“Too awful to be believed” writes one observer, about the reports out of Afghanistan. With U.S. troops set to leave the war-torn country by Tuesday and an unknown number of American citizens still stuck there, sources say that our government is denying these hapless people access to Kabul airport. What’s more, it’s being reported that the “United States is directing persecuted Afghans and high value target allies into Taliban controlled checkpoints.”
Coming on the heels of learning that the military hardware we (purposely?) left behind will make the Taliban one of the world’s best-armed entities, this latest information is provided by two highly reliable reporters, former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and ex-senior editor of the Washington Times opinion pages Emily Miller.
First there’s this, from Logan:
Yet it gets even worse. Logan then tweeted Sunday:
This was corroborated by ex-Navy SEAL and now congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas):
Commentator Andrea Widburg, from whose reporting I’ve gotten the above and following tweets, writes that the “consequences of this evil behavior are real and deadly. By late Sunday night, Emily Miller … had stomach-churning updates from a retired Special Ops person on the ground in Afghanistan trying to rescue Americans and Afghan allies”:
Widburg points out that if they’re not dead, many are possibly going to become sex slaves, before presenting more Miller tweets:
Returning to Logan, she has maintained that the “botched” Afghanistan withdrawal is not a policy bug but a feature and reiterated this position on Saturday:
On top of all this, there’s also commentator Glenn Beck’s report that after he and the Nazarene fund raised $30 million dollars to fly imperiled Christians out of Afghanistan, the U.S. government impeded their efforts to do so (video below). As the RAIR Foundation put it last week, “The U.S. State Department is flying unvetted Afghani Muslims to America while stopping Christian Afghanis from fleeing to other countries willing to give them refuge.”
This isn’t really surprising, many would say. Our leftists have made clear, after all, their antipathy for Christians and Christianity. Remember that President Bill Clinton bombed Serbia in the 1990s and aided the Muslims in Kosovo while ignoring the destruction of the region’s churches and exodus of Christians.
As for Afghanistan, one of citizenship’s benefits is that your government is supposed to have your back, not turn its back on you. At this point, however, the Biden administration is more interested in securing the entry into our country of foreigners who’ll in the future vote Democrat than in returning Americans safely home.
In fact, if I as a known traditionalist who inveighs against leftism were held in hostile hands overseas, I’d have every expectation that our government would do nothing substantive to get me released. For we now live not in a “nation of laws” but of men, where the regime’s allies are rewarded and its opponents persecuted, where laws are for the “other.” Thus do we see BLM and Antifa mobs allowed to rampage with impunity while January 6 protesters languish in prison essentially for trespassing.
The Afghanistan withdrawal reflects either world-record incompetence or pure, unadulterated evil — or both. In fact, often ignored is that malevolence and incompetence to a degree go hand-in-hand. For bad people will rationalize their actions — bend reality for themselves — and when you do this habitually, year after year, you can lose touch with reality. You often then can’t find it even when you want to.
Regardless, the Biden administration is guilty of either something akin to criminal negligence or something in the nature of treason — or both. It’s so damnable that when pondering these trespasses I feel as Thomas Jefferson did. “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” he said, and “that his justice cannot sleep forever.” There is simply no excuse for what’s going on.
