08-26-2021, 10:15 AM
** 26-Aug-2021 World View: The Gathering Storm in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden seems more confused and lost every day.
VP Kamala Harris has been cackling in Vietnam, saying platitudes.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been providing numbers and
narratives to reassure the public, but he looks like a deer caught in
the headlights.
Jen Psaki is the Baghdad Bob of the Biden administration. She'll say
any idiotic thing.
According to polls, 76% of the public say that the evacuation has been
going badly or very badly. Biden's approval rating has plummeted
quickly, to 41%.
It's obvious that Biden is annoyed. He doesn't want to have to deal
with this problem. It's too complicated for him to understand. He's
really furious that the mainstream media aren't simply covering for
him. He's tried several times to go on vacation during this crisis,
but was forced by events to stay in the White House. He just wants to
return to the safety of his bunker in Delaware.
The Democrats' strategy is to hope that a month or two from now,
Afghanistan and the Americans left behind, tortured, raped or killed
by the Taliban or by ISIS-K will be forgotten by the American public.
However, it's not that simple. I and probably others have the feeling
of a "Gathering Storm," to use Churchill's phrase. There are tens of
thousands people to be evacuated -- Americans, people with special
immigrant visa (SIV), Afghans who helped Americans, including
translators, spotters, drivers, or did any number of other tasks that
made the jobs of our soldiers possible, girl-women activists. Biden
has committed to withdraw all of these people by August 31, but nobody
believes that's possible.
This morning there were at least two explosions just outside the Kabul
airport. At this writing, the number of casualties has not been
reported. Update: At least 13 people have been killed.
It's believed that the explosions were the responsibility with ISIS-K,
which wants to sabotage the evacuation effort, and embarrass both the
Americans and the Taliban, who have been cooperating.
For the time being, the airlift out of Kabul airport has been halted.
A Pentagon briefing is expected soon.
President Joe Biden seems more confused and lost every day.
VP Kamala Harris has been cackling in Vietnam, saying platitudes.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been providing numbers and
narratives to reassure the public, but he looks like a deer caught in
the headlights.
Jen Psaki is the Baghdad Bob of the Biden administration. She'll say
any idiotic thing.
According to polls, 76% of the public say that the evacuation has been
going badly or very badly. Biden's approval rating has plummeted
quickly, to 41%.
It's obvious that Biden is annoyed. He doesn't want to have to deal
with this problem. It's too complicated for him to understand. He's
really furious that the mainstream media aren't simply covering for
him. He's tried several times to go on vacation during this crisis,
but was forced by events to stay in the White House. He just wants to
return to the safety of his bunker in Delaware.
The Democrats' strategy is to hope that a month or two from now,
Afghanistan and the Americans left behind, tortured, raped or killed
by the Taliban or by ISIS-K will be forgotten by the American public.
However, it's not that simple. I and probably others have the feeling
of a "Gathering Storm," to use Churchill's phrase. There are tens of
thousands people to be evacuated -- Americans, people with special
immigrant visa (SIV), Afghans who helped Americans, including
translators, spotters, drivers, or did any number of other tasks that
made the jobs of our soldiers possible, girl-women activists. Biden
has committed to withdraw all of these people by August 31, but nobody
believes that's possible.
This morning there were at least two explosions just outside the Kabul
airport. At this writing, the number of casualties has not been
reported. Update: At least 13 people have been killed.
It's believed that the explosions were the responsibility with ISIS-K,
which wants to sabotage the evacuation effort, and embarrass both the
Americans and the Taliban, who have been cooperating.
For the time being, the airlift out of Kabul airport has been halted.
A Pentagon briefing is expected soon.
