History loathes idiots. Thus, sane Americans who comprise the vast majority of the population are increasingly rejecting the policies that demented Joe and his utterly incompetent administration are trying to shove down their throats by authoritarian coercion. However, the list of the incompetent anti-American idiots is long and with every new day is getting even longer. Starting with the mentally bankrupt Commander in Chief himself and continuing with his deputy, whose hysterical and abnormal laugh resembles the whooping and giggling sounds of a spotted hyena, and winding up with his advisers and cabinet secretaries, whose qualifications for the job are mostly tied to their pedigrees, the current Executive Branch resembles more a collection of irredeemably incompetent morons than qualified leaders befitting the greatest nation on earth.

The strategic catastrophe called Afghanistan has been the complete collapse of leadership on every level of the Executive Branch. Combined with the general malaise of American democracy, the United States of America faces its most horrific crisis since the 1860s. Yet, the Afghanistan infamy is also a distraction from a much deeper malaise in American national identity. While the United States of America has avoided the Kafkaesque/Orwellian trap of completely turning political morality on its head until the election of 2016, support for the status quo has gradually been eroding since the early 1960s. Clearly, Afghanistan was the ultimate nail in the coffin of the American people’s trust in politics. The Democrat Party as well as the overwhelming majority of the written, electronic and social media have embraced the ideologies of the Marxist-Leninist version of Communism/Socialism, which in its practice has historically enforced an inverted reality. This intentionally manufactured fallacious ideology has always been a utopian fiction that has led to highly destructive political fabrications. Apathy and cynicism have become endemic. The elections in 2020 have resulted in an additional breach of trust in the entire constitutional system. Presently, the American political construct is rivetingly dysfunctional. The name of the Democrat(ic) Party has become an oxymoron. This party has turned itself into an undemocratic, hate filled cabal with a despotic herd mentality. Factional platforms function as parties within the Democrat Party. Outside the same party, pseudo-political grouping and organizations have been pursuing cult ideologies that have led to social upheavals and complete lawlessness across the nation. On the Republican side, lack of political, economic and cultural consensus and intellectual vacillation have rendered many voters insecure and made America’s allies wary.

Finally, American democracy must confront the realities of its self-made miseries. Again, the American people’s trust in the constitutional order, its principles and their implementation by the elected and appointed bureaucracy has seriously been broken. Cynicism has become prevalent across all layers of American society. The mediocrity of President George W. Bush’s two terms, the duplicitous mendacity of President Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation” and the turbulent four years of the Trump presidency, with its poisonously fraudulent campaign of political lies and irresponsibly manufactured media hysteria by the Democrat Party and its fellow traveller groups and organizations, have infected the United States of America with the mental virus of mass idiocy. The product of this state of ubiquitous derangement has been the creation of countless false realities and the resulting election of a grievously demented former Senator and Vice-President to the highest office of the Republic.

Equally disturbing for the future of mankind is that this burgeoning madness, enemating from Washington, D.C., appears to gradually envelop, like a giant Anaconda, the rest of the world too. These alarmingly unsettling global developments, in turn, have opened innumerable doors for legions of perverse and even pathological ideas, designed to mostly accommodate the uneducated as well as the uncultured to believe that they alone possess the keys to the perfect future of mankind. Thus, they have become the proverbial useful idiots in the hands of political and media manipulators who have been waging war against societal peace and stability.

Accordingly, the first nine months of the Biden presidency has been characterized by an avalanche of lies and fictions that have been clothed in the torn rags of the allegedly justifiable martyrdom of the have-nots. Their lyings have transformed the Biden presidency into the reign of idiots. In this manner, the Democrat Party and the overwhelming majority of the feckless media have created a cult reality that through the relentless chasing of the Communist/Socialist utopia has been consumed by the terror of fallacious transcendentalism. This fraudulently manufactured cock and bull myth has popularized the false notion that as long as there is injustice and inequality in the world, any means, including extreme intellectual and physical tools to play God, are authorized. Such a combination of individual and communal hatred ipso facto appears to legitimize aggression and bottomless hatred.

Clearly, individuals and groups with these sorts of mentality have brought forth the recent national infamy of the United States of America. Most importantly, the belief that a discombobulated idea of “nation building” could be successful in an ethnically and religiously deeply divided non-state society borders on absolute insanity. To stipulate to people whose religious mentality places God on the top of the society’s pyramid as the sole sovereign that strange people from about eight thousand miles would replace this omnipotent God with the American President and his co-workers has been ab ovo preposterous. In this context, the Taliban has had little difficulty, if any at all, arguing that either God is your Lord or the Americans and their allies. Moreover, claiming that the Quran, the Sharia as well as the Hadid and not the secular political, economic and cultural theories of the Heathens would sustain and nourish the true believers, namely all the Muslims, the protracted presence of the NATO forces was easily depicted as ungodly occupation of a Muslim land. This, in turn, gave the impetus to wide-spread resistance, which led to the exaggerated glorification of faith-based martyrdom. Again, the Taliban argument to oppose the secular transformation of a Muslim society by the foreign Unbelievers was that any cooperation with the latter is idolatrous and, therefore, according to the Quran and the Sharia, punishable by death.

The forced promotion of Western institutions were completely antagonistic to the religious dogmas of Islam, which understandably provoked the indignation of the religious majority, especially outside the urban areas. As a result of American and Western failure of this perspective, the NATO installed and protected presidents and their bureaucracies were the enemies of Islam and, therefore, the enemies of the Afghan people. The ultimate result was the unintended creation of Muslim martyrs and the burgeoning sympathies of the average Afghans with their sacrifices. Thus, regardless of many military victories against the Taliban and other anti-Western militants, the spirit of the opposing forces was never crushed completely. In fact, throughout the NATO occupation of Afghanistan, there was no peace in the country. Afghanistan remained a hopelessly ungovernable place with criminal gangs roaming the land and fighting ferociously with the foreigners and also among themselves for money as well as power. Clearly, the Afghan resistance rejected any compromise and would have no peace with its secular compatriots and the foreign occupiers. Therefore, the Doha, Qatar peace talks were nothing but hollow exercises in extreme futility.

In essence, the war in Afghanistan boiled down to a war between the Taliban version of Allah’s kingdom on earth and the secular political regime of the foreign Unbelievers. In this sense, the Taliban and the other militant groups and organizations were unambiguously driven by religious motives. Yet, in their assumption that they alone are endowed by God with the truth, they were so carried away by their religious fanaticism that they became simply marauding murderers. Like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and the other minority criminal groups and organizations in the United States of America, the Taliban and all the other militant groups and organizations were heavily penetrated by corrupt elements, eager for mayhem and murder, practicing additional cruelty and terror throughout their respective societies. Still, the issue of utmost importance in Afghanistan was the choice between normalcy under the foreign Unbelievers and stability by the violently aggressive domestic forces, who relied on God’s assistance.

Trapped in the self-constructed ivory towers of multiculturalism, the United States of America has gone about over politicizing the war on terror, while wasting about eight trillion dollars on funding “good” terrorists and chasing “bad” terrorists across the globe. This “corruption on purpose” of six presidents of both political parties, has betrayed the original objective of fighting Muslim terrorism in the guise of legitimate religious Jihad and has allowed a host of criminal organizations to establish “deep states” within the existing states across the World of Islam. So-called allies within and outside NATO, like Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey, and marauding Jihadist networks with identical ideologies and equally common commitment to global violence, such as al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, in its numerous incarnations, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, have grown into the defining predicament of the 21st century. Yet, instead of having relied on Pakistan and Qatar to mediate between Washington, D.C. and the Taliban, presidents, their advisors and members of Congress should have read George Orwell’s 1936 essay titled “Shooting an Elephant.” Briefly, this essay gives the lie to one of Wokeism’s favorite inverted realities about the myth of “multiculturalism.” Exploring the glaring paradox between European and Burmese/Asian mentalities, Orwell concludes that the best way to promote hatred among peoples with different cultures is to try imposing one’s culture on others by force. Thus, after shooting a temporarily raging elephant who killed a coolie, in order not to look clueless and not to lose face, Orwell, serving as a low ranking policeman in British Lower Burma, was caught in the middle between “hatred of the empire and his “rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make {his} job impossible.” The lesson of the essay is clear: do what you think is right and not what others stipulate of what is right. Forgetting this dictate, has effectively wrecked the global war on Islamic Jihad and its global terrorism. Revising the fight against the over politicization of this scourge of mankind is essential to root out Muslim Jihadism.

Thus, the twenty-year long occupation of Afghanistan ended in a catastrophic humiliation and the continuation of the ruthless civil war after the persistent refusal of the United States of America and its allies to face reality. The Taliban is back in power. The secular accomplishments of the last two decades were quickly abolished. More importantly, the seeds of the West’s catastrophe lay much deeper in the fiasco to rally around a truly anti-terrorist narrative and thus to resolve the long-simmering inherent conflict rooted in the past nine centuries between Judeo-Christianity and Islam, which could have enabled the former to live up to its view of itself. The global Jihad of the divided World of Islam between those who glory in their martyrdom and the peace-loving Muslim majority will endure unabattedly. The passion for unencumbered violence of the former will certainly grow in intensity, swaying all the discontented in the greater Middle East, Africa, Europe, the American continent and Southeast Asia.

Already, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon have ceased to function as normal states. Jihadists in Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique and the Republic of Congo have effectively utilized extreme opposition by local Muslims to the respective central governments and their all encompassing corruption in order to set whole countries ablaze. Albeit still remote, the looming disintegration of other Muslim-majority states remain a possibility in the future. The Islamic Republic of Iran has functioned since its inception in 1979 as a terrorist syndicate and a continuing source of instability among the Shi’ite Islamic groups throughout the World of Islam. The two “Supreme Leaders” so-called ‘Islamic Movements” have ignited Shi’a separatism even in Pakistan and India too. Clearly, for these uncompromising defenders of Islam, terrorism under the banner of the Quran means righteous zealotry in practicing vengeance upon the enemies of the only true Faith.

Generally speaking, Jihadists are all the same. Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh, who resides in Doha, Qatar, was quick to state that “The demise of the American occupation and its allies proves that the resistance of the peoples, foremost of which is our struggling Palestinian people, will achieve victory.” Although Hamas’s reign in the Gaza strip has been politically, economically, financially and culturally a complete disaster, Ismail Haniyeh is used by Tehran as an agent to strengthen Iran’s global expansionist terrorist network. To assure that Hamas could continue its destructive work on behalf of Iranian terrorism, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees will seek $800 million annually at a donor conference scheduled to take place in Brussels in November 2021.

Meanwhile, in the United States of America, and especially in the corridors of federal powers in Washington, D.C, common sense has deserted sane decision making. Politicians and military leaders have united during the numerous Congressional hearings to shift the blame away from themselves and label warranted criticisms as Republican as well as conservative bias and anti-American consciousness, while indulging themselves in running in vicious circles of hallucinations and abnormal explanations. Trying to put the burden of political and moral responsibility on everyone who represents reality, Democrats and top military leaders repeated ad nauseam the nonsense about climate change, anti-racism training and pathological Wokeism.

Clearly, a purely military approach, combined with the political extremism of the military leadership, to fighting Islamic terrorism, also called Jihadism, is doomed to failure, and will only make the rest of the world more susceptible to further elevation of terrorism as a useful tool to destabilize democracies. The mass and increasingly uncontrollable migration mostly from Muslim majority countries has created additional openings for Jihadism.

The solution is to bring forth in the United States of America and in NATO a special force of political and military experts on terrorism in general and Jihadism in particular who know everything and also understand everything about the true nature of local and global terrorism. Real democracy can only be sustained where unreal ideology cannot override truth and reality. Lies, such as multiculturalism, critical race theory, limitless hatred against those who happen to think differently, and wield the Damocles sword of highly politicized racism under the guise of even more despotic racist ideology, can only produce fallacy. The time has come to fight both domestic as well as international idiocies that threaten to destroy the world for the sake of a small minority’s quest for absolute power and money.

The skyjacking of the four passenger planes by nineteen Al- Qaeda terrorists in the early morning hours of September 11, 2001, should have been looked upon as a wake-up call for an objective, emotion free reckoning.  As with the destructive suicidal crimes of the past by fanatical Muslim terrorists, the evil acts in Mannhatan, New York City, in Arlington, Virginia, and in the field off a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek, near Indian Lake and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, too, the writing on the proverbial wall had been around for almost an entire millennium.  

In the Quran, which, according to the Islamic faith contains the words of God (Allah) and therefore cannot be altered by men (Q6:115), Jihad, the holy war against the Unbelievers, meaning all of mankind except those who accept Islam, is referred to at least hundred sixty four times.  Conversely, the word “Salam”, meaning peace, cannot be found even once in the Quran.  Yet, the world’s understanding of Islam has, over time, been beaten down into the most benign myth of ineffective semi-intellectual self-deception.  In reality, Islam, unlike many other faiths across the globe, is an aggressively proselytizing religion that strives for exclusive spiritual world domination.

The political message to the American people as well as the world at large was conveyed by then President George W. Bush in his speech to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.  After praising the bipartisan resolve of both Houses of Congress and the nation, he spoke of “an act of war against our country.”  Then, posing the question “Who attacked our country?” President Bush defined Al Qeada as a part of “a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations” whose members  “practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism.”  Then, upping his erroneous judgement of Al Qeada, he intoned thus:  “The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying in effect, to hijack Islam itself.”   Using the adjective “fringe” and combining it with the dictum that “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists,” President Bush provided a strategically deceptive analysis of the overall situation within the world of Islam, in which disparate armed groups, contrasting tribes and clans with unconnected loyalties, as well as populations without real sense of patriotism, who knew nothing about the notion of democracy were vying for absolute power.  Addressing Muslims throughout the world, he said:  “We respect your faith.  It’s practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends.  Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.  The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.  The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends.  It is not our many Arab friends.  Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.”  Again, his illusory description of the political and spiritual state of affairs in the world of Islam did not clarify anything.  On the contrary, it exacerbated the ubiquitous chaos and collapse of state authority across the world of Islam.  Finally, he declared a worldwide war on “every terrorist group of global reach” until it “has been found, stopped and defeated.”  A promise as enormous as irresponsible.  Believing that an all encompassing military campaign would lead to a radical transformation of personal mentalities and societal structures in the world of Islam was nothing short of spilling political oil on the general discontent.   

Thus, President Bush’s speech that attempted to be a political high wire act between the United States of America’s geopolitical interests and domestic reassurances almost completely missed the mark because of the inherent characteristics of the Quran as a religious maximum as well as the political limitations of the governments in every Islamic state with their multiethnic compositions.  Similarly, Southeast Asia and the Middle East have historically been the violent theatre of radically opposite great power, national, ethnic, tribal and clanish interests.  The end effect of the speech has been a half-hearted and conveniently vague declaration of a global war on Islamic terrorism moderated by the American people’s lack of knowledge of Islam and its political influence in faraway regions as well as the political and military bueraucracies’ institutional unpreparedness for dealing with crimes of this scale.  Consequently, his   attempts for revenge in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama’s equally incompetent approaches in Syria, Libya and Iran, and President Trumps errant policies of quick extrication from twenty years of entanglements combined have contributed to the shameful chaos in Washington, D.C.’s foreign policies.  Finally, to add a totally negative national inspiration to the history of 9/11 and American traditions, President Bush’s recent speech at the Flight 93 memorial service only demonstrated the limitations of his underperforming intellect when he compared the undefined group of “U.S. extremists” of January 6, 2021, to the foreign terrorists who attacked America twenty years ago:  “We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within…”  While not explaining how he came to such a convoluted and one-sided conclusion, he continued attacking domestic and foreign extremists who “disdain pluralism,” “disregard human life,” and “defile national symbols.”  Again, by opportunistically politicizing the war on terrorism, Presidents Bush and Obama poured oil on the fire of violent extremism across the globe, instead of extinguishing it.             

The modern day involvement of the West with Afghanistan has started with the so-called First Anglo-Afghan War, known by the British as the Disaster in Afghanistan, and transpired between 1839 and 1842.  In this case, Great Britain foolishly intervened in a succession dispute between two Emirs.  The British supported the former Emir Shah Shujah from the Durrani clan, whom they installed upon capturing Kabul in August 1839.  When the intervention turned into a permanent occupation and British tolerance for the locals’ way of life metamorphosed into their attempt to Westernize the various tribes and clans, the latter revolted.  To add idiotic insult to political injury, the British appointed William Hay Macnaghten, a former judge in a small town in Ulster, Ireland, to be their chief representative to Kabul.  With no knowledge or understanding of the local culture, he succumbed to the prevailing culture of corruption and flaunted his desire to live the life of a wealthy aristocrat.  No wonder that the dissimilar Afghan tribes and clans united in 1841 in a global resistance against the British.  When the British realized that their presence was strategically futile, they embarked on a retreat from Afghanistan in 1842.  By January 13, 1842, the main British Indian force was completely annihilated except a single British doctor that was left alive intentionally to tell the story of the British humiliation.  Regardless of Great Britain’s abysmal failure to secure Afghanistan as a buffer against the expansionist Russian Empire, two more British-Afghan Wars followed between 1878-1880, and 1919-1921, with similar results.  After independence in 1921, Zahir Shah became king of the Afghanistan monarchy in 1933.  In 1973, the former Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan, a cousin of the king, overthrew his cousin with the help of the Soviet Union.  As a result, the new ruler abolished the monarchy and named himself the President of the newly minted Republic of Afghanistan.  Since the new president betrayed the Kremlin and Afghanistan’s home grown Communists, he was summarily killed in a Communist coup in 1977.  Infightings among the rival leaders of the Afghan Communist Party and the obviously anti-Islamic ideology of the Soviet Union led to the birth of a guerilla movement called the Mujahadeen across Afghanistan.  In 1979, the then American Ambassador Adolph Dubs was murdered in Kabul.  Following additional assassinations of leading Afghan Communists, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979.  A war of liberation against the Soviet Union ensued that ultimately led to the withdrawal of the Soviet Red Army from the country in 1990.  In 1995, the fractured Mujahideen were challenged and replaced by the Taliban.  Again, Afghanistan faced a civil war among the various ethnic groups.  The Taliban’s ruthless Islamism resulted in their turning Afghanistan into a terrorist heaven.  And then September 11, 2001 happened.

Understandably, throughout the 1990s as well as in 2001, the peoples of Afghanistan again were in an extremely difficult quagmire.  Their homeland was ruled by a fanatical religious minority of the Deobandi sect with deep roots in the Pashtun/Durrani ethnic minority.  Clearly, the ruling Taliban was incapable of carrying out meaningful reforms without fatally undermining their despotic rule.  Any move toward secularism would have meant democratization that, in turn, would have assured the emergence of political movements and parties, which would have ended the Pashtun dominance over the state.  Thus, in light of the history, culture and the ethnic composition of Afghanistan, any challenge to the despotic Taliban regime was strongly burdened by the limitations that have been inherent from time immemorial within the country.  

Moreover, Afghanistan has been situated in the flashpoint of various strategic interests.  For this reason, any change in the existing strategic balance or imbalance, such as an intervention, would assuredly have resulted in interference from other concerned parties.  Afghanistan borders to the north on Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, on Iran to the west, on Pakistan to the east and south, as well as on a small border section with China and India to the northeast.  The country is somewhat larger than France and only slightly smaller than the state of Texas.  Its geography alternates between mountains and deserts.  Its population is diverse.  Afghanistan, with its more than fourteen ethnic groups, many more tribes and clans, has historically been a fragmented country, in which no ethnic group has had a majority.  Therefore, Afghanistan has always been the land of strong minorities that have fought each other incessantly.  Regionally, the war between the majority Sunni and the minority Shi’a religious sects has always been superimposed over the political, economic, religious and cultural disagreements.  Finally, all these conflicts have led back to the confrontation between the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.  

In light of this strategic framework, the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations should have demonstrated more skepticism vis-a-vis the Afghan anti-Taliban opposition and potential domestic allies’ political abilities and basic loyalties.  What followed in reality was a two-decade long effort to create an expansive dissemination of Western values of democracy and human rights in a failed state, in which the population mainly craved order and stability.  Under such circumstances, the clueless Bush administration declared its policy of nation building in a country, in which there was no Afghan nation per se.  No wonder that in the absence of a strong central government violence multiplied and the forces of NATO had to function as an occupying military and police force.  This, in turn, strengthened the rich allotment of Jihadist forces that the Western powers tried to isolate by pouring monies mindlessly and incontrollably into the bottomless pit of established Afghan corruption.  At the end, Western gullibility and pervasive as well as entrenched corruption doomed the West’s effort of nation building to spectacular failure.

The curtain on the final act of the twenty year long Afghan war was lowered on August 31, 2021, by the idiotically inept and unprofessional Biden administration.  President Biden, his Secretary of State Blinken and his Secretary of Defense Austin will surely remembered by history as perhaps the most arrogantly stupid bureaucrats of American history.  The chaotic withdrawal of American forces, not coordinated with the Afghan government and the allies, will forever live in infamy.  Historically, good must be defended and evil must be fought.  However, doing both in a coordinated and disciplined manner requires clearheadedness and complex competence.  The Wilsonian missionary fanaticism of making the world safe for democracy must be reformulated and reformed to mirror the discombobulated complexity of a world, in which almost everybody has been chasing an unattainable version of utopia.  The moral outrage over global injustice and inequality must not displace sober analysis.  The United States of America must champion good and fight evil by clearly distinguishing between friends and foes.  To accomplish such an objective analysis, America will need a more educated citizenry and a more committed civil service to unideologically defend and promote the Union’s national as well as international interests.       

Clearly, since the end of 2001, the United States of America’s policies toward the world of Islam has been hesitatingly opaque, and as a result, horrifying.  The results were the so-called Arab Spring, the emergence of ISIS and the resurgence of the Taliban as well as Al Qaeda.  Corruption and glaring incompetence on both sides of the conflict left the greater Middle East and SouthEast Asia in the worst situation they were before 2001.  Instead of gradual Westernization, in both regions Islamic extremists became stronger, while the states, with few exceptions, metamorphosed into even more unstable and corrupt political entities.  The American and West European strategic incompetence and foolishness the peoples of the greater Middle East and SouthEast Asia are hostages of police states and ruthless Jihadist groups and organizations.  In their demoralized state, most of these peoples have chosen the police state.  For these reasons, the world of Islam will firmly remain in the orbit of unfreedom and hopeless stagnation.       

As a result of a suicidal terrorist attack, on August 26, 2021, a still undetermined number of people were killed and injured at the Kabul airport outside the American military controlled area.  Among those killed were thirteen American service members.  In addition, several American soldiers were injured – some seriously.  

This deadly incident recalled the tragedy of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Next day, on December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the joint session of Congress thus:  “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which lives in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”  Almost eight decades later, on August 26, 2021, President Joseph Biden spoke at the Briefing Room of the White House thus:  “Been a tough day.  This evening in Kabul, as you all know, terrorists attacked – that we’ve been talking about and worried about, that the intelligence community has assessed was undertaken – an attack – by a group known as ISIS-K – took the lives of American service members standing guard at the airport, and wounded several others seriously.  They also wounded a number of civilians, and civilians were killed as well…The situation on the ground is still evolving, and I’m constantly being updated.”  

Following some additional sentences replete with discombobulated nonsense, President Biden uttered a sentence that will enter the annals of American history as perhaps the biggest Lie ever emitted by a Commander in Chief:  “Every day when I talk to our commanders, I ask them what they need – what more do they need, if anything, to get the job done.  As they will tell you, I granted every request.”  Lies! Lies! Lies upon Lies!  While Afghanistan was quickly descending into the Taliban engineered terroristic chaos, President Biden, his National Security Council, his Department of Defense, his Department of State and the Democrat controlled Congress were busy planning their underserved vacations, while fighting the legacy of the former president, his administration, a nonexistent White Racism and an even more ridiculous claim of Institutionalized and Systematic Racism, in the spirit of Wokeism and a burgeoning Black Racism on steroids.  Except for a misquotation from the Old Testament, President Biden offered nothing but a pathetic promise to hunt down and kill the perpetrators of this deadly attack on American soldiers and civilians.  To prove that he is a man of his words, President Biden launched a single drone that allegedly killed two persons of undetermined ethnicity and political affiliation, if any.  Designating them as the “planners of the Kabul airport suicide attack,” his administration steadfastly refused to release the names of the alleged dead so-called ISIS-K terrorists.  In this manner, President Biden succeeded in accomplishing only one thing – he reinforced his reputation of a liar who, on the account of his advanced dementia, is absolutely incapable of differentiating between his sick imagination and hard reality.     

Moreover, what a difference between the contents and the tones of the two above quoted addresses.  In the first, President Roosevelt voiced his indignation about the Japanese treachery, and promised an all out war to decisively defeat Imperial Japan’s expansionist designs.  In President Biden’s mumbling and incoherent speech, he vowed to do what he should have done before, namely, to protect those who have been in danger of being hunted down and murdered by the extremist Islamist thugs called the Taliban.  To wit, President Biden accomplished the impossible – with a single idiotic decision he lost the trust of the American as well as the allied militaries.  Even more catastrophically, demented Joe has turned Afghanistan into the slaughterhouse of a radical religious minority, and its ragtag terrorist forces into a military superpower in the eyes of America’s adversaries.  

As Kathy McCollum, the grieving mother of US Marine Lance Cpl, Rylee McCollum so eloquently stated:  “This was an unnecessary debacle that could have been handled properly.”  Moreover, “They had months and months to remove everyone from Afghanistan, and they chose not to.  And so they sent in…6,000 troops, and my son, through the laws of statistics, my son was one of the ones who just got blown up in a freaking terrorist bomb yesterday.”  Closing her speech laden with grief, she uttered her devastating verdict on the Commander of Chief thus:  “That feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.”    

Meanwhile, the United States of America has lived through between 2015 and 2020 a constant barrage of Democrat lies about the Russia collusion, the origin and the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hysteria about the alleged man-made climate change, the heartlessness of the former president’s immigration policies, his hostility to America’s allies, and the Republican Party’s alleged base racism against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians as well as the Indeginous people.

Cleansing the military from its alleged White Racism, the currently active American generals idiotically prefer Woke indoctrination and nation-building over fighting and winning wars, goals dictated by American national interests and stability across the globe.  Starting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin February 6, 2021 memorandum, ordering a one-day stand-down within the following sixty days to “address extremism within the nation’s armed forces” to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Mark Milley’s call on civilian and military leaders to educate members of the armed forces about so-called “right-wing and white extremism,” the American military’s focus has been redirected toward fighting destructive domestic political battles, instead of the enemies of the United States of America.  According to these political hacks in uniform, the enemy to be fought ruthlessly is the majority of the American people and not China, Russia and the numerous assortment of anti-American terrorist organizations.

Indeed, the United States of America’s reputation as the greatest country in the world is collapsing because of all the idiots now in power in Washington, D.C.  The Democrat Party’s wholesale embrace of the outrageous lies of Wokeism has extended the powers of the political idiots and the depth of the Washington swamp to the entire United States of America.  At a time when American society is torn on a minority’s domestic terrorism to seize dictatorial powers, while weakening the country internationally, the American people must stand up and declare an end to the idiocy of President Biden and his coterie of fellow idiots.  Unlike Presidents Roosevelt and   Truman’s wars against the twin evils of European Stalinism and Hitlerism, American Wokeism is about a bunch of self-destructive lies domestically as well as internationally.  For these reasons, the United States of America must eliminate these cancers of deadly devastation, in order to continue being the “Shining City on a Hill” for all freedom loving nations across the globe.  

As a general in the Union Army and “the first modern general” according to B.H. Liddell Hart, William Tecumseh Sherman opined that war is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.  After World War I, the then French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau agreed with him by saying that war is too important to be left to the generals.  

Conversely, the main antagonist of the 1964 comedy, Dr. Strangelove, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper stated that “war is too important to be left to politicians.  They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.”  

Respecting the 21th century Afghanistan, all three have been right.  Starting with President Ronald Reagan and continuing with Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and most recently Joe Biden, have failed to protect American interests in Afghanistan and beyond.  They collectively have had zero understanding of Afghan history, mentality and the people’s blind devotion to Islam.

Yet, Afghan history has been as complex as christal clear in its simplicity.  Its complexity is due to its multiethnic character.  The close to forty million Afghans, which include Pashtuns, Hazaras, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Nuristanis, Aimaq Turkmen, Balochis and a number of lesser tribes and clans, have been fighting each other since time immemorial for domination.  As a result, the notion of true nationalism in Afghanistan has been nonexistent.  Its simplicity is marked by the fact that nearly hundred percent of its ethnically diverse population are Muslims whose unifying rallying cry for the faithful has been summarized in two Arabic words:  “Allahu Akbar” – “God is greater.”  These two words of supreme religious article of faith for all Muslims succeeded to unify all Afghans against the British in 1919, forged a fighting unity among the several Mujahedeen organizations to evict the Soviet Red Army in the 1980s, and was the overwhelming reason for the Talibans’ victory against the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime in 1995.

Clearly, the most important lesson for all foreigners in Afghanistan has been that sovereignty cannot be bestowed by men in  government – only Allah is sovereign.  Only Allah can transfer his absolute and inherent powers over the believers to mortals.  This requirement, coupled with the religious mentality  of “In shaa Allah,” namely “God Willing,” frees the Muslims of personal responsibility, which again belongs exclusively to Allah.  The second, more secular notion is that Afghanistan cannot be ruled centrally.  Therefore, Afghanistan’s current constitution that was inspired by the American neoconservatives, has been unrealistic from the start.  Thirdly, Afghanistan cannot be conquered by guns and, more importantly, cannot be modernized with the assistance of foreign militaries.  Fourth, as long as the majority of the Afghans would not internalize at least the basic democratic principles, fundamental changes would not occur in this deeply conservatively religious country.  And finally, nation building could come only from within and not from the outside as an anti-Islamic secular dictum.

Today, after the collapse of the United States of America’s almost three trillion dollars’ and three thousand dead soldiers’ nineteen-year adventure to Afghanistan, what kind of prospect does this country have?  Under the radically revivalist Deobandi Talibans, this school of Islam has a chaotic, and therefore ineffective past, and an equally unpromising future.  Yet, it is the dominant school of Islamic thought within the largest tribe the Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line, namely, south and east Afghanistan and western Pakistan.  Albeit deriving their legitimacy to rule from Allah, the Talibans’ claim to absolute powers have never been recognized by the non-Pashtun majority.  For this reason, they cannot bring peace, stability and prosperity to Afghanistan.  On the contrary, the Talibans’ second attempt to rule the entire Afghanistan is unrealistic and doomed to bloody failure.

Tragically, the projected failure of the Taliban will certainly have international repercussions.  If China, Pakistan, Iran and even Russia believe that they could fill the strategic vacuum left by the United States of America, they collectively will surely be disappointed.  Afghanistan under the Taliban will definitely return, sooner or later, to its terroristic policies abroad.  Defined by them as permanent Jihad against the unbelievers, it will affect all four above-mentioned states and beyond, such as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States of America.       

Consequently, only an international cooperation of all states, in addition to the four above-mentioned countries, the United States of America and India, could stop Afghanistan under the rule of the Talibans to again become the scourge of the international community.  In this manner, containment coupled with gradual modernization, and not occupation must be the correct strategy to slowly turn the Afghans away from their anti-foreign mentality toward peaceful collaboration, and possibly even integration, with the rest of the world.