Libertarian Leanings

Obama Administration Officials Rip Biden on Abandonment of Afghanistan

Kayleigh Says It Best

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Angelina Jolie: The People of Afghanistan Deserve So Much Better Than This

In her Time Magazine article of last week, Jolie wrote:

Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way.

Giving up the idea of a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban, appearing to cut and run, and abandoning our allies and supporters in the most chaotic way imaginable, after so many years of effort and sacrifice, is a betrayal and a failure impossible to fully understand.

I think of injured American servicemen and women I met at Ramstein Air Base—some who’d lost limbs fighting the Taliban— who told me how proud they felt to be a part of helping the Afghan people gain basic rights and freedoms.

I think of every Afghan girl who picked up her bookbag and went to school in the last twenty years even though she risked being killed for it—as so many were. In one district in Kabul, more than a hundred people have been killed in attacks targeting school girls in the last year alone.

I think of the Afghan women who served as lawyers and judges and police officers—even as their female friends and colleagues were murdered in cold blood, with the number of assassinations tripling in 2020.

Where are the feminists?  Why are they not speaking out?

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Biden Administration Provides the Taliban with a ‘Kill List’

From J.E. Dyer at Liberty Unyielding:

This post will not be a synoptic summary.  It will focus, for want of time, on two major errors committed by the administration in the last couple of days.

One is the information many will have seen that the Biden administration has given to the Taliban.  The report is from Thursday afternoon; the claim by Politico is that “U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport.”

Politico cites an unnamed defense official with this blunt reaction:  “Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list.  It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean.”

CENTCOM didn’t comment, but Biden did in response to a question at his Thursday press conference:  “There have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said this, for example, this bus is coming through with X number of people on it, made up of the following group of people. We want you to let that bus or that group through.”

That’s as bad an answer as simply acknowledging that Politico’s version of the same fatal error is correct.

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From the Babylon Bee

Like all good satire, there is an element of truth:

Biden Demands Whoever The President Is Take Full Responsibility For This Mess

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a forceful press conference today, Biden called for whoever the President is to "clean up this mess" in Afghanistan.

"Listen folks, this is ridiculous!" said President Biden. "Who's running this country anyway? I demand accountability! The President must be held responsible for this debacle!" 

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India's Ivermectin Blackout

Ivermectin defeats the Delta variant in India.

News of India's defeat of the Delta variant should be common knowledge. It is just about as obvious as the nose on one's face. It is so clear when one looks at the graphs that no one can deny it.

Yet, for some reason, we are not allowed to talk about it. Thus, for example, Wikipedia cannot mention the peer-reviewed meta-analyses by Dr. Tess Lawrie or Dr. Pierre Kory published in the American Journal of Therapeutics.  

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/wikipedia-and-a-pint-of-gin/article_22ffa0d8-dde9-11eb-be75-d7b0b1f2ff67.html

Wikipedia is not allowed to publish the recent meta-analysis on Ivermectin authored by Dr. Andrew Hill. Furthermore, it is not allowed to say anything concerning www.ivmmeta.com showing the 61 studies comprising 23,000 patients which reveal up to a 96% reduction in death [prophylaxis] with Ivermectin.

Read the rest here.  And read the comments as well.

Hat tip The Burning Platform.

Thinking About Re-election, Joe?

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— Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 26, 2021

Joe Biden

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— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) August 26, 2021

Why is nobody asking, who Joe Biden is beholden to?

Most Americans know that America is quite capable of winning wars.  It's the political will that is always lacking.  During the American Civil War, it was just the opposite.  It took several years before President Lincoln found a general who would fight — Ulysses S. Grant. 

In the spring of 1864, Grant arrived in Virginia to test himself against the man who would become his greatest antagonist. Having defeated many U.S. generals, Lee was once again looking for a single victory that might end all hostilities. Grant, however, was unlike anyone Lee had met before. His goal was not Richmond. Grant was determined to destroy Lee's Army, whatever the cost in lives and materials. He made clear his plan to Maj. Gen. George Meade, "Lee's Army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes there you will go also." Grant stayed in the field, at Meade's side, to make sure that his overall strategy was carried out.

The destruction of the Taliban army was never an American objective.  As the Taliban celebrate their victory over America in Afghanistan, conventional wisdom has it that America is exiting an endless, unwinnable war — Vietnam redux.  But our humiliation at the hands of the Taliban was not through a defeat on the battlefield.  The Taliban victory was a political decision, one that the White House struggles to cast as Joe Biden's carefully considered decision.  It's hard to imagine.

The notion that there was a single incompetent decision made to abandon Afghanistan defies both logic and common sense. It was a matter of high government policy that the United States depart Afghanistan, abandon military equipment, and leave both Americans and our allies to the tender mercies of the radical Islamic Taliban.

The exit from Afghanistan, then, appears designed to accomplish two things: first, to demoralize the American military and the American people. Over 22,000 American service personnel have been killed or injured in Afghanistan. Every American knows someone who served there. Knowing full well that the Afghan military would not defend the country, there could be little doubt that the United States was turning the country over to the Taliban. Moreover, the US did so with the appearance of being run out of the country in shame and defeat. One can only assume this was meant to demonstrate to American servicemen that their sacrifice had been in vain, and to the American people that our cause of defending America from the scourge of radical Islam was not just.

America is back, Joe?  If this horrendous abandonment of Afghanistan was Joe Biden's decision, why is nobody asking, who is Joe Biden beholden to?

Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric

Who Created COVID-19?

It’s now widely known that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was responsible for sending millions of U.S. federal dollars to the Wuhan Lab of Virology in China to support extremely dangerous “gain of function” research (a term of art for bioweapons research) via third-party proxies like EcoHealth Alliance.

Clearly, Fauci was funding this dangerous research on weaponizing bat coronaviruses, but who were the scientists actually manipulating and genetically altering these bat coronaviruses into “chimeras” in a lab? Who actually created COVID-19? Here’s some obvious truths that the corporate media won’t tell you.

1) In 2015, an article in NATURE magazine discussed how a bat coronavirus had been engineered in a lab — which stirred up a debate about dangerous "gain of function" research. The researchers had created a “chimera” virus made up of a surface protein of SHC014 from horseshoe bat in China and the backbone of a SARS virus.

The people who defended this research in the article were: Ralph Baric at UNC and Peter Daszak at EcoHealth Alliance.

Be sure to read the rest here.