The blue pill delusions of the left when it comes to the Afghanistan skedaddle debacle is stunning in its brazen defiance of reality.
The Biden administration failed to spin the Afghanistan skedaddle debacle evacuation as representative of a glorious victory in the war. But that did not deter Biden's people. Now they want us to believe that the obvious humiliating defeat is actually victory.
The White House spin is absurd, verging on the insane. The Taliban are back in control, with the help of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. They have captured billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech American hardware. And they have reversed two decades of U.S. military, counterinsurgency, and state-building efforts that cost the American taxpayer hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars, not to mention thousands of lives.
What is wrong with Democrats (quoting an article)?
The surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban is the result of an extreme case of collective amnesia and self-delusion that continues to undermine the international response to the unfolding catastrophe there. Motivated by the desire to justify that surrender and rationalise the humiliating retreat from Kabul, western military and political leaders have forgotten who it was we fought in Afghanistan and Pakistan for two decades.
They have conjured an Afghan enemy we would prefer to have lost to, rather than the one that is thrusting the Afghan people into hell and poses a threat to all civilised peoples.
One British general recently described the victorious jihadists who seized Kabul last month merely as “country boys” who “happen to live by a code of honour”. He rebuked a journalist who dared to describe them as the enemy.
Others now talk about “Taliban 2.0”, as if it’s a company after a brand refresh — a different entity, somehow, from the one that harboured al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden as he plotted the mass murder of 2,977 innocents on US soil 20 years ago.
And yes (back to the first article):
The U.S. military could have maintained a small footprint in Afghanistan with minimal risk. Instead, our elected leaders fell prey to a false binary, promoted by neo-isolationists in recent years, that America either had to fight a "forever war" or quit the theater.
But don't think the administration matrix of delusions can't get worse (quoting an article):
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday it's "possible" the United States could work with the Taliban in operations against the Islamic State affiliate based in Afghanistan, but cautioned that the "ruthless" group may not change its ways.
But no worries. The grown ups of the reality-based community are back in charge, restoring our relations abroad. They really believed all they had to do was not send mean tweets.
