9/11: What Usama Bin Laden thought would happen after the attacks

Allow me to start off by saying I've neglected to mark this very sad day in recent years. I hope regardless we're learning the lessons of that horrendous day. We keep Americans and global citizens safe from  terrorism of any kind. And that Americans were able to step up to the plate to defend our values. Of course, we should also note the battle is never ending.

[VIDEO] What did Al-Qaeda and their leader Usama Bin Laden expected to happen after 9/11/01? This is what the Infographics Show on YouTube attempts to answer.

I'm sure they expected America to back off on Middle Easterm affairs - well that didn't work out very well did it. They expected the Muslim world to rise again American influence  or even just Western influence - that also didn't work out very well.

In the 14 years that followed, Usama Bin Laden was killed by Seal Team 6. And this video noted there are other Islamic Fundamentalist groups have also arisen. We don't hear a lot about Al-Qaeda out there in the news anymore like we used to, although let's make no mistake they still exist out there.

In 2021 when President Joe Biden was President the regime known as the Taliban retook Afghanistan. Remember back in the aftermath of 9/11 during Operation Enduring Freedom resulted in the Taliban being effectively removed from their control of Afghanistan in favor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The Republic fell again in 2021 with President Biden's very disastrous withdrawal of American forces. We had recently marked the fourth anniversary of the deaths of US military personnel in a terrorist attack at Kabul Airport.

As stated the battle to defend our values is never ending. I remember in the wake of 9/11 with expectations of future military operations that there were naysers who suggested that America would get hit even more - especially talking about Iraq. Thankfully that didn't happen and an easy retort of the 2000s was that America was not again hit with a terrorist attack here.

However, another concern now is immigration. I'm seeing reports of a serious problem with Islamic fundamentalism in Europe, Great Britain especially. The idea of bringing in people from the Middle East or at least the Islamic world who show themselves as hostile to Western values. This is why I say the battle is never ending.

Here's hoping we don't have the sadness of 9/11 anywhere on this globe again.

O'Reilly: How we lost Afghanistan

 

[VIDEO] I think this precipitous fall of a nation we've had military operations in for just about 20 years will be seen in history as a very significant American foreign policy event. Time will certainly tell - yeah some of you will probably say it already has - this will mark the so-called Build Back Better administration. And could lead to further foreign policy concerns throughout the world. To start we're already worried about the possible Chinese invasion of the "wayward" province of Taiwan.

Let me explain that Taiwan is technically the Republic of China. When the Chinese nation fought their own civil war the People's Republic of China - the Chinese Communists - they got control of mainland China. So basically the Chinese Communists fought a war against the Republic of China for control of the mainland. The Republic of China has largely control the island of Taiwan which the Chinese Communists regard as their territory.

Because America with their withdrawal from Afghanistan next month was really unable to stave off the advance of the Taliban, now there could be worries that America won't be able to adequately fulfill their commitments around the world. Expect turbulence seems like the right move as of now.

Meanwhile Bill O'Reilly discusses the Afghan situation with retired Colonel David Hunt.

Joe Biden = James Buchanan

 

[VIDEO] That's not the argument that Liberal Hivemind makes, he's only saying that Sleepy Joe is our worst president in modern history. And emblematic of that is the fall of Afghanistan to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban.

We already took Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And now 20 years later we announce a full withdrawal and Afghanistan as it was built over the last 20 years crumbles fast. We've only been into the Build Back Better administration seven months and it's been rough! 

James Buchanan in history is considered one of America's worst presidents. For one thing he preceded Abraham Lincoln and when honest Abe won the 1860 presidential race becoming America's first Republican President of the United States that's when the southern states of America began to secede. Pres. Buchanan was still in office and he did little to keep those southern states in the union. He tied his own hands believing he had no power to keep the union together.

Now Biden's administration is a bit of a different situation. I won't call Buchanan incompetent, however, Biden wasn't ready. He gets elected due to Orange Man hate thought at least Orange Man with some disadvantages - never was before elected to any political offices - was very able to run a vast nation. Biden had many years as a U.S. Senator and Vice President and it's not going well at all! 

The fall of Afghanistan

 The news from over the weekend. The President of Afghanistan flees, US diplomatic mission destroys classified documents and evacuates, and Afghan citizens concerned about a return to Taliban rule want to flee. This is starting to be called President "Sleepy" Joe Biden's Saigon moment. The President had already announced that he had planned to remove U.S. troops from there by Sept. 11, 2021 - oh wow!

20 years after some devastating terrorist attacks on U.S. territory resulting in a huge loss of life. We went there to  eliminate Al Qaida and remove the Taliban regime from power. In 2001 the Taliban largely had control of a huge swath of territory there, I suppose classic might makes right if you got the guns and troops what can anyone else do about it. Then American forces came and held the territory for just about 20 years and fought a lethal insurgency there.

The Taliban never really went away. Al Qaida is actually still around they're less one important leader who Seal Team Six killed in neighboring Pakistan in 2011. Wait what's his name again?

And now we have the disaster of Afghanistan under Sleepy Joe's watch. I can never really appreciate the Vietnam situation and the fall of Saigon and how it came to be. However it seems what's happening in Kabul over there seems quite needless and have only served to reverse what we hoped to accomplish after the deadly terrorist attacks of 20 years ago.

How did this come to be CNBC writes about an intelligence failure

The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, including its capital and the presidential palace, suggests that U.S. military intelligence failed in its assessment of the situation, according to Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“This is an intelligence failure of the highest order,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday, adding that it’s the “biggest intelligence failure” since the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, a campaign of devastating surprise attacks on the U.S. and its allies in 1968.

Roggio said the Taliban pre-positioned equipment and materials, organized, planned and executed a “massive offensive” since early May before beginning its “final assault,” while U.S. officials said the local government and military forces should be able to hold out for six months to a year.

Last week, Reuters reported that a U.S. defense official saw Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, falling in 90 days. Instead, that happened on Sunday, less than 10 days after the first provincial capital of Zaranj was taken by the Taliban.

Would this be any different under a President Trump? Under that orange man so many people hate so much that they wanted Sleepy Joe in power! 

Bush is sad about American withdrawal from Afghanistan

 

[VIDEO] Bill O'Reilly discusses an interview from the 43rd POTUS George W. Bush who presided over a nation hit by Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. He presided over two wars and two nation building exercises in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So on this day he expresses his thoughts on what U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is. He thinks that the women of Afghanistan will be severely hurt if a resurgent Taliban regains control of that nation

The Taliban was an Islamic fundamentalist regime whom was in league with Usama bin Laden and al-Qaida which was our pretext for going into Afghanistan. Since 1996 the Taliban had effective control of a significant amount of territory there. They destroyed ancient Buddhist statues even after international pressure because they weren't Islamic. They tried to run Afghanistan as a very strict Islamic theocracy.

There here comes 9/11 we send in our force in about a month or so we take the nation and the Taliban never really went away which is amazing. They were around causing as much trouble as possible and with American withdrawal by the Biden administration the threat is now that the Taliban could be poised to take back Afghanistan if our installed regime isn't willing to fight to maintain control.

Some of Bill O'Reilly's analysis is shocking. We've been there almost 20 years and spend trillions in support of the Afghans. We lost thousands of troops and hundreds horribly wounded. And we have an administration in Washington under Biden-Harris who O'Reilly is certain aren't that mindful of the long term consequences of the American withdrawal.