After spending a day attacking President Joe Biden for the chaotic scenes in Kabul of Afghans desperate to leave the country, conservative opinion leaders who were quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies are now insisting that those Afghan refugees cannot be brought to the United States. This should not … Read more
Above: Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Taliban Political Deputy Mullah Beradar welcoming the launch of Afghan peace negotiations – without the government of Afghanistan. Damn, did this fool and his boss ever get played by the Taliban. Tom Boggioni reports, RNC busted for deleting campaign page touting Trump’s ‘historic peace agreement’ after Afghanistan … Read more
So I watched an interview on MSNBC in which the talking head asked Malcolm Nance, a US Intelligence expert on terrorist strategy, tactics, and ideology, if the fall of Kabul was an intelligence failure. Nance explained “No, it is not an intelligence failure.” (video not yet available). Nance posted on Twitter a shorter version of his … Read more
Watching the news this past week has been a flashback to April 1975, and the rapid advance of the North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong insurgency allies in South Vietnam on the capitol of Saigon. The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) collapsed in the face of this lightening assault, and Saigon fell on April 30, … Read more
We have been here before: President George W. Bush signed the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a deadline of 31 December 2011, before which “all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory”. President Barack Obama oversaw compliance with the agreement. The last U.S. troops left Iraq on December 18, 2011. U.S troops … Read more