KEEPING OUR NATION SAFE

It doesn’t take a military expert to see you don’t close a major airbase that was defensible before you evacuate a country where you’ve been fighting for 20 years. And yet, that’s what President Biden did in the pullout of Afghanistan. The president surprised even his supporters in this ill thought out retreat that left the Taliban stronger and our standing in the world considerably weaker. Democratic leadership has refused to acknowledge what’s plain to everyone else; there was no plan on how to get out of Afghanistan. It argues it was time to leave as if that’s an excuse for a botched withdrawal where 13 service members were killed, thousands of Americans and even more American allies were left behind to fend for themselves.

This has only emboldened Russia and China. Russia launched an attack on Ukraine with little thought to the US and China continues to build islands in the South China Sea to cut off shipping routes. It uses slave labor in camps, while millions watch the Olympics on television and buy cheap products from China. Companies fall over themselves to do business with China ignoring any moral obligation. They absolve themselves of responsibility with the idea that it’s good for business.