The last 88,000

"What have we wrought? What evil have we unleashed on a people who trusted us with their lives."

Even the most vocal critics of Joe Biden, are shocked at what is happening in Afghanistan. Because we have an untrained, untested, incompetent person in the White House, who is advised by people who are just as incompetent, we might have just condemned thousands of innocent Afghan citizens to brutal Shira deaths. How many? It is estimated just in Kabul, there are 88,000 Americans, Brits, French, Afghan translators, and their families.

If this was a movie instead of happening in real life, I would have walked out of the theater. Why? Too far fetched. The United States could not bungle something this big, this important, putting that many people's lives in dire jeopardy. Plus - the number of 88,000 could be a lot higher. The total number of Afghans who helped the Brits and the French might not be in the final count. Nor could the number of allied Afghans who live in the capitals of some of the more contested providences.

The Afghan translator who worked with Pete Hegseth (when he was stationed in Afghanistan), was on the news this morning. He is out of Afghanistan and safe, but his brother is not. Right now, his brother is trying to destroy any documentation, any books, any evidence what-so-ever, that he worked with the Americans. And then he is going to hide. In his own country, he will need to hide from blood thirsty Islamists. 

To pour gasoline on the flames, the Taliban have also opened up the prisons to let everyone out. ISIS, Al-Qaeda, other Islamic factions, and just plain bad actors - are now walking free. Members of the Taliban are going door to door, looking for "collaborators" and taking inventory on young girls. Yes, in the century the Taliban live in, young girls make perfect wives for older men. In their culture it is not called "trafficking" like it is in ours - in their culture it is called normal.

What have we wrought? What evil have we unleashed on a people who trusted us with their lives. A military veteran from Afghanistan was asked how bad this is, and how much worse it could be. His response? This is NOT like the Saigon evacuation when the NVA and Viet Cong were knocking at the door. No, this is much, much, much worse. 

What should we do in the aftermath of this carnage? For starters, demand that Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken resign - immediately. They are boobs. Then demand General Milley retire.

Before the Taliban gained access to Kabul, former SOS Mike Pompeo had a solution on how we might save the day. Use our air assets, and bomb the Taliban on the outskirts of Kabul. Bomb them back to the stone age. It would have been a "Hail Mary" move, but at least we would have done SOMETHING.

History will not be kind to Joe Biden for this mess. He should and WILL be tagged with the loss. That is, unless our education system rewrites that history like they have others. If it does, it will somehow be Donald Trumps fault.