September 1, 2021

Everyone in the media claims Biden blundered the extraction from Afghanistan, and they add various bits of advice. None of them have the same advice, which shows there wasn't a fix.

Was Biden supposed to invite everyone vulnerable to leave two months ago? They all knew the pull-out was occurring, and they didn't leave. There was no way to get them to leave until the Taliban controlled Kabul. So that's when they wanted to leave.

Then some suggest that Biden should have negotiated something with the Taliban. They did. Two administrations had already negotiated the pull-out. So what's the problem? It's that too many persons wanted to leave all at once. That was their decision, not Biden's.

None of the factors involved were determined by Biden or the military. It was all about the Taliban and its relationship to the escapees. Supposedly, the Taliban would have done a slow walk while someone was shooting at them. Biden had nothing to do with the speed of the Taliban take-over. That process was determined by the persons who decided they would do some crazy invasion of a country they knew nothing about.

Then some suggest that Biden could have negotiated a nicer exit with the Taliban or maybe stuck the military in their face. The Taliban wasn't budging. They said August 31 and nothing else.

The exit was cut two days short by a suicide bombing by al Qaida. Sticking around for another suicide bombing would have invited more suicide bombings.

Some suggest there should have been a major military operation. It would have invited more suicide bombings and endless conflicts which would have drawn in the Taliban.

Every alternative would have been worse, and endless critics said that would happen before they went in. There couldn't have been a more rational exit to such a stupid invasion.

On top of that, there is a lot of ignorance in assuming presidents run the world. All they are is administrators. It's the same stupidity as telling the corporations they are supposed to do their manufacturing in the U.S.A. That set of assumptions misses the fact that you have to have enough competent employees to produce global products. They don't exist in the U.S.A., but nay-sayers can't understand that.

It's the same thing as not being able to understand that telling someone to do nice and magical things when you want them to never going to happen. Someone said they blew up a truck load of bombs with a drone strike. It was an aid worker and his kids. Both sin and ignorance prevent magical solutions from flowing out of military excursions.

Trying to get some niceness out of the Taliban leadership is a good as it is going to get. So that is what they are doing.

What Biden accomplished in Afghanistan was close to miraculous. It shows the wisdom of a liberal with 50 years of experience in Congress. He got almost everything necessary accomplished in a few days with no more than a few persons being killed. No one else could accomplish the task in any amount of time. Obama and Trump both knew they needed to get out of Afghanistan but could not conceive of a method of doing so.

But there is a group of persons saying the opposite; and they are vociferous in the media. They cannot say what Biden should have done, but they rail against him claiming it was variously Biden's worst blunder or some sort of flub up. They can't describe a consistent story of what the problem was or what should have been done.

But the motive of the nay-sayers is clear. They wanted the war to never end; and since Biden ended it, they want to degrade him for doing so. The never ending war in Afghanistan was doing exactly what corrupters wanted it to do. The result and standard never changed over twenty years, as it was tailored for doing exactly what corrupters wanted it to do.

What corrupters were using the Afghanistan war for was generating the power of incompetent corrupters through evil. Incompetents need corruption as a method of acquiring power. A war is a major source of power for them. It instills fear into opponents, which prevents defiance and opposition from developing. A war says this is what price opponents will pay for defying us.

Using fear for intimidating opponents is a described principle for corrupters. They say you have to destroy the innocent to intimidate the guilty. When innocent persons are destroyed, everyone is vulnerable. If only the guilty were destroyed, everyone one else would be standing up to oppose the corrupters. So corrupters use destruction of the innocent as an intimidating tool; and they didn't want the Afghanistan war to be taken away from them as an intimidating tool for imposing themselves upon everyone.