Pulitzer Winner Details Defeated Biden's "Historic... Sheer Falsity from a Presidential Podium" in decaring "There’s going to be No Circumstance where you see People being Lifted Off the Roof of an Embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan"
Defeat is bitter, and the sting lasts. The helicopters left the embassy in Saigon 46 years ago. Our allies in Kabul could not have been cheered by Biden’s passing comparisons nor by his summary of Afghanistan’s situation: “the mission hasn’t failed yet.” They already knew that two days earlier U.S. forces had departed Bagram Air Base in the middle of night, pausing to turn off the electricity but not to inform the Afghan sentries.
... defeat is noticed by everyone. One can predict that the Biden Administration’s focus on domestic programs and spending will not last. Foreign policy will soon come calling.- Charles Kesler, a Senior Fellow of the Claremont InstitutePulitzer winner and liberal Glenn Greenwald, who is a co-founder of the Intercept news outlet which was renowned for its accurate journalism on intelligence when he was involved with it, reported "in an exchange that will likely assume historic importance in terms of its sheer falsity from a presidential podium, Biden issued this decree... "The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan":
Just five weeks ago, on July 8, President Biden stood in the East Room of the White House and insisted that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was not inevitable because, while their willingness to do so might be in doubt, “the Afghan government and leadership . . . clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place.” Biden then vehemently denied the accuracy of a reporter’s assertion that “your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.” Biden snapped: “That is not true. They did not — they didn’t — did not reach that conclusion.”
Biden continued his assurances by insisting that “the likelihood there’s going to be one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely.” He went further: “the likelihood that there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” And then, in an exchange that will likely assume historic importance in terms of its sheer falsity from a presidential podium, Biden issued this decree:
Q. Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeling —
THE PRESIDENT: None whatsoever. Zero. What you had is — you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m not mistaken.
The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.
When asked about the Taliban being stronger than ever after twenty years of U.S. warfare there, Biden claimed: “Relative to the training and capacity of the [Afghan National Security Forces} and the training of the federal police, they’re not even close in terms of their capacity.” ["The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan": Glenn Greenwald (greenwald@substack.com), Mon, Aug 16, 2021]
A few weeks ago, Charles Kesler, a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, illustrated Biden's sheer present historic failure in Afghanistan in using in part Biden's own words, "The president spoke of our “military mission” in the country, now completed. The U.S. “did what we went to do in Afghanistan,” he said in his slightly fractured English, “to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and to deliver justice to Osama bin Laden, and to degrade the terrorist threat to keep Afghanistan from becoming a base” for future attacks on America. “We achieved those objectives. That’s why we went.”
Moreover, Kesler predicted Biden's "defeat [which] is noticed by everyone":
It was truly macabre, President Joe Biden’s plan to end America’s military involvement in Afghanistan on September 11 of this year, 20 years to the day after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, plotted and promoted by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. As it happens, the military and political scene in that unhappy country is deteriorating fast, and the inglorious deadline for withdrawal has been advanced to August 31.
That spares us, at least, commemorating September 11 as a day of double infamy, coming and going, as it were.
What did we intend to accomplish in that country? Our difficulty in deciding what we thought we were doing over there during “America’s longest war,” as Biden called it on July 8, showed up in the shifting terms we used over the years to describe it. “Invasion” sounded too hostile, “war” too all-in, “liberation” too hopeful, “occupation” too protracted, and so we tended to settle on vapid euphemisms like our “involvement” or “presence” in Afghanistan.
The president spoke of our “military mission” in the country, now completed. The U.S. “did what we went to do in Afghanistan,” he said in his slightly fractured English, “to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and to deliver justice to Osama bin Laden, and to degrade the terrorist threat to keep Afghanistan from becoming a base” for future attacks on America. “We achieved those objectives. That’s why we went.” (He didn’t mention that he had advised President Obama against the military assault in 2011 that finally killed bin Laden.) A reporter asked if this was a “mission accomplished” moment, like George W. Bush’s aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2003, and Biden denied it was. He added, somewhat confusingly, that “that job” of punishing the 9/11 terrorists and preventing further 9/11s “had been over for some time.”
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Defeat is bitter, and the sting lasts. The helicopters left the embassy in Saigon 46 years ago. Our allies in Kabul could not have been cheered by Biden’s passing comparisons nor by his summary of Afghanistan’s situation: “the mission hasn’t failed yet.” They already knew that two days earlier U.S. forces had departed Bagram Air Base in the middle of night, pausing to turn off the electricity but not to inform the Afghan sentries.
... defeat is noticed by everyone. One can predict that the Biden Administration’s focus on domestic programs and spending will not last. Foreign policy will soon come calling. [https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/who-lost-afghanistan/]
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Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]