Daily Verse | Ezekiel 14:12-14
Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Happy Thursday, my friends. The llamas in my dreams are all wearing scarves and hats made out of alpaca fleece.
The disaster in Afghanistan is by far the most humiliating military debacle in the history of the United States, greater even than our ignominious defeat in Vietnam. And the man bearing the utmost responsibility for it is Resident Joe Biden, perhaps the most incompetent man to ever occupy the White House.
Here’s some of what we’ve recently learned:
Not exactly brimming with confidence.
“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said.
“And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
Biden also offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the situation in Afghanistan, saying: “We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is.”
Some GOP lawmakers expressed outrage over details of the call, even calling for Biden’s resignation.
His press secretary Jen Psaki refused to talk about the leaked call.
“I’m not going to get into private, diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls,” Psaki said at a White House briefing.
Funny, I seem to remember when leaked transcripts of phone calls led to impeachment proceedings.
Is that still the rule or nah?
So Joe Biden was asking the Afghan president to lie on his (Joe’s) behalf, to create the illusion that everything was fine.
On top of that, we also learned that the military had a lock on the Kabul airport suicide bomber from a Predator drone prior to him getting to the airport. When asked for permission to take the shot, they were denied by this administration. The bomber, as you know, went on to kill 13 servicemen and women.
They knew who it was, when it was to happen, and where it was to happen. They found the guy, locked on him and were then denied the chance to take him out before he blew himself up. But go ahead and impeach a guy for talking to another government leader about the crap Joe Biden was himself pulling in Ukraine all those many years ago.
Then, to add insult to injury, Nancy Pelosi refused to allow the names of the dead to be read aloud from the floor.
Rep Carlos Gimenez tweeted on Tuesday: “How badly do Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats want to cover up this Afghanistan debacle?
“They just blocked Members of Congress from reading the names of the service members who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan last week.
“Don’t you think our military deserves better?”
Yes, I do. In fact, America deserves better than Joe Biden.
I hope people are waking up to that fact.