Dakota Beacon

Donald Trump may be demonstrating (through his absurd position on the vaccines) that he isn’t really presidential material, but take a look at what is going on since he left office.  

Trump had indicated that it was time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan and focus on “America First”, a nearly-forgotten sentiment and one which was warmly welcomed by most of us.  After all, there is no fixing Afghanistan or no willingness among the natives there to be moulded into a western-style culture.  It is not in their nature or history and goes against everything they believe and the way they live.  It was always a bad place for us to be.  Blame George Bush for that.  But as some of us have asserted with regard to the mistake Trump made with fast-tracking vaccines it is possible to recognize a mistake and go about making amends as best we can.  Afghanistan was a mistake from the beginning.  Trump could see Bush’s error at least, and was laying out a strategy for a peaceful, safe and honorable withdrawal.  

Enter the Biden administration and all hell broke loose.  He announced that troops would be withdrawn by September.  He made no demands, he did not offer to negotiate the withdrawal on any terms agreeable to America and our interests.  Instead he unilaterally conceded everything and announced it all.  Biden (and, it would appear, most Democrats holding office) does not have any concept of how foreign policy works.  Maybe in his first childhood he grew up with the confidence that nothing could go wrong for America because we were so strong.  Maybe he just never understood why we were strong.  

We have, in modern times, enjoyed two periods of American dominance of world affairs - not unchallenged, of course, but dominance, nevertheless.  During the Reagan administration America was respected, perhaps envied, admired.  It was again the golden city on the hill.  Reagan was able to eliminate the Soviet Union as a threat to us and do it with peace and dignity.  He made it very clear from the outset that we would always deal with other nations from a position of strength.  It worked beautifully.  This all faded with the accession of the Bush clan, the Clintons and Obama.  They all believed in a weakened America, a subservient America, even, in the case of the Clintons, an America turned against itself, an America for sale.  

Trump’s policy echoed somewhat that of Reagan.  If he had one strong suit, Trump’s was foreign policy.  He came into office facing decades of erosion of respect for America and American interests, from territory to intellectual property.  China was one of the main offenders, literally stealing intellectual property and rattling its sabre throughout East Asia and the South China Sea.  We were running a $400 billion trade deficit as they continued to pilfer our technology.   Trump made it clear that this would not work out well for China.  He set an example through unabashed assertion of American rights and interests - a trade policy which went a long way to re-establish the American position.  There is a good reason why China was anxious to avoid a Trump second term.  

With Biden, however, it is back to kindergarten.  We don’t negotiate anymore.  We don’t assert our rights, we don’t hold anyone to account for anything.  Biden is lurching about on the world stage as he does in the Rose Garden, directionless.  It has proven an unqualified disaster in Afghanistan.  

While it was generally desired that we leave Afghanistan and close the book on that adventure, our presence there required a carefully planned exit strategy.  When we left it should have been with dignity and a conclusion that Afghanistan is what it is and we should not desire to re-make it, that we were leaving under our own decisions, that we left no allies or friends to their grisly deaths at the hands of the Taliban, that some sort of government there would not become a terrorist launching pad.  And it should have been transparent and up-front and honest.  

Instead of beginning with drawing down all civilian numbers there and coordinating with our allies to assist them in removing their citizens and nationals from harm’s way, Biden simply pulled the plug - brought home large numbers of American troops with no negotiation, with no plan in place to ensure the safety of civilians and Afghan nationals who had been our friends and allies within Afghanistan.  Our allies, including Britain, were left with no way to rescue their people, our people are stranded, families separated in the chaotic disaster of emergency evacuation.  As we were told by the government - our Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, John Kirby, no less - that there was no danger:  “Kabul is not, right now, in an imminent threat environment.”  This, even as the Taliban was already cruising down Kabul’s main drag.  Days before, then President Ashraf Ghani had seen the writing on the wall that his only future relevance to his country would be as a hostage.  He left.  There was no government to counter the Taliban.  Still, Biden, enjoying his day at the beach and his ice cream cone, blissfully unaware, in his second childhood, went ahead with his intentions to abandon Afghanistan and all in it.  

Writing for AMAC (August 16, 2021), Daniel Roman suggests that there were some points in which the U.S. interest coincided with that of the Taliban.  He mentions the fact that the Afghan government was left out of the casual talks held between Biden and the Taliban, effectively erasing that entity as a consideration.  But he points to the fact that our sudden implosion there actually created a dilemma for the Taliban - the Afghan allies we had within the country who were now vulnerable.  What will the Taliban do with them?  They don’t want them there - they would be an ever-present threat to the Taliban regime.   They must now make some sort of example of them and eliminate them, which means they must murder them.  This need not have happened.  A good negotiator would have made the kind of deal where we first ensure the safe conduct of those wishing to leave who had helped us, foreign nationals whom we could not protect later and American citizens, in an orderly and practical manner - saving face for the Taliban which would inevitably assume control upon our departure - and preventing unnecessary bloodshed, preserving some sort of honor where our allies were concerned and doing right by American citizens, making sure that families got out together safely.  Instead, we allowed a bumbling and senile old man to dodder around, pretending that we had a “president” and this is what he came up with.  

Our allies are incensed and rightly so.  Biden managed to insult the British military in his confused ramblings.  Our allies within Afghanistan are abandoned to their fate - not a unique outcome, sad to say.  America does not have a good track record with those who trusted us, whether in Hungary, Viet Nam, Cuba, Kurdistan or anywhere else.  Now it has happened again.  It is always amazing that we can ever attract any assistance from locals when we land in a foreign country.  

Instead of controlling the situation, Biden has allowed the Taliban to dictate all terms - we are to have only until August 31 to get out and get our allies and personnel out before the door slams shut.  Instead of “tear down this wall”, we have the wall up and the gate slammed shut on an arbitrary hour on August 31.  No talking back from Biden (not that he could be understood anyway).  And we have his mouthpiece, Jen Psaki, admitting in a snippy attitude that yes, there may well be Americans left behind after our military presence is gone.  How’s that for a steep decline in international importance?  The result is absolute tragic chaos.  (Is leaving behind armaments and intelligence just a back-door way to fund America’s enemies?) 

We may not be in accord with Trump on his idiotic and malicious vaccine policy statements or his egotistical behavior on that count, but there might be a place for ego in foreign relations.  Biden displays his “power” side only in the face of reporters and the American people.  For us he has absolute disdain.  He is arrogant and officious.  It doesn’t matter how confused he appears, he always couples it with this arrogance.  He turns his back and walks away from important questions.  He disregards Americans’ concerns for those stuck in Taliban land.  Yet he is obsequious and obedient towards the Taliban.  Why do you suppose this is?

Some are calling for impeachment over the handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.  Well, that’s a good start.  I would favor charging this man with treason.  He is a traitor.  If he is not fit to stand trial for this, it would be a good time to employ the 25th Amendment and incarcerate him in an institution to live out his days.  Perhaps his minder, Dr. Jill should be tried also - she seems to direct his moves.  In her case the firing squad would be the historical way to handle a “guilty” verdict.  At the moment, according to an interview Biden gave, reported by NBC up to 15,000 Americans have been left behind to the mercy of the Taliban.  How many others - allies and friends?  Do any of these people’s lives count?  If they do, then it is time for a court martial.

In the meantime, consider the thoughts that must be going through the minds of the military personnel.  Their efforts, blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice in Afghanistan for twenty years was just spat upon by the Biden administration even as they are ordered to take the deadly “vaccine”.  Aside from the insult this is to our men and women in the services, think what this means to the future of the military and naval forces.  We have NO IDEA other than some very grim predictions made by the top experts, of what the long-term effects of these “vaccines” are.  If we use 100% of the military as a “test group” and it works out the way it is predicted, we will have NO military able to defend the country within two to three years.  

It is vital that our men and women in uniform reject this effort.  Spend a year in the brig or whatever it takes.  Many who have taken these “vaccines” would say that their lives are destroyed already.  We should turn around and cashier any officers who force this on our service personnel.

And while they are being forced into line for their death shots, the Taliban mocks the U.S. Marines planting the flag at Iwo Jima.

I don’t like Trump.  I never liked him.  I violently disagree with his vaccine policies and the devastation they have wrought.  But we cannot afford a dufus like Joe Biden any longer - sucking on his ice cream cone while selling out our friends, allies and our own citizens and military.  This can no longer be tolerated.  It is now time to remove him.

So - where are the Republicans?

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