Afghanistan and the West

 

It was just last month that President Biden was assuring us that there was no way that Afghanistan and its capital, Kabul, were going to collapse like  Saigon did back in the 1970s. It was just this week that State Department press spokesman Ned Price was blabbering on about some meeting the US had led in Doha, Qatar (of all places) consisting of the US, EU, and Britain, as well as other world powers like Tajikistan and Turkmenistan(!), in which "the international community spoke loud and clear with one voice that a military solution in Afghanistan was unacceptable".

Well, notwithstanding the assurances of Old Joe and Mr. Price, it has happened. Kabul has fallen, the president (of Afghanistan) is running for his life, and once again, the Dark Ages descends on Afghanistan, the unconquerable basket case of the world. As I write, we don't even know if we can get all our diplomats and other civilian staff out of the country without being slaughtered by the bloodthirsty Islamic savages of the Taliban. Once again, this God-forsaken land will be run by a bunch of fanatical mullahs who, when they are not butchering people, are raping women and having sex with young boys. The halftime shows at soccer stadiums where wayward women are executed will return. Afghanistan will again be a sanctuary for Al Qaida and ISIS as well.

As I have stated before, we should have left that place a long time ago, certainly once Usama bin Laden was killed. I don't fault Biden for deciding that enough was enough in Afghanistan, but the universal reaction is that he chose to do so in an abrupt and disorganized manner which caught everyone off guard-except the Taliban, of course.

The immediate concern is to get our personnel out of the country safely as well as those Afghans who worked with us. Other Western countries that involved themselves in Afghanistan have the same concern. Unfortunately, Europe (if not the US) can now expect a massive wave of refugees in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Many, if not most, will be single, young men in their 20s, freeloaders, and jihadists. They will bring with them a culture that has no place in the West. The results have already been seen in countries like Germany, Austria, Sweden, and others. Already Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France have stopped deporting Afghan criminals back home due to the situation in Afghanistan. At a time when European borders are being overrun by young men from mostly Muslim countries, the explosion is about to get much worse.

The carnage that has already begun in Afghanistan should be a wake-up call to the West to secure its borders. But how many wake-up calls have we already had in the last several decades? The European governments (at least in Western Europe) will cave as they always do. More Europeans will fall victim to Afghan murderers, rapists, and jihadists. Here in the US, Biden will follow the advice of his puppet-masters and bring in untold thousands of Afghan refugees.

I am certainly no geo-political expert, but the way I see it, democracy is living on borrowed time. The left rules Western Europe, and the Democrats are in charge here at home. Canada up north? Don't even ask. The way I see it, China and Russia will be left to carve up the spoils. Eventually, one or both of them will have to confront Islam to maintain their control of the world. That battle will be decided by who has the most will-something the West has proven it doesn't have.

Thank God I won't live to see it (or will I?)