PART TWO: NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON; NONE DARE CALL THEM TRAITORS. Plus, bonus joke: How many Dems does it take to...?

Please see PART ONE here if you have not already.

Preface

Consider: Joe Biden left $85 Billion in military equipment in Afghanistan when he ordered a completely ill-planned evacuation of that country, and an abandonment to the Taliban. There is no discounting the human tragedy involved, first and foremost: The U.S. servicemembers’ deaths, the abandonment of American citizens (and rumored deaths in that category, too), and the stab-in-the-back to our Afghan allies.

But he also left aircraft, attack helicopters, artillery, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, thousands of HUMVEES, machine guns, communications equipment, and other materials.

But now comes a fresh consideration of that withdrawal in the light of the documents scandal - and you’ll only hear it here:

What “trade secrets,” what associated Top Secret information, how many Classified field manuals and systems’ training guides associated with advanced weaponry and munitions, were abandoned and left to the Taliban - and to the Chinese, who were said to be “reverse engineering” our equipment?

We know Joe Biden’s casual approach to sensitive information and secrets. It is now evident that he views it as something by which to profit; to remove; to store haphazardly in areas of access for others than himself - likely to the most nefarious purposes imaginable. It is starkly evident that Joe Biden and his Administration may have committed treason, and are comprised of traitors, by this overt action right in plain sight of all Americans… indeed, in plain sight of the entire world… by handing sensitive American equipment and critical operating information to - our enemies.

So, let’s look a little ways back (not too far) in evaluating that Afghanistan “withdrawal” (as if it were a gentle thing) with the fresh Biden-perspectives we now have - and through a lens of potential treason and traitorship (the latter is a word - looked it up!):

Imagine this: “President A” has won the “War in Afghanistan” (as it was generally known):

• The country is stable.

• The Taliban is marginalized.

• There has not been a single American casualty in 18 months.

• We own Bagram Air Base.

• We control that airbase, located strategically near Iraq, Iran and China, with its associated runways, one of which is capable of landing the largest U.S. military cargo aircraft.

• Women and girls are free to pursue education, jobs, and pragmatic clothing (sans burqa).

• We are allied with Afghan translators, administrators, government officials and friends.

• Twenty years’ blood and treasure have finally yielded something manifest and worthwhile. Whether we should have done it or not, whether it was worth the cost, is in the past. What we have is the above and we have reason to hold it and protect it.

• President A is smart enough to know this.

Now imagine this:

“President B” comes along and immediately begins taking action:

• He pulls us out of Afghanistan seemingly absent any coherent plan (or reason - other than an agenda involving politics in harming U.S. interests and in smearing his predecessor).

• President B’s haphazard action leads to the deaths of at least 13 U.S. servicemembers.

• There are now strong rumors of multiple dozens of American civilian deaths that day.

• An untold number of Americans are left behind, and trapped, in Afghanistan (estimated numbers range from dozens to hundreds… and perhaps a thousand).

• A mockery is made of the age-old dictum, “No American Left Behind.”

• We abandon our allies: The aforementioned Afghani partners, who are quickly slaughtered by… the Taliban.

• We lose our strategic advantage in that part of the world overnight - paid for in that blood and treasure.

• We abandon EIGHTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLAR$ in advanced weaponry, munitions, and equipment. We abandon EIGHTY. FIVE. BILLION. DOLLAR$ in advanced weaponry, munitions, and equipment.

• PRESIDENT B abandons it… and LEAVES IT (GIVES IT) TO THE TALIBAN.

• In addition, President B gives the Taliban a platform, an infrastructure, a base, from which to plan and mount terror. He gives the Taliban… A COUNTRY. A WHOLE COUNTRY LOCKED, STOCKED, AND BARRELED WITH U.S. WEAPONS, TECH, AND INFORMATION, SOME OF WHICH IS UNDOUBTEDLY CLASSIFIED.

• And he does it right in front of the U.S. Citizens’ collective face.

• President B gets people killed merely to diminish our influence; our security; our reputation. He brings harm to America, to people, to interests.

• He gives immediate aid and comfort to an enemy by granting them a country.

• And now comes information that Putin is attempting to purchase the aforementioned aircraft, attack helicopters, artillery, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, thousands of HUMVEES, machine guns, communications equipment, and other materials (think: sensitive information) from Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

And to think: None dare call this treason.

In the matter above, one need only ask: Did Biden’s decision to flee Afghanistan benefit America, or the Taliban?

And so, again:

What are we dealing with, here? And for that matter, where do the allegiances lie with those others who stand behind this Admin’s façade?

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Well, we could undoubtedly use a little levity after that.

Question: How many Democrats does it take to fix a problem?

Answer: First, it takes innumerable Dems to create the problem.

Next, untold numbers of committees and members to study it. Everyone then comes to a political consensus that it is beneficial to sustain and grow the problem.

Next, everyone does their part to foment the problem into a crisis. Teams then go to work to blame the opposition. A flexing number of them then appear on and in various mainstream media, fanning the flames of crisis and blame.

At the same time, Dems in office and Dems running for office assure the public that they are the ones with “solutions.” And, that they take the problem “very seriously.” And, of course, that all is the Republicans’ “fault.’

Meantime, flurries of new Executive Orders are issued. New Rules and Regulations are crafted to the detriment of any hopes for fixes, and Laws are proposed and pushed through the legislative process... none of which slay the beast but, rather, are designed to destruct life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... on and on it goes.

The joke is really a paradox:

Q: How many Dems does it take to fix a problem?

A: There is no number of Dems who can fix a problem; Dems don’t fix problems.

They create and inflate them.

And now, this corrupt SOB we have for a President is sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine for which there is no support infrastructure. The tanks require high maintenance as performed by specialty mechanics, parts depots, specialty supply chains, and specialized repair depots - none of which are harbored in Ukraine. Boots on ground? (If not already) Bet. WWIII? Oh, to think this SOB (and those behind him) never belonged in office in the first place.

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I am a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as Top Secret contract work for clients. I have passed four FBI background checks, the most recent in June of 2022. I am also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE:  A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways.  Prior, I authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others). The latter book’s last chapter discusses energy and U.S. grid vulnerabilities, and remains a leading-voice in those realms. Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.