The Biden Administration is hoping that you and I will quickly forget what just happened in Afghanistan. That we'll quickly forget the 13 U.S. servicemen killed. We'll quickly forget the Americans left behind, that we will move on. That's the goal.
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby minimized the Americans stranded in Afghanistan and basically said, "Well, what's so unusual about that?"
"How does diplomacy get those people out of the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?" MSNBC's Willie Geist asked.
"It's not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. I mean, we have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time," Kirby responded.
Wow, it happens all the time! You know, you forgot your passport, and you can't get back, or you lost it in France. And you know, you're stranded there for a while. Well, there's a little bit of a difference in those isolated situations and America having drawn all these Americans to work, teach and serve in Afghanistan in this capacity or that and then when it comes time to get them out, "Sorry, we're out of here! We'll leave you behind!"
The callousness of this really shocking. It's almost like they're daring the American people to do something about it – "This is who we are. We're running the country. It's our decision."
In the same vein, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats blocked a group of Republican congressmen from reading the names of the 13 servicemen killed. You could say that this was out of political embarrassment; they don't want the solemnity of all this, the gravity of it, the sheer negligence of it, to be apparent. So they're trying to push it all under the rug.
Think about the contrast between refusing to let the names of the servicemen even be read on the floor, on the one hand, and Pelosi, Schumer and all these Democrats taking a knee, kind of obsequiously bowing and scraping before you know George Floyd. They don't want to honor the servicemen, but they want to honor a guy who is a home invader, a drug abuser, a check forger. If these are your heroes, you just might be a Democrat.
Very disturbingly, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was just on television with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, and he dropped an idea that has not really received the attention I think it deserves – the United States is getting ready to pay ransoms to the Taliban, to give them huge amounts of money.
Sullivan was aware that this is a delicate topic. So he broached it in this way. He said, in effect, that we've been giving aid to Afghanistan for a long time, and there are a lot of humanitarian needs over there.
Well, there might be. But when a country becomes your deadly enemy, you don't normally supply development aid to those countries. So not only was Sullivan saying that there could be ways for this development aid to continue, but he was also offering what was clearly a carrot to the Taliban, essentially saying, "our money is your leverage." If there are Americans left over there and other Afghan allies that we want to get out, we're willing to give the Taliban, our enemy, and in fact now the strongest terrorist regime in the world, taxpayer money.
Let's remember, this is not Jake Sullivan's money. It's not Antony Blinken's money. It's not Biden's money. It's your money, and it's going to be going to the Taliban under this administration.
The efforts to shift the blame continue. Blame Trump, blame the American people. There's an article in The Atlantic titled "Afghanistan Is Your Fault: The American public now has what it wanted." Max Boot of the Washington Post wrote, "Who is to blame for the deaths of 13 service members in Kabul?" According to him, we all are. You are. I am.
But who planned this evacuation? Who organized it? Who botched it? It was Biden from start to finish.
Now, the United States is in the groveling role. General Kenneth McKenzie called the Taliban "our generous host nation."
So we have to now kowtow to these people. We have to prepare to give them aid and money. Why? All because of an operation in which the Americans who have been left behind could have been evacuated in the first place. But the Biden people are hoping that by the time the midterms come along next year, this will be a long and distant memory for most Americans.