One year ago, the Islamic extremist Taliban seized control of the final piece of Afghanistan, its capital city Kabul..To celebrate the anniversary, Taliban thugs took a break from inflicting human rights abuses on Afghanistan’s people and chanted taunting victory cries outside the abandoned US embassy in Kabul..Some victory. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a humanitarian food and medical crisis worsens, women’s rights evaporated, little girls are sold as brides to old perverts, people disappear, and "traitors" are zealously hunted..Meanwhile, the country that soaked up so much foreign blood and treasure is again a breeding ground for terrorists seething with a maniacal hatred for the West..Britain’s former ambassador to Afghanistan Sir Laurie Bristow warned Monday that Afghanistan’s decline under the Taliban breeds a new extremism problem for Western nations that invaded — to crush terrorist forces there — under the NATO banner on the heels of 9/11..“I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail, they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,” Bristow told the BBC..Everyday Afghans who proved loyal to Canada and the US at great risk have reason to be resentful. .Through a string of unforgivable bad decisions, inaction, and indifference — both countries abandoned them after promising them protection..Unlike Canada’s cowardly ambassador to Afghanistan Reid Sirrs, who fled prematurely on a half-empty military plane, Bristow was one of the last foreigners to leave Kabul..The British haven’t gotten enough credit for their dogged, heroic efforts during the mayhem..Meanwhile, Republican members of the Foreign Affairs Committee are set to release a scathing report on the abysmal failure of President Joe Biden’s White House and the State Department’s abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan last August 30..“There was no plan,” Texas Rep. Mike McCaul told CBS News. "There were so many mistakes.".One baffling and deadly decision McCaul zeroed in on was the rejection of an offer by the Taliban to allow the US military to secure Hamid Karzai International Airport where thousands of terrified Afghans fled, hoping to be evacuated.."Think about what that would have changed," he said. "We had relied on the Taliban to secure the perimeter. That led to the chaos. It also led to a suicide bomber that killed 13 service members, men and women, and injured over hundreds of people. And it could have been avoided.".McCaul also noted the US had 36 consular officers to process hundreds of thousands of Afghans trying to flee — many who had helped foreign troops (fighters, interpreters, drivers, cooks) in the war against the Taliban, a mutual enemy..Well, Canada had one volunteer — former Task Force 2 member Dave Lavery — on the ground alone for six days..WATCH: Abandoned but not forgotten by Canada’s generals.The Texas Republican defended the intelligence community and some in the Pentagon for correctly assessing the fall of the Afghan military and the Taliban's takeover.."The problem was the White House and State Department putting their head in the sand, not wanting to believe what they were saying, and therefore not adequately planning," said McCaul..The Republican’s report will offer a thorough examination of the withdrawal..It will include issuing subpoenas to officials involved in the debacle if the midterm November 8 elections result on the GOP regaining control of Congress..As a minority, the GOP doesn’t have subpoena powers..But Republicans vowed to hold President Joe Biden accountable..McCaul blasted the White House for painting a “rosy picture” of what was happening on the ground in Afghanistan..Administration officials failed to heed worrisome intelligence and military reports, he said..Hopefully, the report will thoroughly examine the role of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, in the carnage that unfolded in Afghanistan..Milley helped paint that deceptive rosy picture..And yes, it was a puffed-up, clueless Milley who less than a month before Afghanistan fell, told a press conference the Afghan military was capable of fending off the Islamic extremists..“The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country,” said Milley..Afghan Hamid Karzai fled and so did the Afghan army. Some of those foreign trained troops joined forces with the Taliban..Milley also defended leaving $85 billion in state-of-the art military equipment to terrorists because it was cheaper than moving it out, which, of course, it wasn’t..Former president Donald Trump called him a “f*ing idiot” for that..Many called for Milley to be fired..But this disgrace to the uniform remains in place, a lapdog to the extremist left that has gotten so much wrong on foreign policy — and hurt so many innocents..Milley has steered the military in a treacherously woke direction..Milley secretly called his Chinese counterpart China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Li Zuocheng twice in the latter months of Trump’s presidency to reassure him the US would not proceed with an attack. He told America’s greatest enemy he’d even warn them ahead of time..There was no such plan. .Milley, in fact, committed treason by making those calls..With China itching to invade Taiwan and no resolution in sight for the Russia/Ukraine war, there’s little or nothing to offer comfort that the US would handle the next crisis any better..Not only did buffoon Biden and his gang of incompetents betray the Afghan people, they betrayed the West by paving the way for angry terrorists to regroup and plot revenge.
