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Since the beginning of the disaster in Afghanistan, which has left blood on Joe Biden’s hands, Biden has attempted to project blame onto President Trump.

Biden says he takes responsibility “but” it’s all Trump’s fault because Trump had a deal with the Taliban to remove all our troops by May 1^st of this year. According to Biden, there was nothing he could do. He was handcuffed by Trump’s deal. He had no choice.

Those are abject lies.

First of all, if Biden was so handcuffed that he had no way out of the deal, so constrained by the deal that he had no choice but to comply with it, why then did the deal show a date of May 1^st and the calendar shows that the final, bloody debacle began to take place in late August?

Obviously, Biden was NOT constrained by the deal Trump had with the Taliban, and we know this not only by checking the calendar, but because Biden reset the date, and did so arbitrarily. The September 1^st date set by Joe Biden was picked from thin air. It was just a date with no conditions attached to it.

What makes matters even worse is the fact that Biden’s date extended the timeline for the Taliban and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan, and that only aided those terrorist groups.

There is a fighting season in Afghanistan. I know it’s odd, and it doesn’t really make sense, but it is nonetheless true. Due to weather and economic conditions in Afghanistan, the fighting season runs from late April through October. That’s an important distinction because according to Trump’s deal with the Taliban, the withdrawal of America’s presence in Afghanistan was to have taken place at the end of the non-fighting season, or to be more specific, before the various groups of terrorists could ramp up their efforts for the new fighting season.

According to the date picked by Joe Biden for our withdrawal, the fighting season would be in full swing with various Islamic factions of terrorist entities being fully ramped up for strikes. While we certainly cannot expect a dithering fool like Biden to have been cognizant of such a detail, we should expect his generals on the ground, his generals and upper level brass in the Pentagon and the Biden Department of State to have been fully aware of the timing elements for withdrawal, and you can bet your last dollar that Biden’s puppet master, Obama has more than a situational awareness of the timing.

When one considers those simple facts, it appears that the September 1^st withdrawal date may not have been so arbitrary after all.

As I have stated in previous commentaries, the military brass in top level positions both on the ground and in the Pentagon did nothing to avert the dire situation that Biden, or perhaps more likely, Obama’s new withdrawal date invited. They had to know what was happening, and what would happen and yet, they simply carried on as though there was no problem at all. It’s not enough to say they were just following the orders of their Commander in Chief because in such a dire situation, and in such an obvious run-up to an impending and all too predictable disaster, if their objections to the new timeline were being ignored, they could have, and should have resigned.

But they didn’t.

Why not? Is it possible that they were more loyal to Obama than to the United States and therefore more apt to take his orders than take a stand against impending doom? We certainly know that Obama’s loyalties lie with the islamists.

I believe it is more than possible, and highly probable. U.S. Military commanders rarely, if ever speak publicly against the Commander in Chief, but when deep disagreements regarding military operations on the ground present themselves, and those military commanders advice is being ignored by politicians to the detriment of our troops and the mission itself, they show their deep divide with the White House by resigning their positions.

The fact that nobody in such a position has resigned should be enough to launch a deep investigation into why they haven’t resigned. Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is not part of that upper level brass, and he did question his superiors regarding the scenario I just put forth. He brought up senior military leaders including Marine Commandant Gen. David H. Berger, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, and he asked, “I’m not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?”

Sheller posed that pointed question on Thursday, August 26^th, 2021 and was promptly relieved of his duty, after 17 years as a U.S. Marine on Friday, August 27^th, 2021.

It sure seems that Lt. Col. Scheller was too close to the truth, and I suspect he may well know more than he’s already said. In fact, after being relieved of his duty, Scheller said, “I appreciate the opportunities AITB command provided. To all the news agencies asking for interviews… I will not be making any statements other than what’s on my social platforms until I exit the Marine Corps.”

I suspect that both time, and Lt. Col. Scheller will tell the tale eventually.

So far, the scenario I am laying out smells of a conspiracy but without evidence, it is nothing but a theory. Conspiracy theories become realities when evidence comes into play and there is evidence in this case.

Beginning in early May, U.S. intel sources from the ground in Afghanistan began to brief members of the House and Senate intel committees of growing threats from the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS in Afghanistan. Indeed, those threat assessments started to present themselves as realities as the build-up of Taliban forces began their march through Afghanistan taking one province after another. Furthermore, in May, the State Department began to issue warnings to U,S. citizens in Afghanistan to leave, and those warnings became more direct and urgent in June and in July. Biden’s military brass would have been more than aware of those intel reports and Biden himself should have been well aware of the situation on the ground, but was he?

On July 8^th, 2021, Biden engaged with a reporter who asked, “Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?” Biden responded, “No, it is not.” Reporter: “Why?” Biden: “Because the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped (forces) — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.”

Within moments, the reporter then posed this to Biden: “Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse,” and Biden responded matter of factly, “That is not true. … They did not reach that conclusion.” That was either an outright lie by Biden, or he simply was never told that the assessment by his own intel community was that the Afghan government was indeed about to collapse.

Adding more fuel to the fire, or more evidence to the scenario is the fact that when Biden pulled out of the Bagram Air Base, literally in the dark of night, removing the vast majority of our military personnel from Afghanistan in one fell swoop, he also removed all of our on the ground in Afghanistan intel personnel at the same time.

Unless the goal was to create maximum chaos, and maximum devastation to those Americans left behind in Afghanistan, unless the intended goal was to hand Afghanistan over to various islamist terror organizations with Americans, our allies from other nations and our allies from within Afghanistan who had provided invaluable assistance for the past 20 years as hostages, why would you remove our military personnel and our intel personnel from Afghanistan just as those various terror organizations were seizing control of the country while leaving for them a treasure trove of military weapons and technology?

Without intel or adequate military personnel on the ground in Afghanistan, it was inevitable that the situation would descend into chaos and the deaths of Americans there and I highly suspect that to prevent Biden’s ability to “F*** things up” as Obama had warned, Biden was kept in the dark and fed a steady stream of fake intel or no intel at all so as to facilitate the rapid collapse of Afghanistan and its takeover by islamist terrorist organizations…American lives be damned.

Think about it. When was the last time such a vacuum of power created in the Middle East which led to the rapid downfall of a country complete with the loss of a U.S. embassy and the deaths of Americans? 2012 and in that case, Libyan “rebels” also known as islamist terrorists were armed with U.S. weapons courtesy of back door arms deals engineered via strawmen from the Turkish government.

Joe Biden was the Vice President then, and Obama was the architect of that vacuum of power, the disaster that resulted from it and the takeover of that country by islamist terror organizations.

What has happened in Afghanistan has Obama’s stink all over it but one question remains. Was Biden really handcuffed by the deal President Trump had with the Taliban?

Absolutely not.

That deal came with conditions and primary among those conditions for the withdrawal of America from Afghanistan was that the Taliban would have to negotiate a coalition government with the existing Afghan government.

The Taliban never did that. They violated the terms of the deal.

Say what you will about President Trump, but he drove tough deals, and if his terms were not met, the deal was off. While President Trump wanted out of Afghanistan, he would not have left without the terms of the deal being met, and he would have never left the way Biden did under ANY circumstances.

While there are those who will claim that President Trump’s deal with the Taliban was folly, those are by and large the same people who claimed the deals he was making with various Arab states and Israel to bring stability to the Middle East were folly. However, those deals were genuine and have proven to be solid. That’s because President Trump left no doubt that peace through strength with the U.S. poised to respond harshly to any violations of the deals was the teeth necessary to ensure those deals would stand.

That’s called leading from the front.

What happened in Afghanistan, the vacuum of power, the rapid fall of the government and the country, the takeover by islamist terror organizations and Biden’s so-called “over the horizon” capabilities should they ever be deemed necessary is leading from behind.

Obama proudly claims to lead from behind, but Joe Biden couldn’t lead a one car parade from any position.

Barack Hussein Obama is the wizard and Joe Biden is the scare crow wishing he had a brain and what we have here is a coup from behind the curtain.

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