03/09/2021
Calamity Joe Has Got To Go
…but he won’t. Do not expect a resignation and forget about any impeachment moving forward – at least until after the midterm elections of 2022.
The Democrats control both houses of congress and despite his horrible performance so far, despite his clear inability to lead or to think clearly, they will not toss fellow Democrat Joe Biden to the curb via impeachment.
The public increasingly seems to side with the idea, but the excuse offered by House Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will likely be that “the nation is impeachment fatigued.”
That part I agree with, but so what? A soldier must fight on despite his (or her) war fatigue. A farmer must plow long after his body is fatigued as the sun begins to set but many acres are still in need of it. We must simply do what must be done. Joseph Biden has demonstrated beyond any doubt that he is unfit for the position of president of the United States.
These same people impeached Biden’s predecessor Donald J. Trump twice.
The first impeachment was prosecuted for Trump making a July 25, 2019 phone call to Ukraine’s newly elected President Zelensky when he asked him to investigate all potential illicit activity with regards to Ukraine energy company Burisma Holdings where Joe Biden’s son Hunter landed a jaw-dropping position.
Hunter Biden was given a seat on the board of directors at Burisma shortly after being thrown out of the United States Navy for co***ne use and addiction. Despite not having any expertise in Ukraine or eastern European politics, or without any expertise in energy issues whatsoever. However, he did have one excellent reason for being nominated.
After President Obama granted then VP Biden’s request to be the “point man” on all things Ukraine, Hunter was given the $83,333.00 per month position to sit on the board. More importantly, Hunter’s pay began a month before Burisma announced his hiring - and on the same day VP Biden announced that he’d be in Ukraine to deliver a $1B payment for financial support to that nation.
If you don’t see a quid pro quo, get some prescription glasses.
But I digress.
Biden should be impeached. The British commander of the Afghanistan forces recently said that President Biden shouldn’t be impeached; he should be court-martialed.
George W. Bush faced a surprise attack. It was a monumental failure of our apparently greatly overpaid intelligence agencies.
What Joe Biden did in contrast is far worse. He proverbially scuttled both the reachable victory and stability in Afghanistan and handed them over to the Taliban who happily turned victory to a humiliating defeat and the relative stability of the Afghan people, to a return of brutal, barbaric rule.
Even worse, he knew for many weeks that the Taliban was encroaching on large areas which had only until recently, been secured and patrolled territory in control of the US allied Afghani government.
We now know that President Biden placed a call of his own which should pique the interest of the impeachment-happy congress.
On July 23, 2021, Biden spoke with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and pleaded with him to hide the fact that the Taliban was advancing fast and gaining control of more and more of the nation.
Ghani ended up fleeing the nation faster than George Costanza fled from the apartment where a child’s birthday party faced a small trash can fire in a Seinfeld episode.
Far more importantly, the dumpster fire Biden had allowed to grow into a five alarm blaze, was one that he tried to hide from the very people who should have made plans to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible – had they known.
It appears that the perception of how things were going in Afghanistan under Biden’s leadership, was more important to him than the lives and safety of those whose time to escape the wrath and rule of their enemies in the Taliban.
Instead of many weeks to prepare to quickly evacuate, some had days or even hours which led to what we were forced to witness.
Instead of looking for a path to citizenship elsewhere, perhaps here, some of those who helped American allied forces are being hung from Black Hawk helicopters that Biden left behind for the Taliban. Some have been arrested while trying to leave but instead were discovered by the biometric facial scanners Biden left for the Taliban and their kill teams.
Some may have still had a chance to escape a brutal future or (likely) death if not for a list the US military kept of our interpreters and others who fought for Afghani rule free from the Taliban.
It is interesting that the list suddenly appeared to be in their hands shortly after the horrific bombing at the Kabul airport which killed 13 US Marines, 170 civilians and wounding many others.
Would I be out of line to suggest the possibility that the list was a bartering chip to improve the Biden airlift operation for the remainder of the deadline?
Biden and his supporters can try to blame Trump (and they are) but there is too much documentable evidence proving that Trump’s plan came with conditions for withdrawal.
Even though Trump’s May 1st withdrawal was planned months earlier than the one Biden originally declared (September 11th!) and the one The Taliban moved to August 31st, Trump’s withdrawal only moved forward with certain unmovable conditions and behavior by the Taliban.
The Taliban had already forfeited the treaty by December of 2020.
No, this was and remains Biden’s mess. This was no exit strategy. This was exit tragedy.
Biden’s disgrace and malfeasance. Not Trump’s, Obama’s or Bush.
In 2007, President Bush faced a crucial fork in the road in Iraq. The already war-weary nation was quickly abandoning support to fight on in the Arab nation which had no direct ties to the 9/11 attacks. The Sunni-led insurgency was growing, casualties mounting and Bush decided to not give in, but to ask congress to approve of General Petreaus’s plan to bring in overwhelming amounts of US Marines to destroy the insurgency.
Delaware Senator Joe Biden voted to authorize the Iraq war in 2003 but voted against the Petreaus plan called “the surge”. The surge worked. We had more than enough bullets for any foolhardy jihadist wishing to join the battle.
Victory was secured by our heroic forces yes, but also by a president with the resolve and discipline to ignore populist sentiment to retreat and accept the losses.
As Americans, I believe better than 99% of us wanted us gone from Afghanistan, but not like this. Why Biden drew down troop sizes despite the Taliban breaking the agreement every day and before the civilians and diplomats could escape, is beyond reason.
It seems to many of the military experts commenting on this; a show of force was needed but Biden cowered from the idea.
To be sure all were safe during this evacuation and withdrawal, "Go big then go home".
America was leaving by hook or by crook and dad-gum it, Joseph Biden was the man history would forever state, got it done.
There is no question that if American allied forces wanted to, the Taliban (as well as ISIS and al Qa’eda) would be far fewer and driven back into the mountains to the east while our citizens, the citizens of our allies and those Afghanis who fought alongside our forces, exited in an orderly and intelligent operation to do so.
Former British Prime Minister and stubbornly polite Tony Blair called the operation “imbecilic”. That is what our closest allies are saying publicly. The Taliban was mocking America, hanging people from our own helicopters in view of the American forces on the last day there.
Imagine what is being said by our friends and foes alike in privacy.
