Kabul Has Fallen – But Don’t Blame Biden

Afghans cling to a U.S. Air Force C-17 as it takes off from a runway in Kabul.

(Screenshot via Twitter - Source: MilitaryTimes.com)

 By Ron Paul - Posted at The Ron Paul Institute:

This weekend the US experienced another “Saigon moment,” this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight. The corrupt Potemkin regime that the US had been propping up for two decades and the Afghan military that we had spent billions training just melted away.

The rush is on now to find somebody to blame for the chaos in Afghanistan. Many of the “experts” doing the finger-pointing are the ones most to blame. Politicians and pundits who played cheerleader for this war for two decades are now rushing to blame President Biden for finally getting the US out. Where were they when succeeding presidents continued to add troops and expand the mission in Afghanistan?

The US war on Afghanistan was not lost yesterday in Kabul. It was lost the moment it shifted from a limited mission to apprehend those who planned the attack on 9/11 to an exercise in regime change and nation-building.

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks I proposed that we issue letters of marque and reprisal to bring those responsible to justice. But such a limited and targeted response to the attack was ridiculed at the time. How could the US war machine and all its allied profiteers make their billions if we didn’t put on a massive war?

So who is to blame for the scenes from Afghanistan this weekend? There is plenty to go around.

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See also:

• A Hell Of Our Own Making (Continuing Ed - with Edward Snowden)
• News about Afghanistan & Thoughts of Not Leaving Anyone Behind (The Domain for Truth)
• Urgent Prayer Request for Believers in Afghanistan (Voice of the Persecuted)
• What Hope Is There For Afghanistan's Christians? (Reformation Scotland)