Washington D.C. is chock full of worthless think tanks that seem to exist to employ the friends of the well-connected and which produce absolutely nothing.
Some, like the Brookings Institute, are openly affiliates of enemy terror states like Qatar, and there’s the Wilson Center, which is a partly government-funded operation under the aegis of the Smithsonian.
The Wilson Center isn’t spectacularly bad on its own, but taxpayers shouldn’t be funding this garbage. Here’s just a sample of a few recent Wilson Center tweets.
President Emerita Jane Harman makes the case for rejoining the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA).
“It’s really bad news for families … this is the worst headache coming up at the worst possible time,” says @sandsatwilson on the Canadian truckers’ bridge blockade.
How Iran’s economy has weathered war, sanctions, and other challenges since the revolution 43 years ago:
But this is particularly infuriating.
After Biden decided to split Afghanistan’s “assets” between 9/11 victims and the Taliban (by way of the UN and local NGOs which have a history of paying off the Taliban), the Taliban and lefties were outraged… at money going to 9/11 victims.
Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the U.S.-based Wilson Center, called Mr. Biden’s order to divert $3.5 billion away from Afghanistan “heartless.”
“It’s great that $3.5B in new humanitarian aid for Afghanistan has been freed up. But to take another $3.5B that belongs to the Afghan people, and divert it elsewhere–that is misguided and quite frankly heartless,” he tweeted.
What Afghan people?
Never mind that the U.S. subsidized Afghanistan to the tune of a whole lot more than a mere $7 billion, but we’ve seen pretty clear that the “Afghan people” when given a chance surrendered to the Taliban. And the Taliban are terrorists and enemies.
The problem is that we have plenty of enemies within.
John says
Afghanistan government money? Is that from the sales of poppyseeds and heroin? What a joke. all that money was American money in the first place. It should go to the US treasury.
mortimer says
The Taliban owes the United States much more than that.
mortimer says
John correctly questions whether the Taliban is ‘the Afghan government’. The Taliban has ZERO LEGITIMACY. The Taliban is a criminal conspiracy.
Infidel says
I would think that the US is headless for giving any money to ‘Afghanistan’, which now implies the Taliban. All of that money should have gone to 9/11 victims, as well as vets of the Afghan war
mortimer says
‘Headless’ is a good description of this situation. The $32-million Beijing Bribed-man is merely a figurehead and no one can say who is running things in his stead or writing the words he reads from the teleprompter.
Someone should blow the lid of this preposterous charade of pseudo-presidency.
Kenneth J Johnson says
This is a think tank?? KEN
somehistory says
The question could be asked: What are you *thinking*?
Taxpayers should have more of a say in where the money goes and none should be going to people who just sit around and spew garbage and lies.
Taxation without representation has been argued before and it was agreed that Americans shouldn’t be taxed unless they are *represented*…this should include who gets the money when taxes are collected, how much is given to each and veto power when it is being funneled to enemies …within and without.
commonsense says
Let’s not forget that Biden and his band of incompetents left behind $85-$90 billion worth of military equipment for the Taliban to use or sell when we exited Afghanistan in August. That amount should be enough to feed and clothe every Afghan for years to come. Yet they’re given MORE of our money?
mortimer says
The US did not ask the Taliban to wreck the country.
James Lincoln says
They don’t need our “permission”, mortimer.
Frances Weingarten says
The US government can be quite stupid when it doesn’t look properly at what’s happening in front of them!
One example of this stupidity is the claim of “heartless” for giving Afganistan money to 9/11 victims!
Do these people who were concerned for the Afganistanies know who and what the Afganistan people are and what evil they are capable of?
OLD GUY says
It seems evident that these THINK TANKS and PRO this and PRO that organizations are paid to represent the groups paying them their salaries.
An old saying in business, the bigger the committee the less that will come out of it and the poorer the results. Our government officials are trying to please and listen to so many of these think tanks and advisory groups that nothing gets done efficiently or without strings attached. These think tanks don’t represent the American people, they represent themselves.