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In 2006, 25,000 Americans were trapped behind enemy lines in Lebanon. Hezbollah had attacked Israel and the Shiite Muslim terror group which had overwhelmed the formerly Christian nation had once again dragged it into a destructive war.
The Bush administration responded by hiring a cruise ship, the Orient Queen, which brought over 1,000 Americans to Cyprus. The massive cruise ship was part of a rescue flotilla that included the USS Nashville (as captured in an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations who was evacuated aboard the cruiser), the USS Trenton, on one of its final voyages, along with hired civilian vessels from other nations that got Americans out.
Vice Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, announced that the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group was being moved into position so “that we have the capability to extract people, no matter where their location is.”
The Biden administration has taken a very different approach with the estimated 16,000 Americans trapped in Sudan.
Two Americans are dead in Sudan after Biden, once again, washed his hands of them.
“It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, fresh off celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week with the cast of The L-Word, announced.
In the Biden administration, lesbians are visible, Americans looking to get home aren’t.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby whined. And then announced that, “We continue to make clear at the highest levels of our government the leadership of both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces that they are responsible for ensuring the protection of civilians and noncombatants.”
The Rapid Support Forces, better known as the Janjaweed, are a Islamic Jihadist operation infamous for its mass rapes and massacres of Christians.
“Men were mutilated and murdered, women raped, and children kidnapped.” One survivor described how, “they raped us in a group. Some women were raped by 8 or 10 men. Seventeen women were raped together. All of us were raped. Even the underage girls were raped.”
Instead of taking responsibility for protecting American lives, the Biden administration is once again telling Islamic terrorists, first the Taliban in Afghanistan, now the Janjaweed/RSF in Sudan, that it’s their job to protect Americans. Not his job.
Karine Jean-Pierre, as usual, was lying. Both Republican and Democrat administrations had a long proud history of evacuating Americans from war zones.
During the racist Muslim riots in Indonesia in 1998, the Clinton administration prepped more than “10,000 American troops and a flotilla of United States Navy ships” if needed to evacuate an estimated 6,000 Americans. The Clinton administration had helped evacuate Americans from Albania and dispatched troops to Zaire to get Americans out of the country.
This was so commonplace and routine that we took it for granted. Until Obama.
Obama set the precedent of abandoning Americans in Benghazi. But what Obama did on a small scale, Biden has once again implemented on a much larger scale. The abandonment of thousands of Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan was not an aberration. Sudan has made it clear that abandoning Americans is the formal new policy.
“Americans should have no expectation of a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation at this time, and we expect that’s going to remain the case,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby warned.
And claimed that it’s “not as simple as jumping in a taxicab”.
True, it’s not. That’s why we spend hundreds of billions on a military and diplomatic infrastructure that is capable of doing more than jumping into a D.C. taxicab to get some drinks.
Not all that long ago, during the Lebanon War, the State Department figured out how to hire a cruise ship, bring together vessels from different countries and planes to transport Americans to Cyprus and Turkey. They were on the phone with a ship urging its captain to miss his deadline to sail so that Americans could board. Maybe there was more time to do that without Lesbian Visibility Week and all the other narcissistic exercises in virtue signaling that define the Left.
Rescuing Americans isn’t easy, but it’s a nice break from those demanding cocktail parties, Zoom meetings and press briefings that the State Department and the NSC are busy at.
What was an outrage under Obama has now solidified into a new normal. Biden administration officials dismiss even the notion that they have any responsibility to evacuate Americans.
“Shouldn’t Americans abroad expect some help from their government?” a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre.
“It is not our standard procedure to evacumate — evacuate American citizens living abroad… the State Department does its best to provide information to citizens who are abroad and — and giving them the warning when necessary.” Jean-Pierre, resenting having to take time out from partying with the L-Word cast, responded with blithe contempt.
It may no longer be standard procedure for America, but the British, the French, the Germans and even the Italians are getting their citizens out. Much as some of them did in Afghanistan.
During that evacuation, the Biden administration refused to go out and get Americans, and woke generals yelled at their European partners that they were making them look bad. But the British weren’t making American generals look bad. Biden was disgracing America. And by going along with his treasonous policy of leaving Americans behind, they were disgracing themselves.
“The government has begun a large-scale evacuation of British passport holders from Sudan on RAF flights,” UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted. “I pay tribute to the British Armed Forces, diplomats and Border Force staff.”
Is there a reason that the Brits, the French and the Italians, who not only evacuated their own people, but the Vatican staff and Swiss citizens, can do this, but that America can’t?
Obviously we can. The Clinton and the Bush administrations did it. Evacuating Americans used to be the norm before Lesbian Visibility Week became the norm.
Obama and Biden have made a point of refusing to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan and Sudan because they wanted to make the point that the military and diplomats were not there to serve national interests, but global ones. Americans should not expect the State Department or the military to protect them just because of their birthright or citizenship. American institutions no longer serve Americans, only leftist causes. Their mission is equity and inclusion, it’s Lesbian Visibility Week: not rescuing people who happen to have an American passport week.
And that’s the way it will stay until Americans take back their country from the un-American Left.
Dear Mr. Greenfiled:
isa there a website where all your articles for all publications are archived? I am specifically looking for an articled of yours that explained how the KGB advised Yasser Arafat to call themselves Palestinians and that the PLO admitted they were identifying themselves as Palestinians even though they consider themselves as Arabs.
Thank you,
Hi Kam,
There’s an archive here and on my own blog, but both are incomplete
https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield/
https://www.danielgreenfield.org
I didn’t dedicate a whole article to it, but I’ve mentioned it in the past briefly like in this one
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/08/a-mass-murderer-of-jews-goes-to-berlin.html
Anything more extensive probably would be much older articles. I can’t recall a specific one, but there are some like this
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2011/09/end-of-palestine.html
I hope that helps
best
Daniel
I wouldn’t give Clinton a break, Daniel. You seem to have forgotten the “Blackhawk Down” incident. Plus his utter criminal negligence in dealing with Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11, although outside the category of rescuing Americans, certainly led to the death of almost 3,000 of them.
Good points, as Slick Shithead passed up THREE opportunities to get Obama Bin Laden.
The Blackhawk incident was caused by top-down meddling & using the military more like cops – just short of reading war lord dictators their rights & booking them.
But the article wanted to show the digression when flaming Democrats take office.
Clinton was bad. (Just ask Billy Dale)
B. Hussein was worse – his contempt for America was palpable.
Sleepy Joe, however, is doing damage on a scale as if the demented fool was doing our enemies bidding (kinda as if China had bribed him or something.)
Clinton was absolutely terrible, but Obama was worse and Biden is even worse than Obama. His successor will be worse still.
It’s not about the man, it’s the Left.
Yeah, we’re fucked. All the elections are Dirtbagocrat rigged now. It’s just going to get worse and worse.
It doesn’t have to, we just shouldn’t expect elections to be the only solution.
Even when we were winning elections they didn’t solve all that much.
That just makes it sound worse to me.
I just remembered last night about one of Clinton’s misdeeds, namely giving Kosovo to the Albanians, opening the door for Albanian Muslims to enter Europe. Most foreign criminals in UK jails are Albanians now, for example. And they are about the most ruthless and brutal of criminals.
C’mon man, everyone in the military industrial complex is in Ukraine helping Hunter get his drugs.
Mr. President.
How many grandkids do you have?
Also; it looks bad when a 1st grader answers “Ireland”, before your feeble mind can fish for the answer.
That incident where he forgot he had been in Ireland was a dead giveaway to his dementia. Seen similar lapses in short term memory in the dementia cases I saw personally.
You’re right.
The doddering retard has no many “dead giveaway” moments, that I can’t remember them all.
What’s troubling is he was having them during the 2020 campaign for all to see . . . and around 60 million voted for him anyway.
Definition of ‘retard’ is when a supposedly smart person does something stupid.
Bide is not smart enough to be a retard.
Yeah, Dementia Joe is a zombie.
This chickenshit administration told us maybe 100 were left behind in the mad rush to leave in time for a 911 photo-op.
That’s how we knew there was a helluva lot more.
Just like when they told us they left no service dogs behind “in cages”. They added the caveat to lie. They left ALL the dogs behind; just not in cages. (Every last faithful dog was hunted down & shot.)
I love dogs so that infuriates me.
Wow! David, are you talking about Afghanistan? I want to know because it can reveal to me the true nature of the minds of those traitors.
Dan Bongino had some follow up months after Shithead abandoned Afghanistan. (He had some sources that confirmed the obvious.)
The dogs embodied American infidels, and were thus especially hated.
The dogs, being domesticated, were prone to hang around the area, which made ’em easy prey for Taliban scumbags. (If they weren’t shot on the tarmac, it’s because they starved.)
PETA made it’s displeasure known in a single release, then, like the news, forgot all about it.
FactCheck.org “debunks” the story – further proving it absolutely happened.
and probably eaten.
This is appeasement of China in full display
Not sure this is an appeasement of China but it certainly is a shocking display of weakness to China and the rest of the world. The Biden maladministration is simply disgusting. Yeah, he’s running again to “finish the job,” alright. The job of thoroughly destroying this country.
This is the point. Make America look and be weak, so that the authoritarian regimes will be encouraged to do their worst.
Many of these people who were left behind came from those countries in the first place as refugees or asylum seekers claiming their lives were in danger. Then they go back to visit their countries and then are trap because of turmoil there. Look at the photo in this article. The U.S. government is not responsible for their stupidity.
The U.S. government should wake up and realize letting in all those refugees, illegal aliens, migrants is nothing but trouble for this country. Most require government help for a generation and many of the next generation require help as well.
There are Sudanese Muslims with US citizenship there. And they’re the ones the media’s focusing on mostly. It’s their country and their problem.
But there are also Americans who were there, some indirectly funded by the us government, some teaching in schools, who were left behind.
Dear Mr. Greenfield::
If the refugees that came from Sudan claiming asylum because of their fears of persecution or death, then why are they going back for a visit? They should never have been allowed to come here in the first place, even those they may be U.S. citizens now. I bet most are collecting welfare.
As for those Americans working overseas, then they take the risk for a high salary and a 75% of their last year salary as a pension after thirty years of work.
I have followed immigration trends as it relates to the United States for twenty years and from my point of view that letting all the illegal aliens, refugees. and migrants to come here is one of the biggest mistake America has made since 1965. I have hundreds of articles to prove it.
Fred,
You’re right about the fake refugees and fake asylum seekers. Most of them should have been detected and then rejected if the Immigration Department were allowed to do their job. There should never be 16,000 people with American citizenship in Sudan, today. Perhaps 2000 at most.
Because of the wrong doing from the start by the US government of the time, the US people is now faced with not being able to make a clear choice of whether there should be an evacuation or not. This situation is a consequence of a lie and a lie brought by an ideology of political correctness / woke.
Everytime something like this happens, innocent people are the one who suffers. In this case they are the legitimate Americans in Sudan.
Keong,
I have to agree with your point of view in your reply. I also believe that illegal immigration must come to an end for good, otherwise America will become a third world country. If someone wants to come to the United States legally, then apply for it at our U.S. embassy and follow the necessary procedures to come here.
The vast majority of illegal immigrants breaking into America are not the type of people we want here. They have no respect for America or our laws. I have too many articles about how they really act and break the laws once they get here. The list is too long to mention here.
Second, our immigration laws must be changed, and a yearly limit must be imposed. I prefer a number under 500,000 a year to come here legally.
Behind the scenes, the curtain of Uncle Joe’s face, there are moo slims in the Biden regime that hate white people, hate America, hate Christians. So they are not going to rescue white American Christians,
Can Muslims be Americans? Islam puts Sharia and the Koran over the Constitution.
There are Americans on ground too.
Reminded me of something. The British were miracle workers at evacuation by sea (after disasters where they shouldn’t have been there in the first place 🙂
There were numerous examples, not just at Dunkirk. Got me connecting the dots: why were they able to do it? In each case they had a naval superiority, including experience at sea.
In modern times we might update that technique to include evacuation by air. First we need a secure airfield. At least for large scale evacuations.
Did you see the Christopher Nolan movie, “Dunkirk?” It was pretty good. He made it to be seen in a theater though, so it won’t be as good on a TV. I have a big screen TV and re-watched “Gone With The Wind” recently but it wasn’t the same. Some movies need to be watched on the big screen in theaters.
There is a new trick: they are using drones to escort convoys of vehicles carrying civilians to the seaport they are using to evacuate them. Pretty clever. I didn’t think of that.
Obama and Biden Democrats/Globalists/Traitors
It has been quite clear that our ” so called President” is more interested in destroying our nation and abandoning we citizens so that that it is past time for him to be impeached,, convicted of treason and be executed by military firing squid ! ! !