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| Blumenthal and Murphy |
The upcoming elections should be brutally lucid.
During the last non-presidential election, Democrats in Connecticut
successfully ran against President Donald Trump, who was not even on the
ballot. Republicans could not move during the anti-Trump, non-presidential
elections without confronting interrogations concerning Trump’s fitness to
serve as President.
President Joe Biden, who may become the Donald Trump of the
upcoming elections, has been seriously wounded by his political actions --
which always speak louder than words -- on the now permeable US southern border;
the closure of the nearly completed US-Canadian XL energy pipeline, a servile
bow to the environmental lobby; the Presidential sprint to plunge the nation
into a post-Coronavirus recession; and most recently Biden's loss of
Afghanistan to untrustworthy Pashtun
Taliban pirates.
The President's approval ratings have tumbled since he began
waving the white flag of surrender in Afghanistan, and the mud side is
beginning to take its toll on frayed Democrat nerves. Real
Clear Politics polling on the “direction of the country”
shows Biden falling headlong off an approval cliff.
In coming campaigns, when Biden Democrats are up for re-election,
we will know whether the Taliban tiger has changed its stripes –
not likely. For the moment, the prospect of an American President leaving
behind Taliban lines American civilians and/or Afghanis who had helped the
United States to keep the peace in the country for 20 years is causing sweat
beads to form on the placid brows of the seven all-Democrat members of
Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional Delegation.
U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, for one, has said he does not
favor a withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan until it is certain all
Americans have left the sole airbase Biden has not yet surrendered to the
Taliban. But Blumenthal, alas, is not Biden, who fully intends to satisfy the
Taliban non-negotiable demands that remaining American troops must leave
Afghanistan by Biden’s self-enforced withdrawal date of August 31.
Neither Blumenthal, nor Biden, nor reporters at the New York
Times, know how many Americans and Afghan military helpers are now present in
the country hunkering behind the perimeter the Taliban has thrown around the
Kabul airport; therefore, Blumenthal cannot know whether such people will
escape murderous Taliban land pirates before the sword of Allah falls on their
necks.
Blumenthal does know that Taliban spokespersons, less
proficient in double-talk than Pentagon chatterboxes or Democrat political
operatives associated with Biden, have said that NO Afghans will be permitted
to leave the Taliban stronghold after August 31.
Pretty much everyone, minus Democrats who believe that Biden
will be the progressive salvation of the Democrat Party, agrees that the
withdrawal was misconceived. This is not the way losers should leave the field
to winners. Even the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in 1989 was more orderly,
honorable, and far less embarrassing, than the Biden rout. The Pentagon has yet
to tote up a final dollar accounting of US armaments left to the Taliban,
likely in the billions.
The capture of one Black Hawk helicopter in a 1993 battle in
Mogadishu, Somalia produced extensive negative publicity, a book and a passable
movie, Black Hawk Down. In his haste
to get out of Dodge, Biden has rewarded the Taliban – a name he consistently
mispronounces – with at least 45 Black Hawks, made by Sikorsky Aircraft in
Stratford Connecticut. The Pentagon Generals misadvising Biden tell us that the
helicopters are inoperable.
Ha! Nothing “made in Connecticut” is inoperable save
its General Assembly, on account of Coronavirus we’ve been told.
The Pashtuns of
Afghanistan, 42% of the population, are Taliban. Historically, Iran and the Pashtuns
share the same language, and there are many Pashtuns in Pakistan, where Osama
bin Laden took refuge before he was assassinated by the Obama-Biden-Clinton
administration. These are ties that bind and repel. And the Taliban, fierce
fighters, do not suffer fools gladly.
No one, least of all
Blumenthal, a Marine himself, should have been surprised when eleven
U.S. Marines were recently blown to bits by enterprising ISIS
warriors near the Kabul airfield surrounded by Taliban fighters. Pentagon generals
had told us that ISIS was not in Afghanistan. But they are there, in sufficient
numbers to kill Marines who cannot now defend themselves because their
Commander-in-Chief is anxious to fulfill a campaign pledge far in advance of the
upcoming elections.
It is generally
supposed that American voters will have filed the American humiliation in
Afghanistan in their memory's back drawers by the time elections roll around,
well past the August 31st date of withdrawal. Americans, said Henry
Adams, never solve their problems; they simply amicably “bid them goodbye.”
Connecticut’s two
Democrat U.S. Senators, Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, are counting on such
memory lapses.
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