The Roots of America’s Defeat

Frontpage Mag ^ | September 7, 2021 | Caroline Glick

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Even before the suicide bombings outside the Kabul airport on Thursday evening, the US media was acting with rare unanimity. For the first time in memory, US media organs across the ideological and political spectrum have been united in the view that US President Joe Biden fomented a strategic disaster for the US and its allies with his incompetent leadership of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some compare it to the 1961 Bay of Pigs; others to Saigon in 1975; others to the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. Whatever the analogy, the bottom line is the same: Biden's surrender to the Taliban has already entered the pantheon of American post-war defeats.

Biden is personally responsible for the humanitarian and strategic disaster unfolding before our eyes. He is the only American leader in history who has willfully abandoned Americans and American allies to their fate behind enemy lines. But while Biden is solely responsible for the decision to leave Afghanistan in the manner it is, it isn't Biden's fault that after 20 years of war, the Taliban was still around, stronger than it was on Sept. 11, 2001, and fully capable of seizing control of the country. The foundations of that failure were laid in the days, weeks and months that followed the Sept. 11 attacks.

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, then-President George W. Bush and his national security team put together the guiding assumptions for what came to be known as the global war on terror. In the years since then, some of the assumptions were updated, adapted or replaced as conditions on the ground evolved . . .

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Bon of Babble]

US media...have been united in the view that US President Joe Biden fomented a strategic disaster

This is already old news, the media have moved on - they reported it - and then dropped it- knowing the 2024 election is far off - and there's enough time before the 2022 mid-terms to redeem Biden and any/all Democrats.

There's been very very little criticism of Biden for his many disasters and foibles as compared to how Trump was ripped apart and excoriated every day that he was in office and afterward by this same media.

They're a bunch of hypocrites.

[knarf]

words, words, words.

Adults started out as children and we need to start in Genesis.

How did American kids grow up to be so violent, stupid and hate America ?

96% of native born Americans came through the public school system .... BY LAW !

We HAD to do it ... until homeschooling became popular in the 70's, 80's and 90's ... but not enough to offset the damage done to the thinking of American kids.

Every young person I know (of) comes from a good, strong and principally Christian home and parentage.

We were silent too long and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

[Leep]

They are not so much hypocrite as well paid propagandists.

[Sans-Culotte]

[4Runner]

They're a bunch of hypocrites reptiles.

Fixed.

[T.B. Yoits]

One root of America’s defeat is the unconstitutional adoption of the income tax. Our Founding Fathers knew where that would lead.

[Bon of Babble]

As the proud owner of a red slider turtle, I find that comparison insulting to reptiles.

The media are scum.

[Albion Wilde]

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