Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle Hits The Southern Border

I simply love the NY Times headline

The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway.

Twasn’t the U.S. which left them behind: it’s was Biden, his administration, and their disastrous withdrawal plan. And the Times and their writers, Julie Turkkewitz and Federico Rios, go to great pains to make it seem as if this is not on Biden

She and her husband, Ali, pleaded for help from a half-dozen nations — many of which they’d worked with — and found an American refugee program they might be eligible for. Taiba said she sent off her information, but never heard back.

“They left us behind,” she said of the Americans. “Sometimes I think maybe God left all Afghans behind.”

Nope, that would be Biden.

For months, Taiba kept trying to make it to America any way she could — even by foot. She and her husband fled with their 2-year-old son, first to Pakistan, then to South America, joining the vast human tide of desperation pressing north toward the United States.

Like thousands of Afghans who have taken this same, unfathomable route to escape the Taliban and their country’s economic collapse in the last 17 months, they trudged through the jungle, slept on the forest floor amid fire ants and snakes, hid their money in their food to fool thieves and crossed the sliver of land connecting North and South America — the treacherous Darién Gap.

Now, after more than 16,000 miles, Taiba and her family had finally reached it: the American border.

Will Biden let them in like so many others, or pick and choose as he’s done with some groups, like Haitians?

Their journeys represent the collision of two of President Biden’s biggest policy crises: the hasty American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the record number of migrants crossing the U.S. border.

That’s weird, because I’ve been reliably informed that there is no border crisis. And Afghanistan was not a crisis, it was an abject failure.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan is not just a failure “in the rearview mirror,” said Francis Hoang, a former U.S. Army captain who runs an organization to help Afghans immigrate, called Allied Airlift 21.

“The failure is happening right now,” he said.

See? The article then goes on to show a hell of a graphic with the route so many of the Afghanies took, worth a look.

There are a total of 5 mentions of the name Biden: the above mentioned, then, way down in the article about Biden trying to shut down the travel routes (sure he is), about how Biden is clamping down on immigration (where the heck are they getting this information?), then about Biden yammering on how many were flown out (after his fiasco) and him bragging about it (while Afghanistan descended into utter chaos). This is an incredibly long article, and barely notices how bad things are thanks to Biden, but, because he’s a Democrat, the Times ignores that in a way they never did for Bush or Trump.

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