It Was Worse Than Saigon In 1975
The "intel community" was utterly fucking clueless. Again. And they fucked people over. Again. You'd have to be out of your mind to help the US government do anything, because you'll get screwed.
Carlson has a number of things right, including the fact that we should have been out of Afghanistan in 2002, when the original mission, to capture bin Laden, failed. Instead, our ruling Military Industrial Complex / ”National Security State” poured trillions of taxpayer dollars, present and future, into the waiting hands of crooks and grifters, some of whom still wear fancy uniforms. Those people should be forced to disgorge their ill-gotten gains, and sent in chains to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, where they can live out their lives in the tropical sunshine, subsisting on a diet of hardtack and water. I’m sure there are some barrels of hardtack left over from the Civil War, they could be put to good use. I don’t usually use stuff from Hannity, but this points up the cluelessness of the “intel community”- it was obvious years ago that the Afghan National Army would collapse like a cheap tent in a rainstorm as soon as the US started to pull out - and that’s precisely what they did - they surrendered without firing a shot and gave their weapons to the Taliban, unit after unit, province after province. It could have happened in 2003, and it did happen 18 years later - after trillions of dollars went down various rat holes and bank accounts. What funny is that the US bankrolled the Taliban at its inception 40 years ago - they were the Afghan Freedom Fighters - and they visited Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s White House. And nobody had any idea that the Taliban were serious Muslims who hated infidels. Religious nationalists can’t be bought off. And now they have their country back, which is what should have happened in 2002.
There’s a Constitutional process for getting into wars - it requires a vote of Congress to declare war - and it hasn’t been observed since the US declared war on Romania in 1942. All of the subsequent wars and “police actions” and “nation building” were, and are, unconstitutional and illegal. All of the drafts since then have been illegal, and the Selective Service Act is equally unconstitutional - it’s a violation of Constitutional Federalism. And I could go on… It’s about time we got back to the rule of law, rather than the rule of decree and mandate.