It’s time to end the madness. However you feel about President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, I want you to focus on what’s best for Americans on American soil right here. Right now.
Our citizens are suffering under continued draconian lockdowns, medical tyranny, skyrocketing inflation, violent crime, cancerous homelessness, border chaos, ideological persecution and Silicon Valley censorship.
Cops cannot or will not maintain law and order.
Gun owners who exercise their right to self-defense face scorn at best and decades in prison at worst.
Our troops are being emasculated and mass-vaccinated against their will.
The mental health crisis among veterans and teens is unceasing.
Health care workers have become shills and guinea pigs for Big Pharma.
Schools regulate how much air your children can breathe, whether they are allowed to have water breaks or sing in public, and how much guilt they must confess in the classroom for the sin of being white or part-white.
Our criminal justice system is run by corruptocrats and hijacked by mob rule.
Election integrity is a joke, and those who expose it are punished.
Afghan citizens pack inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, as they are transported from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. The Taliban on Sunday swept into Kabul, the Afghan capital, after capturing most of Afghanistan. (Capt. Chris Herbert/U.S. Air Force via AP)
“We want to have the capacity to get up to several thousand immediately and want to be prepared for the potential of tens of thousands,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told Fox News. “Bliss and McCoy have the capability right now — and what’s advantageous is with a little bit of work, they could increase their capacity in very short order. … We’re going to focus on getting as many folks out as we can.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Nelly. When do ordinary Americans, whose neighborhoods will be flooded with all these untold numbers of “folks,” get a say about this “import first, ask questions later” refugee dump? Who voted for 6,000 of our best and bravest American soldiers to be used as travel agents and security guards for unlimited numbers of poor, unskilled and unvetted Afghans and their families who will soak up precious public resources in our age of pandemania?
Bleeding-heart Democrats and Biden-bashing Republicans are both tripping over themselves to virtue signal over the sight of desperate Afghans clamoring into helicopters and planes to get out of their Godforsaken mess of a country. I understand the impulse to exploit the withdrawal fiasco for political gain. But pull yourselves together and think, people. Think.
The Special Immigrant Visas, or SIV, program was originally created to help a small number of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters who worked for the U.S military. By 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that a whopping 60,000-plus individuals — about 20,000 principal SIV holders and their families — had been admitted to America under SIVs and received federal resettlement assistance upon arrival. The number of SIV visas has grown steadily over the past decade as the number of troops in the Middle East has shrunk. In 2017, 26,000 troops were stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq; that year, 18,000-plus SIV applications from Afghans and Iraqis were approved.
Do the math. This isn’t compassion. It’s a con game.
At what cost? In July, Open Borders Inc. advocates helped push through $1 billion in new funding for the Afghan SIV program. The cash benefits flow immediately — including resettlement grants, cash, medical assistance, social services, employment services, food stamps, case management services and welfare that can last up to five years. Despite all that, the feds found that 60% of SIV holders were unemployed 90 days after arrival.
Meanwhile, Afghan SIV holders in Northern Virginia — where the numbers have increased more than tenfold since fiscal year 2013 and almost doubled from fiscal years 2015 through 2016, according to the Government Accountability Office — were straining schools, hospitals and affordable housing before COVID-19 chaos. Imagine what the impact will be now — and don’t be naive about the demographic and electoral consequences of recklessly throwing open the gates to these masses, let alone the public safety and national security implications of allowing untold numbers of refujihadis to blend in with the refugee population, which I’ve reported on extensively in my books and columns.
How do we prevent the refugee resettlement racket from pressuring American politicians to keep importing endless numbers of people from countries that hate our guts? Twenty years of reflection upon the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq should make it clear to all who truly put America first: Mind our own business first; put our country and its people first; and stop exporting American soldiers to wage endless and hopeless wars in countries that hate our guts.
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= endless repetition of stupid mistakes.
WHEN those who keep Making mistakes, ARE UNWILLING TO even acknowledge those mistakes, HOW can they ever learn from them!
They can’t learn from their mistakes. They’re too stupid.
Michelle Malkin, As always, your commentary is excellent. The Democrat communists goals are to make America last again, suppress the American people, put illegal aliens first, enrich the drug cartels, bring drugs into our Country, degrade anyone white, censorship, false science and destroy our economy.
Something thoughts about the picture of people on the plane. I notice there doesn’t seem to be any Americans. I also notice mostly men. Where are women and children? Are the men vetted? If not are they taliban trying to sneak into our country?
i noticed that too.. MOST OF THe pics i saw of folks trying to crowd onto those planes, were MILITARY AGE MEN…
How to avoid endless wars:
1. Never enter a war unless you are VERY sure you can win.
2. Cripple the enemy quickly by carpet bombing the presidential palace and ALL of the military bases and ALL of the vital infrastructure DAY AND NIGHT until there is little or no resistance.
3. Mop up any residual problems with missiles &/or heavy artillery.
4. Form a puppet government then summarily execute any traitors.
5. NEVER put ground troops in harm’s way. Never, never, never.
6. Enjoy the QUICK victory won with nearly no danger to our military people.
7. Let it be widely known that the next enemy of America will be treated even more severely.
Endless wars are stupid. Quick decisive battles build credibility and worldwide approval. It just requires something America is short of; leadership.
AND when in doubt, NUKE THEM from orbit.. It’s the only way to be sure!
All except #5 are good ideas. The problem is that all the air raids and artillery bombardments won’t get everyone. Sooner or later ground troops have to come in and finish taking out the trash. The mistake is using them for “nation building” and “social justice.” That’s NOT the job of ground troops! To number one, a slight change, never enter a war unless you’re willing to go all out to win it. Otherwise it becomes prolonged stalemate with the U.S. ending up on the losing side in the long run.
Exactly. STOP telling our troops, you CAN’T KILL the enemy, because we don’t want to offend them, and the like..
We should probably help people who actually helped us. The situation in Afghanistan, unchanged before, during, and after the American occupation, is that there are no resources to determine who that was. There have been plenty of incidents of “loyal” translators working with nearby terrorists to plant IEDs in the path of American forces.
Should we expect these refujihadis to embrace American culture and assimilate, or will we have another “Little Somalia” as in Michigan, with more congresscritters like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?
No, these people will be desperately out-of-place in America. And it would cost fifteen times more than re-settling them in a place with a culture similar to their own, such as Pakistan, or one of Russia’s south-Asian former republics, such as Kazakhstan or Tajikistan.
The Vietnamese were different. They had a history of centuries of French colonial rule, and three decades of democracy that sort-of actually worked. And none of them were Muslims. Although the French were oppressive, their rule was more like America than the goat-herding valleys of Afghanistan have ever been. Vietnamese ended up making positive contributions to America. I’m not sure of the refujihadis.
BUT why in gods name, DID IT take 10,000+ So-called Translators to help us? That would mean, we had supposedly, ONE translater PER 5 troops that were there, or 1 per 8, at the height of our deployment…