Go back and look at the videos of Saigon when we left, people begging to leave only to be left behind as we abandoned them...
The Taliban is going to rightfully claim victory and seek to kill everyone who talked to US Forces, it will be a blood bath for those left behind....
I well remember Saigon . . .
Any country that believes they can trust America to bail them out are nuts, but then; we really don’t belong being the policemen of the world. This is one of the reasons our country is in the mess it is right now - we are too busy policing the world, and not our own cities.
Can I ask a question…..
The US was attacked without provocation and we responded. We invaded their country and dropped bombs everywhere. But we also created an environment that should have allowed them to enter the 21st century and be acknowledged in the world stage for something other than violence, opium/heroin, and hashish, once those bombs stopped dropping.
We looked the other way while the country continued with their cultural norm of raping boys until those they could grow a beard.
We asked for interpreters and we paid them. We didn’t put a gun to their heads.
When I was there in 2002, the ‘terp we had lived in the DC area and owned an HVAC business. His family was able to get out in the 80s during all the stuff with the Russians and Taliban coming into power after.
The US taxpayer has spent close to $100,000,000,000 training, paying and equipping their forces. And that’s just then military. I have no idea how much the State Dept spent training and equipping their cops.
At what point are they taken off the teet and told to stand up for themselves?
Do we let all of them in? Are they all of a sudden, if they come to the US, going to start listening to Johnny Cash and swearing allegiance to the USA? For some insight into that, take a ride up to Deerborn, Mich and tell me what that place is all about. And then head to Minneapolis, a location the FBI identified as the number 1 location in America for terrorist recruitment.
Right now we’re going to have at least 5,000,000 illegals come into this country. That doesn’t include the babies that are about to be born or the family that will follow under reunification.
A long time ago, Bill Bratton had an initiative where the NYPD would basically take over a neighborhood, block by block. Get rid of all the drug dealers and bad elements. If the people of Kabul wanted that, I’d have no issues with coming up with something to accomplish that.
Outside of that, since around 2003, they’ve had their chance to change the direction of that country. Instead, its leaders have done nothing but steal as much as they can and move their smilies to Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, or Europe.
The US is systematically being destroyed by the very same people, both Left and Right, that have caused what is happening in Afghanistan.