have 1.4 million service members who volunteer to serve. What are they there for except to protect us from another devastating terrorist attack? Since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan,
2,448 American service members have been killed, as of April 2021. Almost the same number of police offi cers — 2,117 — have lost their lives in the line of duty over the same time period. Yet no one has called for withdraw-
ing our police offi cers because they are being killed. Police offi cers, like soldiers, FBI agents, and Secret Service agents, sign up to defend us regardless of the risks. Biden’s claim that he will keep
America safe with an over-the-horizon capability is pure fi ction. Unless the CIA is capable of picking up threats by developing human assets on the ground in Afghanistan, all the weapons in the world will not pinpoint suitable targets.
Unlike in the rest of the world, the
CIA will not be able to do that safely with so-called illegals or CIA offi cers under diplomatic cover in a country controlled by ruthless terrorists. Leon Panetta, President Barack
Obama’s defense secretary and CIA director, summed it up best: Inter- viewed on CNN, Panetta said the U.S. will probably have to return to Afghan- istan to combat ISIS and al-Qaida, which he predicts will resurrect itself. “The bottom line is, we can leave a
battlefi eld but we can’t leave the war on terrorism, which still is a threat to our security,” Panetta explained. When it comes to condemning
Biden’s recklessness, nothing in recent memory has so united Republicans, Democrats, and the mainstream media, underscoring the remark by Robert M. “Bob” Gates, Obama’s secre- tary of defense, that Joe Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Ronald Kessler is The New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of the FBI and The CIA at War.
REALITY Hundreds of Afghans ran alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 in August as it took off from Kabul. “No one here tries to escape by hanging on to an airplane,” Bill Maher told his audience.
Bill Maher’s ‘Woke–Up’ Call
The HBO talk show host rips America’s relentless critics: “We’re not the oppressors.”
L
iberal comedian bill Maher has attacked “woke” Americans who criticize Amer-
ica as an oppressive country and told them to look instead at Afghanistan now that it is under the Taliban’s brutal control. “If you think America is irredeem-
able, turn on the news,” he said on his HBO show Real Time. “There’s a reason Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us. “We’re not the bad guys, oppres-
sion is what we were trying to stop in Afghanistan. “We failed, but any immigrant will
tell you we’ve largely succeeded here, and yet the overriding thrust of cur- rent woke ideology is that America is rotten to the core, irredeemably racist from the moment it was founded,” he said. Maher also mocked “woke” Ameri-
cans over controversies surrounding past comments by public fi gures. The
Hill.com quoted him as saying
the U.S. is “so oppressive, sexist and homophobic we can’t fi nd a host for the Oscars or Jeopardy!” Mike Richards, who was named
the next Jeopardy! host, stepped down after backlash over resurfaced comments about women’s bodies and
clothes, according to The Hill. Maher noted that Richards once asked a podcast co-host if she had ever taken “booby pictures.” Maher also noted that China locks
people up in camps if they are the wrong religion, more children in Burkina Faso work than are in school, the murder rate in Honduras is eight times that of the U.S., and people are starving to death in North Korea. “The only people who starve here
are doing it for a role and the only people who have no water live in Cali- fornia,” he said. “And this is where your new
[Afghan] roommates that you took in will prove so valuable because they’ll turn to you and say, ‘Have you people lost your f***ing minds?’” Maher said. “‘Have you ever heard of honor
killings? Public beheadings? Throw- ing gay men off of roofs? Arranged marriages to minors? State-sanc- tioned wife-beating? Female genital mutilation? Marriage by capture? Because we have,’” Maher added. “What’s the lesson of Afghanistan?
Maybe it’s that everyone from the giant dorm-room bitch session that is the internet should take a good look at what real oppression looks like,” Maher said.
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