Futurenavypilot727
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This didn’t age well
A simple google search shows contrary evidence, and that is just the ones who were caught. See the CIS report for some historical data from public sources. As the article indicates, there is likely much more data that isn’t publicly available, and that article was from 2018, I believe. Two Yemenis on the terror watch list were apprehended crossing the border in April of this year.
A better than HSM if they have to fight their way out without air support and without heavy weapons, counter battery fire capability or amour after our supplied Mortar Rounds start landing on the only runway out after they learn how to use them. The Chosin Reservoir and Khe Sahn will look like a walk in the park. Pray for them. Baby cuddling should have been in the manual somewhere after Splinter and Sucking Chest Wound. Probably way in the back pages. It comes naturally if you are a human being or a Corpsman.
I hate to turn this political, but at least I am not taking sides with what I am about to say.
The withdrawal is a total clusterf_€k. It is on Biden’s watch and the buck stops with him. He gets the blame. He owns it. But I don’t think for one second that his predecessor would have handled it any better. There was no viable exit plan put in place by anyone. This is an American political failure, not a Democratic or Republican failure. And NOT a failure by our Military.
The word I would use to describe most of my social circle’s reaction to this debacle is “disbelief”. Disbelief that we’re in this position, and disbelief in the defeatist-sounding leadership regarding what to do about it.
And that’s from both sides of the political spectrum.
Based on your posts in this thread, you sound a bit more cynical than me. But on this ^^^ I’m afraid we agree.However, US leadership of the free world - a given since 1917 - is absolutely gone.
From the CIS "About" page, "The Center is animated by a unique pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted."Yeah, I read that CIS (Center for Immigration Studies) article. That "non-partisan" group seems to have quite the connections with Fox News, Newsmax, The Federalist Society, One America News Network, etc. You know, "non-partisan" groups. I perused the website trying to find a single positive comment of any kind regarding immigration - zero. Immigrants (legal or otherwise) = BAD is the theme.
***REMOVED*** damnit! It is NOT over.The era of Pax Americana, which began with the fall of the Berlin Wall, is most definitely over. For better or worse. Taiwan, Israel, Europe, the Middle East, etc. are all on their own now.
Your entire post slams the author, but doesn't dispute the data. Facts aren't partisan. The undiputed fact is that terrorists ARE coming to America through the southern border, something you contended wasnt happening.Yeah, I read that CIS (Center for Immigration Studies) article. That "non-partisan" group seems to have quite the connections with Fox News, Newsmax, The Federalist Society, One America News Network, etc. You know, "non-partisan" groups. I perused the website trying to find a single positive comment of any kind regarding immigration - zero. Immigrants (legal or otherwise) = BAD is the theme.
Reference: https://cis.org/Oped/CBP-Removes-Pr...Terror-Watch-List-Who-Crossed-Southern-Border
Seems like the author was more interested in promoting his anti-immigration book than simply reporting news. Of course, he has successfully made a living out of hysterical anti-immigration & anti-jihadi writings, in the guise of reporting "news". The "secure-the-border" industrial complex. Guy wouldn't been a John Bircher looking for commies on public school boards in the 1950s. Likely would been a Catholic-immigrant-hating Know Nothing in the 1850s. Probably talks to Steve Bannon & Stephen Miller daily about the evils of non-white border jumpers. Laments too many Dominicans in the Major Leagues. Gets angry when Kenyan runners win marathons.
Check out this fair-and-balanced journalism:
Townhall Media: Biden Administration Gives Assist to Jihadist Student Visa Holders - Todd Bensman
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 26 in Townhall Media Jihadist hate for Jews allegedly inspired 24-year-old Egyptian Khaled Awad on July 1 to viciously stab Boston area Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish day school. Suffolk County authorities were planning to charge the Egyptian...www.toddbensman.com
"Trump’s regulation was good, apolitical governance that America sorely and obviously needed."
"The sad probable truth is that a life-saving piece of governance died of petty political avarice over one fact about it: that Trump was the one who proposed it."
The Chinese PLA and the North Vietnamese PAVN were vastly more formidable foes than the Taliban. One reason the Talibs don't try to overrun the airport is they have infinite patience, as we've witnessed over the last 20 years. Another reason? They aren't certain they'd win. When your enemy is retreating and ceding the field to you, let them go. That's either von Clausewitz or Sun Tzu, I believe.
I don't think anyone really cares whose plane it is. One way or another our diplomats and military on the ground are trying to make due with an untenable situation.Well they got the platform correct and there is a capital U in the name. I guess reading markings is not required.