By: Diane Sori / The Patriots Factor / Right Side
Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
"If Taliban warlords
launch an assault, they will of course face staunch resistance from
us. The flag of the National Resistance Front will fly over every
position that they attempt to take, as the National United Front flag
flew 20 years ago. Yet we know that our military forces and logistics
will not be sufficient. They will be rapidly depleted unless our
friends in the West can find a way to supply us without delay.”
- Ahmad Massoud, head of the "National Resistance Front of Afghanistan"
in an opinion piece in The Washington Post just a few weeks ago
The American supported government of
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fell quickly...in less than two weeks
time...sending shock waves around the world, after all our military
leaders had predicted that it would take months, maybe even years,
for Afghanistan to fall into Taliban hands. But with Joe Biden
actually having handed the country over to these murdering islamic
thugs with his April announcement ordering the withdrawal of all
American troops, along with his letting all know the end date for
said withdrawal, the Taliban now had the element of surprise on their
side as they moved in quickly leaving America with much egg on her
face.
Thank you Joe Biden...the man who will
now and be forever known as the man who shamed and disgraced both
those who served to set Afghanistan and her people free, and those who
never came home from this, their assigned task.
And with 24/7 media coverage certainly
being today's norm, we're now bearing witness to what can only be
described as horrific desperation and utter chaos at best. And with
Taliban fighters reportedly firing shots into the air to disperse the
multitudes gathered around and in Kabul's airport, thousands of
Afghans wait in fear of now not being able to get a U.S. flight out.
And with reports proving to be true about Taliban henchmen going
door-to-door, seeking out and killing both those who helped the U.S.
and those still loyal to the fallen government as well, unseen video
images from late July are now surfacing showing at least a dozen men
from the Afghan Special Forces unit...men who had basically
surrendered...being shot to death by the Taliban as they took their
first baby steps to retake the country.
And so a country and its people
who once had hopes for a future will now again be relegated to live
in what again will be a culturally stagnated brutally sad past...a past
where a Taliban called “government
of God” will be set
up...as in Sharia law to the nth degree...a government where
women will once again be considered as but mere possessions to be thrown
away at will...a government where the Taliban's perversely twisted
ideology becomes the ultimate rule of law. And with our withdrawal going on
unabated, Afghanistan truly does seem to be lost to the ages past,
but some of what we are being visually force fed is not the whole
truth for what's not being heavily reported on is that the Taliban
are now facing signs of “popular
opposition.”
How
so? First,
there's ongoing dissent in several key cities as young Afghan men can
be seen carrying their country's national flag in what was, as I
wrote this, a second day of protests...protests that led to at least
two deaths. And second, and most importantly is that within the
country proper organized pockets of both resistance movements and
fighters are growing in numbers...anti-Taliban militias if you
will...with their central point of both reference and operation now
being in Afghan's Panjshir province....the only province in all of
Afghanistan that the Taliban have yet to conquer.
And Panjshir, which lies on
Afghanistan's eastern border, approximately 95 miles northeast of
Kabul and about 60 miles from the Bagram Airfield, has not only never
been conquered by the Taliban, but has never been conquered
throughout the country's centuries long history...never been
conquered by the Persians, by Genghis Kahn, by Great Britain or by
the Russians, with the reason being that besides its mountainous location,
those who have roots in Panjshir are of a fiercely independent
mindset...a mindset that unites them together as one people against
those who seek to divide them...something we here in our country
surely need to learn.
And it's here in this, the
Panjshir province...known in Dari (the native language of
Afghanistan) as the “Valley
of the Five Lions,”...where
former government military forces are now starting to establish ties
with the largest of the resistance movements...the “National
Resistance Front of Afghanistan”...which
is led by a man named Ahmad Massoud and the now deposed Afghan Vice
President Amrullah Saleh, who said back in late July that he believes it's the Pakistan Army who is the "architect, strategic master and low profile supplier" of the Taliban. Now proclaiming himself the "caretaker"
President of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani cowardly fled
the country and is now in the U.A.E,. Saleh, a former member of the Mujahideen resistance, has not only promised to continue
fighting alongside the "National Resistance Front," but has requested
that his fellow Afghans not obey the orders of the Taliban while the resistance
movements grow in numbers and start joining together in hopes that it will lead
to a more sustained and lasting countrywide resistance.
And Amrullah Saleh has also proudly stated that, “I
will never, ever and under no circumstances bow...I won’t
[disappoint] millions who listened to me. I will never be under one
ceiling with Taliban. NEVER.”
But who exactly is Ahmad Massoud, the
resistance's actual leader, and the man who calls the
U.S. a “great arsenal
of democracy."
Ahmad Massoud is the British educated son of the late highly
respected politician and Afghan Northern Alliance military commander
Ahmad Shah Massoud...a powerful militia commander during the Soviet's
1979 to 1989 occupation, and the pro-West leader of the Mujahideen
resistance with whom our forces partnered up with in 2001. Also,
Ahmad Shah Massoud is still considered by many to be akin to our
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and who also, as per both U.S.
Afghan veterans and the Afghan people themselves is known by the
moniker “The Lion of
the Valley of Lions.” Assassinated
by Taliban suicide bombers two days before the 9/11 terrorists
attacks on our country, his son is now following in his father's
footsteps to try once again to rid Afghanistan of the brutal Taliban
regime, something Ahmad Massoud has now been trying in earnest to do for well
over a decade.
And as per reports now leaking out,
anti-Taliban fighters are starting to claim small victories against
the Taliban with local commanders having taken three districts from
the Taliban in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province. And while this is good news, and while Massoud
and his people do have vast amounts of ammunition of their own on
hand as well as a considerable number of former government soldiers
on their side, they still desperately need more equipment besides the
helicopters and stocks of ammunition Afghan Air Force Brig. Gen. Abdul Fahim
Ramin has been able to secure if they and the other resisters are to
oust the Taliban. So with Ahmad Massoud and his people continuing to push
back hard against the Taliban, they still need our help to turn the
tide against these barbarians for they know well that without U.S.
help there really is no future for Afghanistan or for her people.
But will Biden and the
Democrats let us help them even if it's just equipment wise...I surely think
not...for while Joe Biden thinks that our troops pulling out will help
bolster his political reputation, he is sadly mistaken for the tide of
world leaders is now against him what with his needlessly creating
a true humanitarian crisis on a scope we haven't seen in a number of
years. And while Biden continues to claim that some U.S. troops
will remain in Afghanistan until every single American is evacuated,
we know that will be proven not to be true for the Taliban have
circled the airport with no one being allowed in or out. And from
this will come American collateral damage as all U.S. citizens should
have been evacuated first even before Biden foolishly announced our
military withdrawal, thus leaving even more blood on his hands.
And so now here we are 20 years later with the balance of power
sadly shifting in the Taliban's favor for today's Taliban is better
organized and more powerful militarily especially with them now in
possession of American equipment that we, in our haste to withdraw,
were forced to leave behind. And while Panjshir province still does
for now remain free of Taliban control, it seems that the Taliban
were still able to cut off the much need material and food supply
routes into and out of the Panchir valley.
So now as we wait to see what unfolds half a world away, we sit
glued to our computers and TV's to both watch American soldiers come
home in defeat...defeated not by the enemy but defeated by and
because of their own commander-in-chief. And we will also bear
witness to heartbreaking uncertainty for when the cameras and the
media go home...when western reporters become persona non-grata...and
with the masses staying focused on Afghanistan for just so long...the
Taliban will indeed break every promise made and show their true
selves...murdering dirty barbarians who do not deserve to walk, let
alone live, amongst civilized men.
But there still remains one small possibility that can help turn
this tide of uncertainty and give strength and cause to the
opposition's fight. And while it also comes with a certain amount of
disdain and risk it comes in the guise of American military personnel
who voluntarily choose to remain behind...who choose to remain and
fight and to show the world that America will not forsake or leave
behind to be slaughtered those who stood by her side no matter that
their own president obviously doesn't give a damn. Case closed.
************************************************************************************* For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article Afghanistan and The Deliberate Destruction of America.
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But who exactly is Ahmad Massoud, the
resistance's actual leader, and the man who calls the
U.S. a “great arsenal
of democracy."
Ahmad Massoud is the British educated son of the late highly
respected politician and Afghan Northern Alliance military commander
Ahmad Shah Massoud...a powerful militia commander during the Soviet's
1979 to 1989 occupation, and the pro-West leader of the Mujahideen
resistance with whom our forces partnered up with in 2001. Also,
Ahmad Shah Massoud is still considered by many to be akin to our
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and who also, as per both U.S.
Afghan veterans and the Afghan people themselves is known by the
moniker “The Lion of
the Valley of Lions.” Assassinated
by Taliban suicide bombers two days before the 9/11 terrorists
attacks on our country, his son is now following in his father's
footsteps to try once again to rid Afghanistan of the brutal Taliban
regime, something Ahmad Massoud has now been trying in earnest to do for well
over a decade. 
