Let me rephrase that for accuracy: Should we be leaving Afghanistan altogether? Thanks to the missteps of our current president, we are still actively leaving Afghanistan because Joe Biden has created the conditions for the Taliban to seize virtually the entire country in blitzkrieg fashion and control all of Kabul and the immediate territory around the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul. Clearly, I’m not only taking issue with the Biden administration but also with the plan for complete withdrawal from former President Trump. In this post, I suppose I’m bucking the conventional wisdom to posit that leaving Afghanistan altogether is actually a strategic mistake and makes the world a much more dangerous place.

In this Sunday’s latest despicable press conference Joe Biden proclaimed that China and Russia would like nothing better than to see America continue to be bogged down in Afghanistan. Really? In the last two-plus years, with a force structure of 2,500 service personnel, combat aircraft, a vast fleet of Humvees, surveillance drones, sophisticated electronics, intelligence assets and a shooting war that had effectively ended around 2014 – was America “bogged down”? Doesn’t “bogged down” really refer to all-out active combat and maneuvers across the country on many fronts, as for example America’s involvement in Vietnam at the height of that conflict? I suppose we can discuss semantics in the comments thread below.

Or are China and Russia now pleased to see that we are scrambling to get out of Afghanistan and pleased to see the manner is which are doing so? Certainly, the Kremlin’s strategists and the Communist strategists in Beijing observed very closely, the reckless way in which Biden and our Pentagon leadership completely mishandled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and have learned a great deal about what an inept collection decision-makers America has – national security advisors, Pentagon brass, and our current Commander-in-Chief. Do you think perhaps their fulfilled desires to finally have a weak and incompetent American security apparatus somehow intimidates them? Do you think that Beijing or the Kremlin are intimidated by the Biden administration and the Pentagon brain trust that just gifted billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded military assets to the Taliban and their al Qaeda associates – Blackhawk helicopters, Humvees, weapons, ammunition, sophisticated electronic optical targeting systems and more?