The Twentieth Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks and Joe Biden's Legacy

On September 11^th, 2001, I had gotten up on that bright and sunny morning and was eating breakfast in front of the television news, as per my typical morning ritual, when the footage suddenly panned to show the smoke coming out of one of the World Trade Center towers.  As I sat there pondering how a plane could get so off course as to accidentally hit that enormous building as per their initial report, a second airliner was caught on video intentionally flying into the other tower of the World Trade Center. 

It was immediately obvious that this was not an accident but rather was a premeditated attack on innocent non-combatant Americans by some evil entity.  My initial reaction was horror at the senselessness of the attacks and a profound sadness for the loss of life that surely was taken on that infamous day.  My next reaction was a justified and seething anger at the human debris responsible for such a heinous attack.  We later learned that just under 3000 people perished that day.

President Bush rallied the nation at the time and assured America that justice would be done.  Intelligence soon determined that the attack was planned and carried out by al Qaeda at the behest of its leader, Osama bin Laden.  This was done largely from al Qaeda’s operating base within the country of Afghanistan, which was then controlled by the Sunni Islamic militant group known as the Taliban.  President Bush asked the Taliban to cooperate with the United States and to hand over the members of al Qaeda within the Afghan borders or we would come and get them.  The Taliban refused to cooperate, and thus the longest war in our nation’s history soon commenced.

Twenty years later, it is unquestionable that President Joe Biden has been eagerly awaiting the twentieth anniversary of this horrific day to pontificate on how he was the president in charge that finally ended this protracted war in Afghanistan.  Jen Psaki has now confirmed that Biden will not be doing a public address to the nation on this anniversary after all.  We can only surmise what might be the reason that caused him to change his mind.

It was Joe Biden, after all, that ignored U.S. intelligence and his military advisors, so that he could meet his artificial deadline of having all troops out of the country by August 31^st.   His ego-driven insistence of that date was so that when 9/11/2021 rolled around, he could receive the accolades from a sycophantic leftist media about how he was the one to finally end this war after twenty years.

Biden has accomplished that, at least.  He has ended the war in as humiliating manner as possible.  In doing so, he has emboldened our enemies there and ensured that the likelihood of another 9/11 in the future may very well come to fruition.  Further, Biden’s foolish and asininely executed withdrawal left the Taliban with $85 billion in armament and military supplies, including aircraft, drones, and night vision googles.  Thanks to President Biden, the Taliban today are richer, better armed, and in greater control than they were twenty years ago.  Oh, and lest we forget, all of this has transpired while leaving thousands of allies and at least hundreds of Americans behind still trapped in this terrorist country, despite Biden insisting on twenty different occasions that we would leave no American behind.  This evacuation was executed in such an incompetent manner that his actions indirectly led to the deaths of 13 service members in Afghanistan.  It is why many of the families of these slain military members condemn Joe Biden for their deaths. 

This ill-executed retreat is why many family members of those killed on 9/11 have specifically asked Joe Biden to not speak at any of the three sites of the attacks on the anniversary of this terrorist act of war.  That is why Joe Biden has, at least for the moment, reconsidered delivering his self-congratulatory speech on this solemn anniversary.

Biden’s unintentional legacy by his dangerously executed withdrawal has been to greatly empower the Taliban, who have now re-invaded the country and overthrown an elected government there. Their human rights record is appalling as they are terrorists and terrorist sympathizers themselves.  Further, the Taliban in Afghanistan dominated the illegal narcotics traffic in South Asia previously.  This will assuredly occur again as a source of funding for their government and terroristic activities.

Yes, it was Biden’s hasty withdrawal from the fledgling democracy that has encouraged the Taliban to take over Afghanistan once again.  Biden’s negotiating with the Taliban for security and logistics in America’s withdrawal only legitimized this atrociously evil regime.  And yet, China, Russia, some European nations, and even Biden have already given the Taliban government their stamp of approval in the hopes that the Taliban will mitigate some of its worst tendencies.  Unfortunately, our engaging the Taliban is akin to engaging in diplomacy with the drug cartels if they were to overthrow the Mexican government. The Taliban ought to be treated like an international pariah instead of an acceptable and legitimate government.

“The Taliban has operational relationships with al-Qaeda, the Pakistan Intelligence Service, and the Haqqani network. Empowering it won’t cause it to relinquish these relationships. Indulging the Taliban will make it more resistant to Western pressure, not less,” states James Jay Carafano, The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies. 

As former U.S. State Department adviser and Afghan native Arash Yaqin revealed on Tuesday,   “Speaking about the symbolism of the War on Terror, the Taliban are planning to have their interim government inauguration ceremony on Saturday, September 11th, on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.”

This, along with the needless deaths of 13 additional Americans and 170 Afghani people, Mr. Biden, is your legacy!  I pray that it is the only repercussion we will face for your cowardice and political expediency, but as history has taught us, when you ignore or empower evil, it only grows.  That too, is your legacy, Joe Biden.  It is the reason you must resign as President of the United States of America.  THAT would be the only fitting speech for you to deliver on this twentieth anniversary of 9/11/2001.

 

Jocko Willink's "If I Were President..." Speech

This short video is from John "Jocko" Willink regarding the speech that a real American president should be delivering to America, Afghanistan, allies, friends, and the Taliban and other enemies throughout the world... and then following through on his stated actions accordingly.   

I won't hold my breath that the head of the Biden crime family will do any such thing as I hear he is headed down to the local Ben and Jerry's for more ice cream as twelve of our Marines were killed today.

From Wikipedia:

"John Gretton "Jocko" Willink (born September 8, 1971)^[2] is an American author, podcaster, and retired United States Navy officer who served in the Navy SEALs.

His military service included combat actions in the Iraq War, where he commanded SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser, the unit that fought in the battle against the Iraqi insurgents in Ramadi. Willink was honored with the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medal for his service. He achieved the rank of lieutenant commander."

H/T: Gary S.

The Biden-Created Crisis in Afghanistan

 I have not been this enraged in years.  Wasn’t Biden touting how his administration would be bringing the “adults” back in the room and that they would be the ones that would “build back better”?  Now I think, and probably most Americans agree, that we needed to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and close that chapter in our history; however, the sheer incompetence, recklessness, and stupidity of the withdrawal that Biden has executed has endangered Americans, allies and NGO’s, and thousands of Afghanis that trusted and supported America whom are now being left behind to be slaughtered or worse by the evil Taliban bastards.   

“I stand squarely behind my decision,” Biden said in his televised address after being reluctantly yanked from his Camp David vacation. “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”  And so far, Biden has steadfastly stood by his decision for the hasty withdrawal while declaring that the “buck stops with him” right before going on to blame Trump, faulty intelligence, the Afghan president and army, and anyone else he could come up with for the horrific collapse of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban.  On Monday, Biden blamed Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani for convincing him that the Afghan army would stand up and fight. 

Even Biden’s sycophantic allies in the Democrat Industrialized Media (DIM) like CNN’s Jake Tapper are seemingly turning on him as Tapper reported, "The president said that the buck stopped with him but, in fact, this speech was full of finger pointing and blame."

There are even some congressional Democrats, such as Mark Warner D-VA that are not pleased with Biden’s handling of the situation.

“As the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I hope to work with the other committees of jurisdiction to ask tough but necessary questions about why we weren’t better prepared for a worst-case scenario involving such a swift and total collapse of the Afghan government and security forces. We owe those answers to the American people and to all those who served and sacrificed so much.”

Only a month ago, when asked about intelligence services‘ warning that Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban, Biden denied that was likely the case.  Indeed, Biden vehemently insisted that we would not see a repeat of helicopters pulling hordes from a U.S. Embassy similar to Saigon in 1975.

“The Taliban is not the south—the North Vietnamese army,” Biden said. “They’re not—they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”

Exacerbating the matter, Biden seemingly had minimal consultation with his own Pentagon, let alone allies before rolling out this decision with such alacrity.  Consequently, many NATO allies feel misused by the Biden administration. Biden promised to consult with allies, yet he made a unilateral decision to retreat from Afghanistan. Many NATO countries saw their citizens’ lives put at risk and their efforts wasted. They blame Biden.  The UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, was basically ghosted by Biden for over 36 hours as the chaos was ensuing.  This is not how the adults in the room should be treating our most loyal ally. 

Because of Biden’s callous neglect to inform our allies of the particulars of his retreat plan, on Wednesday, the British Houses of Parliament decided to hold Biden’s handling of the situation in contempt, with lawmakers condemning his withdrawal plan as “catastrophic” and “shameful,” according to The Telegraph.  Other liberal members of parliament, including Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer and Labour MPs Chris Bryant and Khalid Mahmood, denounced the president as well.

“The Biden government have just come in and, without looking at what is happening on the ground, have taken a unilateral decision, throwing us and everybody else to the fire,” Mahmood said.

Lord Howard, a former Tory leader, described Biden’s withdrawal as “a catastrophic mistake which may well prove to be the defining legacy of his presidency.”

Political scientist and foreign policy expert Walter Russell Mead writes that the Biden administration will now have to deal with the “worst-handled foreign-policy crisis since the Bay of Pigs and the most devastating blow to American prestige since the fall of Saigon.”

At least President John F. Kennedy took “sole responsibility” for the Bay of Pigs disaster, rather than blaming his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower.

“It’s an utter disgrace and an extreme loss of prestige [for] the United States that President [Joe] Biden allowed this to happen,” says Luke Coffey, a veteran of the Afghanistan War who directs The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy.

When Osama bin Laden first attacked America, he decried that the United States was nothing more than a paper tiger. Now, twenty years later, others will take up that rallying cry. After all, today the Taliban controls more territory in Afghanistan than it did on 9/11. The calls for the renewal of the global terrorist jihad will begin once again due to Biden’s foolishness and short-sightedness.  With our wide- open southern border, the opportunities for future attacks on our own soil have now become far more likely.

And it’s not just our adversaries in the Middle East that have been emboldened by Biden’s stupidity. Consider this editorial in China’s Global Times, the Communist Party’s main English-language propaganda mouthpiece, with a message to Taiwan: “From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and the US military won’t come to help.”

Even former President George W. Bush, who has seldom uttered any criticism regarding his successors to the oval office issued a statement.

Bush said he was “afraid Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm” as a result of the withdrawal.

“I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. And I’m sad. Laura and I spent a lot of time with Afghan women. And they’re scared,” he said,

“I think about all the interpreters and people that helped — not only U.S. troops, but NATO troops — and they’re just, it seems like they’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people,” Bush said.

“And it breaks my heart.”

“The United States government has the legal authority to cut the red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crises. And we have the responsibility and the resources to secure safe passage for them now, without bureaucratic delay. Our most stalwart allies, along with private NGOs, are ready to help,” Bush added.

And yet, Biden’s administration has left thousands of Americans, allies, and Afghani supporters stranded outside of Kabul’s airport trying desperately to get past Taliban checkpoints.  Not only is this an utter disgrace, but it is morally repugnant and despicable to leave friends at the mercy of such evil people. 

My anger and disgust at Biden’s ineptitude and callousness was only intensified as I read reports and watched videos of people desperately clinging to an Air Force C-17 aircraft as it took off, showing people falling from the plane after it ascended into the sky.  The sheer fear and panic as the Taliban closed around innocent people in Kabul must have been overwhelming.  Indeed, there are even pictures of an Afghani woman raising her baby up to a U.S. Marine standing on a wall outside the Kabul airport in order that her child might be saved as she was presumably to be left behind.

Our Afghani friends that supported us in our war on terrorism in their country are terrified as they know what awaits them as the United States pulls out under Biden’s orders.

In Shir Khan Bandar, a port city on the border with Tajikistan, an order went out instructing local imams to provide a list of unmarried women and widows, beginning at age 15, so they can be “married” off to Taliban commanders. In Kandahar province, Taliban fighters tortured and then murdered a popular comic named Nazar Mohammad. When asked Sunday whether the Taliban would return to meting out medieval punishments like amputation and stoning, a spokesman for the terror group said it would be up to the Islamic courts.

In an official statement issued this week, leaders in the underground Afghanistan church told missionary group Frontier Alliance International that Christians are being targeted for execution:

“The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill. The US Embassy is defunct and there is no longer a safe place for believers to take refuge. All borders to neighboring countries are closed and all flights to and from have been halted, with the exception of private planes. People are fleeing into the mountains looking for asylum. They are fully reliant on God, who is the only One who can and will protect them.

“The Taliban are going door-to-door taking women and children. The people must mark their house with an "X" if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked, they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older has been found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.

“Husbands and fathers have given their wives and daughters guns and told them that when the Taliban come, they can choose to kill them or kill themselves—it is their choice.”

In the midst of the Vietnam War, during one of the many moments when America was potentially set to betray the South Vietnamese side, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that if we did, “the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

This is the fatal legacy that Biden’s decision has wrought.

Yes, we needed to eventually withdraw from Afghanistan; however, it should have been done with in-depth consultation and coordination with our military commanders and our allies also in country there.  The loyal Afghanis, Americans, NGOs, and allies should have been largely evacuated prior to our military’s withdrawal.  We absolutely should have taken or destroyed any armament or vehicles so that they could not be captured by the Taliban.  And we should have done this process right as winter began so as to give us more time and slow down the movements of the Taliban.

Due to whatever senility-caused reasoning Biden used in forming this decision, he has condemned thousands of would-be friends to death or worse at the hands of the Taliban.  From wokeness to weakness, Biden has shown he is not fit to lead our nation.  Our people know it.  Our allies know it.  And the Afghani people we have betrayed sure as hell know it.  Biden has betrayed our standing in the world, turned his back on our allies, and made our nation far less safe in the long run by emboldening our enemies.  For these reasons, Joe Biden should be removed from office either by impeachment for failing to live up to his duties as commander and chief, or by invoking the 25^th amendment due to his obvious cognitive impairment when it comes to making such tremendous life and death decisions.   

Either way, Joe Biden needs to take his sorrowful legacy and leave the oval office… NOW.