Interesting "Mime Factoids"
Signs of the time:
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Politifact says the story about the Biden's owning 10% of the lithium battery company is false, just FYI.
Melissa
And:
GW must have drunk the Kool Ade?
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If this is true then Israel will have to respond:
Iran will have enough uranium for nuclear weapon in one month - report
Iran has reportedly not been this close to nuclear capability since before the nuclear accord in 2015.
Iran is on track to obtaining enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb within one month, according to a report published on Monday by the Institute for Science and International Security, a US-based think tank.
The institute estimated, in a worst-case scenario, that in as little as a month Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear weapon. In three months it could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a second weapon and in five months a third.
Iran already has 200 grams of enriched uranium metal, which is an integral element for the production of nuclear weapons.
The late Tuesday report by ISIS – also known as the “good ISIS” – would not mean the Islamic Republic could fire a nuclear weapon, as this requires additional tasks relating to detonation and delivery, but if correct, it would mean Tehran is at a new nuclear threshold where all that is needed is the political decision.
This dire prediction by the think tank came with criticism of the IAEA’S latest deal with Iran on Sunday in which a new dialogue was opened with Iran’s new government over nuclear issues, but without Tehran stopping its 60% enrichment violation of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal.
Since April, the Islamic Republic jumped its enrichment from 5% and 20% to the 60% level, which is considered only one level down from the 90% weaponized level.
At lower levels, Iran has in fact had sufficient quantity for multiple nuclear bombs for several months.
However, what was most significant about the report was that it was laid out in quantitative scientific terms based on IAEA reports itself, as opposed to the sometimes more vague statements by Israeli or other politicians.
Critics will note that the think tank’s founder David Albright is a hawk on Iran issues, but the report is based on IAEA data.
The report concluded that all Iranian moves are designed to pressure the US into concessions in the nuclear negotiations which broke down between May-June and have been totally frozen since new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was elected.
The current and former Israeli governments both oppose a return to the JCPOA without massive changes to fill holes whereas the Biden administration has moved aggressively to return to the deal.
To date, Biden administration officials have vaguely threatened that their patience for Iran to return to the negotiating table was not limitless, but have avoided any actual deadline.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated back in August that Iran was two months away from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Mossad may have destroyed some IAEA equipment at Iran nuclear site
IAEA chief: We do not know how much data lost from broken cameras
An incident at Iran’s Karaj nuclear facility in June, which was attributed by many to the Mossad, may have destroyed some of the IAEA’s monitoring equipment, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said Monday.
He did not mention who caused the incident, but it is possible that Iran used it to take action against the agency’s equipment.
Grossi said the loss of the data was a negative development, and he seemed to disapprove of actions against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Next, Grossi said his agency did not know how much monitoring data was lost regarding Iran’s nuclear program from its broken and damaged cameras.
“We still need to see the degree of gap” of the missing data, he said, adding that he hoped other monitoring redundancies of the IAEA would help uncover any data missing from individual cameras.
Neither the Prime Minister’s Office, the Defense Ministry nor other intelligence sources responded to inquiries from The Jerusalem Post about Grossi’s implied accusation.
Grossi did not respond to questions about whether his own staff had established that the June incident had caused damage to its equipment or whether it was basing this on Iran’s assessment.
Further, he did not respond to inquiries about whether any of the IAEA’s equipment was damaged during prior explosions at different nuclear facilities in the Natanz area, which was also attributed by Iran and others to the Mossad, in July 2020 and this past April.
‘THERE IS less access, let’s face it.’ Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi ahead of a virtual IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna last year.
The big question that remains is whether the agency’s Board of Governors will take dramatic action to condemn Iran and refer its noncompliance and nuclear violations to the UN Security Council, as it did in June 2020.
Alternatively, it may postpone major moves for another three months to give Grossi’s latest negotiations more time.
It is not known when the board will announce or leak its decision, though meetings were held on Monday and are also due to be held next week.
Late on Sunday, Grossi said he had reached a deal with Iran’s new government to allow immediate “servicing” of the IAEA’s monitoring equipment, as well as plans for follow-up meetings for later in September with top Iranian officials.
However, Grossi also acknowledged that Iran would deny access to all electronic data dating back to February 24 until all IAEA and US nuclear issues are resolved.
Furthermore, Iran will not end its nuclear violations of the 2015 JCPOA deal until there is a deal with the US, he said, adding that there was no commitment to clarify questions about illicit nuclear material and undeclared nuclear sites.
Also on Monday, British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab tweeted he had held his first telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, adding that he called on the Islamic Republic to release all detained British nationals and return to the JCPOA negotiations in Vienna.
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Another mean spirited, petty, dangerous move/decision by Biden to pay off Iran and Obummer? Or perhaps it was imposed on Biden by Obummer plants in Biden's Administration who basically control foreign policy initiatives?.
Biden Removes US Missiles from Saudi Arabia, In an Obama-Like Move to Appease Iran
By Joe Hoft
The wheels of insanity in the O'Biden Administration are about to fall off again. Rather than solidifying President Trump’s policy of peace in the Middle East, O'Biden’s actions are likely to blow the entire region up into another O'Biden mess.
President Trump went to the Middle East and visited world religious leaders on his first overseas visit in an effort to bring peace to the Middle East. President Trump inherited ISIS terrorizing the Middle East as well as Iran and both these terrorist entities were backed by the O'Biden gang.
President Trump’s strategy was peace, not horror and destruction. He shared his vision with Arab leaders and asked them to remove terrorists out of their communities.
But this is not O'Biden’s plan. O'Biden shows that it wants destruction, murder and pain in the Middle East. This is the only plausible reason for the current Administration’s actions. The AP reports:
The U.S. has removed its most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, even as the kingdom faced continued air attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show.
The redeployment of the defenses from Prince Sultan Air Base outside of Riyadh came as America’s Gulf Arab allies nervously watched the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, including their last-minute evacuations from Kabul’s besieged international airport.
While tens of thousands of American forces remain across the Arabian Peninsula as a counterweight to Iran, Gulf Arab nations worry about the U.S.’s future plans as its military perceives a growing threat in Asia that requires those missile defenses. Tensions remain high as negotiations appear stalled in Vienna over Iran’s collapsed nuclear deal with world powers, raising the danger of future confrontations in the region.
O'Biden shows through its actions that it has no desire for peace in the Middle East or anywhere. Our allies can no longer rely on us. These are indeed dark days.
Joe Hoft
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With respect to mandating all take the Covid my thoughts, as previously expressed, are that it would be a positive act if all citizens got vaccinated.
The practical effect however, is that offsetting this would be an omnipotent government that eventually would become like Germany when Hitler mandated medical experiments. We already have college professors advocating the burning of books and the current trends show just how far radicalism has gripped our nation. Biden and /or his Obummer operatives have their minds on dictation, changing everything our founders thought important enough to codify in documents called "The Bill of Rights" and "The Constitution."
After all the first Black president told us he wanted to transform America and we did not listen so he did just that. Where has that gotten us? Are we more united?
In time Sharia law will be used as a basis for SCOTUS opinions if liberal Justices have their way. Sliding from democracy to totalitarianism is just a few steps and a whole lot of intimidation to still voices.
Tomorrow could become a political earthquake if Newsom is thrown out as governor.
I continue to believe it is crucial this current Democrat Party and it's radical leadership, must be crushed at the polls in the mid terms and pray that the election will not be fraudulent.
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They are jail breaking terrorists:
They’re terrorists, not ‘security prisoners’
The media’s distortion of language in relation to Israel and the Palestinians is especially disconcerting—and par for the course—on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
By Ruthie Blum
Palestinians in the village of Kafr Qaddoum, west of Nablus, riot on behalf of the terrorists who escaped from Israel's Gilboa Prison, Sept. 10, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
How do news outlets love to portray the recent “great escape” from Israel’s Gilboa Prison? Let us count the ways.
The first is to refer to the six Palestinian terrorists who plotted and carried out the most egregious jailbreak in Israel’s history as “security prisoners.”
The second is to downplay the rap sheets of the four who were apprehended and the remaining two fugitives still on the loose.
The third is to take a pause from the above to blame Israel for the lax conditions that enabled the men to spend months digging the tunnel—from the floor of the shower cubicle in their cell—through which they fled from behind bars. Oh, and, of course, for failing to catch them as soon as they managed to pull off the daring stunt.
It’s a neat trick. Simultaneously sanitizing the terrorists’ blood-stained hands and magnifying Israel’s role in the debacle is precisely how the Palestinian Authority runs its propaganda campaign: at once denying the Holocaust, for instance, while accusing the Jewish state of emulating the Nazis.
The same ostensible paradox applies to Palestinians’ rioting on behalf of the escapees by hurling fire bombs at the “occupation forces” and threatening terrorist attacks if those of their brethren who were captured, or the ones on the run and those still in jail are treated poorly by the Shin Bet, Israel Police and Israel Prison Service. Meanwhile, inmates left behind are warning that if their cushy conditions are altered one iota, they’ll launch a hunger strike.
Israel’s grown so used to the scenario that all its new leaders can do is pat themselves on the back for playing catch-up and vowing to rectify the dereliction of their predecessors. You know, the Cabinet led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But even Naftali Bennett’s government, which the press has been treating with kid gloves for having ousted nemesis Netanyahu, can’t overcome the media’s knee-jerk reaction to any catastrophe involving the Palestinians. Two choice examples are in order—The New York Times and Reuters—though others abound, including in Israeli papers.
“The Israeli police said on Saturday that they had captured four of the six Palestinian fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison this week, in a case seen as a rare humiliation of the country’s security establishment,” writes New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley in an updated report on the incident.
Clearly, he thinks that the “rare humiliation” of [Israel’s] security establishment” is more newsworthy than the identity of the “fugitives.”
Let’s not be too hasty, however, in judging the copy and priorities of others. Kingsley does proceed to name the prisoners—Mahmoud Ardah, Yaqoub Qadri, Zakaria Zubeidi and Mohammad Ardah (Mahmoud’s brother), who were captured, and the two still at large, Eham Kamamji and Munadil Nafayat.
Here’s how he describes “Mr. Zubeidi”: “a prominent militant leader during the second Palestinian intifada … in the 2000s and … former commander of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group loosely affiliated with Fatah, the secular group that dominates Palestinian politics in the occupied West Bank.”
He goes on to state that the “other three recaptured inmates are members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed Islamist militant group, [who] have been serving life sentences for involvement in attacks on Israeli civilians, the police said.”
The two not yet caught (as of the time of his and this writing), he mentions, are “both members of Islamic Jihad, the authorities said.”
Kamamji, he adds, “was serving a life sentence for kidnapping and killing an Israeli teenager, Eliyahu Asheri,” and “Nafayat had been imprisoned without charge since 2019.”
Reuters presents an evocative depiction of the affair, calling the escapees “militants” and highlighting that the search for them was taking place “across northern Israel, where the Arab city of Nazareth sits, and the occupied West Bank.”
The international news service continues, “The facility the men escaped from, about 4 km (2 miles) from the boundary with the occupied West Bank, is one of the highest-security jails in Israel. The escapees include Zakaria Zubeidi, a former commander of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank city of Jenin who once received Israeli amnesty. Zubeidi was rearrested by Israel in 2019 after his alleged involvement in new shooting attacks.”
The only thing “alleged” about the whole nasty business—a result of Israel’s trying to placate the Palestinians and international community by allowing jailed jihadists better benefits than those granted to white-collar criminals—is the “occupation.”
Judea and Samaria, at worst, is “disputed” territory. And “Mr. Zubeidi” is a terrorist, not a “militant.” Nothing “alleged” about him or his fellow evildoers whose imprisonment was justified, and whose escape endangered any Jew who would have had, or still has, the misfortune to encounter any one of them.
Nor are the cheers among Palestinians for these dastardly “heroes” to be taken lightly. Killing and abetting the planned murder of innocent Israelis is an integral part of P.A. culture. The so-called, falsely dubbed “occupation” has nothing to do with it, as Israel’s many territorial withdrawals and P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s behavior have illustrated.
The distortion of language in relation to Israel and the Palestinians is especially disconcerting—and par for the course—on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. As JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin points out, much of the left considers the most important aspect of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon to be “the alleged racism and religious bigotry for which [they] served as an excuse.”
The same moral inversion characterizes the left’s attitude towards the West in general and Israel in particular. Sadly, its slant only serves to embolden the bad guys who make no bones about their immediate and ultimate aims.
It’s the height of tragic irony that whenever and wherever Islamofascists get their way, Western journalists are among the first in line for literal and figurative beheading.
Ruthie Blum is an Israel-based journalist and author of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring.’ ”
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May is brilliant
After Twenty 9/11 Anniversaries, the Sleeping Giant Nods Off Again
By CLIFFORD MAY
People standing on a vehicle hold Taliban flags as people gather near the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Abdul Khaliq Achakzai
JNS.org – On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I wrote a column about a BBC radio program. I had been a guest along with “activist” Bianca Jagger and Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite. Neither evinced sympathy for what Americans had suffered at the hands of Al-Qaeda and its enabler, the Taliban. On the contrary, Jagger accused the Bush administration of killing “thousands” of innocent Afghans and failing to pay “reparations.”
A year later, I wrote an anniversary column praising Sen. John Kerry, then a presidential candidate, for calling the attacks “our generation’s Pearl Harbor.” But I questioned whether he grasped the implication: Had our enemies awakened a “sleeping giant” and filled him “with a terrible resolve” (as Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is reputed to have said)? I also suggested that if President Roosevelt had been asked how long we’d be at war with the Axis powers, he’d have answered: “For the duration.”
My 2004 anniversary column noted with chagrin that editors at Reuters had begun asserting that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
Two years later, it seemed to me that “we have begun to understand that we have enemies, that they pose a serious threat, and that we must fight them.” I referenced the Bush administration’s National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, which declared that the United States would “kill or capture the terrorists; deny them safe haven and control of any nation; prevent them from gaining access to WMD.”
My 2007 anniversary column observed that Gen. David Petraeus had taken “command of the 28,000 reinforcements he needed in order to change course in Iraq” targeting Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which had been “suicide-bombing mosques and markets in an attempt to foment a civil war from which they expected to benefit. He also began to challenge the Iranian-backed Shia militias that had gained power by responding to the AQI attacks.”
On Sept. 10, 2009, I expressed support for President Obama’s decision to surge 21,000 additional troops into Afghanistan. Still, I criticized him for appearing ambivalent about the mission at a time when too many, on both the left and the right, were “arguing for retreat.”
I added: “Any time infidels flee, declaring ‘This is a war that can’t be won!’ or even ‘This is a war that can’t be won militarily!’ the jihadis gain. By contrast, any time jihadis flee because they can’t stand up to ‘the strongest tribe,’ they lose more than that engagement and lines on a map.”
The next year, I focused on Obama’s contention that “open-ended war” does not “serve” American interests. If he wasn’t going to commit the resources necessary to defeat America’s enemies but didn’t want to accept defeat at the hands of those enemies, the only option remaining was the one he was rhetorically rejecting: a long war, a “low-intensity war,” to prevent our enemies from triumphing. That war would have to be fought, I wrote, “on a variety of fronts. Afghanistan is one of them.”
On the 11th anniversary of the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia terrorists killed four Americans at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. My column lamented that, nevertheless, on “television and in the editorial pages of newspapers, there was almost no discussion of who our enemies are, what they believe, what goals they seek to achieve, and what strategies they are pursuing.”
Two years ago, I wrote that “despite his misgivings, Mr. Trump has maintained a small contingent of American troops in Syria whose main mission is to enable Kurdish and Arab partners to continue to diminish the Islamic State, which emerged following Mr. Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.”
But I expressed concern about Trump’s dialogue with the Taliban—especially his plan to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David. “Can you think of a better way to send a message of legitimacy and encouragement not just to the Taliban but to all jihadi groups and regimes in the Middle East and beyond?” I asked.
Though Trump canceled the meeting, talks continued, culminating in a bad deal that the Taliban soon violated but which President Biden now claims he couldn’t reject (as he has so many of his predecessor’s other policies).
Last year’s anniversary column drew from congressional testimony by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ Thomas Joscelyn, making clear that Al-Qaeda branches, and those of its offshoot, Islamic State, have been “waging insurgencies” and setting up “terrorist networks” in a growing list of countries on several continents.
“These groups have not launched a catastrophic terrorist attack in the West in recent years, but that’s not because they wouldn’t like to,” I posited. “It’s in large measure because the US and some allies have taken the fight to them.”
At that point, there were fewer than 10,000 troops in Afghanistan—down from more than 100,000 at the end of Bush’s second term. With only that small contingent supporting Afghan forces, wrote Gen. Petraeus, Al-Qaeda was being prevented from reestablishing the infrastructure it had “under the Taliban prior to its ouster from power in late 2001.”
“Rather than a safe haven for extremists to plot devastating strikes on the United States and its allies,” he added, “Afghanistan over the last two decades became an outpost from which the United States and its allies could project power against the terrorists.”
But, as he and others feared, Trump’s bad deal, implemented with stunning incompetence by Biden, has squandered those gains. We’re back to Sept. 10, 2001, except that both our enemies and our allies are now watching the sleeping giant return to his slumber. Expect serious repercussions to follow.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), and a columnist for The Washington Times.
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Iran’s Dangerous Nuclear Dance
Will anything stop Biden from trying to revive the flawed deal?
By The Editorial Board.
We’re not sure Iran could do anything to make President Biden give up his pursuit of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, and Iran is acting as if it agrees. This could explain Tehran’s escalations in response to U.S. concessions.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Sunday that Iran would allow its inspectors to service surveillance cameras monitoring Iranian nuclear sites. This is no great breakthrough. In February the regime began blocking the agency from inspecting several nuclear facilities in person, though it cut a deal to keep some monitoring equipment. The latest agreement won’t guarantee access to this data, which could be deleted at any time, but a joint Iran-IAEA statement still noted their “spirit of cooperation and mutual trust.”
The 2015 deal’s apologists will say that this is proof Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi may be ready to return to the negotiating table, but this move is really about keeping his options open. Iran offered the token concession over the weekend to avoid an IAEA board censure, which theoretically could lead to United Nations sanctions. The U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. had been considering a rebuke over the inspection intransigence, but don’t hold your breath.
The Islamic Republic has already done plenty to earn a censure. Much of the media attention has focused on Iran’s expanding its nuclear deal violations such as activating advanced centrifuges and enriching uranium at higher concentrations.
But the regime also has stonewalled a separate IAEA investigation into undeclared nuclear sites in the country. This points to a fundamental flaw in the nuclear agreement: No one knows the true extent of the Iranian nuclear program, let alone what’s happening at the declared sites. The sense of security the deal provided the West was illusory, but the sanctions relief was real.
Mr. Biden already has downgraded America’s relationship with Iranian rival Saudi Arabia, ended the “snap back” sanctions fight with Iran at the U.N. and pulled some restrictions against Iranian officials. Multiple media reports say American negotiators offered sanctions relief unrelated to nuclear issues at several rounds of talks in Vienna this year, but Iran has declined to resume talks. It may be holding out for more concessions, and the Biden Administration has shown it will offer them.
Arms-control agreements work best among friendly nations. When dealing with adversaries, the agreement is only as good as the verification and monitoring measures that come with it. An IAEA censure would send a message that Mr. Biden understands this basic principle.
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Blinken testifies , blinks and dodges:
Blinken Dodges Key Questions in House Testimony
By JOEL B. POLLAK
House Republicans struggled to squeeze answers from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Monday in his testimony at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as the career diplomat parsed his answers carefully and dodged the toughest questions.
Republicans did touch on several of the questions Breitbart News had previously suggested they ask — as Democrats ran interference for the administration, arguing that chaos was inevitable in any withdrawal, and that Trump left “no plan.”
The latter point is false, as Breitbart News’ Kristina Wong noted in a fact check, citing an earlier interview she did with Trump administration national security official Kash Patel, who described a pullout plan the Biden Administration ignored.
Several Republicans demanded that Blinken resign, but he simply ignored them. The setup of the event, in which he was allowed to testify from his office in the State Department, made it harder to Republicans to press him for clear answers.
One of the most important moments occurred offscreen — and, ironically, on the left-wing MSNBC network, when Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) pushed back on Blinken’s claim that the Biden administration had “inherited” a flawed situation with regard to special immigrant visas (SIVs) for Afghans who had helped the U.S. Bera said that while Democrats had tried reaching out to the administration, it was only in July that Blinken and his colleagues showed any interest in the issue.
Republicans did manage to extract several important facts: there are roughly 100 Americans stilltrapped in Afghanistan; the administration does not know how many green card holders or SIV applicants are in Afghanistan, nor how many ineligible Afghans were evacuated instead; no pallets of cash have been sent to secure the release of Americans; and Blinken thinks the Taliban will find it in their self-interest to create a “genuinely inclusive and representative government.”
The GOP also managed to draw Blinken into several contradictions. He kept claiming that “no one” foresaw the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, while also claiming that the Biden administration had planned for all “contingencies.” He said that there was no intelligence predicting that the Taliban would overrun the country, but could not explain why he had ignored the warnings in a dissenting cable from diplomats who warned that the government of Afghanistan would collapse.
Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA), who is the most experienced member of the caucus on oversight issues, pointed out — using a prop — that the State Department had told Americans in Afghanistan to find their way to rescue flights without the help of the U.S. government. Issa did not press the point, as he could have done by highlighting the many contradictory updates that the State Department had provided. But Blinken looked rattled for a moment — as he should have been throughout.
Yet Republicans failed, in general, to draw attention to Blinken’s central problem: his lack of credibility. Blinken promised that Afghanistan would not be another Saigon; his department said the embassy in Kabul would remain open even as the Taliban closed in; and then, after the withdrawal, he claimed the U.S. would now “lead with our diplomacy.” When the Taliban arrived, he was on vacation. How can he still lead U.S. foreign policy when nothing Blinken said came to pass?
Blinken continues to maintain that the only thing that went wrong was the unexpected collapse of the Afghan military. That is where questions must begin, not where they should end. Did the Biden administration ignore the intelligence, as Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) implied? Or was our intelligence so flawed, as Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) suggested, that we could not see the obvious?
Someone is responsible, but the longer Blinken can evade these questions, the harder it will be to address the problems that led to the ongoing crisis.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT)
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Blinken’s Idiocy on the Taliban and Women
By Andrew C. McCarthy
The notion of women holding governmental positions is anathema to the Taliban.
In an observation that would be amusing were it not made under such appalling circumstances, Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged to the House Foreign Affairs Committee that, in assembling its regime in Afghanistan, the Taliban had fallen “very short of the mark” expected by the vaunted “international community.” As the New York Times reports, he was referring specifically to the fundamentalists’ failure to include women in the new government.
I’m constrained yet again to note the sheer idiocy of such remarks from our State Department, nearly 30 years after the principles of sharia supremacism (which is the Taliban’s ideology) figured prominently in U.S. terrorism prosecutions.
The salient point here is not so much about women as it is about fundamentalist Islam’s theory of governance. But maddeningly, our government has always stood ready to turn a blind eye at the latter if it could just get a bit of window dressing on the former.
The Taliban are as literalist and unevolved as it gets, so the notion of women holding governmental positions is anathema to them. But that’s not merely because these are government positions; it’s mainly because they are outside-the-home positions. Before you’d even get to questions of governance, you’d confront the Taliban’s opposition to women’s being outside the home without the supervision of a male relative, to the perceived impropriety of women’s interacting with men to whom they are neither married nor related, and to the perceived intellectual inferiority of women that results, for example, in their testimony being valued at half that of a man’s (rooted in an ancient hadith, the provenance of which is questioned by reformist Islamic scholars and authentically moderate Muslim modernizers).
Yet sharia supremacism is not monolithic.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a sharia-supremacist organization, but it is the most influential one in modern history because it is flexible, even nuanced, about means of advancing sharia’s implementation while remaining unyielding on the crucial matter of ends — fidelity to sharia principles. As I’ve explained on other occasions (and discussed extensively in The Grand Jihad, my 2010 book on the Brotherhood and its alliance with transnational progressives), the most influential scholar in this most influential organization is Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Notwithstanding his endorsement of violent jihad, Qaradawi has won plaudits from the usual suspects (such as the State Department) because of, among other things, his “moderate” views on the rights of women to vote and hold elective office.
Now, let’s put this in context.
Qaradawi is no moderate. As I related in The Grand Jihad, he has lectured approvingly on
female circumcision, sharia rules that limit female inheritance to half of a man’s share, the right of men to have multiple wives, the right of men to beat their wives, and the punishment of female rape victims. “For her to be absolved from guilt,” the sheikh has explained, “a raped woman must have shown good conduct.” If she is dressed immodestly, she is deemed to have brought the sexual assault on herself.
Qaradawi also enthusiastically urges that women must wage jihad, including as suicide bombers. All of these are logical sharia-supremacist positions. The limitations on and punishments of women are classical Islamic law. The approval of female jihadists involves the corporate defense of Islamic territories and the umma (the notional worldwide Islamic community). It would not be endorsed in all circumstances, but if there are not enough men available to wage jihad successfully, women must be pressed into service for the greater good of defeating the perceived enemies of Islam.
It is this same line of thinking that explains why Qaradawi supports women’s suffrage and women legislators, particularly in societies subject to what he sees as corrupting Western influences.
Is there more to it than that? Sure. Qaradawi has children he adores. He found it in himself to be an enthusiastic supporter of women’s education and is duly proud of the doctorates earned by three of his daughters. Nevertheless, his support for women’s scholarship and political participation is not about the women’s flourishing; it is about the umma’s defense: If Muslim women are not active in education and politics, and there are not enough Muslim men to take all these positions, the void would be filled by non-Muslims and secularists, whose corrosive Western influences would undermine the advancement of sharia governance.
Significantly, there are caveats in Qaradawi’s support for women’s participation in politics. First, he assumes that female officeholders will be “few in number”; therefore, they would pose no danger of achieving general supervision over men, which would be impermissible. More importantly, he reasons that there is no real harm in allowing women to serve in parliament because neither men nor women may make law for themselves in any event. “Legislation belongs to God,” he says, “and we only fill in the blanks.”
This is what Blinken, the State Department, the Biden administration, and Washington’s bipartisan progressive foreign-policy clerisy cannot bear to contemplate. The problem with the Taliban, and sharia supremacists generally, is their imposition of a totalitarian system that is inherently discriminatory and cruel. Whether the Muslims imposing it happen to be men or women, while of great moment to the State Department, is of little moment to sharia supremacists. The system is not open to the discretion of legislators pursuing the interests of their constituents. That is a Western concept that sharia regards as corrupting — inviting the desires of man to take precedence over the instruction of Allah.
Sharia is deemed set in stone. It is Allah’s law, divinely pronounced, so to suggest that its tenets are subject to human refinement is to commit a grave offense. The issue is not whether a few women are allowed to take positions in a sharia government. It is what a sharia government has license to do — namely, to implement sharia’s suffocating standards and enforce them relentlessly.
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Bumper Stickers Seen on Military Bases
• 101st Airborne Division- “When it comes to Combat, we care enough to send the very best”
• “When in doubt, empty the magazine!”
• “Sniper – You can run, but you’ll just die tired!”
• “Machine Gunners – Accuracy By Volume”
• “Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything”
• ” U.S. Marines – Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club”
• " U.S. Air Force – Travel Agents To Allah”
• “The Marine Corps – When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight”
• “Death Smiles At Everyone – Marines Smile Back”
• “What Do I Feel When I Kill A Terrorist? — A Little Recoil”
• “Marines – Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775"
• “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It”
• “Happiness Is A Belt-Fed Weapon”
• “It’s God’s Job to Forgive Bin Laden – It was Our Job To Arrange The Meeting”
(General H. Norman Schwarzkopf )
• “Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl”
• “One Shot, Twelve Kills – U.S. Naval Gun Fire Support “
• “My Kid Fought In Iraq So Your Kid Can Party In College and Protest”
• “A Dead Enemy Is A Peaceful Enemy —Blessed Be The Peacemakers”
• “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The US Marines don’t have that problem."
The American soldier does not fight because he hates who is in front of him; he fights because he loves who is behind him.
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Why I love living in America these days:
I took down my Rebel flag (which you can't buy on EBAY anymore) and peeled the NRA sticker off my rear window.
I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch.
I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard.
Then I purchased the black flag of ISIS (which you CAN buy on EBAY) and ran it up the flagpole.
Now the local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching my house 24/7.
I've NEVER felt safer and I'm saving $69.95 a month that ADT used to charge me.
Plus, I bought burkas for me to wear when I shop or travel. Everyone moves out of the way and security can't pat me down.
If they say I'm a male wearing a burka, I just say I'm feeling like a woman today.
Life is Good...
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Just Biden time:
| Biden wanders from script... suddenly the video feed is cut | Headline: White House livestream cuts Biden mid-sentence as he goes off script
The First take: If this were the first time it happened, we would be more likely to excuse the cutting of the feed as an error. But, it is the third time in recent weeks something like this has happened. And, last week we learned Biden staffers admit to being nervous whenever the president speaks live. Apparently with good reason! | | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Obummer was clever as he transformed America: 'If we cannot name our enemy, how can we ever expect to defeat it?'+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Ross Rants: The more time goes by, and the more the Dems realize they have no possible way to pay for their massive spending, the less it has any chance to pass. I think Manchin has really struck a chord with moderates. The members also heard from the voters over the last two weeks. Now the lobbyists are pounding away. The Dems are coming up with all sorts of ridiculous ideas for new places to tax, and none of it makes any sense. It is clear they are flailing around to find ways to cover the cost, and failing. The more new taxes they talk about, the more voters get upset as they understand there is no way all taxpayers will not eventually get hit. Now there is a threat from Pelosi that unless they pass the big spend bill there will be no infrastructure bill. That is exactly what the 9 moderates said they would not tolerate. The bartender from the Bronx has said the same. Pelosi does not care about anyone other than getting her legacy becoming law before she is gone, so this will be an epic battle. I remain believing some small bill of $1.25 T to 2.0 T might pass, or nothing at all, but we will see if Manchin and Sinema have any backbone. And if nothing passes, then 2022 is a major win for Republicans, because then they can say the Dems had control and could not even pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The next two to three weeks in Congress are going to be really ugly. Pelosi will stop at nothing now since this is her last hurrah, and she will sacrifice any member to get her way. The bill is 10,000 pages and no hearings and no regular order. It is a replay of Obamacare. You have to pass it to know what is in it. This time that will not likely work.
The Fed is highly likely to start tapering in November meeting, and will wrap it up by July 2022. Commercial real estate is recovering very well other than urban office and especially NYC ands SF. Multi is fully back to pre-2020 in almost all cities, and rents are rising nicely (more inflation not transitory). Retail pricing power is very strong (more inflation), and even malls are doing OK for now.
Delta has caused everyone to cut their GDP forecast for the rest of the year. My belief is Delta is starting to recede, and more people are getting shots, or becoming immune from being sick, and so by mid to late October things will be much better. Cases are down 10% this week and hospitalization down 5%. The CDC and White House need to all say the same thing at the same time, and it all needs to be science driven, not political as Biden has chosen to do. Right now it is a confusing mess as to boosters, how many have natural immunity, and so how much of the population is really still at risk. My assumption is not a lot on a percentage basis. Mostly all the new cases are unvaccinated, and over 25% are kids. However generally kids do not require hospitalization to the same extent as older people. 210 million Americans have at least one shot and another 40+ million are confirmed cases, plus there are another unknown number that have been infected, but not gotten sick or reported. So over 75% have some level of immunity. 92.5% of over 65, and 74% of over 12 have had at least one dose. People getting shots grows by around 850,000 per day, or another 25 million by mid-October, and another couple of million getting infected. Cases have just begun to decline. The biggest problem is blacks are only 30% vaccinated which suggest we need a bunch of black athletes and celebs to get out there and push it hard. Using these numbers, by mid-October we should be around 85% of the total population including kids should be immune to some degree. We just have to get through the next 3-4 weeks before there will be a very big decline in people getting sick, and a faster reopening. Q4 should see a major pick up in spending and hiring as Delta goes away and kids are fully in school. This should lead to a higher stock market in Q4, assuming the big spend and tax bill fails. If people don't think getting a shot and saving their own life makes sense, then there is little hope for those holdouts. 5.57 Billion people have gotten shots. 97.5% of people getting sick now are unvaccinated. The FDA has given final approval to Pfizer. What more proof do they need that it is safe and saves lives. If you remain unvaccinated you are just putting your life and those near you at risk.
Biden has ordered companies to mandate shots or face fines. That makes companies liable for the actions of employees over whose bodies they have no right to control, or get big fines. What is a company to do- fire staff if they refuse, thereby creating problems for the company which already cannot find staff they need. It violates the 10th amendment, but Biden disregards the constitution as he did with evictions. Just as in Afghanistan, he just does what he thinks is good politics, and ignores the law or intelligent advice. The fault with shots is with Biden and Harris making vaccines political early on and failing to convince people to get the shot. It is another illegal act by Biden, and will fail quickly in court.
If you want to know about the auto industry, I just got an mail from my BMW dealer begging me to sell him back my car so he had inventory for his certified pre-owned inventory. Several of my friends have gotten a similar email from other brand dealers. There are no chips so no cars. Result-people are buying their cars now instead of leasing to avoid this in the future.
The economic and stock market forecast remains very cloudy right now. We don't know if the massive spend bill will pass or if some version of it passes. Afghanistan is not going away as a big issue. Inflation is getting more ingrained and less transitory as the EU is reporting 3% inflation. Delta is still an issue. The end of the $300 is unclear as to impact, since they still get excessive food stamps and $3000 per kid, rent paid, plus in many states unemployment payments continue. The excuse some in the press make that the open jobs are not located where the unemployed are, is sheer media nonsense. There are open jobs everywhere. 11 million of them, in every field and skill level. With no work requirements anymore, like we got in the welfare to work in 1995, and women getting paid to have babies again, it is unclear what the unemployment situation will be in October. Now 86% of babies born to women with no high school diploma are single mothers. The numbers for no college degree are also very high. That is a big problem we will all be paying for. We are going back to the old welfare state we had in 1994.
As much as the MSM and Biden try to make believe Afghanistan is no longer an issue, it will continue to be front and center as we are at 9-11, and as stories come out that there are still more Americans stranded and thousands of Afghans. The story gets worse by the day, and will likely continue to be even worse. The geopolitical ramifications continue to get worse as all of our allies now realize Biden is worse than useless, and has made the world very dangerous. It is just a matter of time until a terror incident happens here or in Europe, and then Biden and the Dems will be the ones responsible no matter how the MSM tries to cover for Biden. The only good news for trapped Americans is the special forces veterans and ex-CIA operatives are working their expertise to get people out. We are just not hearing about it. The State Dept is useless worrying about who has the right documents. Just get the planes out of there and figure it out once they are in Doha or wherever. Now we have 100,000 refugees in military bases all over the place. What do we do with all of these people on top of the 2 million illegals flooding in. They are worried who has the right papers on a plane, but they let in everyone across the border, many with Covid. Idiotic is too polite for what is happening.
A simple data point for perspective. In December 1984, 30 day Libor was 8.5%. On March 31, 1989 it hit 10.062%. Through most of the nineties it ranged between 3.12% and 8.37%. It is currently .08%. One year ago it was .16. The ten year is just 1.336%. Given the trillions now awash across the world, it is likely that low rates will persist longer than most of us predicted. Inflation is becoming a real issue everywhere, but the flood of cash seems to be here for a long time. At some point in 2022 rates will rise as inflation becomes more of a problem, but it now seems likely that rates will not rise to the extent they would have if they were free to do so and not controlled by the Fed. One thing I learned over the decades is forecasting interest rates is usually not a winning thing to do. With producer prices up a record 8.3%, inflation is here, and the Fed may be forced sooner than they say to end QE and begin to raise rates sometime in 2022.
One major thing to watch is if Powell gets reappointed as Fed chair. The radicals are pushing Biden to nominate a left wing chair who will politicize the Fed and who will push far more regulation and climate change and diversity rules on banks. It would mean the end of an independent central bank. As of now it appears that Powell will stay, but after Afghanistan, who knows what stupid decisions Biden will make.
Putting aside whatever you believe about the Texas abortion law, the real legal issue is where is the line between states rights and Federal law, and if states can assign enforcement powers to individual citizens. None of this has anything to do with abortion, and so the case needs to be judged on what it is legally really all about. This last, the right of individuals to take enforcement actions, would have very dangerous and chaotic consequences if then used for all sorts of other issues. SCOTUS ruled on a narrow procedural issue in this case, and they did not make a ruling on Roe, or state's rights. This will end up back before the court one day, maybe next year, and then it will get decided on the states' rights and citizen enforcement issues, and not Roe. This is going to be a huge issue for 2022, and the outcome is impossible to predict. No matter which side you are on about abortion, the issue is massively emotional and political. and where facts on either side make no difference.
It now appears Newsom will not be recalled, and that is very unfortunate. The Dems are making this a do or die election, and they will do anything to win.
I recently read the books about We Works, Theranos, Silk Road and 1MDB, the Malaysian Scam that caught up Goldman Sachs among others. There is a common theme in all of these massive frauds. They all were led by very young, charismatic, very smart people, who were able to con even the most sophisticated people including Jamie Dimon, George Shultz and almost all of Wall St. They were driven to achieve wealth and dominance, and they were willing to stop at nothing, including murder in one case, to achieve their goals. The older smart guys who should have known much better were taken in by the personalities and sales pitches which on just a bit of due diligence made no sense. Some of the young analysts who looked into these deals raised alarms, but the potential massive fees and gains caused them to be shoved aside by their bosses. After reading these books, it is easy to understand Madoff, the tulip craze and all the other scams over history. It is a good repeat of the old lesson, be very careful what story you invest in, and don't let the promise of riches cloud your analysis and due diligence of the basics. The Theranos trial now underway will be very revealing.
I watched 9-11 happen from the Rainbow Room at the top of Rockefeller Center where I was for a breakfast. I recall the devastation of the families in NYC, and the impact on the city and the country. I recall going down to ground zero a few days later and seeing the devastation, and the layers of dust that covered everything, and most of all the constant smell of death that was in the air of the city for days. It seems Biden forgot all of what happened, as did Obama and Susan Rice, and the other Obama pals who pushed Biden to abandon Afghanistan. All so Joe could announce the end of the war on 9-11. This is the worst disgrace and disrespect imaginable. We are now in a much more dangerous situation since all of the really bad guys are gathering in Afghanistan free to plot, and they will be highly motivated to try again knowing Joe is weak and stupid. It infuriates me that Biden speaks at the memorial he so disrespected with the pull out.
Don't fall for the Biden and media BS that Ida was unique, and a sign of global warming dangers. There have been worse hurricanes over the past 200 years. In fact, the loss of life in past major storms has been much worse even though populations were much lower, and waterfront homes were fewer. The deaths in NYC were preventable. For example in 1900, the Galveston hurricane killed as many as 12,000 and nearly destroyed the city. In 1926 a massive hurricane destroyed much of Miami. In 1938 a hurricane devasted eastern Long Island and parts of New England with gusts of 180 MPH. Remember what Andrew did to southern FL. There have been numerous others as great intensity as Ida. The number of major hurricanes has actually declined a bit, but since 1850 it has averaged around 6 per decade. It is a bit less now. Costs from floods as a share of GDP declined 10 fold since 1903. And death from floods dropped 3 fold. The impact of major hurricanes in recent times on GDP has averaged only .14%. going back to 1965. The new UN report says it has "low confidence in human influence on changes in high river flows" They are just using Ida to push the political narrative to pass the giant spending bill and other green laws.
There is zero possibility to have a majority of power generated by solar and wind by 2035. It is simply physically and financially impossible to build out such a big system in that time.
I am done with the NFL. Playing the black national anthem instead just of the American National Anthem is beyond my tolerance. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Shapiro speaks out:
Hey gang,
Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is tyrannical, authoritarian, anti-science bullshit.
As you most likely know, Joe Biden announced last week that all companies with 100+ employees will be required to mandate vaccines or test their employees for COVID at least once per week. He has weaponized OSHA to enforce this clearly unconstitutional mandate.
Companies that don’t comply will face up to $14,000 for each violation. It could be ruinous to businesses all over the country, including The Daily Wire.
This is tyranny. And we plan on fighting Joe Biden’s dictatorial mandate with every resource at our disposal.
I am vaccinated. I encourage vaccination. But we still live in a free country, where Americans should have the right to make their own decisions. And nothing in the Constitution gives Joe Biden the power to ignore his enumerated role and dictate directly to the American people.
Our legal team is at work preparing a potential lawsuit against the Biden administration. We refuse to go along with this tyrannical edict.
Like you, I’ve watched in horror at the draconian lockdowns in places like Australia and New Zealand. Citizens there are routinely arrested simply for leaving their homes. Do you think we’re immune to the kind of ugly impulse that has turned a once-free nation like Australia toward authoritarianism?
Americans have been far too willing to cede their freedoms to authoritarian bureaucrats in the name of “public health.” Enough is enough. We must turn the tide now or risk losing the country you and I love.
Going up against the federal government like this will require massive resources. We need to be prepared to take this battle all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. This could be a very costly fight Which is why I hope we can count on you to join us in this fight.
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We need all hands on deck to win this fight. Thank you for taking a stand with us.
- Ben Shapiro +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stands to reason, if they make you get driver's license, and it would be the same if progressives/radicals had the guts to challenge a decision in court on voter identity. They won't because it would take away their cry baby issue.
The Supreme Court Said Vaccine Mandates Were Constitutional, But Not the Way Biden is Doing It.
By Erick-Woods Erickson
Facts really do matter. A lot of people trying to prop up Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate are being very, very loose with the facts in order to justify what Biden is doing.
They are relying on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), a Supreme Court case that upheld a vaccine mandate for smallpox. It is true. The Court did that. But everyone citing Jacobson is choosing to ignore the facts of the case, which matter greatly here.
In Jacobson, the Court upheld the vaccine mandate that was (1) a state level mandate (2) based on a statute specifically authorizing vaccine mandates (3) passed by the state legislature of Massachusetts and signed into law by the Governor.
If anything, Jacobson undermines Joe Biden’s argument, both because that mandate was based on legislative authorization and because the Court found the vaccine mandate is a police power and the police power belongs with the states.
The authority of the State to enact this statute is to be referred to what is commonly called the police power -- a power which the State did not surrender when becoming a member of the Union under the Constitution. Although this court has refrained from any attempt to define the limits of that power, yet it has distinctly recognized the authority of a State to enact quarantine laws and "health laws of every description;" indeed, all laws that relate to matters completely within its territory and which do not, by their necessary operation, affect the people of other States. 197 U. S. at 25
The Court has never “distinctly recognized the authority of” the federal government to enact a vaccine mandate except as it applies to federal workers and the military.
In fact, it is settled law that the President can order vaccines for members of the military and the federal workforce. It is absolutely unsettled that the President can use OSHA to enact a vaccine mandate. In fact, given recent Court precedent, it is most likely a bridge too far to argue that the originating statute for OSHA gives OSHA power to impose a vaccine mandate — especially when done by executive order and not through the regulatory process.
Yes, it is true, the Supreme Court has upheld a vaccine mandate. But the facts really do matter. I realize you can find a lawyer to tell you anything is most likely legal and “the experts” will tell you whatever you want to hear.
But that doesn’t mean they are telling the truth or even really understand the facts. The facts of Jacobson do not apply to the current vaccine mandate and Biden’s action is most likely unconstitutional. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Judicial Watch after Teacher's Union as they should be: Judicial Watch: CDC Records Show Teachers Unions Gave Guidance to CDC Director on School COVID RestrictionsJudicial Watch announced that it received 12 pages of *records showing the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA) influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director and the White House with their own “embargoed vaccine research,” as well as school reopening policy. Additionally, the CDC Director states that she used the unions’ language in the CDC’s school reopening policy. READ MORE+++++++++++++++++++++Our government lies to us all the time so why not The State Department?
State Department Accused Of Flat Out Lying About Rescues
(JustPatriots.com)- The organizer of a private rescue mission to evacuate Miriam, an American mother, and her three children from Afghanistan is accusing the State Department of trying to worm its way in and claim credit for her evacuation. This despite having little to no role in the rescue effort.
On Monday, State Department officials announced that the US “has facilitated the safe departure” of Miriam and her children via an overland passage out of Afghanistan. The State Department then boasted that “embassy staff was present upon their arrival.”
For the people who actually conducted the rescue operation, the State Department’s attempt to horn in and claim credit is not sitting at all well.
Cory Mills, along with a team of military vets, led the effort to rescue the woman and her children after they were left behind by the Biden administration. Drawing on funding by private donors, Mills and his team worked for weeks to get them out after Texas Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson alerted Mills to the family’s plight.
At first the team tried to get the family onto one of the last government flights out of Kabul, but Miriam was unable to gain entry to the airport. The State Department’s only role was to urge the four American citizens to brave the Taliban checkpoints and get to the airport gate. But each time they tried, they were refused admission.
During her final attempt at the airport, a Taliban fighter pointed a gun at Miriam’s head and warned her not to come back. Shortly afterward, the Taliban tried to get Miriam’s whereabouts from Kabul locals who knew her. That was when Mills’ team rushed in to get Miriam and her children out of Kabul and into a safehouse.
Mills’ team then tried to get Miriam and her family aboard a private charter flight out of Maraz-i-Sharif airport. But the Taliban never gave the planes clearance to take off, and the State Department did nothing to ensure those planes could leave.
So Mills and his team took the long way round, traveling overland to an unnamed neighboring country in order to get the family across the border. Mills described this rescue operation as a shell game – requiring multiple attempts and sleight-of-hand tactics. But in the end, Mariam and her family crossed the border last Monday just before the Taliban closed the border checkpoint to stop other Americans from escaping.
Last week Mills told Fox News that the State Department’s victory lap over their supposed role in the rescue mission was “absolute nonsense.” Mills accused State of “spinning this” in order to “take 100% credit” for a mission they had nothing to do with. In fact, Mills explained, when his team reached out to the State Department for help, they got none.
“It’s like we carried the ball to the 99-and-a-half yard line,” Mills said “and them taking it that last half yard and being like ‘look what we did.’” ++++++++++++++++++++++
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