It is utterly astounding: the same MSM who couldn’t do enough to get the current US President elected are now turning against him. What is their agenda? An early replacement? One might be tempted to say that all those – even those who sit on the conservative spectrum – who thought getting rid of Donald Trump was the most important issue are now reaping their well-deserved poisonous fruits.
Let me make it clear at this point that I am not blaming ‘The USA’ for the current situation. This disaster was caused by the Democrats, the socialists in ‘progressive’ sheep’s clothing, bent on dismantling Western society by creating issues such as ‘genderism’ and wokeism. That, as we should know full well, isn’t confined to the USA. It is a cause dear to the hearts of the Westminster cabal.
We must be fully aware though of the power of the MSM, international and national, who are again trying to set the agenda, to control and frame ‘the narrative’. One might also ask if certain multi-billionaires have their fingers in this unsavoury pie – after all, they’ve been the driving force in the dismantling of Western democracies. I’ll only say ‘covid pandemic’ …
Let’s also mention the pernicious influence of social media where the Taliban can have a twitter account but not the former President of the USA, where anybody not toeing the line, from covid to illegal immigration, has their accounts cancelled.
Some writers however are not keeping quiet. What they had to say about the current situation in Afghanistan is important because their voices show up the international MSM for their shoddy work, for their lefty agenda, for their entrenched bias against conservatism.
Pride of place goes to Mark Levin – here’s the video which is a must-watch because Mark Levin puts this whole thing into perspective, mentioning Obama and his Vice President Biden. His concluding remarks are especially pertinent:
Remember this point: Biden removed the US military first, leaving the Afghan forces undefended. Biden removed the US military first, before he informed his NATO allies. That is why it is correct to put all of the blame on Biden – but then again, Biden is what the international MSM and the ‘democrats’ and the political ‘elites’ wanted, so the blame, the guilt is also on them. They are morally responsible – not us!
Next up is the Canadian writer and blogger Mark Steyn. Writing about the ‘Fall of Kabul’, his introduction is priceless:
“With respect to Afghanistan, the puppeteers waggling the dead husk that is Joe Biden have made a political calculation – that, on the home front, the fact of departure will count for more than the manner of departure. Joe’s not a ubiquitous figure in the news cycle the way Trump was, so he can sit in the basement for a few more days – and, in electoral terms, America’s total humiliation in its umpteenth unwon war in some krappistan no one can find on a map will ultimately work for the Dems.” (link)
There’s also this:
“What’s the big takeaway from Sunday? That a bunch of psycho decapitators are back in the saddle in Hoogivsastan? Or that “a pitiful, helpless giant” (in Nixon’s famous phrase) is on its back having lost a war even more stupidly than it lost all the other wars? You don’t have to be a graduate of some Ivy League madrassah to figure that one out. Yesterday I quoted the Taliban presser: Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid says ‘We have defeated a great power.’ Why step on that message by taking the cat o’ nine tails to uncovered women? Mr Mujahid grasps the key point: America lost. All the rest is details.” (link)
Read the whole thing – there’s also some excellent stuff on the ongoing suppression of people by covid-mad politicians across the world.
Next, some quotes from an article published yesterday by the Gatestone Institute, reinforcing Mark Levin’s points. We have to wonder why our home-grown MSM were so amazingly incapable of finding this out when they usually rely on the NYT for their ‘thinking’ and ‘opinions’ (my emphasis):
“The horror of President Joseph Biden’s deliberate retreat from Afghanistan is so immense and its geopolitical impact so severe, we have to fully comprehend the extent of the disaster. In insisting on an immediate withdrawal Biden apparently rejected the advice of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the New York Times:
“Even as the number of American forces in Afghanistan steadily decreased to the 2,500 who still remained, Defense Department leaders still cobbled together a military effort that managed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks….”
Director of Central Intelligence William Burns also warned the U.S. Senate that a withdrawal would forfeit the ability to have human intelligence in the area to pick up what the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or Isis might be planning in their ongoing assault on the West. Globally, there is not a friend or foe who doesn’t see that America’s reliability as an ally has been demolished. Great Britain, which has troops in Afghanistan, was not even consulted.” (link)
But even so it’s ‘our fault’ and our ‘moral duty’ to open our doors to more Afghan refugees! The next quote describes the international perspective:
“What must allies such as Taiwan or Israel be thinking now after watching poorly armed tribesman sweep aside an American ally we resolutely vowed to assist? Worse, what must America’s adversaries, such as China, Russia, Iran or North Korea be thinking now? […] Communist China can see what America and the West did in response to its seizure of Hong Kong, its deceitful build-up of fake islands as military bases in the South China Sea, its attacks on northern India, its threats of a nuclear attack on Japan, its threats to attack Australia and its lies about the human-to-human transmissibility of its Covid-19 virus […] exactly nothing.” (link)
I would refute the author’s claim in his conclusion, that ‘the Biden administration profoundly miscalculated’. I suggest with all due respect that this decision was based on the political agenda of the Democrats, the ‘progressives’, the socialist wolves dressed in woke and genderism clothing. They form the real swamp. Here we know them as acolytes of ‘Common Purpose’.
The basis for this event was laid some time ago, under Obama whose vice president was none other than Biden. See this article on how Obama exchanged five Taliban prisoners for one US soldier who later turned out not to have been kidnapped but to have been a deserter. Those exchanged Taliban are now the new Afghan ‘leaders’.
But even so – “we” must still feel guilty, must accept ‘our moral responsibility’ and must not point out that our ‘leaders’ here and in the USA, that the MSM. are still profoundly and wilfully ignorant of the tenets and attitudes of muslims, such as ‘taqqiya’.
No – no – and again: no! We must not let the combined international Left get away with this. The above quotes provide you with good material to slap round your MPs’ ears and to attack the opinion ‘makers’ in our MSM.
The world war for the WORLD has also already been LOST… The POLITICIANS have ALREADY RUN AWAY. and the ORGANISATION is already IN PLACE. The world of subservient committees is in place. Even the Church and its committees are subservient and unaccountable.( The person responsible being the Vicar . NOT the committee ) (.and being one of few orgs where this particular corruption has been made from top down )
Notice: Not a single call to increase the armed forces. Just honouring the dead not the living…SICK.
The reason the war was so short was because It The ORGANISATION was already IN PLACE had already been fought. The religion had been activated through its own communications of Imams up to prospective Emirs. WAR OVER.
As in most wars, The loser loses when the politicians run away.
This is a RELIGIOUS WAR OF JEALOUSY.and our ENEMIES are FRIGHTENED of us because they do NOT UNDERSTAND.
Wonder how many reading this article, nodding their heads in acquiescence with its disclosure of MSM deviance, yet still dutifully pay their propaganda tax to the BBC oblivious to the fact that it is they who are sustaining much of that deviance of which they profess to despise?
I suspect that the American papers will hail this as a masterful withdrawal to save the lives of more of their brave soldier boys. The fact is that that he has given up the key to the entire Middle East, India and China. Hopefully, the Arctic route from Atlantic to Pacificshould be open soon if our brave global warmers keep going and we don’t kill off trade by the City.in favour of Opiates from Afghan.( Two thirds of the supply ) Which our Elites rely on for pocket money and entertainment . And, after all. BLM.
On the question of Afghan refugees it is unacceptable that they be allowed entry to our country. I accept some might not be guilty but how to identify them? Better to find a safe place nearer to home for them.
Good stuff, Vivien. But slapping MPs around the ears doesn’t work, as most of us know from experience. Once in situ as a supposed representative of a given constituency, most have shown that they don’t give a tuppenny fig what the electorate thinks or wants, until the next election. It oozes out of every template response letter I can think of. Hit them too often and expect to be black-balled. They will disown you.
Then, because so many of us still haven’t realized that the fraud being worked on us is total, we go ahead and play the same game again, by their party rules. Thus, the observation rings true that ‘if we continue to do as we’ve always done, we are very likely to get what we’ve always got’. What have we always got? Screwed, is the answer and it is irrelevant which party we change to or from. Sooner or later the party and its representatives in Parliament will show their true colours.
Oh and we are now told the ghan army lost 70,000 dead. So add twice as many non fatal casualties, that makes 210,000 .
Alleged strength was 300,000 .
Like with Covid, where is the charnel heap ??
I think some one has been stealing the pay and rations , and then the pensions
How else could rag tag tribesmen just walk in ?
So who are shits blaming Boris ? t may who could not even get us out of Europe ?
Time for a Tory cull .
As for the hon and gallant Capn Mercer…he should know from his previous employ (29 Commando) we needed to call in air power ghanstan . That was his job.
Did anyone have a sketch for what to do when dumped by the senior partner in NATO ?
And where is Blair ? and his cohort of new labour asswipes ?
Waht was his exit plan ?
Most of the Afghan army hasn’t been paid for months, the money has all been stolen by corrupt Afghani politicians.
There’s good reason to believe that most of the army didn’t exist either except for the purpose of garnering in the cash.
What did exist was infiltrated by the Taliban.
The fish rots fromthe head down.
It’s not just the Americans who are to blame the UK led by Blair at the time of 9/11 is just as culpable we allowed Blair and Campbell to deceive us with WMD lies, We are led today by a bungling shameless liar Boris Johnson who I believe is on borrowed time politically, the MSM is a disgrace for not asking questions and not holding government and parliament accountable the Covid19 crisis is prime example of the uselessness of the controlled MSM
Don’t overlook the fact that the Tories also gave their support to Blair with regard to the coat-tail invasions against Iraq and Afghanistan.
I’m sure Cranky is right that no Party opposed those invasions. We’ve recently seen U.K. involved with NATO action against Russia/Ukraine. Same situation.
There IS NO NEED FOR IT. The NATO alliance does NOT commit us to these coat-tail actions, unless a member’s homeland is invaded.
Hence U.S. did not join with U.K in the Falklands war.
Indeed Adam but it is not the incompetents (aka traitors?) who will suffer.
On fire, esteemed editor. The MSM are complicit. Thanks for speaking out.
JF
Thanks, esteemed author and contributor!
See my CRITICAL COMMENT yesterday in John Redwood’s Diary. I bet it is still there.
I ponted out he was asking the wrong questions.
I finished by pointing out that the one good point about NATO is that we are not OBLIGED to join in any of it’s military ventures.
I.e. we should not have got involved.
The truth in few words! Blond Bunter needs to go and go quickly
Excellent report Viv – thanks.
As well as writing to your MP do write to the gutter presstitutes too. They are both as despicable. There is not a piece of paper to put between them regarding their duplicity. They are both pissing in the same pot. They both need to be boycotted.
And if you really want to make a difference and feel you have taken positive action – join a challenger party.