OpEd by Alan Bergstein, retired, Bronx middle school principal, residing in Boca Raton, Florida.
It's
fitting to begin this piece with a request for our readers to offer a
silent prayer for the souls of our 13 military heroes murdered in Kabul
last week. May their souls rest in peace. These men and women, from all
walks of life, embodied what America once stood for: Honor, loyalty and
devotion to country. We fear these traits have been ripped from our
legacy.
Names of those killed
- Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Tex.
- Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, of Roseville, Calif.
- Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, 31, of Utah
- Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tenn.
- Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, Calif.
- Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, 20, Jackson, Wyo.
- Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
- Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif.
- Marine Corps Cpl. Daegan William-Tyeler Page, 23, of Omaha
- Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosario, 25, Lawrence, Mass.
- Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, 22, Logansport, Ind.
- Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, 20, of Wentzville, Mo.
- Navy Hospital Corpsman Max Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio
By
the time you read this column, the deadline for the removal of all
Americans, military and civilian, together with the thousands of those
Afghans who were loyal to our forces has already passed. And there is no
doubt that an unknown number of the above have been left behind, amid
the confusion, panic caused by the incompetence of our brainless and
spineless military and political leaders, who have insulted us by calmly
repeating, over and over that they did as well as they could in that
primitive land.
These brazen liars who all read from the same script,
White House truth fabricators, Jen Psaki, Anthony Blinken, Jake
Sullivan, John Kirby, their counterpart cowardly military midgets, Mark
Milley and Lloyd Austin, should all be whisked out of their cozy offices
and dropped into the Taliban cesspool of hell to get their just
desserts for their involvement in pushing the acts of criminal
disloyalty to this country that borders on treason.
What are the odds
that a Congressional investigation will ever be mounted to discover who
was behind the pathetic panicked retreat from Afghanistan? No way!
They're too busy digging into the "January 6th Conspiracy."
We'll
sadly say, with all honesty, that although President Biden is obviously
suffering from some mental/judgment impairment, he calls the shots. He
is the Commander in Chief of all of our armed forces and what orders he
gives, must be carried out. As he told us last week, "The buck stops
here!" But that's not the best of news for us to hear at this time.
Former Secretary of Defense, under Obama/Biden, Robert Gates, has voiced
repeatedly, "I think he (Biden) has been wrong on nearly every major
foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
This statement has so far hit a home run for accuracy.
Look at the Biden
caused chaos at our southern border, his re-entry into the Paris
Accords, cozying up to Hamas and making us once again energy dependent
on our enemies. And with nearly three and a half years left in his term
to look forward to, that's indeed scary. Joe, as VP, was against the
assassination of Osama bin Laden. He's not a man of character. He has
lied about his achievements and plagiarized the words of others in his
speeches. But now he sits as leader of the free world. How was that made
possible?
And
he's criminally crashed in Afghanistan. Biden robotically read to us
that he has extracted a promise from the Taliban that this group of
primitive savages will guarantee the safe exodus of left behind
Americans and those Afghans who formerly worked with us, who wish to
leave that war ravaged land. He believes them. Is he familiar with the
term, "Taqqiya," a Koranic order that requires Muslims to lie to
infidels when dealing with them? Evidently not. Arafat used that with
President Clinton when signing the Oslo Accords and the Mullahs of Iran
pulled he same stunt with Obama with the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Biden has
bought another bridge over the East River. A massive human disaster
looms. No one in authority, not even Biden himself has addressed the
major concern of many that the women of Afghanistan, under the Taliban
will once again be treated as less-thans. When we took over in 2001,
women were given the freedom to doff their burkas, go to school and
learn to read and write, to become professionals, to have human rights.
But now they will be forcibly returned to the Islamic dark ages. But
where is the American women's movement on this? Where is Linda Sarsour,
herself an American Muslim, who led marches against President Trump,
accusing him of being a woman abuser? Where are the voices of
Congresswomen Omar, Tlaib, AOC and Pressley, the Gang of Four, to warn
the Taliban not to revert to the rape, beating and humiliation of their
women? Not a word. Should they not know better?
We've
always believed in he superiority of the American military leadership.
Our generals and admirals were the bravest and finest. So how did none
of them speak up publicly to oppose the order to first pull out our
troops from Afghanistan and then, without military protection, follow up
by evacuating our own (defenseless) civilians and Afghan allies? What
buck private would simply hand over 83 billion $ of our most modern
weapons to our enemy? And who among our military leaders nodded in
approval when the highly fortified and secure Bagram airbase was turned
over to the Taliban, leaving us the use of the single runway,
indefensible civilian airport located smack in the middle of Kubal? Have
our be-medaled military leaders suddenly become "yes men" for Biden?
Have they sacrificed their honor and loyalty and pledges to their
country in order to gain future promotions or jobs in the
military/industrial complex? Are they too busy transforming our warriors
into a "woke" fighting force? Are not our enemies in Russia, China,
Iran and North Korea, licking their lips, not fearing our ability to
ward off any of their aggressions in the future? Israel, Taiwan, South
Korea and Japan will now feel the heat. Their futures are bleak.
A
dark cloud has formed over our country with this fiasco unfolding in
Afghanistan. Sadly, our nation has sunk to a near low. We're leaderless.
Nationally we are at one another's throats. Blacks against whites,
have-nots versus haves, our school systems in shambles, the Chinese
Virus crippling every industry, no longer energy independent, Congress
bankrupting the nation and our southern border wide open to one and all.
But, nevertheless, we pray that the (Hebrew) New Year will bring us all a
glimmer of hope for the future. So, to one and all, take a deep breath,
with or without a mask.
Alan Bergstein retired from a career in education, culminating as a principal in middle-schools in The Bronx, NYC. He founded and serves as Executive Director of Judeo-Christian Republican Club of Palm Beach (Florida) County.
