With the United States now officially out of Afghanistan, a large number of Americans and Afghan Christians have been left for the Taliban to terrorize and likely kill. And the Biden administration appears determined to make sure those abandoned Americans and Afghan Christians stay stranded. Multiple reports claim that the administration has made it difficult — if not impossible — for private companies and organizations to rescue them.
The situation in Afghanistan is bad and would have been so even if Biden’s exit strategy did not resemble pulling the fire alarm in a crowded theater. While it is true that the war in Afghanistan was unconstitutional from the beginning (since it lacked a congressional declaration of war), that fact is 20 years old and 20 years out of date. By acting as an empire and doing the work of “nation-building,” the United States created a responsibility. To abandon the people in Afghanistan who helped the United States over the past 20 years is simply wrong. It sounds too much like, “Thanks for your help and good luck suckers.”
The number of Americans abandoned to the mercilessness of the Taliban is unknown because various departments of the U.S. government offer differing numbers, ranging from a hundred or so to thousands. It almost seems as if these “estimates” are naked guesses as the left-hand doesn’t know what the other left hand is doing.
And despite promises from Joe Biden that the United States would not leave until the last American was out of the country, the last U.S. plane that is not currently in the hands of the Taliban left Afghanistan Tuesday without that unknown number of Americans. The rescue of those Americans and Afghan Christians now falls to the private sector. And that is where the Biden administration continues to show its true colors because those attempting to rescue them say they are finding the Biden regime working to stop those rescues.
Among those making that claim is conservative commentator Glenn Beck. On August 26 — a week before the August 31 deadline for completing the withdrawal from Afghanistan — Beck told Tucker Carlson of Fox News that the Biden administration was blocking the efforts of the Nazarene Fund to rescue Afghan Christians who are in danger of being “burned alive or crucified” by the Taliban. Beck has helped the Nazarene Fund fly 5,100 Christians and other refugees out of Afghanistan since it fell to the Taliban earlier this month. But he told Carlson that shortly before a deadly bombing outside the airport on August 26, the group had 500 Afghan Christians inside the airport and ready to board a plane when they were ordered back outside the gates by officials. Beck said he feared many of them may have been among the victims of the bombing that happened a short while later.
The Nazarene Fund is not the only private-sector group working to get people out of Afghanistan. Other such groups include Ark Salus, the Pineapple Task Force, and Blackwater founder Erik Prince. And while Prince is a bit of a shady character as the founder of a “Private Military Company” (read: mercenary outfit) who made millions for playing his part in the racket that is war, he has a tale to tell that confirms Beck’s account.
Prince was a guest on The War Room with Steve Bannon on Monday. He and his team are working to get Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan, and he told Bannon that the Biden regime is actively working to prevent him from rescuing the people the administration left behind. Prince said, “They are telling governments in the area not to cooperate with these private organizations.” He said, “It’s the opposite of Dunkirk,” and added, “It’s wrong. It’s the opposite of what this nation was built on.”
Of course, Prince is precisely double-dipping — having made untold millions in the war in Afghanistan, it is reported that he is now charging $6,500 a head for a plane ride out of the hellhole where he made those millions. But his point that the Biden administration is actively working to keep him from getting those people out of that hellhole is a point that stands on its own.
His claim that the Biden administration is “telling governments in the area not to cooperate with these private organizations” appears to fit Beck’s claim that officials ordered Afghan Christians back outside the gates instead of allowing them to board a plane to somewhere safer.
The United States spent 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars, and thousands of American lives in a war in Afghanistan partly to keep the Taliban at bay. Biden’s cut-loose-and-run exit strategy has created a situation where the Taliban is not only now in control of Afghanistan but also has $85 billion in U.S. military equipment with which to execute their reign of terror. And to top it all off, the Biden administration is deliberately working to make sure that Americans, U.S. allies, and Afghan Christians are left to die under that reign of terror.