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This Is My Hill: Saving the War Dogs of Afghanistan Abandoned by Biden
Who does that? Who leaves animals behind to starve to death in locked cages at Bagram Air Field? To what depth of inhuman, subhuman, amoral depravity and cruelty have we finally descended to have done this to helpless (locked! in cages!) animals who were also very special American allies—they were the War Dogs of Afghanistan!
I am writing this as a cry from the heart— like so many of us, I have had dogs as pets (Mark, my Boxer; Fritz, my Doberman, and others) and I have been sickened to the very core of my being that those entrusted with the faithful execution of our Laws and defense of our Constitution have abandoned everything there — including their fellow Americans, American friends, and allies and those who helped us unconditionally with total dedication, day in and day out— our War Dogs.
Conan, the Belgian Malinois who took part in the Syria raid that killed ISIS leader Baghdadi.
My cry for help is this: I am pleading for any information of all resources which may be known by friends and colleagues to identify sites, locations, mailing addresses, P.O. Boxes, or any other modes of contact, to which we may send material support to anyone who can get to these poor animals, who gave their heart and soul to the defense of America, only to be cast aside like so much unused military equipment. Sadly, there is a disgraceful precedent for this kind of cruelty as it occurred once before in the 1975 collapse in Vietnam, when approximately 4,000 dogs were abandoned.
There is the old idea about choosing the “hill” which one is “ready to die on.” Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller gave us a most powerful lesson on how that is done in throwing his Silver Cluster on the table with a demand for accountability.
With due acknowledgment of the realities of the limitations of age and the constraints that cursed condition imposes, this is my hill, and I am ready to send whatever meager funds I can send in support of this noble (truly!) cause. I am also ready to get on the next flight out of Pensacola to catch whatever War Dog Express is headed for that Stone Age hell hole to recover our real American allies.
Please, if you know of resources dedicated to this purpose, publish it so the world will know about it.
Whoever did this cannot be a true American.
Americans should never do this to animals.
We are Americans!
We should never leave our comrades on the field.
Never!
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I’m so depressed.
Not blaming Trump for the fall of our exgreat country. Yesterday I was severely depressed and enraged, without much control. The Trump flag is sewn to the bottom of the American flag, and when I pulled the flag down, the Trump flag came down as well. In my despair I left both of them on the floor. Today I realize that was a childish thing to do, so will hang them back up in a few days. Need to find all the tacks that came down with them. Wish with all my heart that Trump could figure out a way to have biden and his handlers arrested as traitor to our country.
The guest on Tucker tonight was the founder, I believe, of Nowzad.com, Royal Marine Sergeant “Pen” Farthing, from whom we learned some actual good news out of this dreadful situation, in that it seems he and his crew were able to get a large number of dogs and cats on their privately chartered aircraft and away from the Kabul Airport as the last military flight was leaving. I am writing this moments after seeing the broadcast so cannot vouch for the total accuracy of this report, but I can vouch for the existence of the organization’s website which can be accessed here. This appears to be a very legitimate organization and we have decided this will be one of the organizations to which we will send funds–one of the others, based on extensive research today, will be SPCA International. There may be others but these two will be our focus for now. Again, if anyone has any information about other worthy recipients of assistance, please let us know.
And I’m still open for that rescue flight to Kabul, if I can help there and, most importantly, not get in the way.
Pray for these most defenseless and vulnerable of our allies and for some way, any way, to save them from a horrible fate at the hands of these rabid, vicious, radical Islamic terrorist animals.
Sincerely, Jim.