An Afghan for Thursday

Baaah...We awake sore and groggy. Another rough night. 

This blog calls on the Taliban to respect women's and LBGT rights in Afghanistan. Don't laugh. We said don't laugh.

How many of the Afghan refugees and so-called refugees do we take in? We've got to take some but not....oh who the hell are we kidding? This is going to be like the Mariel Boatlift. Another Biden disaster is in the offing. Via Instapundit, enjoy this tale of Afghan refugees in Germany...As for the solutions offered at the end of the article, yeah sure.

We are told there's already a resistance forming in the Panjshir Valley in eastern Afghanistan. It's led by Ahmed Massoud, son of Ahmed Shah Massoud, our main ally in the 80's.  Do we help? Looking at the map, we're not sure how. But why not, right? We have written about this. This is our base for World War 1990: Operation Tet.

Speaking of the Russians and Afghanistan, here's our latest collusion: 'On 8 July president Biden assured the press, ‘The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.’ Later that month, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared, ‘The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country, and we will continue to support the Afghan Security Forces where necessary in accordance with the guidance from the president and the secretary of defense.’ Last Thursday American intelligence officials warned that Kabul could fall within 60-90 days. It took the Taliban less than a week to roll into Kabul.' Click on through to Kabul/Moscow nexus. 

What Will's Watching, Star Trek Voyager-Season 1.  We haven't watched Voyager since the 90's and stopped watching several seasons before the finale. Till this day we have no idea how Voyager ends. We'll go into more detail in other posts, but 15 episodes in Voyager pleasantly surprises us. Here's why Voyager works. Unlike TNG there's no kinks to work out. Everyone already knows what works and what doesn't. This is a series in top form from the get-go. Also, we think we like Voyager now because, frankly, we're 48 not 24. Lemme put it this way. In 1996 we though Janeway was gross. Not so much now. 3/4

Which is worse, the Fall of Kabul or Toby Keith?

This blog formally recognizes the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the nation's legit government. Congratulations. 

Let's get things off on the right foot with an ironic yet timely Monday Metal:

Hahahahahahahaha! Aaaaaaahahahahahahaha! [Was that really necessary?-Ed] You have no idea how necessary it is.*

Steyn, as is his wont, has taken the measure of the moment and agrees with us that this is so much worse than Saigon. The Pentagon actually had a plan in 1975, look up Operation Frequent Wind. It's clear that the Pentagon had no plan for Kabul. Right now the airport in Kabul is swarmed with desperate people. How long till there's some sort of massacre? Bill Roggio gives CSPAN a long analysis of what went wrong and what's happening, and we think it's worth reader(s) time.

[You wanted out of Afghanistan too, knobhead-Ed]

That's right. We're not going to make the usual caveats. Maybe there could have been a more orderly retreat. It took the Taliban 6 years to oust the old communist government after the Soviets pulled out in '89. We always envisioned a couple of thousand US troops in Kabul securing the city and coordinating air strikes. In the end it doesn't matter. Twenty years was enough.

*Makes me sick to watch it.