused examination of Biden’s surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban. The best way to hide the golden needle, seasoned politicians with much to hide might tell us, is to drop it into a barn full of congressional hay.

The junior Senator from Connecticut is seasoning fast.


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