ICHEOKU says it was a well crafted speech and under his frailty, was delivered sufficiently well too. ICHEOKU commends him for his courage in damning the Deep State Military Industrial Complex to bring the Afghanistan charade to an end. So many people had anticipated that some people would have been fired for the hiccups encountered, but he took all the responsibility as the buck stopped on his table. He took the covering fire and so should the matter now rest. Many American people strongly believe that the decision to end the conduit for Afghanistan fraud and corruption was the right decision as it stopped the bleeding enterprise of $300 million every day out of America's treasury.
Many things were disclosed in the speech such as that majority of the Americans in Afghanistan are Afghan nationals who have dual citizenship in America; but who are at home with their people and many of them decided to stay and tough it out. There is a report too that some Afghanis even returned to Afghanistan following the Taliban victory, including a former finance minister who moved back from America following contacts with the Taliban and the hope of joining the new government, reappointed to the ministry. As ICHEOKU has repeatedly said, majority of Afghanis support the Taliban because they were tired of the corrupt and inept former President Ashraf Ghani's administration and wanted a change.
Another point which Joe Biden raised in the speech was the need for America to punt out of Afghanistan and reposition itself better in order not to lose grounds to China and Russia in global competition. It is a very germane reason as the billions of dollars being wasted in Afghanistan, to the tune of $300 million each day, could be put elsewhere to a better use and better yield on return on investment. Infrastructure, schools, healthcare and technological and medical improvements could benefit handsomely from this. But what exactly was the daily amount spent on for the duration the expenses lasted when not even the Kabul embassy building which gulped $700 million to put together was secured.
It was also relieving to learn that Americans in Afghanistan had multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan for several months beginning in March, for a total of 19 times and that majority of those who wanted to leave safely left. That 100,000 Afghanis were also airlifted out of their country, which ICHEOKU says was not helpful to Afghanistan because with them now gone, the country is left with no requisite manpower to continue building back better from where America stopped. It was not a good decision to evacuate this many Afghanis out of their country since abandoning it to the Taliban will only make it worse and less livable with no adequate brainpower left to run and manage it.
However, ICHEOKU disagrees with Joe Biden for trying to apportion some blame to President Donald John Trump for the agreement he reached with the Taliban on the withdrawal. Joe Biden have canceled everything with Trump's signature and name on it including and could have also easily canceled whatever agreement he reached with the Taliban, but he did not. He made a campaign promise to end the war and he ended the war. The buck stopped on his table. It was under his watch; he is fully and completely responsible for all the shortfalls and also earned all the credits for the successes. Just as he took full responsibility for the mission, so should he also not point any finger at any person for any agreement leading up to the withdrawal.
No meaningful non partisan is questioning the wisdom behind the decision to end the war and withdraw from Afghanistan; but the manner in which the withdrawal was carried out is the only thing under the microscope. It is also agreed that no time would have been better for the mission but it that could have been more ordered through a scheme that would have had only those penciled down for airlift being contacted and taken out of Afghanistan in the dead of the night, if need be. But to surge evacuees in the manner witnessed at the airport is what so many people disagree with as it is not the best possible approach for the exercise. Afghanis rushed to the airport because they got wind of the evacuation, otherwise they would have been sleeping on their beds when those meant to be evacuated were completely emptied out of the country.
ICHEOKU says agrees with Joe Biden too that going forward, America must always set missions with clear achievable goals, not unattainable ones; and that America must stay clearly mission-focused on the fundamental national security interests which necessitated the mission and once achieved, it is mission over. It couldn't be more clear-eyed than this and Joe Biden should be commended and appreciated for articulating such a definable mission creed with exactitude. He gave his word and he carried it through. It was a right and wise decision; and, in fact it was the best decision for America.
The Deep State military industrial complex did not like it but so also do they not like America as they have become mercenaries preying on America's wellness and Joe Biden stood up to them and won. Thankfully he did not suffer a "sudden heart attack" before August 31st as those monsters are capable of just anything. It is possible too that their dislike for Kamala Harris saved the day and deterred them from going to that extreme length because they loath her more than they hate Joe Biden for killing their golden goose.
As America now begin to put the Afghanistan matter behind them, Washington DC should try and work with the Taliban so that they can someday soon ship back all those Afghanis to the country to continue building it back better into a much livable place for all humanity to live, thrive and prosper.
Every country's problem cannot be solved by evacuating their citizens, otherwise what will happen if the worse should ever happen and Americans need to be evacuated. Where will Americans be shipped or flown to if all the countries in the world become too dependent on America that none is functionally viable anymore. The gospel of building back better should be also be preached to other countries to encourage them to be rebuildingi and repositioning their own countries because their over-reliance on America has made so many of them lazy and dysfunctional.
Imagine the news the other day that the United Kingdom or what was once the Great Britain that used to be a great naval power now has only one functional warship. Imagine the whole continent of Europe, excluding Russia, with a population of more than 700 million people cannot defend themselves and heavily relies on America under the subterfuge of NATO. Now nearly all the other countries in the world are following in the footsteps of Europe and the United Kingdom in getting lazy, allowing their countries to fall apart because their citizens can always run to America and they rely on America to bail them out as well.
What is happening in the world regarding America's big brother role is steadily morphing into putting all the world's eggs in one America's basket; and instead of creating competitive nations around the world, they are all collapsing into tiny pieces of the great American mosaic. What happens the day the world wakes up and America is no more or has been reduced to a state where it is barley surviving and cannot shoulder the world's problems anymore?
It is only an unthinking mind that believes that anything lasts forever; and while we pray and hope that America's odyssey goes on uninterrupted and unimpeded; but what about the ifs and buts? Even if it is not through a man made annihilation such as China and Russia ganging up to take America out; what if a natural disaster completely wipes America off the map or renders its ability to play the big brother role ineffective or even impossible? What becomes the fate of the world whose lungs is America or will their breathing come to a halt of an assured instant death?
There used to be so many thriving and even competitive countries in the world but not anymore, except for China. Nigeria for example once had a national currency which was much highly valued and sort after around the world than the American dollar. It used to be a country whose retards were shipped out to American universities because they were not good enough academically to compete in Nigeria schools and universities. But look at Nigeria today and the abyss into which it has fallen with hundreds of thousands of its best brains sojourning in America. People who could help reposition the country are chilling in America with their home country in such degradation.
Italy and Spain too had tall historical pasts as well, but not anymore. Greece too and of late the United Kingdom is beginning to lose their edge as well. They all have since lost many of their bright minds to America's brain drain and the people are no longer as patriotically committed to the development and wellness of their country as they once used to be. Ireland is practically emptied out of their hit makers as well and the same story is replete throughout the world as so many governments no longer even bother trying to fix their countries, but encourages their citizens to move to America.
Instead of investing in their countries and without knowledgeable citizens to confront them, they are mired in corruption and use available resources for their families and cronies, leading to the degrading poverty in their lands. Afghanistan is just another example where America erred seriously by removing Afghanis who could help build back better their country. The effect will be a country worse than the bargained for "safety and freedom" of women. Why not even restrict the evacuation to only women and leave the men to fight for their country. Just as Americans love their country, other nationalities should be encouraged to also love their own countries and not always thinking that the solution to their problems is a quick exit to America.
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