Reflections From a Murky Pond

The above is the Gods’ honest truth. Biden is not responsible for the fiasco of our pull-out from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s resumption of control of that region; all the Democrats who, through voting or other means, installed that senile, deranged fool as POTUS are.

It was to anyone with any knowledge of the peoples of that region of shitholes a foregone conclusion that the moment the leaders of the Taliban knew that President Trump was forced from office they would abandon any semblance of complying with the terms of the change of power and retake Afghanistan by swift and overwhelming force. It was similarly a foregone conclusion that the Taliban would immediately commit various and sundry atrocities as part of this reconquista of the Graveyard of Empires. President Trump – the man, not any policies or plans set in place through the guidance of his cabinet – was the sole force holding the Taliban in check during this changeover.

Besides, how can we hold Biden responsible for anything when it’s so blatantly obvious that he’s mentally incompetent and not really involved in the actual duties of the President?

But… Some Simple Context

Firstly, the Taliban retaking control of Afghanistan was going to happen and was going to happen now regardless of who is POTUS. President Trump’s team already negotiated that as part of the President’s pledge to the American people to end our “Forever Wars.” So, Biden can’t be held responsible for any of that.

Secondly, some amount of atrocities were always going to be part of that regime change. Under President Trump, they would have been more subdued and handled less publicly, and some might have been delayed until the end of Trump’s second term, but they were always going to happen. So, again, Biden can’t be held responsible for any of that Nobody can; that sort of thing is part of the Afghans’ culture.

Third and finally, the fiasco that has been our pullout from Kabul is neither strange nor unexpected, given how fast Afghanistan “fell” to the Taliban. Nothing within that context is particularly odd or extreme. It looks very much like the other times the US military and intelligence apparatuses have had to withdraw from a theater with some level of haste. So too, to our shame, is the lack of support and extraction for our in-theater, indigenous assets.

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So no. I don’t, and I don’t believe anyone should hold Biden responsible for what is happening in Afghanistan right now any more than I would hold him responsible for drooling on- or soiling himself. One and all need to show a certain level of respect to the aged and mentally infirm. Also, as I’ve written above, I don’t see that much to hold anyone accountable for in this situation.

The only ones I feel are responsible for this debacle are those who placed Biden in office. And, even then, I can’t see where they’re responsible for anything other than the specific timing of it and the overtness of the purge going on now in Afghanistan.

Tags: Afghanistan | America | Biden | Foreign Policy | Geopolitics | Politics | Responsibility | Taliban | Trump | War

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 12:15 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

While Wolverton’s cartoon is just another of his Leftwing insults to our President, there is some accuracy to this particular imagery. President Trump’s foreign policy is bold, brash, and quite ham-handed in comparison to the status quo that came into being after the end of WW2.

But 60+ years of that status quo has achieved very little. Indeed, the only great strides made in the realm of geopolitics were the result of what were at the time declared be ham-handed actions and policies, e.g., President Reagan’s handling the USSR which helped in their resultant fall.

So, ham-handed? Certainly by what has become traditional standards. But President Trump’s foreign policy has already seen positive results despite best efforts of the Democrats and their propaganda corps.

Tags: #MAGA | America | Failure | Foreign Enemies | Foreign Policy | Geopolitics | Negotiations | Politics | Realpolitik | Status Quo | Trump | Winning

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 at 4:54 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Doctrinal Differences

Yes, there are some very simple, yet very stark and fundamental, doctrinal differences between the Obama Regime and President Trump’s Administration when it comes to overall foreign policy and America’s place in the world at large. We had the Obama Doctrine, which was essentially one of conciliation, self-deprecation, and one long string of apologies to the world at large. Now we have the Trump Doctrine, which seems to one of standing strong, and alone if needs be, and warning our enemies and opponents that they’ll be sorry if they cross America.

Obviously, the differences between the two doctrines is stark. They’re almost polar opposites and quite antithetical to each other. Hence, one coming in immediately upon the other’s being over is glaring to see and jarring to experience. That, however, is not the seminal point of this article.

Please realize that the title of this post, “Doctrinal Differences,” is quite deliberate. This is not a purely political or geopolitical difference. It’s more of a difference in sincerely held beliefs, of particular and differing faiths in what is the right way forward. quite literally, it is a sectarian schism.

That’s very important to realize and internalize because there’s another, far harsher and more potentially dangerous way to describe doctrinal differences – heresy. And any of us who study today’s world and/or history know what happens to heretics…

Tags: America | Apologies | Doctrine | Foreign Policy | Geopolitics | Heresy | Obama | Politics | Strength | Trump | Weakness

This entry was posted on Friday, October 13th, 2017 at 8:05 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Hillary’s Foreign Policy

Hillary, her proxies, and her followers like to attack Donald Trump on foreign policy, yet Hillary’s foreign policy was, is, and likely will be nothing more than a continuation of the same old thinking that the establishment has engaged in for the last seven decades. It has and will garner the US nothing but it has garnered us so far, which is little to nothing that pleases the American people.

Honestly, Hillary is trying to sell the American people an insane idea – the idea that we can keep doing the same old things and get a different result. Note that I say that Hillary is trying to sell that madness as wisdom, not that she believes it. A lot of people who own or lease parts of Hillary are heavily invested in maintaining the current status quo when it comes to US foreign policy. After all, they have, do, and would continue to directly benefit from the same old results.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 10th, 2016 at 10:24 am and is filed under 2016 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

There’s Some Bit Of Truth There

The political cartoon above has some truth to it, quite a bit of unpleasant truth actually. Obama’s deal with Iran over that nation’s nuclear power and weapons development was in the end a total surrender to the will and whims of the Ayatollahs.

It’s not, however, all truthful. There’s absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis that either Obama or Kerry would recognize the existence of the Israelis killed by Iran’s proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, much less show any respect for them.

Tags: America | Foreign Policy | Genocide | Geopolitics | Iran | Israel | John Kerry | Nuclear Weapons | Obama | Politics | Surrender | War | WMDs

This entry was posted on Monday, July 27th, 2015 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.