So...Anything Happen In Afghanistan Over the Weekend?
Aug 16, 2021 3:44:15 GMT -5
Post by Midnight on Aug 16, 2021 3:44:15 GMT -5
The Morning Briefing: So...Anything Happen In Afghanistan Over the Weekend?
BY STEPHEN KRUISER AUG 16, 2021 2:55 AM ET
Top O’ the Briefing
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. May we all dance the tarantella until dawn smiles upon our recklessness.
Hoo-boy, what a few days. When last we interacted here at the Kruiser Morning Briefing Ranch we were discussing the fact that Joe Biden and his merry band of puppet masters were completely blindsided by events in Afghanistan that even the drunkest of armchair diplomats were predicting.
We’ve been noting for months that, while we all knew things were going to be bad with this Biden faux presidency nonsense, we didn’t think that things would get this bad this quickly. The Taliban decided that it was time for a “hold our beers” moment, even though they don’t drink.
The situation in Afghanistan went from “Let’s see what happens…” to “The Taliban are waltzing into Kabul with the greatest of ease…” in less time than it took the NFL to complete its weekend preseason schedule. By the time Sunday morning rolled around in any time zone, the news coming in from Afghanistan was a firehose of awfulness.
As Bryan and many others noted, what went down in Kabul yesterday was eerily reminiscent of the thoroughly ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. I was only a kid then but the images from television about that nightmare. Good luck with your Biden presidency night terrors, Youth of America.
The cascade of bad news came at such an alarming and increasing rate on Sunday that I began to try and remember a time in the social media era when this big of a you-know-what show had happened before.
I had nothing.
While the puppet masters did manage to get Biden out of bed at Camp David long enough for a train wreck of a response on Saturday, Sunday’s escalation of the situation in Kabul didn’t seem to inspire a sense of urgency in the need for a presidential response:
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BY STEPHEN KRUISER AUG 16, 2021 2:55 AM ET
Top O’ the Briefing
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. May we all dance the tarantella until dawn smiles upon our recklessness.
Hoo-boy, what a few days. When last we interacted here at the Kruiser Morning Briefing Ranch we were discussing the fact that Joe Biden and his merry band of puppet masters were completely blindsided by events in Afghanistan that even the drunkest of armchair diplomats were predicting.
We’ve been noting for months that, while we all knew things were going to be bad with this Biden faux presidency nonsense, we didn’t think that things would get this bad this quickly. The Taliban decided that it was time for a “hold our beers” moment, even though they don’t drink.
The situation in Afghanistan went from “Let’s see what happens…” to “The Taliban are waltzing into Kabul with the greatest of ease…” in less time than it took the NFL to complete its weekend preseason schedule. By the time Sunday morning rolled around in any time zone, the news coming in from Afghanistan was a firehose of awfulness.
As Bryan and many others noted, what went down in Kabul yesterday was eerily reminiscent of the thoroughly ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. I was only a kid then but the images from television about that nightmare. Good luck with your Biden presidency night terrors, Youth of America.
The cascade of bad news came at such an alarming and increasing rate on Sunday that I began to try and remember a time in the social media era when this big of a you-know-what show had happened before.
I had nothing.
While the puppet masters did manage to get Biden out of bed at Camp David long enough for a train wreck of a response on Saturday, Sunday’s escalation of the situation in Kabul didn’t seem to inspire a sense of urgency in the need for a presidential response:
Continued at link