After the unconditional Japanese surrender, the late Emperor Hirohito was replaced as the sublime god-emperor and made into a constitutional monarch and the pre-war Japanese constitution was replaced with an American-written one.
For seventy-six years, Japan has been a friendly nation and a prosperous one because someone had the will to transform it.
As no one had the will to destroy the barbarous Islamism, Afghanistan has returned to the sh--hole it has always been.
And Biden can own it:
Striking a defiant tone, President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan as he acknowledged the “gut-wrenching” images coming out of the country after the swift Taliban takeover of the government.
Defiant tone? What Kool-Aid are you drinking?
Other countries (ie - China) smell the US' weakness and will capitalise on it.
Those who installed Biden in the Oval Office sure got their money's worth.
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In what is widely and reasonably understood to be the worst American foreign-policy humiliation in decades, the catastrophe in Afghanistan seems to have unfolded in a matter of mere days. And from the standpoint of Americans across the political spectrum, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) appears to have simply run away at the first sight of advancing hooligans.
But anyone paying attention could have seen this coming. The White House was warned. This wasn’t simply an “intelligence failure.” It wasn’t the ANDSF that buckled. It was the United States, and the rest of us. The Americans have been cutting deals with the Taliban behind Afghanistan’s back, then forcing the consequences on the Afghan government, going all the way back to Barack Obama.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday he had left the country to avoid bloodshed as the Taliban entered the capital Kabul.
Just like your men fleeing like cowards while women, children and useful translators are marked for death or worse.
What a piece of sh--.
But Biden isn't the only selfish, weak and woman-hating moron out there. It's hard to out-scum the Trudeau family:
For the sake of a politically convenient election, are we to walk away from those who helped the young men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces during our involvement in the Afghan War? Are we to let the shadow of shame fall over those same young men and women who are now bleeding with worry and concern over the fate of those who helped them — the interpreters and their families — and the many Afghan women and girls who now return to persecution, servitude, gross sexual violation and enforced ignorance?
(Sidebar: this election.)
To get a real sense of the terror and horror now present in Afghanistan, I recommend reading Postmedia columnist Joe Warmington’s reports and tweets about the individuals crying for help, or Global’s Mercedes Stephenson, whose bulletins on the fate of those now stranded in Afghanistan will make you weep.
Before the Taliban waltzed into Kabul, this election had at best a pretend issue. Now there is a real one. The issue is the election itself; the callousness of putting the government on auto pilot at the height of a humanitarian crisis. On Friday, the government claimed it would take in 20,000 Afghan refugees, but neglected to underline the most important fact: they must already be outside the country.
It’s the ones trapped inside its borders who are crying out for help. Many of them helped our Forces when we were there; now they need our help and we are nowhere to be found. In this light, the Liberal’s campaign slogan of “leaving no one behind” seems downright distasteful.
But Justin has a history of being a total sh--:
Trudeau, who opposes Canada's part in airstrikes on Islamic States targets in Iraq, says we'd be more helpful offering “cold winter” advice for victims of the militants.
“There's a lot of people, refugees, displaced peoples, fleeing violence who are facing a very, very cold winter in the mountains. Something Canada has expertise on is how to face a winter in the mountains with the right kind of equipment," Trudeau said.
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The Trudeau government and the senior bureaucrats with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, have treated the Yazidi genocide as less of a first-order humanitarian emergency and more of an inconvenience. They clutter up the Liberals’ “Canada is back” story and all its attendant preening about the 30,000 Syrian refugees who have made their way to Canada by way of an orderly UN process from refugee camps and processing centres mainly in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
The Yazidi genocide also presents a bit of an embarrassment to the Liberals.
For one thing, last June, Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion humiliated themselves by refusing to endorse a motion tabled by interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose condemning the atrocities committed by the Islamic State against the Yazidis as genocide. Trudeau and Dion insisted it was up to the UN to decide. Within days, in a grim and voluminous investigation report, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed what anyone vaguely familiar with the Yazidi suffering had known for nearly two years: the Yazidis were being subjected to a barbarism that clearly surpassed the threshold of the United Nations 1948 Genocide Convention. Dion’s response: it makes no difference. We’re not changing a thing.
Then there’s the rather embarrassing business of the Liberals who were happy to attribute the former Conservative government’s several awkward attempts to establish a refugee priority for persecuted religious minorities from the region to the Harper government’s “Islamophobia.”
Over time, quite a few NDP and Liberal backbenchers have come around to the view that the alibis and excuses are wearing pretty thin. One of the nastiest excuses was offered up in a recent Toronto Star opinion piece by Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos: the Yazidis are not to be trusted in identifying their most vulnerable people because of their “caste structure” – a disingenuous description of the Yazidi custom of affording special status to their elders and their clergy.
The thing is that Canadian voters refuse to remind Justin what a disgusting, soulless loser he is.
The Americans are more candid.
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