After listening to President Biden speak this afternoon, I want to be extremely clear about a couple of things.
Americans overwhelmingly agreed that it was time to end the war in Afghanistan. Despite the White House’s best efforts to make the media and American people believe President Biden was dutifully satisfying his pledge, the truth might not be even more from the truth. It was President Biden and his entire administration who shamefully abandoned U.S. residents, deserted our allies, and deserted our core principles that as a nation we will “support any good friend and oppose any foe to ensure the survival and success of liberty.”
The criticism is not whether the United States need to have ended the war, it is how the U.S. stopped working in ending it. The White House is trying to distract you.
The failures are numerous:
President Biden is responsible for the choice to distribute Bagram air base that required us to run out of Hamid Karzai International Airport, where our military forces were surrounded, surpassed, and out gunned by our own American-made equipment.
Members of the Taliban’s Badri 313 military unit, armed with what appears to be U.S. military gear, take a position at the airport in Kabul on August 31, 2021, after the U.S. withdrawal.(WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP by means of Getty Images) President Biden is responsible for the decision to retreat on a Taliban enforced timeline and trust the altruism of the Taliban to give free passage to the airport. In doing so, he deserted U.S. residents and tens of countless the very same allies that battled and compromised together with us. President Biden is responsible for the conditions that allowed a radical Islamic ISIS-K terrorist attack that killed 13 of our troops and wounded a lot more. An attack on an essentially un-defendable position was both predictable and avoidable.
Afghans gather on a roadside near the airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021, wanting to run away from the nation after the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan.(WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) President Biden is accountable for the Taliban now owning $ 85 billion in advanced American military equipment that will no doubt be used versus American forces and our allies across the globe. And President Biden is responsible for jeopardizing every future military and diplomatic mission that depends on American trustworthiness and commitment to freedom and liberty. Today, our military is taken part in fighting terrorism and promoting cooperation in over 50 counties. “Winning the hearts and minds” depends upon trust. President Biden has lost the trust that America will mean liberty and not coward to terrorism.
This is the real discussion that the president failed to resolve today. Joe Biden’s handlers have spun their web of lies and are so insulated they have no idea what truth is, what Americans believe and feel, and how their failure is playing out around the world.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke at a press conference on Might 10, 2017, in Kanab, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images)
Every American should be demanding the truth and full accountability. We individualsshould have to know who is calling the shots in the White House and who was behind each failed choice. If Nancy Pelosi is unwilling to hold the hearings, a vote of no self-confidence must be held. When I remained in Congress, I worked with a handful of Democrats who honorably served our nation in the military, and I am positive that they are equally disgusted, unfortunate, and upset.
Finally, Americans need to take pride for the incredible work the U.S. military and the numerous volunteers did to evacuate those American citizens and allies that got out. Bravo Zulu. We should never forget, nevertheless, that they ought to not have actually been determined with no practical strategy to begin with. Might God Bless America and all those who safeguard her.
Ryan Zinke served 23 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, retiring at the rank of Commander, that included tours commanding SEAL Teams SIX and ONE and as Deputy Commander of Joint Special Forces in Iraq. He received the Bronze Star with a Battle V. Zinke served two terms as Montana’s Congressman and as Interior Secretary under Donald J. Trump. Zinke is running for Congressonce again.