Pfc. Corey J. Bishop, a machine gunner with Weapons Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and an Alexander City, Ala. native, lays down suppressive fire during a company assault exercise at Range 400 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. Feb. 28.
As American troops were preparing to leave Kabul for the last time, their commanders had their priorities straight: As we now know, they weren’t taking steps to ensure that all American citizens could safely leave the country. They also weren’t doing anything to get $85 billion worth of American weaponry into safe hands, which we know because the Taliban are now the proud owners of all that taxpayer-funded materiel. They weren’t even doing anything to make sure that it was the Afghans who actually helped us who got onto the planes out of Kabul. No, U.S. commanders in Afghanistan had a far more important priority on their minds: making sure that the Marines didn’t leave behind any messages that the Taliban or ISIS would find insulting.
Marines at Kabul’s airport had taken out their frustration over the catastrophically humiliating mismanagement of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the failure of the twenty-year mission in general, by leaving some coarse messages on the airport’s walls: “F*** ISIS,” “F*** the Taliban,” that sort of thing. Not high-level diplomatic communications, to be sure, but the kind of thing that has happened in wartime since time immemorial.
Until now, that is. Not only did commanders demand that the troops scrub the walls clean and remove the graffiti; they also ordered them to clean the place up, so that the Taliban would have a spotless airport to showcase for all the international authorities who will soon be flying in to Kabul to deliver their billion-dollar aid packages. One Marine recounted: “My boys had to go…pick up every last piece of…trash for who? The Taliban? It was a slap in the face to us.”
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, “Marine spokesman First Lt. Jack Coppola said that the cleanup was enforced to prevent delaying any flights leaving the airport. But it is unclear why the graffiti was also removed.”
Maybe it was because Biden’s handlers didn’t want to anger a group that they don’t consider to be an enemy of the United States. A few weeks ago, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace asked National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: “What is the Taliban? Are they now our frenemy, are they our adversary, are they our enemy? Are they our — what are they?”
Read more at PJ Media.
So who still thinks the “woke-istanis” are not in-charge of the military…❓
This article did not mention that they also had to clean up at least one Mosaic at the Embassy, which touted Black Lives Matter. What is disgusting is that none of the brass have been held responsible for perhaps the most shameful and disgraceful event in the history of the military of the US. Why any American would want to serve under these leaders is anyone’s guess. We gave up on Afganistan and on Bagram Air Base without firing a shot. Since China appears to be the major beneficiary of this disaster, I can only imagine that this was Hunter Biden’s doing. Of course, the Big Guy is a 10% partner. I hope that when Biden leaves the White House, he takes Hunter’s crapola with him.
The same BS when Charles DeGalle kicked us out of the Bases in France. Everything had to be spic and span and the Toilets had to even flush.
Those with closed hatful minds would not understand that the Taliban have to be dealt with diplomatically, and anything to make that diplomacy harder should not be tolerated, now everyone hated the Vietnamese, when the USA was forced out of Vietnam, now they are a valued trading partner with an American Embassy there.
We still have so many who think the only answer to anything is violence, when in fact violence in nearly every case leads to violence, and solves nothing just promotes more hostilities.