by Frank Holmes, reporter
Today marks the official end of the longest war in U.S. history—and it ended with the humiliating defeat and the loss of our best citizens instead of victory.
August 31, 2021, is the date picked—by the terrorist-coddling Islamic extremists of the Taliban, not the president of the United States—to have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. The Biden administration announced yesterday that it had beaten a retreat ahead of schedule.
The last flight left Kabul airport at 3:29 p.m. Eastern carrying the last U.S. soldier on the ground, U.S. Army Major General Chris Donahue.
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But the Pentagon admits somewhere around 500 Americans aren’t coming home: 250 because they can’t get to the airport.
And, of course, 13 servicemen will never see their families again, thanks to a suicide bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday.
Those casualties join a long list of preventable deaths. Plenty of people bear the blame — though none of them will ever be punished for their failures.
One of them is most definitely the commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces, the man who sits behind the desk that says, “The buck stops here”: President Joseph Robinette Biden.
Biden wanted to leave Afghanistan—and so did the American people. What started as a campaign to kill Osama bin Laden and topple the regime that let them hide in Afghanistan’s hills and mountains—the Taliban—turned into nation-building.
The Ivy League pointy-heads at the State Department bet U.S. soldiers’ lives that they could turn a tribal country with strong support for a medieval theocracy into a feminist utopia.
Biden said it was time for all this to end—and he was right. But he didn’t care enough to make sure that U.S. soldiers, American citizens, and the Afghan citizens who helped us during the 20-year-long war were safe.
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Biden blew one decision, after another, after another.
First, he decided to abandon Bagram airport—the hub of the U.S. military campaign against Taliban and Islamic extremists like ISIS—in July. We lost our tactical advantage…and ISIS-K gained.
The Taliban claimed that it didn’t know Americans had left the base…but, somehow, the terrorists got word. So, ISIS bandits scavenged through the grounds and scooped up all the equipment they could get their blood-soaked hands on.
The Muslim extremist militia even called in CNN to air the footage—to rub Americans’ noses in their loss.
All in all, the U.S. military left behind an arsenal of military equipment around the country: 65 airplanes, 22,174 Humvees, and 64,363 machine guns, all picked up by inrushing Taliban forces. They could keep it, or sell it to their new partner, China. One way or another, U.S. military equipment could be pointed at U.S. soldiers one day soon.
The Bagram fiasco has soldiers asking: Did anybody stand up for them, or was everything they did in vain?
“Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, the strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ Did anyone do that?” asked Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller in a viral Facebook video that got him into big trouble with those same, incompetent military authorities.
That would be bad enough, but it wasn’t an isolated mistake made in the “fog of war”—far from it.
Every attack in the city of Kabul could have been prevented…and U.S. authorities blew it.
The Taliban offered the Biden administration complete control of Kabul on a silver platter—and the Biden administration turned it down.
After then-President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani fled his country, gangs and criminals started to take control of the capital city. Something had to be done. The Taliban’s political leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, met with U.S. military leaders, including the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie.
“We have two options to deal with it,” Baradar told the leaders. “You (the United States military) take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.”
McKenzie said he knew Biden’s orders: Get out of Afghanistan, period—and don’t worry about the consequences.
“On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S. officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city,” reported The Washington Post.
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According to the Post, the Taliban hadn’t even intended to take over Kabul that day… they thought their occupation wouldn’t come for days or weeks yet—but Joe Biden served them up a free victory.
“We couldn’t control our emotions, we were so happy. Most of our fighters were crying,” said brutal Taliban leader Muhammad Nasir Haqqani. “We never thought we would take Kabul so quickly.”
The Washington Post called the moment the deal was struck “the day America lost its longest war.”
What has Joe Biden learned from all this?
Absolutely nothing.
He thinks he did a top-rate job.
ABC talking head and “former” Democratic Party strategist George Stephanopoulos asked Biden point-blank, “So, you don’t think this could’ve been handled, this exit could’ve been handled better in any way? No mistakes?”
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“No,” Biden replied immediately.
He’s probably right: He probably couldn’t have done a better job.
That leaves America in a dangerous position for the next three years.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”