On September 11th, 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 31st. 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.
