The Scale of Humiliation
Steyn Online,
by
Mark Steyn
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
8/15/2021 4:20:59 PM
To reprise a line from a decade-old column of mine:
Afghanistan is about Afghanistan – if you're Afghan or Pakistani. But, if you're Russian or Chinese or Iranian or European, Afghanistan is about America.
(Snip) Here's the scoop from USA Today:
Taliban's Afghanistan Advance Tests Biden's 'America Is Back' Foreign Policy Promise
Kabul Could Fall To The Taliban Within 90 Days, U.S. Intelligence Warns
Thank you, geniuses. That was Thursday. So it turned out to be well within ninety hours - which is close enough for US intelligence work.
Was this the same "seventeen intelligence agencies" who all agreed Russia had meddled in the 2016 election - and with whose collective intelligence only a fool
Reply 1 - Posted by:
brother ram 8/15/2021 4:37:56 PM (No. 880085)
Here's something to think about - the Taliban control the airport (they can shut it down anytime they want). Hold the US troops/embassy personnel hostage for reparations and the remaining inmates in GITMO - when you (US) close GITMO and return the "inmates" - you get your hostages back. Just solved the GITMO problem - claim victory and continue to dismantle the US of A.
13 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1 8/15/2021 4:40:16 PM (No. 880086)
This is what happens when you let commies infest your institutions and then blatantly steal elections along the way, as they've done the past 3-4 decades.
35 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/15/2021 4:53:51 PM (No. 880092)
I enjoy reading Mark Steyn - rather than watching him.
12 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/15/2021 4:56:44 PM (No. 880097)
This one stings. And is right on. Steyn unleashes his most acid tongue in this one, and it is well-deserved by the likes of Gen. Thoroughly Modern Milley. (I loved that.) This is not an article to like. Joebama should have to read it to himself from his teleprompter 100 times…every hour or so. He has messed up big time.
25 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/15/2021 4:57:55 PM (No. 880098)
Do you think the situation in Kabul is retrograde enough for General Milley? It sure is Foobar'd. And the WH panic shows it to be true.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/15/2021 4:59:14 PM (No. 880100)
Mark Steyn is right on point as usual. I love the guy.
23 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
deerejon 8/15/2021 5:00:44 PM (No. 880105)
If our real President was in office,None of this crap that we are going thru would exist.Border,Inflation,covid,Afghan.Biden needs to be Impeached Now.
28 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
SALady 8/15/2021 5:06:43 PM (No. 880115)
Lie-beral America is back all right!!! Ignorant, illogical, and impotent -- just how the rest of the world loves us to be!!!
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
minuteman 8/15/2021 5:13:35 PM (No. 880122)
FTA:
"If you don't have total contempt for Milley and the rest of the brass right now, you're part of the problem."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
John C 8/15/2021 5:42:29 PM (No. 880141)
If anyone wants to drop dementia Joe a word or two, The form is at
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/15/2021 5:58:13 PM (No. 880151)
Russia, China, Iran, al Qaeda, ISIS...
What in the hell are you idiots waiting for? Whatever you're after, Ukraine, Alaska, Taiwan, whatever, it's ripe for the picking.
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Luckychosenfew 8/15/2021 6:05:06 PM (No. 880157)
Biden was elected by Chinese sponsored hackers to embarrass the United States in the eyes of the world! It was a good bet! It looks like it’s working!
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/15/2021 6:11:35 PM (No. 880166)
Steyn at his Steyniest...Methinks Biden must be INTENTIONALLY trying to outdo every single Carter Catastophe, from Inflation, to migration, to "Climate", to gaslines...certainly THIS is as bad as Carters failures in Iran, though it may yet end up as bloody as Bengahzi, on a much larger scale..(I just lowered my flag to half mast.)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pros7767 8/15/2021 6:26:45 PM (No. 880177)
Can everyone stop blaming Biden?
The sole responsibility for this is Barack Hussein Obama and his commie cabal! This is playing out just as they want!
Biden doesn't even know where he is 3/4's of the time!
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 8/15/2021 6:45:07 PM (No. 880189)
Hunters dad makes another bad foreign policy decision, He hasn’t been right about one in 40 years. I’m embarrassed to tell people im from Delaware
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
PCMM 8/15/2021 7:08:39 PM (No. 880230)
Just drop-in a few hundred bats from a Chinese wet market and let nature run its course, right commies? I hope someone from the embassy was able to rescue the LGBTQXYZ flag flying outside. /sarcasm off
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
john56 8/15/2021 7:12:55 PM (No. 880238)
I sure wish Mark would have taken over for Rush.
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
rochow 8/15/2021 7:13:28 PM (No. 880240)
Let's face it: US intelligence is an oxymoron!
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/15/2021 7:23:05 PM (No. 880252)
Federal Unitary Central Kabul Western Intelligence Tracking Service
Well done and too true!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/15/2021 10:15:29 PM (No. 880465)
Govt. Intelligence is the latest Oxymoron...emphasis on the Moron part.
1 person likes this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/16/2021 4:39:16 AM (No. 880665)
Our illegitimate government's 17-agency KGB-Gestapo gets it wrong every time. Too busy chasing homeland patriots, too stupid to figure out what's going on in other cultures where we shouldn't be involved. Get rid of the whole spy apparatus. Pink slips for everyone, jail for the top of the pyramid.
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