Biden’s Speech on the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks.

His handlers didn’t let him give a one.  I don’t blame them.

Kamala’s Speech on the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks.

Very forgettable.  She is a lightweight. She talked about how “diversity is our strength”.  This made me think, when did we go from “e pluribus unum” to “diversity is our strength”?

George Bush’s Almost Perfect 9/11 Speech

I just listened to George Bush’s speech in Shanksville, PA, on the 20^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  His speech was inspirational and worthy of the heroism of the people on Flight 93.  My favorite part of his speech was “20 years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans on a routine flight to be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror.  The 33 passengers and seven crew of Flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by fate.  In a sense, they stood in for us all.  The terrorists soon discovered that a random group of Americans is and exceptional group of people”.

But…his irrational hatred of Trump and Trump’s supporters drove him to ruin an otherwise perfect speech.  He made a veiled comparison of the 9/11 terrorists to the people who unlawfully entered the Capital on 1/6.  I could envision Liz Chaney on his shoulder whispering in his ear to not forget to take a shot at Trump.

Very unfortunate.

Deserters and Cowards

What do you call a soldier who drops his weapon and runs away when in battle?  What do you call a man who runs away to save himself and leaves women and children to die, or worse?

Here, in America, we call the former deserters and the latter cowards.  I think both those terms apply to the 300,000 Afghani police and military personnel who dropped their weapons and hid their uniforms when called on to fight for their own country.  Those were the men who signed up to be in the police or military.  What about the other men in the country who didn’t sign up?  With what was at stake if the Taliban took over the country, you would think there would be mandatory military service for every able-bodied person in that country.

I have heard people make excuses for the Afghan men.  Those excuses usually involve what the U.S. did or didn’t do.  If the Afghan weren’t willing to fight for their own country, why should we?    

I agree with retired Green Beret, Joe Kent, when he said “The bottom line is, we shouldn’t have brought all these people out of region.  They should have been sent up to the Panjshir to fight against the Talban, to fight for their actual country.  Just because you served American funded unit overseas, that doesn’t buy you an automatic golden ticket to the U.S. heartland.  We were over there to help those people and we did help those people.”

That brings me to the too many media, Democrats, and Republicans who say we “owe” the Afghan people who helped us.  We stayed in that country for as long as we did to help them.  Yes, it would benefit the U.S. if the Afghans could hold off the Taliban but make no mistake, the Afghans were helping us improve their own lives.  Americans owe Afghans nothing after 20 years of sacrificing American lives and billions of dollars.

But we are Americans and should help key personnel get out of the country; those who we know are not deserters and/or cowards.  That said, we should not be taking in people who should be fighting for their own country.

Quote of the New Week

NY Post Columnist, Miranda Devine, referring to “Biden’s State Department colleagues” as “Blynken, Wynken, and Nod” on the Fox News show Outnumbered.

Quote of the Week

Joey Jones responding to Ned Price, State Department spokesman, characterizing the evacuation as highly effective and saying that the “metric that matters” is 110,600 people have been evacuated.  This statement made after the killing of 13 U.S. military:

“I don’t know what it is about this administration for hiring dudes that have a face you want to punch … you get mad watching the dude talk.”

Lara Logan Has an Agenda

Lara Logan, I understand, has lived in Afghanistan and has an affinity for its people.  She has a lot of valuable insights into the current situation in Afghanistan but continues to put the full blame on the U.S.  She said the following on Laura Ingraham’s show: “Afghans don’t actually want fly to America...what they really want is their country back.” 

My question to Lara would have been, if that is true then why did 300,000 Afghan military and police drop their weapons and run to the airport?

Afghanistan: The Inconvenient Truth

I have listened to the horrific stories about what will happen to people left in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban and how the U.S. is honor-bound to get everyone out who wants to leave.  I saw a female Afghani journalist wearing an Afghanistan flag covid mask here in American crying about how the U.S. needs to do more.  This leaves me to wonder why didn’t the Afghanis themselves do more over the last 20 years to fight the Taliban? 

I do not believe we are honor-bound to help when millions of able-bodied Afghanis did not feel honor-bound to fight for their own country.  Also, I think we should refuse to help any able-bodied man leave the country they refused to defend.