Only Joe Biden could have left Afghanistan
Remember the phrase “only Richard Nixon could’ve gone to China”?
Had a Democrat president gone, a Republican like Nixon — most likely, Nixon himself — would’ve bludgeoned them for it. Communist sympathizers visiting communists. Avoid.
But when Nixon, the Cold Warrior himself, visited China in February 1972, he opened that door to every president that followed.
Communist China was definitely not a friend, and can never be. But it could be useful. (In light of the obvious evil of the Chinese Communist Party, it would be wise to rethink just how useful.)
Just as only Nixon could’ve gone to China, only Joe Biden could’ve pulled out of Afghanistan.
The military was unprepared to leave Afghanistan because instead of preparing to leave, as two consecutive Commanders-in-Chief had ordered them to do, they spread propaganda to news outlets and stamped their feet in protest.
The botched exit was the generals throwing the game.
A devastating meme dropped Tuesday juxtaposing Biden campaign literature with the sad Afghans literally clinging to departing airplanes. You saw it and felt it at the same time. It was brilliant.
George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump had either re-election prospects or legacies to consider.
Biden has neither. He’s a one-term president whose 50-year tenure in government is not special in any way. He knows that. Who better to take the heat for a “botched” withdrawal, when the alternative is Forever War?
Only Joe Biden could have left Afghanistan.
America leaves Afghanistan — It’s not cutting and running if you don’t care
America doesn’t owe Afghanistan a damn thing
So desperate the Afghans were to depart a country cursed by history — and now reverted to it, with the rise of the Taliban — that they’d hang on to airplanes that will fly thousands of miles, at 30,000 feet altitude, if their grip strength didn’t fail them.
The top photo shows CNN’s Clarissa Ward on the last day of American rule. The bottom shows her in a hijab, her beautiful hair covered up by mandate of the Taliban. What a difference a day makes!
Afghanistan was a bad place before America and will be a bad place again now, without it. Let that be the lesson here.
Let it be understood forever that American power is a force for good. 3,000 bad-ass American dudes were all it took to keep Afghanistan from turning the calendar back to antiquity.
It’s the ruling class that’s impotent. The kids are alright — now let’s stop wasting their lives fighting wars of choice.
The images of this week are stunning, but will be soon forgotten.
We’ve got too many problems to fix stateside. On to Cincinnati.