Howdy,
I inadvertently published our third episode a day early. This is why I had a commanders support staff for two years. I don’t do details. Oops. The YouTube Video will be out tomorrow. As always, thanks for listening.
Sixteen years ago today, Taliban Commander and Al Qaeda member Qari Baryal killed one of my teammates, SrA Jonathan Yelner. Baryal is now the Governor of Kabul.
(Just for kicks, he also received cash payments from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces. But remember: we can’t escalate against the Iranians because people with fancy degrees say so.)
This is always a tough day, but the day has become even worse now that the Taliban humiliated the US, NATO, and our Afghan allies. Of course, it’s even more injurious because we blame the Afghans for failing to defeat an enemy we couldn’t defeat. To top it all off, we refuse to say that it happened.
Please take a gander at this gentleman, who bested our most elite special forces units throughout 20 years of war.
He looks pretty happy, huh? And why wouldn’t he be?
Every week, we give this guy $43M. Every week. In return, he rapes, murders, and hunts our allies who are underground. This isn’t disputed. This is known.
I hear a lot of people wax poetically about Afghanistan: “It was always going to be messy,” “graveyard of empires,” and my all-time favorite, “the Afghans didn’t fight.”
These are the excuses that we make for the abandonment of our values to a genocidal regime that is still allied with Al Qaeda, which killed 3,000 Americans.
And the collective American response: shrugged shoulders.
I see everyone thumping their chests about Ukraine. I’m happy to see the aid finally get passed. I love to see dead Russian soldiers. The more dead, the merrier, as far as I’m concerned.
But today, as I mourn Yelner and stew in rage over the fact that this son-of-a-bitch is still breathing, I’m infuriated by these words from President Biden.
We don’t walk away from our allies; we stand with them. We don’t let tyrants win; we oppose them. We don’t merely watch global events unfold; we shape them.
It’s been less than three years since Afghanistan, and we’ve entirely memory holed it. Totally. It’s a betrayal of such magnitude that I’m disgusted by it all over again.
How do you think that makes SrA Yelner’s mother feel? Better or worse?
Jonathan Yelner deserved better. His family deserved better.
Yet, I know one thing for sure: Qari Baryal won and is luxuriating in money provided to him by the families of slain American service members.
Perhaps that’s the price you pay for “peace.” But any decent country would at least acknowledge the horrendous pain that imposes on the very warriors they sent over to slay a group that attacked the homeland.
But we don’t. And we never will.
Instead, what me and my brothers-in-arms have is silence sprinkled with ignorance.
Pathetic.
Until Next Time.
Not all of us have forgotten. Earlier this month, I was at an outreach event for Afghanis in SoCal. It was a federally funded and organized project, one of the last done all over the country as part of OAW. Everyone there understood and appreciated what was trying to be accomplished.
They should be getting 43 Hellfires a week, instead. The only reason I don't beat up Biden on this is it makes Trump look good, when in fact he was the one who really got that ball rolling.
Also, it is great seeing Ukraine as a giant Roach Motel.