The crisis of accountability.

It's been three years.

It seems like yesterday...and then sometimes it seems like forever ago.

Watching as Afghanistan collapsed around the Baghdad Bobs in the Biden administration, whose talking heads from TV briefing rooms gave lie to the horrific scenes coming out of Kabul in the frantic, terrifying chaos of "What do you mean, 'the Taliban will be in the city in a week'?" 

...Kabul fell quickly. Taliban fighters faced little resistance as they entered the capital on the main roads. Afghan officials — including the country’s president — fled. And as the militants took over the presidential palace, so began a new era of Taliban rule.

Intelligence assessments did not predict such a swift collapse. In June, U.S. officials had said Kabul could capitulate within six to 12 months after U.S. withdrawal, leaving many stunned and unprepared when it fell in mere hours.

No one was more "stunned" and "UNPREPARED " than Biden administration officials.

They're still not seeing it.

Biden Spokesman John Kirby on the Afghanistan withdrawal: "For all this talk of 'chaos,' I just didn't see it" pic.twitter.com/4LIF8ovMuC

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 6, 2023

It was to emerge during testimony later that the Taliban, even as they swept through the country and into Afghanistan's capital city, had offered to allow Americans to maintain control over Kabul while executing their bug-out.

The head of the US Central Command admitted Wednesday that the Taliban offered to let American troops take charge of security in Kabul during the final days of the US evacuation from Afghanistan — an offer the US did not accept — while Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin blamed the State Department for the failed evacuation of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies.

...“But did he offer to allow you to have security over all of Kabul?” asked Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.).

“As part of that conversation, he said, ‘Why don’t you just take security for all of Kabul?'” McKenzie affirmed. “That was not why I was there, that was not my instruction, and we did not have the resources to undertake that mission.”

McKenzie added that he did not know if Baradar’s offer was conveyed to President Biden, but did note that it was made in the presence of Zalmay Khalilzad, the State Department’s special representative for Afghanistan.

“So who made the decision to turn down the Taliban offer to allow the US military to secure Kabul and put the safety of our troops in the hands of the Taliban?” asked Gallagher.

The same Biden State Dept that just didn't see any chaos didn't see any need for security controls either, apparently. It's all finger-pointing now.

The masses of humanity clawing at hatches on C-17s rolling on runways, grasping at tie-down points, pulled into the air on lift-off, plummeting to Earth. What chaos.

American citizens were told to "make their way" to the airport in Kabul, where the United States military had retreated and retrenched after ceding control of the city to the Taliban. 

WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GONNA BE THAT BAD

Vice-President Harris was "the last person in the room" when the bug-out decision was made and asserted she was comfortable with her decision. She made sure to add that the president, whom we now know that SHE KNEW was already deeply in the throes of on-setting dementia, possessed "extraordinary courage."

Today is the third anniversary of the bombing at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan which took the lives of 13 U.S. service members & injured many more.

Here's what Kamala Harris told CNN in 2021 on being the last person in the room for that decision… pic.twitter.com/YkuoqfJYEd

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) August 26, 2024

How nice to be "comfortable" with such a decision.

For fifteen chaotic days, American troops were trapped inside the confines of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, surrounded by a living, breathing moat of seething, panicked Afghani humanity sprinkled with individual pockets of deadly intentions. All the while having to try to determine friend from foe to maintain security - under incredibly complex, often conflicting, and confusing rules of engagement with ridiculously complicated chains of authority - still squeezing American citizens and contractors through the throng to safety. 

At the mercy of bureaucrats who had no clue what they were doing, already blaming other departments and most not even in situ when forced to make decisions.

TENSIONS WERE HIGH

...When Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) asked Austin why the removal of Americans and SIV holders and applicants did not begin sooner, the defense secretary claimed that “the call on how to do that and when to do it is really a State Department call.”

I AM A ROCK - I AM AN ISLAND

"What chaos," Kirby said. He didn't see any...

...The airport had become a US-controlled island as evacuations ramped up in the last two weeks after the Taliban seized control of the war-torn country on Aug. 15. Thousands of Afghans crowded the airport gates day after day, frantically waving identity papers. Some were caught in stampedes and crowd crushes, others clung to the outside of US military planes only to fall to their deaths as the aircraft rose into the sky.

Eleven days after the United States retreated behind the walls of the airport - eleven days after every single Biden administration department and intelligence agency's predictive and functional ability collapsed, leaving the military trapped on the ground to deal with the incompetence and disregard of their civilian superiors, thirteen American service members would pay with their lives. In the human crush at Abbey Gate, 170 Afghans died with them.

26 AUGUST 2021

So much treasure lost.

NOT ONE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL HAS EVER RESIGNED OUT OF HONOR OR DISGRACE

NOT ONE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL OR MILITARY LEADER RESPONSIBLE WAS EVER CENSURED OR FIRED

Joe Biden, after checking his watch, took a nationally televised victory lap only five days after the suicide bombing and blamed Donald Trump for good measure.

In an address to the nation exactly 24 hours after he abruptly ended a chaotic evacuation of US troops from Afghanistan, a defensive and at times surly President Biden insisted the bug-out was an “extraordinary success,” despite the stranding of hundreds of American citizens and thousands of Afghan allies.

“As we close 20 years of war and strife and pain and sacrifice, it’s time to look to the future, not the past,” Biden said near the end of a 26-minute speech that was delivered in strident, occasionally angry tones and echoed earlier remarks justifying his decision to call home all US forces after nearly 20 years in Afghanistan.

TRUMP MADE ME DO IT

...“The bottom line is, there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges and threats we faced, none,” he added.

As he had done in other statements, Biden attempted to shift the blame for the fiasco onto two parties: the US-backed government and former President Donald Trump.

Biden and his "comfortable" vice-president, who is now the Democratic nominee for president, have never spoken those precious thirteen names of the military members we lost. 

Never.

Biden's pudding brain has already sieved the Afghanistan disgrace out through his ears - remember? Biden has had no servicemembers killed during his presidency.

Whilst Kamala will be running from Afghanistan and Abbey Gate as she does from everything. But we have her being "comfortable" with HER decision for posterity.

Ever sensitive to his responsibilities as president, POTATUS has left yesterday for yet another week-long vacation. 

Today, former President Trump will be in Arlington with some of the Abbey Gate families. They bear him no grudge.

He knows their precious loved ones' names. He honors that sacrifice, which tears the heart of every Gold Star family. And should tear at the heart of every American.

It should certainly do so for the President and Vice-President whose orders made it possible.

1. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover**, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah

2. Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts

3. Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, of Sacramento, California

4. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez**, 22, of Indio, California

5. Marine Corps Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska

6. Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana

7. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas

8. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri

9. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming

10. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California

11. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California

12. Navy Hospitalman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio

13. Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss 23, of Corryton, Tennessee

I'm glad she's "comfortable."

Will someone ever be accountable?

If she's blown out of the electoral college water, it'll be a start.

#SemperFi