My latest in PJ Media:
On Thursday afternoon, after thirteen American service members had been killed in jihad bombings in Kabul, Reuters published a story with a headline that was far more staggering and dramatic than was likely intended: “U.S. wants aid to Afghanistan to continue despite sanctions on Taliban.” Yes, as Kabul has fallen to Afghanistan and thousands of Americans have been stranded, one of the chief concerns in Washington has been, How can we keep sending money to the Taliban? You’re not really surprised, are you? After all, this is the Biden administration.
Reuters reported that “the United States is taking steps to allow humanitarian work to continue in Afghanistan despite U.S. sanctions on the Taliban, which seized power 11 days ago. A U.S. Treasury Department official said President Joe Biden’s administration has contacted humanitarian partners in Afghanistan in recent days about their continued ability to provide aid.” Of course it has. It seems as if in the case of Afghanistan, as in so very many other contexts, Biden’s handlers’ principal concern seems to be figuring out ways to squander more American taxpayer money on useless boondoggles.
That is, “humanitarian aid.” The Treasury official explained: “We are taking steps to allow for humanitarian aid to continue in a way that benefits the Afghan people.” Who could object to that? After all, the Afghan people will be suffering even more with the Taliban in charge, right? What better use could there possibly be for American taxpayer money?
Well, plenty, starting with the idea of lowering tax rates to just levels and allowing Americans to keep more of the money they work to earn and to spend it at their own discretion. And then there’s the problem of the fact that any aid that goes to Afghanistan now will fall into the hands of the Taliban, and the Taliban have priorities that are quite distinct from the Biden administration’s limp and watery post-modern Leftist nanny-statism. Money that goes to the Taliban now will almost certainly go to finance its implementation of Sharia at home and aid of jihad abroad in line with what one Taliban commander told CNN: “It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day.”
Someone is going to have to pay for that. If Biden’s handlers get their way, you and I will be footing the bill.
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mr clive delmonte says
How are we ever going to get at least some measure of sanity back into US politics?
owensgate says
Should be no problem. Sending huge pallets of cash to our enemies seems to be the raison d’être of the Democrat Party.
gravenimage says
Too true…
Ade Fegan says
Yep .. and there’s plenty of idiots who will vote for more of it …. (or is there ?)
Walter Sieruk says
That awful ,terrible and 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.
maria says
Biden, Harris and Pelosi must go. Why are not forced to resign and then put into prison?
tedh754 says
Send them the drooler’s ice cream allowance.
Infidel says
Does this government believe that paying out money is the way to resolve the national debt? One would think that we have a $30T surplus, the way he’s trying to spend money
Somebody round up every democrat and force them to take Bookkeeping 101 in high school. Where they learn that debt is money you owe, not money that’s owed you!
Raja says
Infidel,
They don’t just need Bookkeeping course, their brains need a complete overhaul.Perhaps taking them to nursery with morals, justice, “knowing the difference between their right and left hand” could help.
It is ingrained in the minds of these stupids that everyone can be bribed, without realizing that the bribed are also a hated lot.
Proverbs: 26:
11 Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who repeats his folly.
gravenimage says
With 13 Americans Dead in Kabul, Biden’s Handlers Looking for Ways to Keep Sending Aid to Afghanistan
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More suicidal insanity.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden has helped the Taliban , he is still helping them, he is their useful idiot.
Biden with his awful policies has killed Americans, harmed other Americans and damaged America.
Raja says
Walter,
US has also become a laughing stock of the world ! Sad but true.
maria says
He is a traitor. Force him te resign before it will be too late. He wants to destroy the best country in the world USA a country of freedom and justice.
Jerry says
Nowadays, when I watch Biden on TV, I can’t help looking for for his puppeteer and his ventriloquist.
Infidel says
Like someone said on Newsmax, they should just run the teleprompter on our TV screen so that we can read what he has to say
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
And Sleepy Joe wouldn’t even have to show up and interrupt his nap.
Infidel says
Speaking of which, did he fall asleep during his meeting w/ Naftali Bennett?
James Lincoln says
Sure looked like it to me, Infidel.
Ade Fegan says
Seriously ? … How is this cretin still president ?
Ade Fegan says
I’m sure the Taliban will ensure that all Biden’s aid is distributed fairly and spent wisely
James Lincoln says
I’m sure that they will help the most vulnerable first, Ade…
Mike2 says
I like that, Jerry.
OLD GUY says
Biden and handlers must have their hands in the cookie jar. Once again American tax dollars being wasted on the elite’s life style. I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine.
PRCS says
Having seen photos of Afghanistan’s palatial presidential palace, gotta wonder how much $$ the Taliban could raise with a garage sale.
David Foot says
Sorry to say this, but I wish it was only US politics, in the UK they are also DOUBLING the amount of aid for Afghanistan!
Instead of helping the people fighting the Taliban in the North Valleys Panjshir USA and UK want to help the Taliban! People fall of planes not to be under the Taliban, mothers hand over their babies to strangers to save them from the Taliban and UK and USA are now sending money to the Taliban, we are all mad now!
E T says
No, we are not mad, we just sit and watch the new world order madmen take down our countries – 1933 and we slowly go mad.