August is supposed to be a time when nothing important is going on.  Summer is coming to its end.  People are on vacation.  It’s normally a blessedly quiet time, when even Leftist politicians have taken a few weeks off from their mission to destroy America.  But not this year.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden decided that August was the perfect time to withdraw all of our troops from Afghanistan.  As I noted last week, a withdrawal was necessary, whenever it came, it was going to be messy, and the Taliban was bound to have a resurgence.  That reality aside, there was a right way and a wrong way to get out of Afghanistan.  Surprising no one, Joe Biden chose the wrong way.  Forget about who was going to rule Afghanistan after we left.  Whether it was the Taliban, the crooked Ghani government, ISIS, Iran, who cares.  Afghanistan was still going to be a fragmented, violent, poor, backward, useless shithole.  It’s been all those things for hundreds of years.  All Biden had to do to keep the lap dog media on his side was to get our citizens and employees out, avoid giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and avoid taking casualties.  He failed on all counts.  As this is written, Biden is sticking to an August 31st deadline for all troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.  Why not stay till all our people get out?  The Taliban is running Kabul, they told Biden “no extensions,” and Biden caved.  Every day we see shocking images of hoards of people at the airport, trying to get out.  The Taliban is stopping them, beating American citizens, and stealing passports.  Our troops are forbidden to go outside the airport to help get people in.  As this is written, at least two suicide bombs have gone off at the airport gate, over 100, including at least 13 Marines.  Our allies, the British, French and Turks, are conducting operations to get their nationals out.  The Turks, who were supposed to be the last force out, left on Thursday.  Adding insult to injury, our forces pulled out while leaving behind billions of dollars of weapons and equipment.  Joe Biden says there was no better way to do it.  Nancy Pelosi said, “This is what happens when you withdraw.  Some stuff, some equipment is left there.”  Some stuff?  The Taliban now has 208 military aircraft, including Black Hawk helicopters, ranking them the #26 Air Force in the world.  Luckily, they have no pilots.  We left 600,000 assault rifles, and 2,000 armored vehicles.  In the past two years, we gave the Afghans 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers.  There was no better way?  I’m no military planner, but if you couldn’t take our equipment out, how about take it all to Bagram Airbase, lock the gate, and send in bombers with MOAB bombs to reduce it all to dust?  Joe Biden steadfastly maintains that his way was the right way.  He was counting on getting the usual cover from the media – he lies, and they swear to it.  But not so fast.  Biden is taking fire, from the Leftist media and members of his own Party.  His Press Secretary, Jihad Jen Psaki, is still in there pitching, but it’s getting harder even for her.  When Peter Doocy mentioned stranded Americans, Psaki said, “I’m calling you out for saying they’re stranded.”  Note, she didn’t deny they’re stranded.  She simply blasted Doocy for noticing they’ve been stranded.  Why did Biden do this?  Two theories.  My first thought was that the Obama Gang, the crowd that’s really running the government, has decided it’s time for Biden to go.  We’ve assumed that Biden’s not aware of what’s going on, and is just mouthing what his handlers tell him to say.  Anyone who saw Biden squinting to read the teleprompter Tuesday got the strong impression that Biden wasn’t announcing his decision, but was reading crap he was seeing for the first time.  The nagging question is, if the handlers are running things, why would they let Biden do this?  The pull out is an embarrassment.  Biden’s approval rating has crashed.  Only 26% of Americans think Biden’s done a good job on Afghanistan.  That’s disastrous for the Administration.  So why let Biden do it?  They want him to fail, so they can move him aside.  An alternative theory is that what’s going on in Afghanistan is all Biden’s doing.  He is in charge, he’s been warned by the military, the intelligence services and the State Department, and he overruled them all, because this is what he wants to happen.  Newt Gingrich said the Afghanistan debacle is Biden’s attempt to cast himself as a peacemaker, rather than a warrior.  He did this in August because he intended to celebrate the pull out on September 11th.  If so, Biden’s delusional.  If this was Biden’s plan to make his Administration look good, it’s not working.  Our allies aren’t buying it.  It’s not every day that a British Prime Minister applies the term “imbecile” to the actions of an American president.  Tony Blair did just that this week.  Nobody surrenders better than the French.  When the French accuse you of cowardice, you know you’re really in trouble.  That happened this week as well.  So again, if Biden is actually making these decisions, why would they let him do it?  Why didn’t the Cabinet and military people refuse to do it and resign?  They want him out, and they know he’ll soon be gone. One way or the other, Biden is too heavy a drag on the Democrat brand to continue.  Crooked politicians are nothing if not survivors, and there’s no honor among thieves.  The mid-term elections are coming, and Democrats have to reduce the stink of Joe Biden.  Even the Leftist media is turning on him.  He’s being described as an appeaser, in the mold of Neville Chamberlain.  This is an insult, to the memory of Neville Chamberlain.   When Chamberlain returned from his Munich meetings with Adolf Hitler, he at least had a signed agreement “symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.”  Hitler promptly broke his word, and there was war.  Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan.  He got nothing in return, not even an empty promise that wouldn’t be kept.  And worse yet, for all of Chamberlain’s faults, he didn’t surrender Czechoslovakia while simultaneously arming the Nazis.  Joe Biden has worn out his welcome in his own Party.  He soon will be thrown under the Kamala Harris campaign bus.  It put me in mind of the 60’s show, Bye Bye Birdie.

Bye bye, Biden,
We won’t miss you, so;
Bye bye, Biden,
Now it’s time to go.
No more White House,
We’re sending you away;
Don’t cry Biden,
It’s Delaware to stay.
We knew you were senile,
But we gave you a pass;
Trump’s out, your job is done, so;
Don’t let the doorknob hit your ass!
Bye bye, Biden,
It’s awful hard to bear;
Bye bye, Biden,
We know you’re not all there.