The death toll in a pair of suicide bombings in Kabul has now risen to 169.
169 Afghans were killed according to two officials who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The U.S. said 13 service members were killed in the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan since August 2011.
Late Thursday, U.S. Defense Department officials said the death toll for U.S. service members remained at 13, but the count included 10 Marines and two Army soldiers – instead of the previously reported 12 Marines. One Navy corpsman also was killed, officials said.
This was a complex attack–an Initial bombing to creates chaos, followed by a second bomber waiting at a choke point or gathering place where people are likely to flee. Standard, but shows it wasn’t a rando Afghan mad that we killed his brother. It was a planned, coordinated attack. We have seen this many times in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Who could have foreseen that perhaps the Taliban would not be allies in preventing terrorism? If only we had had some clues on this, like perhaps 3,000 American bodies in New York City, WDC, and Shanksville.
it should be noted that there were no US casualties from February of 2020 until this bombing. In his briefings, Biden is making it sound like there were firefights happening every night in downtown Kabul.
Remember that there are people who will still try to convince you that what happened on January 6th was the worst thing that’s happened to America in 50 years and the only thing we should be concerned with.
If the Biden Administration had considered these attacks a remotely plausible scenario, they don’t evacuate Bagram Air Base. The United States suffered the biggest military loss of life in over a decade. President Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal is costing American lives, and emboldening America’s enemies. There is no plan, no strategy, and no leadership from the White House.
But hey, no mean tweets.
So wait, Biden has blamed Trump while simultaneously admitting that Trump’s deal with the Taliban is the reason no Americans were killed after February of 2020? What is going on?
And why does he bring up his son Beau? With all due respect to Beau Biden, what does he have to do with this? Using his memory to provoke compassionate solidarity and lend some sort of legitimacy to this administration’s actions, nay negligence is unacceptable.
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Joe had his chance to serve in combat in VEET NAM, another Democrat dog’s dinner of a war (“It may be a lousy war, but it’s the only war we have right now!”), and he, like Bill Clinton and Charley “Chuck” Schumer, took a pass, and now he wants to grab sympathy by riding on his dead son’s coattails.
How pathetic!
And why does he bring up his son Beau?
Because this show is about Joe, and by extension, that then makes it about Beau, as we clearly see in the Full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on 28 April 2021, to wit:
And American leadership means ending the forever war in Afghanistan.
We have the greatest fighting force in the history of the world.
And I’m the first President in 40 years who knows what it means to have had a child serving in a warzone.
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And that makes Joe special, which is why he brings up his son Beau, so that people will know that Joe is not only special, but just how special he is, being the first President in 40 years who knows what it means to have had a child serving in a warzone, although as I recall, Beau was full-grown when he served in a warzone, so he was hardly a child at the time, but Joe may not remember that, and so we shouldn’t be harsh on Joe for not remembering that Beau was no longer a child when he was in the military, which takes us to th8is question, to wit:
With all due respect to Beau Biden, what does he have to do with this?
And that answer is, he gives some kind of legitimacy to Joe, at least in Joe’s mind, whatever shreds of it may be left to Joe at this stage of his mental decline, which takes us to a Washington Examiner story entitled “Families of slain Marines call Biden’s conduct at ceremony ‘disrespectful'” by Misty Severi on 31 August 2021, to wit:
More family members of military service members who died during Thursday’s attack in Afghanistan have come forward and called their interactions with the president “selfish” and “disrespectful.”
Mark Schmitz, father of Marine Jared Schmitz, and Darin Hoover, father of Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., appeared Monday on Fox News’s Hannity to talk about their interactions with the president.
“Initially, I wasn’t going to meet with him,” Schmitz said.
“But then I felt I owed it to my son to at least have some words with him about how I felt — and it didn’t go well …”
“He talked a bit more about his own son than he did my son, and that didn’t sit well with me.”
Biden’s late son Joseph Beau Biden was in the U.S. Army and died in 2015 from an aggressive form of brain cancer.
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The stage Joe is on is really very small, and there is only room on it for Joe, and Beau.
It isn’t about what the parents of these slain Marines and soldiers and the corpsman are feeling about the loss of their loved ones.
That is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
What is important is how Joe feels, because the show is about him, and by extension, his son Beau.
Why?
Because as Hussein Obama would say, it’s the right thing to do, and we must be understanding and accept that.