The GQP Seditious Insurrectionists Have No Credibility On Afghanistan

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Former Republican strategist Matthew Dowd, whose son served in Afghanistan, has been a voice of reason about Afghanistan, as the pro-war media that was complicit into lying this country into two “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq, and keeping us there for 20 years, has been a miserable failure.

These media propagandists either argue the U.S. should remain in the quagmire of “forever wars,” or cannot wait to start another war. These media propagandists are not to be trusted, they are only trying to save their sullied reputations after the failed Project For A New American Century (PNAC) in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Libya, and Syria, and Somalia, and Yemen, etc.)

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As Matthew Dowd and the other guests appearing with him articulated in the full interviews, it is not the last two weeks of “chaos” exiting Afghanistan that matters, but rather the last 20 years of constant “chaos” in our “forever wars” that really matters, and that requires a full After Action Report and congressional investigations into how and why we got into these “forever wars” and stayed so long after one military commander after another failed at an undefined and unachievable mission. All of these records should now be declassified for a full accounting of this war.

The domestic terrorists that Matthew Dowd is talking about are the MAGA/QAnon violent seditious insurrectionists who attempted a coup d’etat to overthrow American democracy on January 6, and more particularly the congressional Republicans who provided the violent insurrectionists aid and comfort. The 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack.

This included House Minority Leader “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy and other GQP House leaders – none of whom called on President Trump to resign nor voted to impeach him for his attempted coup d’etat. In fact, these traitorous assholes continued to promote Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him by voting not to certify the election rsults.

These same traitorous assholes, in particular House Minority Leader “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, have now called upon President Biden to resign for the “chaotic” Afghanistan exit, or to be impeached (out of partisan retaliation for the two justified Trump impeachments).

Juan Cole documents the Top 4 Times US Troops were Bombed under Republican Presidents and No one Resigned or was Impeached. See also, Terrorist Attacks on Americans 1979-1988. Ronald Reagan for terrorist bombings in Beirut, twice in 1983; George W. Bush for September 11 on American soil; Donald Trump for abandoning our Kurdish allies in Syria to a Turkish attack. The Kurds Have Paid Dearly for Trump’s Recklessness: and now Trump’s surrender agreement to the Taliban. What Trump’s Disgraceful Deal With the Taliban Has Wrought – never a Republican demand to resign or to be impeached. IOKIYAR.

In fact, these traitorous assholes actually praised Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for their surrender agreement with the Taliban, cutting out the Afghan government, until President Biden actually had to execute it.

Treasonous traitor Donald Trump even Ranted About The Media Spending ‘All Night’ On Hurricane Ida Instead Of His ‘Great’ Taliban Deal:

Former President Donald Trump called in to a conservative radio show Monday to gripe about the media spending “all night long” on Sunday covering the deadly and massively destructive Hurricane Ida instead of his “great agreement” with the Taliban.

Trump’s ill-fated agreement, signed by his administration in February 2020, promised that the U.S. would get out of Afghanistan by May 1, which didn’t happen. U.S. troops finally withdrew on Monday after 20 years of war.

Several political observers and international experts have blamed Trump’s agreement for emboldening the Taliban and laying the groundwork for the mayhem of the U.S. military exit under Trump’s successor, President Joe Biden, this month.

Kori Schake, who worked for the National Security Council and State Department in the George W. Bush administration, called Trump’s overly Taliban-friendly deal “one of the most disgraceful diplomatic bargains on record” last week. Trump arranged for the “strongest state in the international order” to “be swindled by a terrorist organization,” she added.

Trump then continued to rant about the “media, which is fake and crooked and corrupt, they’re the worst people, they’re the most corrupt people.”

“The only thing I don’t understand is why. They’ve got to hate our country. And they are, in fact, the enemy of the people. But the corrupt media shows the hurricane all night long,” added the former president.

So these traitorous Republican assholes, in particular House Minority Leader “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, have called upon President Biden to resign or to be impeached for Donald Trump’s surrender agreement to the Taliban, which treasonous traitor Donald Trump is very much proud of. Trump set up his successor to have to execute his agreement (the same way that George W. Bush signed an agreement with the Iraqi government to leave Iraq that set up his successor to have to execute his agreement). This is an old GQP playbook.

Despite an intelligence failure that the Afghan military had cut illicit deals with the Taliban for mass desertions, and the civilian Afghan government in Kabul suddenly abandoning the country to the Taliban, creating those early scenes of “chaos” at the airport, the Biden administration and the Pentagon quickly recovered and managed the most successful evacuation of noncombatants from a war that the U.S. has lost.

As Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said in his statement:

I do want to provide some important context to the evacuation mission that we just completed what was the largest noncombatant evacuation in the U.S. military’s history.

Since August the 14th, over an 18-day period, U.S. military aircraft have evacuated more than 79,000 civilians from Hamid Karzai International Airport. That includes 6,000 Americans and more than 73,500 third-country nationals and Afghan civilians. This last category includes special immigrant visas, consular staff, at-risk Afghans and their families.

In total, U.S. and coalition aircraft combine to evacuate more than 123,000 civilians, which were all enabled by U.S. military service members who were securing and operating the airfield.

On average we have evacuated more than 7,500 civilians per day over the 18 days of the mission, which includes 16 full days of evacuations, and more than 19,000 on a single day. These numbers do not include the roughly 5,000 service members and their equipment that were sent to Afghanistan to secure the airfield and who will withdraw on the conclusion of our mission.

The numbers I provided represent a monumental accomplishment, but they do not do justice to the determination, the grit, the flexibility and the professionalism of the men and women of the U.S. military and our coalition partners who were able to rapidly combine efforts and evacuate so many under such difficult conditions. As such, I think it’s important that I provide you with what I hope will be some valuable context.

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Our men and women on the ground at the airport quickly embraced the dangerous and methodical work of defending the airport while conducting the hand — the hand screening of more than 120,000 evacuees from six different entry points under the airfield. We also conducted three separate helicopter extractions of three distinct groups of civilians, including at least 185 American citizens, and with our German partners, 21 German citizens.

Additionally, U.S. Special Operations Forces reached out to help break in — bring in more than 1,064 American citizens and 2017 SIVs, or Afghans at risk, and 127 third-country nationals, all via phone calls, vectors and escorting. We have evacuated more than 6,000 U.S. civilians, which we believe represents the vast majority of those who wanted to leave at this time.

It would be difficult to overestimate the number of unusual challenges and competing demands that our forces on the ground have successfully overcome. The threat to our forces, particularly from ISIS-K, was very real and tragically resulted in the loss of 13 service members and dozens of Afghan civilians.

[My] heart is broken over the losses we sustained three days ago. As the poem by Laurence Binyon goes, “we will remember them.”

The last 18 days have been challenging. Americans can be proud of the men and women of the armed forces who met these challenges head-on.

Republicans in Congress are not proud of them.  Instead, they have engaged in a partisan political attack desperately searching for talking points to distract from a “forever war” begun by Republican George W. Bush, and brought to a close by Republican Donald Trump with a disastrous surrender agreement to the Taliban. They want to blame Joe Biden for 20 years of failure of the GQP “forever wars.” There is no introspection or contrition. They will do it all again if given the opportunity.

If anyone should resign from office, it is House Minority Leader “Traitor” Kevin McCarthy, and these traitorous assholes, the 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack.

The next thing these traitorous assholes are going to engage in is racist and bigoted anti-Muslim hysteria and fear mongering  against our Afghan ally refugees whom they only pretend to care about as pawns in their partisan political games. Trump allies push anti-refugee message — while Trump himself undercuts them:

“Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town?” former Trump adviser Steve Cortes tweeted Tuesday night, alongside a picture of Afghan evacuees departing Kabul on a U.S. military aircraft.

Cortes, who now works for the conservative website Newsmax, was echoing a sentiment increasingly popular with Trump supporters in the aftermath of the Afghanistan withdrawal chaos. With tens of thousands of the United States’ Afghan allies yet to be evacuated, these Republicans have hewed to a very nationalistic, Trumpian stance, warning of peril if refugees are admitted in significant numbers.

Except they’re not really on the same rhetorical page as Trump himself.

While attacking President Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal over the weekend, Trump endorsed providing refuge.

Trump added that there should be vetting of would-be refugees, but he clearly doubled down.

[T]here is some nuance here, including just how many people Trump thinks should be granted refugee status (vs. just allowing planes full of people in). Some Trump allies have also suggested that perhaps the former president means these people should be resettled in other countries rather than the United States — though his “vetting” comment suggests that this would be an issue involving the U.S. homeland.

It also seems entirely possible — and indeed quite likely — that this is merely political theater rather than any truly held belief. This is the man, after all, who routinely cast suspicion on Syrian refugees and slashed refugee admissions to their lowest levels in decades while president. His administration drastically reduced visas for interpreters in Afghanistan and Iraq and effectively abandoned the U.S.’s Kurdish allies in Syria. Suddenly playing up the importance of providing refuge is a way to attack Biden for failing to do so, and there’s nothing Trump likes better than an easy attack.

But the thrust of his comments is unmistakable, and it’s a far cry from where some of his most ardent supporters and fellow refugee skeptics have been in recent days.

Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have been leading the charge against allowing Afghan refugees, with Carlson comparing it to an invasion and hyperbolically suggesting that millions of them might be admitted in the coming years. “So first we invade, and then we are invaded,” Carlson said.

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller alluded to the replacement-theory argument which some conservatives have warmed to in recent years, despite its racist roots.

“Resettling in America is not about solving a humanitarian crisis, it’s about accomplishing an ideological objective — to change America,” Miller told Ingraham on Tuesday.

J.D. Vance, a one-time Trump critic who has sought to curry favor with Trump’s base during his campaign for Senate in Ohio, added: “While many of the Afghanistan people are good people, there are bad ones too who do not like Americans or our Western way of life. Resettling them in the United States so that our country becomes a refugee camp is not the answer.”

[B]ut as we confront the aftermath of the evacuation effort, it’s worth noting the dissonance between the ascendant refugee-skeptic wing of the GOP and the man who paved the way for it.





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