Two Years Later, the Consequences of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Are Still Unfolding

Two years later, people are still paying the price for the catastrophe of Old Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And people will be paying the price for decades to come.

The Associated Press reported on August 22 that “more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report.” These were people the Taliban had promised not to kill, but as Muhammad said, “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268). Nine days before that, the Daily Mail reported that “militants who left fingerprints on IEDs meant to kill Americans in Afghanistan and a prisoner freed by the Taliban were among more than 65 terrorists allowed into the United States after the catastrophic withdrawal.” What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!

Jihadis beyond Afghanistan, meanwhile, are benefiting from the $7.2 billion of military equipment the U.S. left behind for the Taliban. Nikkei Asia reported last March that “modern weapons and sophisticated night vision devices left behind by U.S.-led coalition forces withdrawing from Afghanistan and fleeing Afghan troops are being used by Pakistani Taliban militants to intensify attacks on law enforcement.” Jihadis in Kashmir have the best U.S. weaponry as well.

Emblematic of the mishandling of the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan was the fact that the Islamic State jihadist who murdered 13 American service members and numerous Afghans a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in August 2021 had just been released from prison at Bagram Air Base, the center of American operations in Afghanistan until the U.S. precipitously and irresponsibly abandoned it in July of the same year. U.S. snipers had him in their sights but were ordered not to shoot.

CNN reported that the bomber, Abdul Rehman Al-Loghri, was part of “ISIS-K,” that is, the Islamic State’s Khorasan group in central Asia, and that he had “been released from a prison near Kabul just days earlier when the Taliban took control of the area, according to three US officials.”

Al-Loghri had been held in the Parwan prison at Bagram Air Base, along with around 5,000 other prisoners, including several hundred members of ISIS, as well as Taliban and al-Qaeda jihadis. In July 2021, according to the Associated Press, “the U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left.”

When the Taliban rolled into Kabul, they entered Bagram without encountering any significant opposition and opened the gates of the Parwan prison. Al-Loghri and many other jihadists walked free. Then on August 26, 2021, al-Loghri blew himself up at the Kabul airport, murdering eleven Marines, as well as one member of the Army and one of the Navy.

Contrary to Old Joe Biden’s claims that every contingency had been provided for, this was a catastrophe brought on by a lack of planning and foresight. In June 2021, General McKenzie gave an interview to Military Times in which he declared: “We have workable plans to evacuate any scale of people that we would be directed to do. That’s one of the things that we have done. I’ve talked to the secretary about it.” After the Biden regime spent nearly two years denying and evading responsibility for what happened, however, in June 2023 a review of the withdrawal was released that finally admitted, in a summary from The Hill, that “senior officials did not prepare for worst-case scenarios nor appreciate how quickly the situation could devolve; key leadership roles were not empowered with authority; and firmly held policy positions failed to take into account dissenting opinions.” What a surprise.

How many might have been saved if there had been even a modicum of strategic savvy, competence and patriotism among the commander-in-chief and his top military officers?

What were the high ranks of the military doing while they should have been preparing for a safe and successful withdrawal? In June 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) questioned General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Congressional hearing about an ongoing effort to saddle U.S. military personnel with mandatory readings and briefings on the topic of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Milley situated his interest in CRT as part of an investigation of the causes of the bogus January 6 “insurrection,” taking for granted the false claim that the Capitol incident, and support for Trump in general, was rooted in “white supremacism”: “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out.”

Milley and the rest of the woke military brass could have spent less time studying Critical Race Theory and imposing it on the troops as a way of weeding out Trump supporters from the ranks, and more time doing their actual jobs. Had they done so, they might have realized how foolish it was to steal away from Bagram in the dead of night. They could even have used the base as a rallying point for Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave the country, getting them out in a safe and orderly manner instead of the Saigon-on-steroids nightmare that a horrified world witnessed at Kabul airport in August 2021.

In a healthy, functioning republic, the political and military officials responsible for what happened in Afghanistan two years ago would have been impeached or forced to resign in disgrace. But the U.S. is no longer a healthy, functioning republic, and so instead, they are more entrenched than ever.

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bill

8 months ago

And yet a slap in the face to those Afghans who helped America and Americans who were left behind as
this idiots immigration policy allows thousands of possible terrorists across our southern border not to mention the tons of drugs killing our young citizen

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GakaSahab

8 months ago

Reply to  bill

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T D

8 months ago

After the failed Afghan withdrawal , Xi Jing Ping vowed re-unification with Taiwan; and Russia massed more troops at the Ukrainian border.

Putin and Ping would later announce their “partnership with no limits.”

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T D

8 months ago

Reply to  T D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWx-8PTRdSM

1 year later:
RUSSIAN STATE TV whines about Ukraine’s Massive drone counter-attack.
What was planned as a 3-day war has turned into their Vietnam.

Vladimir Solovyov (Pictured above), Putin’s chief Propagandist on local TV, rages about Ukraine’s drones.

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Cassandra

8 months ago

Reply to  T D

Note the rejuvenated CCCP emblem, not that we were fooled.

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T D

8 months ago

Reply to  Cassandra

It’s even worse.

Russian State TV pledged their allegiance to the USSR (Soviet Union) last year 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYavj3EhN4

Quote:
“The USSR is my Motherland. I’ve given an oath to the Soviet Union of the Socialist Republics.”

“Where do the borders of Russia End?”
“(Our president) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin cleary said: nowhere.”

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Cassandra

8 months ago

Lack of planning?? It was planned to be a disaster, no doubt by psychopath Obongo and his creepy IRGC loving side kick, V Jay Jay .

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Snowedin.

8 months ago

Many American servicemen and women were left to die in Afghansitan. Millions if not billions of dollars of weapons were depleated from our arsenal ending up in the muslime terrorist groups and the Mexican cartels.

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Rob Porter

8 months ago

Reply to  Snowedin.

Snowedin. – And just remember that this utter calamity in Afghanistan was supported by and is still defended by America’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, a complete dope who is obsessed about ‘white supremacists.- of whom, strangely, I’ve never met one – and about ‘white rage’, that I have never encountered. Having been stripped by homosexual president, Barack Obama, of educational information on Islam and deprived of the education on Islam provided by Robert Spencer, the U.S. military colleges, its cadets and later graduated officers, are largely clueless about the Muslim enemy that confronts America.
It is truly amazing, a pathological liar, self-adoring narcissist and essentially immature boy, Justin Trudeau, is leader of the woke capital of the world, Canada, while next door a doddering old fart liar, crook and incompetent, Joe Biden, runs America. Does anyone seriously believe that this circumstance can continue indefinitely without serious consequences?

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Rob Porter

8 months ago

One thing is evident about General Mark Milley, he is a borderline imbecile. Yet this fool of a man is Chairman of Joint Chiefs of staff. As chairman, Milley is the highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces and the principal military advisor to the president of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.
This is the man who once phoned China’s most senior general to assure him that if Donald Trump ever planned an attack on China, an enemy country, he, Mark Milley would make sure that that general would be the first to know.
That was an act of treason for which Milley should have been shot by firing squad. Instead this buffoon remains Chairman if the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oh, and next time you see Joe Biden falling asleep at some function, remember that ‘sleepy Joe is ‘Commander in Chief’ of the United States of America and that when semi-awake he is advised by buffoon Mark Milley. And remember Joe’s son, Hunter, is a crack addict and criminal, yet protected by the Chris Wray-led FBI. This America today, essentially a banana republic with no Oliver Cromwell equivalent to eradicate the scum leading America down the drain. What pitiful sight to behold!

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Stephen Honig

8 months ago

Biden is the enemy of the USA. Nothing bothers that bastard because he has no conscience and is a pathological liar.

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George

8 months ago

Is the Chinese Communist Party using Bagram Air Field, it seems impossible to find out what is happening there due to the media covering for Biden’s catastrophic failures there.

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