Sunday's Absurdity of the Day: Joe Biden's Saigon And What We Should Learn From It

The lessons to be learned here are very clear.

OK, it’s really more of a catastrophe than a simple absurdity, but it is absurd nevertheless.

On Saturday, analysts at the Pentagon revised their naive forecast of it taking 90 days for the Taliban to overrun Kabul and consolidate its renewed control of Afghanistan to just 72 hours. The rout of the largely uncivilized country’s nominal capital is on and that means that the military is now sending in the big helicopters to evacuate the U.S. embassy there, exactly as took place during the fall of Saigon.

Here’s the scene this morning in Kabul:

Here’s what it looked like in Saigon on 30 April 1975:

If it all seems so familiar, that’s only because it is. This is just the latest in a long line of failed U.S. foreign ventures, dating back to its Korea expedition, whose ultimate failure is exemplified by the continued existence of the DMZ 67 years after it was established, along with the still-uncivilized hellhole nation that exists to its north.

Vietnam was another failed expedition, escalated by Lyndon Johnson under false pretense following a classic false flag incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, and ended by Gerald Ford in national disgrace in 1975, as the U.S. abandoned its South Vietnamese allies, sentencing thousands of them to brutal torture and death at the hands of the North.

Then there was George Bush’s “Desert Storm” misadventure, which ended with the utterly inexplicable and unjustifiable decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power, even as the brilliant U.S. military was speeding its way almost unmolested by a fleeing Iraqi army towards Baghdad. Leaving Saddam in power proved beyond all doubt that the entire operation was about nothing but protecting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, directly in contradiction to the Bush Administration’s talking points.

But hey, America already had more misadventures planned for the Middle East, and apparently needed to leave its favorite boogeyman in place.

Saddam the boogeyman popped up again following the 9/11 attacks organized not by Saddam or any other Iraqi, but ostensibly by Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi national, along with a handful of compatriots, most of whom were also Saudi nationals. But our “intelligence community” that has proven itself to be so utterly corrupt and unreliable so many times, told us that Bin Laden was a leader in some terrorist group called “Al Qaeda,” and that Afghanistan was harboring that group and its terrorist training grounds, and we all bought that story because we were all so damn angry about 9/11 and needed to lash out at someone.

So we took the advice of the very same intelligence community that had utterly and completely failed to foresee the 9/11 attacks even though the terrorists were openly training right under their incompetent, corrupt noses, and invaded Afghanistan a few months later and have been there ever since.

Then, the George W. Bush Administration, again acting on the advice of the utterly corrupt and incompetent U.S. intelligence community, assured us that the old boogeyman Saddam Hussein - you know, the guy Poppy Bush and Colin Powell decided to leave in place back in 1991 for reasons that still make absolutely no sense 30 years later - was in possession of huge stockpiles of this thing they called “weapons of mass destruction,” and we all bought that hook, line and sinker too. Because we were angry, and the whole Afghanistan thing didn’t satisfy that anger.

So, Bush rolled Colin Powell out at the UN to make one of the most purely deceitful speeches in world history to justify yet another inadvisable U.S. foreign venture, this time into Iraq. Of course, Saddam didn’t actually have any of those WMD’s, as things turned out, or at least had done one hell of a good job of hiding them if he did. But we all cheered at the fall of Baghdad and scenes of celebrating Iraqi citizens toppling statues of the boogeyman and his evil sons, so that was cool. The ill-advised attempt at “nation building” was on in earnest, just as it was in Afghanistan, where world powers had tried and failed at similar efforts for more than 2,000 years.

But this time was going to be different, right? Sure. Yeah, of course, America would succeed where the Russians and so many others going all the way back to Alexander the Great had failed. You betcha.

Donald Trump, the lone non-globalist president Americans have elected since Ronald Reagan, had the good sense to return control of Iraq to its own corrupt government a few years ago, but did so with a plan in place that avoided a mass humanitarian catastrophe like we are seeing unfold in Afghanistan today. He had also pledged to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan, but again with a plan that, had it been executed, might have avoided said catastrophe.

But the current administration, in its globalist zeal to portray literally every action taken by Trump as bad, discarded that plan, and had its Sock Puppet-in-Chief simply announce a few months ago that the U.S. military was just going to evacuate as quickly as possible and leave the defense of the country up to the utterly feckless and corrupt Afghanistan “army”, such as it is.

Here’s what Sock Puppet Biden had to say about it just 38 days ago when asked about the potential for a rapid fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban:

POLARIS @polarisnatsec

36 days ago, President Biden told the American people that the Taliban would not take over #Afghanistan after he ordered the removal of U.S. troops.

Of course, every word out of Biden’s mouth was an outright lie, a recitations of talking points written for him by other professional liars. Standard operating procedure for this White House.

He knew exactly what would happen when he willy nilly pulled U.S. troops out of the theater. But sentencing thousands of Afghanis to certain torture and death, and millions of Afghan women to the sexual abuses of the Taliban was all worth it if it enabled him to reject a plan left behind by the Bad Orange Man.

This really is how these people think and act.

CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae

The Taliban are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than 166 other nations around the globe.

So what should we all learn from this latest in such a long line of American foreign venture disasters? We should learn that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and so many of the other founders of this country were right when they strongly advised against getting militarily involved in the business of other nations.

We should also finally, at long last learn and accept the fact that the United States lacks the political will and continuity of leadership to succeed in long-term misadventures like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Possessing the worlds strongest military forces do not matter if the politicians lack the will or vision necessary to use them properly.

But the single most important lesson everyone should take away from these catastrophic Middle East misadventures is that we should never again trust a word that comes out of the U.S. intelligence community. Because their “intelligence” was the germination point for all of this death, destruction and human suffering.

Damn them all.

That is all.