What Happened According to The Spectator, the press is salivating about taking down a hated president. For his part, Donald Trump upgraded the episode from a “glitch” to a “witch hunt.” Roger Kimball writes that both accounts are apposite. Kimball thinks the whole thing looks more like an “overheard squabble among angry children in some […]
Joe Biden Casts a Long Shadow
The Last Person in the Room Timeline: August 2021: President Joe Biden refuses to maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. is forced to abandon Bagram Air Base with its secure runway. The resulting evacuation, conducted in a panic from Kabul’s civilian airport, requires security assistance from the Taliban, reports editors at the WSJ. […]
Afghanistan: Bitter Choices Are Part of the Game
Hate-Maddened Killers and Thugs: A report from the U.N. tracks the growth of a group involved in international terrorism since the fall of Kabul in August 2021. IS-KP, an Islamic State group. according to David Loyn in The Spectator, is becoming a crucible of international terrorism. Bolstering that fear is IS-KP’s latest mission: carrying out […]
Biden’s Top Military Advisers Contradict Him
After investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the vast complex of Afghanistan, the United States military, in its hast to end a 20-year presence, abandoned the U.S.’s largest airbase in Central Asia. After investing massive sums to retrofit the vast complex, the United States military in the middle of the night abandoned Afghanistan and […]
COVERUP: Biden Hiding Afghan Details from BOTH Parties in Congress
At a classified briefing for legislators on the Afghanistan debacle, the Biden administration withheld even basic information requested by members of both parties. Phil Shiver reports in The Blaze: Multiple lawmakers from both parties “angrily stormed out” of a classified briefing on Afghanistan this week after Biden administration officials failed to answer simple questions about […]
Questions Not Answered
Secretary of State Blinken went before two congressional hearings this week, where some new information came to light. Many questions, however, remain unanswered: How does the administration plan to evacuate Afghanistan’s remaining U.S. citizens, green card holders, and visa-eligible Afghans out of the country amid reports of Taliban violence? What will American counterterrorism operations look […]
Learn Now from Dr. Ron Paul or Regret
In LewRockwell.com, Dr. Ron Paul, former congressman and presidential candidate, explains that “The only way to make us safe is to end the reign of the Washington killing machine.” He writes (abridged): The Washington foreign policy elites – Republicans and Democrats – are deeply corrupt and act contrary to US national interests. They pretend that […]
Even “Stolen Valor” Dick Blumenthal Can’t Fake Happiness with Biden’s Afghan Debacle
You might remember Sen. Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) from his attempts to convince the world he “served in Vietnam,” despite never setting foot in the country. But even his record of mischaracterizing the truth hasn’t prepared Blumenthal for giving his friend Joe Biden a pass on the Afghanistan evacuation debacle. Carlos Garcia reports for The Blaze: […]
America’s Gift to the Taliban
Last week, Jihadists killed 13 Americans. That’s more Americans who died in Afghanistan in one day than in all of 2020. According to Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of Central Command that is supervising the evacuation, the U.S. has depended since mid-August on the Taliban for security screening outside the airport. How can it be that […]
Col. Douglas Macgregor Did Have a Plan to Get Out
At LewRockwell.com, former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul, reminds readers that there was a plan to safely remove American forces from Afghanistan, but that the Biden administration ignored it because the man who created it, Col. Douglas Macgregor, worked in the Trump administration. Paul writes (abridged): The whole exit from Afghanistan has been […]
