I simply love the NY Times headline
The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway.
Twasn’t the U.S. which left them behind: it’s was Biden, his administration, and their disastrous withdrawal plan. And the Times and their writers, Julie Turkkewitz and Federico Rios, go to great pains to make it seem as if this is not on Biden
She and her husband, Ali, pleaded for help from a half-dozen nations — many of which they’d worked with — and found an American refugee program they might be eligible for. Taiba said she sent off her information, but never heard back.
“They left us behind,” she said of the Americans. “Sometimes I think maybe God left all Afghans behind.”
Nope, that would be Biden.
For months, Taiba kept trying to make it to America any way she could — even by foot. She and her husband fled with their 2-year-old son, first to Pakistan, then to South America, joining the vast human tide of desperation pressing north toward the United States.
Like thousands of Afghans who have taken this same, unfathomable route to escape the Taliban and their country’s economic collapse in the last 17 months, they trudged through the jungle, slept on the forest floor amid fire ants and snakes, hid their money in their food to fool thieves and crossed the sliver of land connecting North and South America — the treacherous Darién Gap.
Now, after more than 16,000 miles, Taiba and her family had finally reached it: the American border.
Will Biden let them in like so many others, or pick and choose as he’s done with some groups, like Haitians?
Their journeys represent the collision of two of President Biden’s biggest policy crises: the hasty American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the record number of migrants crossing the U.S. border.
That’s weird, because I’ve been reliably informed that there is no border crisis. And Afghanistan was not a crisis, it was an abject failure.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan is not just a failure “in the rearview mirror,” said Francis Hoang, a former U.S. Army captain who runs an organization to help Afghans immigrate, called Allied Airlift 21.
“The failure is happening right now,” he said.
See? The article then goes on to show a hell of a graphic with the route so many of the Afghanies took, worth a look.
There are a total of 5 mentions of the name Biden: the above mentioned, then, way down in the article about Biden trying to shut down the travel routes (sure he is), about how Biden is clamping down on immigration (where the heck are they getting this information?), then about Biden yammering on how many were flown out (after his fiasco) and him bragging about it (while Afghanistan descended into utter chaos). This is an incredibly long article, and barely notices how bad things are thanks to Biden, but, because he’s a Democrat, the Times ignores that in a way they never did for Bush or Trump.
Teach if course was a big cheerleader for our invasion/occupation of Afghanistan.
Is he now in favor of allowing afghans who sided with the US to come here? I am. The 2 trillion Afghanistan cost us is a drop in a bucket as to what Ukraine has cost us in treasure. To say nothing of the waste of thousands of military casualties over 2 decades. Did you think after decades it was going to end in a positive way?
Perhaps teach you regret not enlisting ?
I’m reasonably certain she didn’t walk from Pakistan to South America. We can all agree there were airplanes involved in that trek at some point. As such, it makes no sense to walk through central American jungles when they could have just flown directly into Mexico city and taken the buss from there.
In general, it is just bad policy to import people from parts of teh world that are so different. It does them no favor. The best option is for them to resettle in a country that is just like the one they are from. Similar language, culture and social expectations. America doesn’t need any more Uber drivers. We have enough.
Vietnamese Boat People 2.0.
Actually, if the Afghanis who make it here are anywhere close to as great a people as the Vietnamese, we’ll be lucky to have them.
They aren’t. They are a basic iron age level of tech development with stone aged tribalist social structure. Most of them cannot speak English and very few of them have any desire to assimilate. Like the Somalis before them, they will become a permanent welfare class, but with cell phones.
Mr Teach concludes with the perfunctory but unverified:
Within a week following 9/11, the NYT conspired with the Bush administration on the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, the entire MSM did.
From September 2001 until 2021 the US and the western alliance send thousands of troops and billions of dollars. Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump escalated and de-escalated the efforts hoping to rebuild the tribal Afghanistan into a modern democracy. After 20 years, on 30 Aug 2021, U.S. Army Major General Chris Donahue was the last U.S. service member to leave Afghanistan. The resurgent Taliban took over the nation immediately. The Afghanistan war cost the lives of some 6000 US military and contractons and $2Trillion.
Osama bin Laden was assassinated by the US military 1 May 2011 in Pakistan.
If your major takeaway from the Afghanistan debacle is that the withdrawal was sloppy, our only advice is to make sure the GOP nominee mentions it often in 2024.
NYT:
Is that the same NYT that only mentions Bush and Trump failures?
After the initial invasions of the Americas, what would become the United States of America has a long history of incorporating both voluntary and involuntary immigrants into the developing social fabric.
The estimated native population of the Caribbean dropped from 1 million to 30,000 from disease.
Congolese, English, Scottish, Irish, Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, Belgian, German, Finnish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Swedish, Mexican, Guatemalan, Japanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Israeli, Ethiopian have become American… and we’re still the greatest nation in the history of nations. For now.