Those Biden left behind in Afghanistan

 Mike Miller:

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Here’s a bit of insight from the WaPo editorial board on some of the people left behind:

Those left behind appear to include many local journalists who worked for U.S.-supported media such as the Afghan service of RFE/RL. Painfully emblematic, too, is the experience of the American University of Afghanistan, all but a few of whose roughly 4,000 students, faculty, alumni and employees remain in Kabul.

AUAF was the signature U.S.-funded civilian institution in Kabul. The school symbolized not just the U.S.-Afghan relationship, but modernity itself. Therefore, it came under repeated and deadly attack from the Taliban, yet brave and determined women and men continued to teach and study there — until Kabul fell and the Taliban raised its flag over the campus.

A last-ditch attempt to bus several hundred members of the university community to the airport ended in frustration Sunday, when it became clear that civilian rescue flights were ending. Now, university officials tell us, these — mostly young — Afghans are back in Kabul, feeling abandoned and afraid.

Yet, the Biden administration continues to say people left behind will not be forgotten. Among those who only opens their mouth to change feet is Defense Department spokesman, retired Adm. John Kirby, who on Tuesday once again busted out the laser reference, this time claiming that the administration will remain “laser-focused” on the situation in Afghanistan — but from now on, only “diplomatically.”

#ProTip for Adm. Kirby: “Taliban” and “diplomacy” are mutually exclusive terms.

Then again, what can you say about a guy who tries to minimize stranded Americans with this beauty:

“We have Americans that get #stranded in countries all the time.”

Yeah, I got nothin’.

It gets worse.

The administration has also continued to claim — incredulously so — that “they have received assurances from the Taliban,” as noted in the WaPo op-ed, that these ruthless bastards will allow any remaining Americans to leave the country, as well as Afghanistan citizens — “for any reason.”

Believing that crock of crap is as hilarious as it is naive. The WaPo editorial board is neither:

Any “assurances” by the Taliban clash with statements their spokesmen made during the crisis that the United States was wrongly inducing Afghans to leave — not to mention the group’s record of murdering perceived enemies.

Moreover, two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that still have embassies in Kabul — Russia and China — conspicuously did not sign the U.S.-backed international statement.

Their support would be needed to carry out one promising idea: French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for a U.N.-designated “safe zone” in Kabul from which to organize evacuations after Tuesday.

“Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the United States still has ‘significant leverage’ over the Taliban,” the editors wrote. “If so, the Biden administration must use it, relentlessly, until every Afghan with a legitimate claim to refuge has found it.”

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The Biden administration and its spokesman have become full-time gaslighters when it comes to their ignominious retreat from Afghanistan.  They make Napolean's and Hitler's retreat from Russia look more orderly.  They brag like they leading a parade rather than abandoning people and equipment to a bunch of Taliban perverts.  I would not wish a job of explaining the Biden bug out on anyone.  

See, also:

‘Textbook Gaslighting’: Biden Describes Afghanistan Withdrawal as an ‘Extraordinary Success’ 

Our president is delusional. He also once again turns his back on the press and the American people.