[Order Robert Spencer’s book: Who Lost Afghanistan?]
I will never forget how shamefully America pulled out of the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on July 1, 2021, in utter darkness, and without notifying our allies—and nearly two months later, as the whole world watched, how we left Kabul and Kabul Airport.
My Afghan “granddaughter” was on a flight out after many days of hell in the surging crowds when the human homicide bomber, Abdul Rahman Al-Logari, whom the Taliban had just let out of jail, blew up thirteen American Marines, and countless Afghan civilians. Meena saw the whole thing from her airplane window.
How could America’s departure from Afghanistan have been so mismanaged? Robert Spencer, in his new and important book, Who Lost Afghanistan?, describes it as “Saigon-on-steroids,” a “nightmare that a horrified world witnessed.”
Spencer reminds us that President Biden promised that “we will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely. And we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners.”
Spencer also quotes Biden’s Press Secretary, Jen Psaki who insisted that “the catastrophically mismanaged evacuation operation could not be termed ‘anything but a success.’’’
Are we supposed to believe them, or our lying eyes?
Spencer’s book takes us back to 1998, to bin Laden’s statement entitled “Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders,” and to 9/11, after which President Bush appeared with two trusted Muslim advisors, including Nihad Awad, the co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Abdurrahman Alamoudi, who is now in prison for financing Al-Qaeda. There they stood, together with Bush, while the President claimed that “these acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith….The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam…Islam is peace.”
True, President Bush also sometimes described Islam as “Islamo-fascism” and referred to “radical Islamic fundamentalists.”
But President Obama “extended and deepened (such) false claims about Islam. Obama said: “Not only were Islam and Western principles compatible in Afghanistan, but Islam was a core part of American society, which had enriched American society from the very beginning of the nation.”
Obama did not think we could ever defeat the Taliban (he was right)—and so he wanted to negotiate with them, manage them. His Vice-President, Joe Biden, is on record as having said: “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.”
This controversy about the nature of Islam has been raging for a long time among the intelligentsia, governments, international bodies, armed forces, the media, and academia. Some ex-Muslims do not believe that Islam can be reformed. They—my very good friend, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Yasmine Mohammed —would be killed for having left Islam; Taslima Nasreen was mobbed and forced to live in exile as a dissident, Salman Rushdie had to live with police protection for many years and was recently nearly assassinated for having criticized Islam.
Muslim reformers such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, Soraya Deen, Raheel Raza, Asra Nomani, Aliya Abbas, and my dear friend, Imam Seyran Ates, all believe that Islam can and must be reformed and that they are committed to helping Islam evolve, and become more democratic, enlightened, and women-friendly.
However, as has been said many times: While not all Muslims are Jihadist terrorists, all Jihadist terrorists are Muslims.
Therefore, in addition to Spencer’s latest work, I strongly recommend Cynthia Farahat’s brave, new book, The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death. Most civilians have no idea how well organized, how dangerous, and how powerful this century-old Brotherhood is; how involved it is with Iran and with Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel; and how it has planned to Islamize the entire world by any means possible, especially by lying and deceiving the infidels.
Farahat is an Egyptian dissident who dared to argue for peace with Israel and for the separation of mosque and state. She was banned from Lebanon, landed on an Al-Qaeda hit list, received daily death threats, was nearly assassinated, and eventually immigrated to America. Like Spencer, Farahat criticizes the ways in which American foreign policy “appeases” Jihad and allows itself to be deceived.
In Steve Emerson’s shocking documentary, Jihad in America: The Grand Deception, we see Siraj Wahhaj, an imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, humbly giving the invocation before Congress as the first Muslim clergyman to do so—and we then see him back at his Brooklyn mosque spewing venomous hatred towards America and non-Muslims. “This country is a garbage can,” and he prays that American “crumbles and is replaced by Islam.” We also see Alamoudi, now in jail for funding Al-Qaeda, publicly claiming that “we are against all forms of terrorism,” and then exhorting his followers to transform America into a “Muslim country, even if it takes 100 years.” On an FBI wiretap, we hear Alamoudi grumbling that “Al-Qaeda did not kill enough Americans in the African embassy bombings.”
Although I was part of an international team that rescued 400 Afghan women, I do not believe that America is morally obligated to do that which cannot be done, namely, turn Afghanistan into a modern democracy, one that believes in individual rights, especially in women’s and children’s rights and in the separation of mosque and state. The rural regions of the country are impoverished and people who live there are unquestionably religious and often illiterate. Wars and occupations have made matters worse.
In addition, without foreign intervention, the country is indigenously swarming with woman- and infidel-haters, as well as with homosexual pederasts who rape young boys. When one brave Marine, Dan Quinn, rescued a boy and beat the Afghan commander who had chained him to a bed—Quinn was relieved of his command.
But, I do not agree with Spencer that American and European boots on the ground accomplished nothing. For twenty years, girls and women obtained educations and became judges, lawyers, physicians, business owners, artists, diplomats, and psychologists; they also opened shelters for battered and raped women.
Is this enough to justify our expenditure of blood and treasure? I cannot answer this crucial question.
Spencer pulls together an enormous amount of information and he presents it quickly, deftly, and masterfully. It is actually an easy read.
I agree with the many military men whom Spencer quotes throughout who cannot understand why we did not find bin Laden sooner in Abottabad, Pakistan where the Pakistani elite had been sheltering him; exactly why we stayed on as long as we did in Afghanistan; how could we have minimized or justified the “green-on-blue attacks: (Afghan soldiers trained and armed by America) which resulted in the murder of 152 American soldiers and the wounding of 193 more; why we exchanged known terrorists for American deserter Bowe Bergdahl; and exactly why we left in so disorganized and cruel a manner.
I highly recommend both Spencer’s work as well as that of Farahat.
Mo de Profit says
“Jen Psaki who insisted that “the catastrophically mismanaged evacuation operation could not be termed ‘anything but a success.’’’
Kinda sums up the unelected administration in one sentence, she will be working for the U.N. Agenda 2030 soon.
Cat says
Your Leftwing friends, assuming you still hold on to these, will always use the individual emotionally laden tale of one Muslim woman, child or man to evoke empathy and justify the Democrat policies that cost American lives and tons of our money. This use of sappy propaganda has stymied our government and confused the public. An Imam saying he is against violence warms hearts like voting for the first black president did. Except both were false.
That said, I am glad 400 women were rescued. I just hope they -and especially their children- can become American patriots and not America hating Jihad supporters.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible policy and directed action of that horrendously treasonous “president” Joe Biden in Afghanistan does indeed have a galvanizing effect to stir and impel the jihadists of many different Islamic terror/murder organizations around the world to continue even stronger than before.
Especially since they have their useful idiot and stooge sitting and resting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine, United States President.
That treacherous fiend old man Joe Biden asset and Inspiration to America’s enemies around the world.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden has very low approval ratings because he is terrible in many ways. For example, Biden had ordered the US pullout from Afghanistan that awful action of his that reveals the horrendous folly of his judgement in many wrong and tragic ways. As in, for example allowing the Taliban enemy to have all the state-of-the-art high quality US military equipment.
After all the Americans who died and the many others who had been terrible wounded and over a trillion dollars of wasted American taxpayers’ money invested in that awful mayhem is also awful.
Another horrible consequence of Biden’s treachery in Afghanistan are all those unvetted Afghan /Muslims now spreading across the United States. If any Americans, in any way are harmed by some those unvetted Afghan “refugees” who might be either criminals or violent jihadists then Biden will have their innocent blood on his wicked hands.
Since the end of August and because of that despicable villain Joe Biden, has betrayed and abandoned many Americans and left them to in Afghanistan to be brutally murdered by the Taliban.
Walter Sieruk says
The Joe Biden made American disaster is also tragic for the female’s natives in Afghanistan because with Islam, women will never have equal rights with men.
It will only become worse for women after the Taliban regains in power in that country.
For example, on the morning of April 17, 2019, on FOX NEWS television the subject was covered about the idea of having “peace talks “with the Taliban. Viewing the history of the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan and the brutal ruthless misogyny, they had engaged in was both vicious and malicious to the extreme.
Therefore, the question, naturally, was brought up, now that peace talks” might soon begin, the Taliban was asked if they return to power in Afghanistan “would they respect female rights ?”
To that question the Taliban replied “that when back in power they would respect.
Women ‘s rights but only to the limits of the cultural of will they permit those rights of women.”
The point is that the “cultural of Afghanistan” is really the religion of Afghanistan, which is Islam.
Therefore, the reality is that female rights, for both girls and woman, will not exist in a future Taliban controlled Islamic state of Afghanistan. For Islam is a religion of harsh and malice- filled misogyny.
As explained in the book, by Brigitte Gabriel, of the title THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Her book informs the readers on page 172. “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban victory is the outcome of horrible man, Joe Biden in Office seems to have no end or limit
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That fiendish man, Biden , created the catastrophe of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and simultaneously inspires more zeal in Islamic terrors organizations around the world.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible treacherous Joe Biden must really likes America’s enemy, the Taliban, since he gave away Afghanistan to them. Biden truly is a villainous traitor of the most horrendous sort.
On the night Television program Sean Hannity 8/17/21 on Fox News ,the former United States President Donald Trump was interviewed by Hannity and Mr. Trump had spoken about this Biden withdraw from Afghanistan and Trump ,truthfully declared that “Nobody had ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden.”
He further stated that “This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of this country” and Trump then mentioned how the other countries are watching all this and that “China is laughing at us.” because “China does not respect us anymore.”
It’s all very obvious that this awful lack of respect of all the fault of that terrible man , Joe Biden.
Donald Trump had also well said “What is now happening in Afghanistan is unbelievable”
Don says
It was actually Trump who turned over Afghanistan to the Taliban and ordered a complete withdrawal from the country. He had his Secretary of State, Pompeo, negotiate a deal with the terrorist Baradar. Trump announced the deal during his televised Covid news conference on February 29, 2020. The deal called for the complete withdrawal of all Americans by May of 2021, and the release of 5000 Taliban terrorist prisoners. The prisoners were released while Trump was in office and when the May 2021 deadline for withdrawal came Trump publicly protested against Biden pushing the date back. Trump actually wanted to withdraw quicker than Biden had planned to leave. Now Trump is taking advantage of the publics ignorance of the facts and is claiming Biden is the one who turned over the country to the Taliban.
Walter Sieruk says
That treasonous US “President” Joe Biden, has only aided and helped the murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan.
Now the Americans who live in Wisconsin and other US States may soon tragically suffer from this because of the dangerous, criminal and jihadists, Muslim migrants that have now entered American along with the violent Afghan refugees.
In addition, that despicable villain, Biden, by handing Afghanistan over to the Taliban has betrayed America and Americans and has even cause the deaths of many Americans.
Walter Sieruk says
That treasonous US “President” Joe Biden has only aided and helped the murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan.
So now Biden along with the horrible republicans who go along with him are endangering the safety and security of the US citizens in homeland America.
For the Americans who live in Wisconsin and other US States may soon tragically suffer from this because of the dangerous, criminal and jihadists, Muslim migrants that have now entered American along with the violent Afghan refugees.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden has sure aided and helped America’s enemy, the vicious and murderous Taliban gain total and complete power in Afghanistan. Biden really is a treasonous villain.
In addition, to say: “That despicable and horrible Joe Biden created a horrendous catastrophe in Afghanistan and abandoned many Americans in that dangerous and hostile land” Is to put it mildly.
Biden should have to be called into account for that calamity that he is responsible for that disaster in Afghanistan.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden so totally quickly destroyed all the progress that was achieved in almost twenty years in Afghanistan is so terrible severe that it’s now completely irreversible.
As Abraham Lincoln had said “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
Christopher Riddle says
All I can say is that Our ENEMIES must be JEALOUS of”OLD JOE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WJ says
The Afghanistan rout by the democrats, epitomizes the legacy they are leaving in the world. Nothing they have ever done or ever do from now on, will make that legacy go away. They have cut their own throats and are now bleeding out, no matter how much they cheat, it’s all they have left, they will be done. Their hatred for their own country and countrymen, is what you see leaving by their self inflicted wound to their throat.
livia edith sklar says
The only justification for losing American lives in Afghanistan was to keep the terrorists from and the war against them from coming here. I believe that goal was–for the most part–successful.
As far as our withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was a shambles and a disgrace. The party in power should be held accountable. Unfortunately, the public has a very short memory.