My latest in FrontPage:
The nominal president of the United States looked even more tired and defeated than usual in his remarks about the jihad-martyrdom suicide bombings in which thirteen Americans were killed at what is still called Hamid Karzai International Airport, but which the Taliban should soon rename the Joe Biden International Airport, in honor of the man who has done so very much for their cause.
The jihad massacre came as Politico revealed 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, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials. The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan’s capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.”
Yes, you read that right: “the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security.” If anything is emblematic of the wrongheadedness and impotence of the regime in Washington, and its utter indifference to the well-being of the American people, both those that are stuck in Kabul and those that are stuck stateside, it’s that phrase: “the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security.”
Now, the American government many years ago decided that Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, and that studying Islamic doctrine in order to understand the behavior, motives, and goals of jihad terrorists was not only a worthless endeavor, but one that was undertaken only by “Islamophobes” who were more of a threat to the United States than the jihadis they were studying in order to defeat. And so that cow left that particular barn a very, very long time ago, and there is consequently no reason to think that anyone in Biden’s handlers’ State or Defense Departments have the first foggiest idea of the fact that making agreements with jihad terrorists is useless, because they will not honor agreements made with infidels for any longer than they need those agreements.
Islamic law holds up the Treaty of Hudaybiyya as the model for all agreements with infidels. This was, according to Islamic tradition, an agreement Muhammad entered into with the pagan Quraysh who controlled Mecca at that time. Islamic tradition also records that when Muhammad no longer needed the treaty, he broke it.
That, as far as the Taliban are concerned, since they scrupulously follow Islamic law, is how one makes deals with infidels. And so when they told Biden’s handlers that they would provide security outside the airport, Biden’s handlers should have known that this agreement would last only as long as the Taliban believed they needed it, and not one second longer. Alsoin play may have been a memorable aphorism attributed to Muhammad: “War is deceit.” Might the Taliban have fooled Biden’s handlers into thinking they would be good for security, all the while luring the Americans into a trap in order tomaximize American deaths?
Biden’s savvy, “America is back” team of foreign policy experts should have seen all this coming, and never gotten into this situation in the first place. But they didn’t, because they know it’s a religion of peace, and that you’re a vicious “Islamophobe” for thinking otherwise.
Yes, Leftists will pipe up at this point, Trump concluded a deal with the Taliban, too. Yes, he did. And no, he shouldn’t have done so, either. But Trump did not entrust the security of Americans to the Taliban, or leave Americans unprotected in a catastrophic withdrawal that seems designed, if it has any design at all, only to maximize the number of Americans left behind.
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
13 Americans Killed in Kabul: ‘We did it, Joe!’
Yes, you read that right: “the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security.” If anything is emblematic of the wrongheadedness and impotence of the regime in Washington, and its utter indifference to the well-being of the American people, both those that are stuck in Kabul and those that are stuck stateside, it’s that phrase: “the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security.”
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All grimly true. Suicidal madness.
somehistory says
More like “designed to expedite the execution” of those Americans…’how dare they be there’…and those who might not wish to be subjected to the inhumanities, rapes, tortures, deaths, meted out by the rabid mozlums now ruling over them with swords and whips…’how dare they not wish to suffer those things’…
These are the same sons of demons who set road side bombs, used little kids as lures to trick U.S. servicemen to follow to their death, put suicide vests on the children…so those deciding to give “security” over to them, and to hand out the lists of those who oppose their rule, had nefarious reasons behind their evil actions.
gravenimage says
That anyone thinks the Taliban is going to be any different than they always have been is insanity.
Clifford Fodor says
And don’t forget that the Taliban is allied with al-qada, the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
gravenimage says
Yep. That was the whole point of our going into Afghanistan in the first place. Just no reason for us staying there for 20 years trying to civilize the place.
Infidel says
US Airstrike Targets ISIS-K Member in Afghanistan
So the reaction has come swiftly, but feels more like a CYA, given that all the dead from yesterday’s bombing were really young soldiers, and this response looks more like an attempt to salvage Biden’s sinking numbers
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
And some of the military members killed were only 20 years old, babies at the time of 9/11.
gravenimage says
So appalling that those who should know better have learned nothing in the past 20 years.
Paul says
Rather than calling Biden the nominal president, Robert, why not refer to him as the pseudo president?
JDow says
He sure did. Biden has managed to get more American soldiers killed in combat than died in all of 2020 in Afghanistan. There were 11 military deaths; but, the best figures I can find suggest only four (4) of them, yes four, were combat deaths. Biden throws a temper tantrum and Americans died. More are going to die. You can take that to the bank for a large loan if you can find a sucker to bet against that proposition.
I don’t know if the United States of America or its people can survive a POTUS (and his puppet masters, Obama, etc who actively hate the country and its citizens. We’re finding out the hard way.
{o.o}
Crusades Were Right says
Consider the absolute insanity of the Biden evacuation “strategy”:
“We need the assistance of the Taliban in order to rescue people from the Taliban, because we don’t trust the Taliban to respect human rights. So let’s trust the Taliban to do the right thing.”
???
“Hey, Mr Big Bad Wolf, we Three Little Pigs are building a brick house so we can keep you outside, since we know you will eat us if given half a chance.
Want to help us build it?” lol
gravenimage says
That about sums it up…
Giacomo Latta says
“America is back”
I believe the MSM and other media have misreported this comment of Biden. It should be ”America’s back” which is what any opponent of the US should expect to see along as Biden is in charge.
Ed says
I follow this web site because I find it sensible and informative wrt Islamism and issues with Islam in general. And I own many of Robert’s books. But I find the articles on Biden and these comments devoid not only of actual critical thought but a complete lack of understanding of Trump’s role and those of pervious administrations in getting us to where we are today. Including a complete lack of dealing with Pakistan for decades. And I say this as one who is perfectly willing to properly and factually criticize how this withdrawal has gone. But let’s do it in a constructive manner. No president who eventually had to deal with the eventual withdrawal was not going to preside over a messy exit.
gravenimage says
Handing security over to the enemy is far more than a messy exit. I’m afraid.
Derek says
Its so sad and shocking to see the US – with all its might and intelligence, choosing to play the Muslim appeasement policy to settle Islamists in the US to bolster up demography in favour of democrats at the cost of destroying US. Reading all the comments, I am further saddened by witnessing that while all US citizens are indulging in belligerent finger pointing and slapping each other, the Islamists are scoffing at our predicament. US is clearly going the “India” way where the Congress Party and some other left oriented parties have had a Policy of settling Islamist refugees to contribute to vote banks. The result is that these Islamists now literally dictate Politics. The attacks of Jews all over Europe, after Joe’s surrender, are an indication of how the Islamists are emboldened by an unwritten assurance that the ruling dispensation would look the other way. Its such a distressing feeling of despondency that is setting in. I never thought that the mightiest power would succumb to such thugs – and for what – to be in power in DC at any cost – even if it at the cost of losing your own identity and freedom ??
James Lincoln says
Derek says,
“I never thought that the mightiest power would succumb to such thugs – and for what – to be in power in DC at any cost – even if it at the cost of losing your own identity and freedom ??”
Apparently, the Democrat Leftists do not care – short-term, they get what they want: power, influence, and money.
Absolutely despicable.
Walter Sieruk says
Any jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31.
That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex
paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V]
As for dying in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.
Walter Sieruk says
In this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.]
Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.”
This deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30.
A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Glen says
If Biden had not committed electoral fraud to get into the 0val 0ffice, we would have had a chance to check out your claim about an orderly withdrawal. Because of Electoral Fraud, Trump was unable to follow his withdrawal plans.
We dealt quite well with the Pakis until the late 70s when the Islamic terrs took over. Progress was made when Musharraf took control after a fraudulent election. When he left office, things got worse.
Glen says
Walter,
You say we need better ideas.
Did we drop the Federalist Papers, our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution on the Nazis during WWII. Did those three documents defeat Mein Kamph.
Or did we drop something else on the Nazis, then we showed them a different way.
gravenimage says
Glen, we would not have fought the Nazis in the first place if we did not have values that opposed Fascism.
abad says
Now is the time for Biden and Harris to be impeached. Get rid of Nany Pelosi too.
Their only goal is to completely destroy the United States.
Walter Sieruk says
The disastrous Joe Biden is a deadly calamity for those thirteen Americans as well as other Americans and for many Afghans . That pseudo “president” is also a catastrophe for the worldwide war against Islamic terrorism and a blight and a curse to the homeland security of the United States and safety of her citizens.
Therefore it has been well said that the inauguration day of Joe Biden January 20, 2021, as President of the USA is as the official launching day, May 31, 1911, of the ship that was the Titanic into the ocean.
Dogman58 says
https://youtu.be/PL8flyVdJfA
…..just sayin’