Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.” — President Joe Biden, July 8
We say: Could anyone have been more wrong than President Biden in dismissing comparisons between the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, after the city fell in 1975 and events in Afghanistan this week?
This statement:
“If there is a significant deterioration in security … I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” — Secretary of State Antony Blinken, July 7, 2021
We say: Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Americans that security in Afghanistan wouldn’t collapse over a weekend. Oops: From last Friday to Monday, the Taliban took Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, Qala-e-Naw, Feruz Koh, Pul-e-Alam, Terenkot, Qalat and then the capital, Kabul, claiming power over the entire country and igniting a security nightmare.
This tweet:
We say: Sorry, Michael Moore. The nutcases who rioted in the Capitol in January have nothing in common — zero — with the Taliban. Peak Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This statement:
“I commend the president for the action that he took. It was strong. It was decisive. And it was the right thing to do.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Aug. 17, on President Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan
We say: President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan led to a lightning-fast Taliban takeover, Americans and their allies desperate to escape, madness at the airport and people falling from planes — and the speaker of the House commends this? We’re doomed.
This headline:
We say: The UN Security Council has designated the Taliban a terrorist group, yet its children’s agency is “optimistic” about it. When historic disasters occur, you can always trust the UN to approach them with its customary naïveté.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
