Andy Martin analyzes the Afghanistan military implosion and explains the Biden Administration’s explosion
ANDY MARTIN
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Dear Granite Stater:
Sunday, August 15, 2021 was one
of the worst days in American history. The Afghan government imploded; the
collapse in Kabul exploded the myth that Joe Biden is capable of leading the U.
S. government. We have a national security crisis on our hands.
America’s political class, led
by Zombie President Joe Biden, betrayed the American people, betrayed the Afghan
people and massively increased the terror threat to the continental United
States. Earlier, Biden said leaving Kabul would not resemble the catastrophe in
Saigon in 1975. I agree with Joe! The departure from Kabul is much, much worse;
the the long-term consequences will be much more dangerous for our national security
than the Saigon debacle.
I have spent a large part of my
adult life as an independent national security analyst and operator. You can
see a resume of my experience below in “How Andy Became a Terrorism Expert.” I
first went to Afghanistan in 1980, in an insanely dangerous mission to gather
information about the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion. I worked
alone, with one Afghan aide. We managed to drive into Herat. How I survived, I’ll
never know. Afghanistan and I go back a long way.
Like many, I have questioned Joe
Biden’s mental health. Biden’s competence is now front and center:
President Obama’s ambassador to Afghanistan stated openly that “I’m left with
some grave questions in my mind about [Biden’s] ability to lead our nation as
commander-in-chief,” [Ryan] Crocker said. “To have read this so wrong – or,
even worse, to have understood what was likely to happen and not care.” [Please
see Link # 1 below]. Crocker said the Afghan fiasco is “already an indelible
stain on [Biden’s] presidency.” [Please see link #2 below]
The humiliation we saw in 1975
when Americans were lifted off the roof of the U. S. Embassy in Saigon has been
reprised. Biden has sent in 5,000 troops to manage the evacuation; many thousands
more than Trump had left behind to manage the withdrawal. While no firefights
have broken out as I am writing, if U. S. forces stay long enough to evacuate Afghans
who have been loyal to us and who were promised safe passage, conflict is
inevitable.
None of this national failure
was necessary. But as America has done so often in the postwar period, we have
allowed our own bloated rhetoric to undermine sound foreign policy.
More critically, we have
allowed the perfect to be the enemy of the good. In claiming no perfect
solution is available in Afghanistan, we have destroyed the good efforts that
existed. Millions of young girls were in school; now they are out. Tens of
millions of people slept safely; now a terror regime has been imposed. When was
the last time former President Ghani beheaded someone? Now, a bad pun: “heads
will roll” in Kabul. Thanks to Joey Biden.
No, Afghanistan was not perfect,
not by a long shot. But it was struggling to survive in a very dangerous neighborhood.
Now all of our progress has been erased. In a few weeks, terror networks will
reconstitute themselves.
Biden, who claimed he would “not
send another generation of Americans to Afghanistan,” has guaranteed that
another generation, or two, of Americans will have to return to Afghanistan to
clean up the mess he created.
1. The Afghan military did
not “collapse;” it was betrayed
The Afghan military and
security forces do not have the esprit de corps of the U. S. Marines or
NYPD. But Afghan soldiers performed decently. Who designed and created the Afghan
military? We did (the U. S. military). We created a conventional military force
to fight a “revolutionary war,” one driven by zealotry and not by mercenary
interests, the same kind I have been studying since 1965. The Afghans expected
air strikes, artillery, mobile support, high-tech resources and expansive surveillance
and intelligence to support them. That’s how we trained them. To be an adjunct
and to be interoperable with our own military. We created the Afghan forces in
our own image. Then we abandoned them.
How long would U. S. forces
last without air cover, without armor, without intelligence and without
multiple weapons systems? Not long.
Sound familiar?
In fact, this is the second time
Democrats have betrayed an allied military in the battlefield. The South
Vietnamese military was also created in our image. Then Democrats in congress
voted to “defund” South Vietnam forces. The result: a collapse of Saigon.
Forty-fix years later we are repeating the same arrogant incompetence which the
Democrats first “deployed” against Viet-Nam. Bingo.
Don’t blame the Afghan
military. They did as well as can be expected when their de facto overlords, the
Democratic Party in congress, started undermining them during the Obama-Biden
administration. History repeats itself; so do Democratic Party military
fiascos.
2. There was no “intelligence
failure”
One of the false narratives
being offered by Biden supporters is that the Afghan collapse is an “intelligence
failure.” Northing is further from the truth. For years intelligence agencies
have predicted that of if we abandoned the Afghan forces, they would collapse.
No surprise there. Intelligence agencies all over the world, including
communist spy organs, predicted exactly what would happen if Biden withdrew
precipitously.
3. Biden’s delusions have
exploded his presidency and the Democrats
Biden said last month that he
had an [imaginary] “over-the-horizon” capacity to defend Afghanistan. Where was
it when the Taliban was laying siege to Afghan cities? Nowhere. Bien’s
over-the-horizon force was a delusion. America did not come to the defense of
Afghan troops. Biden’s total incompetence, and the total incompetence of his officials,
such as the disgraceful and incompetent Secretary of State Blinken, have exploded
his presidency.
Out of nowhere, out of the blue
in Biden’s mind, the Democratic Party has been bombed into disgrace and
destruction by their own demented leader. “Who me?” they say. They want to blame
Trump for Biden’s disaster. Trump is not responsible for Biden’s collapse.
4. Does honor mean anything
to America?
I have lost track of the number
of times both parties have betrayed our allies. The Kurds? Betrayed by Democrats
and Republicans, tossed out like used toilet paper when they had served their
purpose. Over and over again. Obama said Isis was a “JV team,” and then had to
send forces to defeat his imaginary opponent; only ISIS was not imaginary. It
took President Trump to clean out the Isis rat’s nest.
What do all of these betrayals mean?
America’s political leaders, in both parties, lack any sense of national honor.
Ten years ago, members of congress started asking for Special Immigrant Visas” (“SIV”)
for Afghans who has worked for the U.S. Ten years later, noting had been done. Biden
tried to dump the issue on congress. It was only after Biden pulled the plug on
Afghanistan that the administration even started thinking about SIV’s. When Afghan
workers and their families, as well as others who worked for US operations such
as the media and aid organizations, are totaled up, there are over 100,000
people and their dependents that need to be evacuated. How many will die
needlessly, because of American perfidiousness? Many thousands, perhaps tens of
thousands.
America needs to address its lack
of national honor and its betrayals of the commitments it has made to foreign nationals
who support our troops in the field. To a military man or woman, honor means everything,
it’s why they serve. When the politicians behave dishonorably, they stain the
service and sacrifice of our own military forces.
5. Is twenty years enough,
when national security is at stake?
How the media have betrayed
Americans
I started out in life as a
pollster in college. A poll is only as good as the question asked. If you ask, “Should
we bring our troops back home?” almost everyone will say “Yes.” But if you ask,
“Should we bring our troops back home if the result is going to be endangering
national security and cause the homeland to be jeopardized?” not many people
would say yes. The media asked trick questions, and fooled the American people into
believing we could withdraw from Afghanistan effortlessly and without any
long-term danger to our own nation.
Biden’s people claim they were “surprised”
by the Afghan collapse. Funny, no one else was. Everyone who has ever focused
on terrorism and intelligence knew what was ahead. The head of British intelligence,
MI6, predicted a collapse if Afghanistan was abandoned. [Please see Link 3 below)
So what was the Biden plan? Where were the resources? There were none. Afghan
troops lacked food and ammunition How can any army fight under such
circumstances?
6. The Mollie Hemingway
doctrine
Perhaps the most idiotic comment
I saw was from Mollie Hemingway, a commentator who said we should have an “In/Out”
military policy. Hemingway seems to believe once hostilities cease, U. S. forces
should high tail it and abandon the battlefield to our former adversaries.
Biden himself fed into this expedient
narrative and said, “We’ve been there too long. The world has shifted.” Says
who?
Mollie Hemingway has the
answer: her “get in-get out” strategy. Utter nonsense. What would have happened
if we withdrew from Europe in 1945? Stalin would have taken over Europe. What if
we had left Japan in 1945? The militaristic Japanese military might have
revived.
When you pledge to stay, your
word is your bond. We have promised to protect Europe. Biden brags about “America
being back” in NATO. Joe’s malarkey. Who will believe him after the Afghan
catastrophe? The US has promised to protect Taiwan. Do the Taiwanese feel comfortable
after “Kabul?” The thugs in China and the gangsters in Russia are salivating at
the prospect of an enfeebled America. Biden’s problems are just beginning.
Biden and his crew of crackpot
incompetents are endangering our national security. “And that’s no joke,” as
Joey himself would say. “For real.”
To be continued.
Best wishes,
Andy
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[How Andy Martin became a terrorism and counterterrorism
expert:
Andy has over fifty years of experience in Asia,
Southwest Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s
most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.
He is known as an “over-the-horizon” expert who synthesizes conditions to
prepare predictive opinions.
Andy’s experience fighting terrorism began during the
Cold War in 1965 when he went to Washington as an intern on legislative matters
and also became an acolyte of Professor Bernard Fall.
Professor Fall believed that Viet-Nam was a
“revolutionary” war, a military campaign based on nationalist goals that more
properly fit the matrix of political analysis. After Professor Fall was blown
up, Andy persevered in studying counterinsurgency (COIN) in Viet-Nam and around
the world. Andy founded the Revolutionary War Research Center and in 1974 he
began to offer counterterrorism consulting at the World Trade Center in New
York, becoming one of the nation’s first counterterror specialists. Andy was in
New York on September 11, 2001 and rendered assistance.
Andy first went to the Arab world in 1971 and has
traveled to every country in that region. Andy was in Iran and Afghanistan
during the hostage crisis in 1979-80.
He lived in Iraq in 2003.
His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during
1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what
Americans faced in the future. Andy has lived in or been in Israel, Jordan,
Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam,
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.]
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LINKS TO THIS STORY: (cut and paste the entire link below
and not just the underlined portion):
Link #1:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/14/a-self-inflicted-wound-former-ambassador-to-afghan/
Link # 2:
Link # 3:
https://news.sky.com/story/terror-threat-to-britain-will-grow-if-west-neglects-afghanistan-ex-spymaster-warns-12348573
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