White Jewish Supremacy Afghan Notes (1): Tikvah SAPIR Chickenhawk Muscle-Flexing
David Shasha
The Decrepit Neo-Cons Have a Go At Biden
Before we begin the specific Afghanistan Tikvah SAPIR notes, let me first address the ongoing Right Wing onslaught directed at the president.
It is completely proper to demand accountability from the administration for how the withdrawal took place, and it requires a full Congressional investigation when the time is right. As we have seen in the Andre Cuomo fiasco, Liberals take pride in holding members of their group accountable – unlike the Right Wing deplorables.
That said, the president has been in office for little more than six months, and Afghanistan has been a festering sore since Bush 43 and his Neo-Con cabal decided to invade Iraq.
We will recall Don Rumsfeld’s arrogant incompetence to bring the war to an end:
This New York Times article about the Bush administration’s malfeasance and stupidity has been making the rounds of late, and for good reason. We must never forget how this mess began, and who is ultimately responsible for it.
Some of the people I will discuss below were a central part of the Bush Neo-Con cabal, and we cannot ever let them off the hook for their lies and stupidity.
The Tikvah Fund has never met a Middle East war that it did not like – remember the “Bomb Iran” meme that came out of the late John McCain’s mouth – and the American defeat in Afghanistan is part of a larger complex of problems generated by the blind march to violence that is espoused by the Project for a New American Century machers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/project_for_the_new_american_century/
That vision was not backed with the proper policies, as we continue to uncover more and more internal Afghan government corruption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Afghanistan
The problem is so bad that it has its own Wikipedia page!
There is certainly a good deal of blame to be passed around, but let us never forget who got us into all of this.
The Tikvah Poobah Believes the Fall of Kabul is a Good Thing
I had prepared the following note on Bret Stephens first, but when I received Elliott Abrams’ post, I knew it had to lead the pack:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/afghanistan-and-abraham-accords-0
I was wondering how one of the most prominent Neo-Con Jewish warmonger Chickenhawks would address the issue.
Of course, he does not mention his role in the matter:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/elliott-abrams-a-human-rights-horror-show-in-three-acts/
That Counterpunch article provides a convenient review of the Bush 43 horrorshow that led us to the defeat in Afghanistan.
But Abrams prefers to praise Israel and blame Biden!
More than this, he makes no mention of the billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which seems today more useless than it has ever been:
https://www.cato.org/blog/explaining-us-arms-sales
Not only are the Afghans not interested in defending their country from the Taliban murderers, but the Saudi-led Gulf coalition has no concern with the matter.
Abrams is happy to praise his Zionist brothers and decry the current president when he should be looking into the mirror.
And do not pay attention to Trump either!
That’s right, the Lysol Administration, of which Abrams was a part, negotiated with the Taliban and then patted itself on the back – as it now attacks Biden and the Democrats.
I believe the White Jewish Supremacists call that CHUTZPAH.
The Jewish Genius Has a Bad Memory!
I am writing this note on Sunday, my initial attempt at discussing the matter, as many of us are still processing the complications of Afghanistan – a place that I would bet many of us had stopped thinking about a long time ago.
But the US acceptance of defeat, as the current president actually did what Trump said he would do but did not, stirred the Jewish Genius to write the following column:
Here it is in full:
What on earth was Joe Biden thinking — if, that is, he was thinking?
On July 8, the president defended his decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan. After assuring Americans that “the drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way” and that “U.S. support for the people of Afghanistan will endure,” he took some questions. Here are excerpts from the White House transcript.
Q: Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
The president: No, it is not.
Q: Why?
The president: Because you — the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as well equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable. …
Q: Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeling ——
The president: None whatsoever. Zero … 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. …
Q: Mr. President, how serious was the corruption among the Afghanistan government to this mission failing there?
The president: Well, first of all, the mission hasn’t failed, yet. There is in Afghanistan — in all parties, there’s been corruption. The question is, can there be an agreement on unity of purpose? … That — the jury is still out. But the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
Biden’s heedlessness, on the cusp of a sweeping Taliban blitzkrieg that on Sunday saw them enter Kabul, will define his administration’s first great fiasco. It won’t matter that he is carrying through on the shambolic withdrawal agreement negotiated last year by the Trump administration, with the eager support of Trump’s isolationist base, and through the diplomatic efforts of Trump’s lickspittle secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.
This is happening on Biden’s watch, at Biden’s insistence, against the advice of his senior military advisers and with Biden’s firm assurance to the American people that what has just come to pass wouldn’t come to pass. Past presidents might have had a senior adviser resign in the wake of such a debacle, as Les Aspin, then the secretary of defense, did after the 1993 Black Hawk Down episode in Somalia.
This time, Biden owns the moment. He also owns the consequences. We should begin to anticipate them now.
The killing won’t stop. Watch — if you have the stomach — videos of the aftermath of an attack in May on Afghan schoolgirls, which left 90 dead, or the massacre of 22 Afghan commandos in June, gunned down as they were surrendering, or Taliban fighters taunting an Afghan police officer, shortly before they kill him for the crime of making comic videos.
One Taliban official declared that their jihad was directed not against ordinary Afghans but only “against the occupiers and those who defend the occupiers.” Yet the list of Afghans who fill that bill reaches into the thousands, if not higher.
Women will become chattel. There are roughly 18 million women and girls in Afghanistan. They will now be subject to laws from the seventh century. They will not be able to walk about with uncovered faces or be seen in public without a male relative. They will not be able to hold the kinds of jobs they’ve fought so hard to get over the last 20 years: journalists, teachers, parliamentarians, entrepreneurs. Their daughters will not be allowed to go to school or play sports or consent to the choice of a husband.
Afghanistan will become a magnet to jihadists everywhere. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s deputy leader, is one of the F.B.I.’s most wanted terrorists. Don’t expect him to change his spots, even if he claimed otherwise last year in a Times guest essay.
“The relationship between the Taliban and Al Qaeda will get stronger,” Saad Mohseni, the head of the Afghan news and media company Moby, told me on Saturday. “Why should the Taliban fear the Americans anymore? What’s the worst that could happen? Another invasion?
“These guys are going to be the most belligerent, arrogant Islamist movement on the planet,” Mohseni added. “They are going to be the Mecca for any young radical of Islamic heritage or convert. It’s going to inspire people. It’s a godsend for any radical, violent group.”
What happens in Afghanistan won’t stay there. The country most immediately at risk from an ascendant Taliban is neighboring Pakistan. After years of Islamabad giving sanctuary and support for the Afghan Taliban (as long as they attacked coalition forces), Pakistan must now fear that the next regime in Kabul will give sanctuary and support for the Pakistani Taliban. There may be poetic justice in this, but the prospect of fundamentalist forces destabilizing a regime with an estimated 160 nuclear warheads is an unparalleled global nightmare.
Short of this, the calamity in Afghanistan is a recipe for another wave of migrants, one that will wash over Europe’s shores and provoke a populist backlash. “We’re going to see 20 Viktor Orbans emerge,” warned Mohseni, referring to the Hungarian strongman and Tucker Carlson B.F.F.
America’s geopolitical position will be gravely damaged. What kind of ally is the United States? In the last several years, the United States has maintained a relatively small force in Afghanistan, largely devoted to providing surveillance, logistics and air cover for Afghan forces while taking minimal casualties. Any American president could have maintained this position almost indefinitely — with no prospect of defeating the Taliban but none of being routed by them, either.
In other words, we had achieved a good-enough solution for a nation we could afford to neither save nor lose. We squandered it anyway. Now, in the aftermath of Saigon redux, every enemy will draw the lesson that the United States is a feckless power, with no lasting appetite for defending the Pax Americana that is still the basis for world order. And every ally — Taiwan, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Israel, Japan — will draw the lesson that it is on its own in the face of its enemies. The Biden Doctrine means the burial of the Truman Doctrine.
But didn’t we have to leave Afghanistan sometime? So goes a counterargument. Yes, though we’ve been in Korea for 71 years, at far higher cost, and the world is better off for it.
But wasn’t the Afghan government corrupt and inept? Yes, but at least that government wasn’t massacring its own citizens or raising the banner of jihad.
But aren’t American casualties unacceptable? They are surely tragic. But so is squandering the sacrifice of so many Americans who fought the Taliban bravely and nobly — and, as it turns out, for nothing.
But is there any reason we should care more about the fate of Afghans than we do of desperate people elsewhere? Yes, because our inability to help everyone, everywhere doesn’t relieve us of the obligation to help someone, somewhere — and because America’s power and reputation in the world is also a function of being a beacon of confidence and hope.
Now these arguments belong to the past. The war in Afghanistan isn’t just over. It’s lost. A few Americans may cheer this humiliation, and many more will shrug at it. But the consequences of defeat are rarely benign for nations, no matter how powerful they otherwise appear to be. America’s enemies, great and small, will draw conclusions from our needless surrender, just as they will about the frighteningly oblivious president who brought it about.
Bret Stephens, as we have learned, is a very sick man.
In this case his memory seems to have failed him.
He has forgotten which president “owns” Afghanistan:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/joe-glenton/the-rise-of-the-neochicke_b_2751838.html
Rather than prosecuting the Afghan War in full, the Neo-Con Chickenhawks decided to cook the books and invade Iraq:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/iraq-war-iran-media-bret-stephens-goldberg-bolton-friedman
Stephens is a leading Chickenhawkster who continues to promote the Gulf Trump-Kushner alliance:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/opinion/bahrain-israel-trump.html
The question we need to ask is why was America still in Afghanistan when the Afghans had no interest in defending themselves after two decades of our help:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/world/asia/afghanistan-rapid-military-collapse.html
We can add to this the equally weak Gulf States, led by the primitive Wahhabi Saudis, who refuse to handle their own regional conflicts:
https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=5850
Maybe Stephens should call a meeting of all his SAPIR Chickenhawks and outfit them to serve as a strike force in Kabul.
I believe our country’s military have had enough of the failure.
Maybe George W. Bush and Dick Cheney can go with them!
Fair and Balanced: Rare Praise for Bari Weiss
I must say that the two posts she sent out on the matter were fairly balanced:
The first article by journalist Kathy Gilsenan provides an intimate view of the current horror, while the second – in spite of the usual Neo-Con anti-Biden blather from the reprehensible Trumpscum Nikki Haley – does do a good job spreading the blame to all the relevant parties – Democrat and Republican.
It is a rare moment of moderation in Tikvah Substack world.
The Whore of Trump Goes Her Usual Way
Indeed, I wish I could say the same for Tikvah Tablet:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/afghanistan-gilles-hertzog
Gilles Hertzog is a Humanitarian, like his pal Bernard-Henri Levy:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-europes-front-with-russia-11587166080
Levy is not only part of the Tikvah Tablet universe, but a Self-Hating Sephardi as well:
https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/bernardhenri-lvy
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/5AQOeMMZo4Q/m/8md-LrESAQAJ
Hertzog’s “Cut and Run” article rings hollow given that America has been in Afghanistan for 20 years. That is not some fly by night operation, and it is, as I have said, time to get out.
If not now, when?
David Shasha