Op-ed: 
Afghanistan...a
country with a hopeful future is now relegated to live in centuries
past.
And so it seems that
last week's happenings in Afghanistan, what with Afghan's president
fleeing the country, his U.S. backed government collapsing, and our
military racing against time to evacuate U.S. diplomats and civilians
from Kabul, were just not important enough for Joe Biden or press
secretary Jen Psaki to stick around Washington for. And the thousands
of American military lives lost in our quest to help free both a
nation and its people now sees their family members and “We the
People” bearing witness to the world's greatest fighting force,
like the Russians before them, returning home not as victors but as
losers in a war that rightfully should have been won. 
But Afghanistan
always was and always will remain an unpopular war, not unlike
Vietnam, yet this war has gone on longer than any of our wars fought.
Lasting almost 20 years, with more than 2,400 brave American men and
women being injured or killed in battle along with tens of thousands
of Afghans...many of them civilians...also losing their lives, this
war came with a price tag of $1 trillion being spent to both arm and
train Afghan government forces some of whom are now abandoning their
posts while others are selling out to the Taliban...selling out in
possible exchange for their lives. And while our now quite hasty
departure from Afghanistan can somewhat be compared to the 1975 fall
of Saigon, our departure here leaves pockets of resistance fighters
vowing to fight on even as the Taliban are going door-to-door seeking
out those who were America's allies...seeking them out and sometimes
shooting them dead upon their opening the door. 
And if you thought
the Taliban would change its spots what with their propaganda machine
claiming it's not the same brutal Taliban as 20 years ago...know that
it is and it's probably even worse as its leaders have had 20 years
to lick old wounds and sharpen their claws as they now have the
opportunity...thanks to Joe Biden...to settle old scores. And with
their goal being to turn the clock back to the days when strictly
enforced, unyielding islamic law was the ruler of the day...a day
when women and young girls were considered chattel, were uneducated, and raped at the
mere will of men; a day when “stoning” was the punishment
for even the most minor of infractions; and a day when the old adage
“an eye for an eye” was taken quite literally...know that
today's Taliban has become both the visible and ideological
reincarnation of what was and still remains al-Qaeda and ISIS, but
taken to the nth degree. 
And with Mullah Abdul
Ghani Baradar being the Taliban's leader...at least he's now their
public face...we hear him claiming that the Taliban’s real test,
after having retaken the country, is to “serve the
nation”...serve the nation and
the Afghan people on a sacrificial platter is more like it if you ask
me. 
And
the answers really are quite simple...we went into Afghanistan to
defeat those who attacked our country on 9/11. The “War
on Terror” President George W.
Bush called it, and said war did topple the then Taliban government
in Kabul...a government where the al-Qaeda militants responsible for
the 2001 attacks were freely hosted. A truly noble and justifiable
reason to go to war... a war that eventually culminated in 9/11's
mastermind Osama bin-Laden's death even though it took a decade to do
so. And yet we stayed in Afghanistan even after bin-Laden's
death...we stayed in one of the world's poorest and most backwards of
countries...a country where for centuries the different Afghan tribes
lived under local autonomy with little to no all-important
centralized government to speak of, and where brutal tribal wars were
the norm even in this the 21st century. 
And
so we stayed on and fought in Afghanistan...a country whose mineral
rich and highly profitable soil...profitable especially for the poppy
growers and corresponding Taliban run opium drug trade...makes strange and profitable
political bedfellows. And while we also stayed because the Afghan
people desperately craved the freedoms others had, there had to be
other reasons for our staying in Afghanistan and there were.
Previously unspoken reasons for our not leaving sooner with, I
believe, Israel rightfully topping that list. Simply, with the U.S.
military close by...geographically that is...they were close enough
to not only lend Israel immediate air and ground support if need be,
but who would let Israel use Afghanistan as a logistical backdoor of
sorts if Israel decided to move against Iran before Iran moved
against them. 
Also,
not to be forgotten is that our military presence in Afghanistan
helped in assuring that no regional vacuum of power would be
created...like the one Obama created a few years back...but now Iran
and even Red China has been given the opportunity to fill this new,
thanks to Joe Biden, what will be a most serious Middle East vacuum of
power. And while we know that the Taliban is already in cahoots with
Iran and has been for quite some time, how exactly is China involved?
First, China has already stated that they are preparing to formally
recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's new government and second,
China has promised the Taliban leadership that they are also prepared
to make big monetary investments in Afghanistan in regards to energy
and much-needed infrastructure projects, which includes the building
of a major road network and the refurbishing of outdated mines as soon as
all U.S. troops have left the country. 
How
so? With Afghanistan's mineral wealth now being estimated at one trillion plus U.S. dollars, it is not monetary gain alone that's the most important
factor for China's buddying-up to the Taliban as there's more than
just a bit of “face
saving” payback for
China courtesy of the Taliban as well...tit-for-tat against America
if you will. Again how so? With Afghanistan’s stated mineral wealth
now obviously falling under Taliban control, our leaving Afghanistan
results in a severe blow to our economic interests in that country as
well, interests which for one includes the control of Afghanistan's
huge lithium deposits...deposits which are not just necessary but
essential for use in electric vehicles and much needed renewable
energy batteries.
A War We Should Have
Won
By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots /
Right Side Patriots Radio
But
even as events in Afghanistan change by the day, certain questions
must be asked and answered before one can truly understand the
severity and the timing of what's going on half a world away,
especially with just weeks to go before the 20-year anniversary of
9/11. So how and why did we get into Afghanistan in the first place
and why did we stay so long as “nation building” was never America's intention?
And
this is what it's really about for China...Afghanistan's vast,
untapped, “rare-earth”
mineral deposits that need to be mined to help Afghanistan's now
basically dormant economy grow.
Simple
translation: lithium is necessary for clean energy
initiatives...something China is in desperate need of...and it's also
something that has the potential to garner a huge payday for what
will be the new Taliban government. And if China can control said
government...as in be their puppet master as Obama is Biden's...and
do so by simply investing in building or rebuilding Afghanistan's
infrastructure and mines, it will be China who will profit from its
puppet control of Afghanistan's what will be global lithium
market...benefit them both on the monetary and the economic front,
and it will be we who are the losers.
A
trade deal lost to President Trump made up for courtesy of Biden's
misguided and truly indefensible troop withdrawal from Afghanistan coupled with his placating the Taliban. And to add insult to America's injury, for all we know China might have secretly, under the radar, been helping to finance the Taliban insurrection all along.
And I also believe we stayed in Afghanistan for all-important national
security reasons...security reasons involving the fear of possibly
another 9/11 style attack here on American soil coupled with the fact
with the Taliban again in control of Afghanistan, aforementioned
terrorist groups like al-Qaeda...with whom the Taliban have close
ties based upon their shared islamic ideological alignment...as well
as ISIS and other assorted nasties will again have Afghanistan as
both a base of operations from which to work from...work from as they
did in the lead-up to 9/11...as well as a safe haven to hide in.
Lastly,
regarding the Taliban and our country's national security is a factor
some have overlooked...as in our southern border...a border that sees
any and all being allowed to enter as long as they promise to vote
Democrat...the Taliban soon to possibly be included. And while some
think I'm kidding, I'm not, because if you haven't noticed, just like
with the illegals, most, but of course not all, packed into Kabul's
airport trying to get out seem to be strong healthy looking young
Afghan men with few women and children seen. And what better way for
the Taliban to spread its tentacles of hate and domination outward
into the West than to infiltrate an emergency evacuation leaving
women and children behind to be sacrificed for “the cause.”
But let's never
forget that while Joe Biden has Afghan blood on his hands so too does
his puppet master Barack HUSSEIN Obama, a man whose hands are awash
in Afghan blood, for if he had not released Mullah Norullah Nori,
Mohammed Nabi Omari, Mohammed Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Abdul
Haq Wasiq...all part of the Taliban hierarchy...in exchange for
American traitor Bowe Bergdahl, the Taliban might never have grown
into the force they are today. And with Biden still saying that while
the U.S. will no longer have a presence on Afghan soil, his
administration will continue working for “equality and the civil
rights of Afgahns, especially Afghan women”...just another way
of saying Obama's disastrous words about winning “the hearts and
minds of the enemy."
And third and most sad of all is that
for those whose loved ones gave their lives to bring freedom to an
oppressed people sees, thanks to Joe Biden, the Afghan war ending just
as it began with the Taliban in control of the country. May God our Father have
no mercy on Joe Biden's soul.
Copyright © 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.
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RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!This Tuesday, August 24th, from 7 to 9:00pm EST, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS
Craig Andresen and Diane Sori present their Special Report: Afghanistan...Joe Biden's Epic Failure including 'A War We Should Have Won'; 'Kabul, the Taliban and Obama bin Biden'; 'Leaving Afghanistan'; and 'Afghanistan and The Deliberate Destruction of America.'
