No matter what they say, this is a national disgrace. Americans and friendly Afghans will be left behind. The Taliban controlled access to the airport as well as setting the deadline for finishing the mission. Our troops were not allowed to leave the airport to try to find US citizens and loyal Afghans. This was not the Berlin Airlift. We’ll be damned lucky if it doesn’t turn out to be Dien Bien Phu. //

conservativecurmudgeon
11 minutes ago
Okay, we will take them at their word.

This is the greatest “airlift” since the early days of the Cold War. Of course, the Berlin Airlift was FAR more concerned with getting goods in than getting people out. But, no matter...

The reason we’ve had all three —the Cold War, the Berlin Air Lift, and now Biden’s Catastrophe in Kabul is because of the utter incompetence of the leftist worldview...

We EVEN HAD the Cold War because of the likes of Klaus Fuchs, Harry Hopkins and Alger Hiss, who were left in positions of real power —and who were handing atomic secrets to the Russians— during the reign of FDR; and, Roosevelt likely knew this, and did nothing. Roosevelt (a true classical global leftist) had a real man-crush on Stalin and all things totalitarian, and he saw nothing wrong with all the REAL Reds in his midst. If we’d had even a tithe of moderating influence of, say, an Arthur Vandenburg at Yalta, the Iron Curtain would not have likely descended to the degree it did... but, it was polluted with the likes of Edward Stettinius and Bedell Smith, and others that viewed the Russians then as the High Command views China now— strategic partners that might be a bit overbearing, but hey: those Commies get things done, right?

Not to mention: there would have been no NEED for a Berlin Airlift —had Truman been more confident in his atomic Arsenal. We had our vast numerical superiority at the time— the Russians would very likely have backed down anyway. But, again, most of the post-war high command (with the obvious exception of Curtis LeMay) was still enthralled with Papa Joe...

Which leads us to today: Joe Biden is (or, what’s left of Joe Biden) is just fine with 7th Century Primitives using the advanced technology his own countrymen paid for and developed, and that is currently being used by these Islamic barbarians to flay and martyr Americans; he rather likes strongmen and authoritarianism, and has always thought more highly of coercive groups than sovereign individuals. He’s fine if America takes a shot in the neck as long as global coercive collectivism is advanced.

It’s a straight line from FDR to Biden— and both created existential crisis that our valiant air forces had to fix.