Guest Opinion by Don Bendell

TIME FOR CHANGE

In 2010, the Vice-President Joe Biden reportedly told then-President Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, that the US had to leave Afghanistan no matter what the cost for the Afghan people. 

According to Holbrooke, when Biden was asked about our obligation to maintain a presence in Afghanistan to protect vulnerable civilians, he scornfully replied to Holbrooke, “'F*** that, we don't have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it!“

This was reported by the United Kingdom Daily Mail: : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901577/F-k-Biden-told-Obamas-special-representative-Afghanistan-obligations.html

This is the President of the United States, the Commander-In-Chief of the US military, behind closed doors showing his true colors, instead of the political bull-squat he spews to an anxious worried audience of US citizens eager for solutions and answers that may give them hope for a brighter future.

This man is not only feeble-minded, he lacks any semblance of empathy for our military, our civilians in harm’s way, or the brave Afghani men and women who risked their very lives to support our troops serving in Afghanistan, knowing they would be tortured and brutally executed if caught helping us. JOE BIDEN DOESN’T CARE! He only cares about his next strategic move to discredit republicans, his real enemy in his mind, with slander of false racism, misogyny, and jingoism.

Americans and our allies, military and civilians alike in Afghanistan, have been waiting in fear and trepidation for the next suicide bomber to strike, or the next Taliban guard to be in a sadistic mood and open fire with his automatic weapon. They pray with trembling hands clasped for someone in Washington, DC to impeach this professional politician and his cackling sidekick and get someone in the position of stewardship who has leadership skills greater than those of a chimney sweep.

American journalists, the deaths of our Marines and sailor in Afghanistan are in great part your fault. You became the major propaganda arm of the democratic party, such was your hate for Donald Trump and any of his followers. Instead of being the true accurate recorders of US and world history in real time, of any and all news good or bad without inserting your political leanings, you copped out. You sold out and Americans died, so did the legacy of Edward R. Murrow. So now, because of your massive assault on honest elections, we are stuck with a resident of the White House who is a mix between Alfred E. Neuman, Rip Van Winkle, and Peewee Herman. It is time for setting the record straight and hold politicians, all politicians, accountable, and reporting the news regardless of whether it suits your taste or not. You owe it to the real journalists in America who preceded you, the ones who reported the news, not painted it over with a yellow brush.

We need a leader who will put a general in charge of Afghanistan who says to the Taliban, “We still have more than one American in your country, and you did not provide safe passage for Americans and our allies to leave your country safely by August 31, so now that date will only be a footnote in history. We will for now leave a small contingent of US Army Special Forces, some Ranger reinforcements, and a tactical aircraft wing in your country. We will also, using such forces, rescue any and all Americans and our loyal allies still trapped in Afghanistan until the last one is out. If, during that rescue, one American soldier is killed, one hundred of your fighters will be killed. If one of our aircraft is even fired at, we will destroy thirty of your aircraft. If that does not change your minds, we will start eliminating your leaders with precision tactical airstrikes.”

America used to have military leaders who were Pitbulls, German Shepherds, and Rottweilers. Joe Biden got rid of them and replaced them with every pantywaist democrat general and admiral he could find only too willing to turn in their “Man Card,” to become a barking, yapping neutered French Poodle, tail tucked between their legs awaiting orders from their senile master. They have worried more about which soldier was properly sniffing each other’s tails, instead of crouching like a Belgian Malinois, ready to launch an attack against any threat from any direction.

As a young US Army officer in 1968-1969, I lived with less than a dozen other Green Berets and 8,000 primitive nomadic Jeh Montagnard tribesmen in Vietnam’s jungle-choked mountainous Central Highlands region. The Montagnards, were the most pro-American, toughest fighters in all of Vietnam. I saw them sold-out and abandoned by our government when we pulled out of South Vietnam, only to be raped, slaughtered, tortured, and even crucified on crosses in some villages. This also happened to many South Vietnamese who were loyal to Americans. I hoped and prayed after that, that our leaders would use “lessons learned” to avoid doing such a betrayal to any other group of loyal foreigners, because our nation after-all is the by-product of foreigners. Sadly, we have failed miserably at that task.

God brought these foreigners, as slaves, as warriors, as explorers, as merchants, as spirituals simply wanting religious freedom. We became a melting pot for all races, religions, and societal norms and mores. Some who are self-serving tried to create their own class of elites, but we who live in that melting pot must now cry out, “Stop!” This is our country, and we will not let you destroy it anymore!”

An American, man or woman, is only as good as their word. Countries should live by the same pledge of honor. Lack of loyalty and lack of leadership are the bastard step-children of cowardice and greed. How can we lead the world, if our own leader can’t find his butt in the dark with both hands?

President Biden's dog biting a Secret Service Agent was our first hint about what was in store for America. It’s now time for change.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Don Bendell is a best-selling author whose style has been likened to Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey, and Robin Moore, a 100% disabled Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame. Don owns the Strongheart Ranch in southern Colorado, with his social psychologist and fellow author, wife, Dr. Janet Bendell. Don is the author of 30 books, mainly westerns and military thrillers, with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide, a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2011, and a successful motion picture. He has 6 grown children and 11 grand-children and has a Masters degree in Leadership from Grand Canyon University.