AFGHANISTAN, THE AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL

Day 2 today. Just to underline the obvious:

The goal, complete withdrawal, was the opposite of what The West needs, which is to contain islamic extremism and bottle up China.

The guy was advised of this but ignored as cannot listen or understand.

His intelligence was completely wrong: Biden believed the Taliban would not be in a position to mount a blitzkrieg return and said so.

Planning and timing was zero: for example, why withdraw at a time when the enemy is assembled instead of waiting for winter or why were the ancillaries not prepared and assembled for extraction to America or the airport closed and patrolled?

Execution was totally and utterly incompetent, from the Green Zone to the Airport.

Communication before and after has been zero.

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The Taliban, according to Western media, do not exactly have a good record and Western public does not take comfort in their  reassurances about Sharia.

Subjects: Covering (hijab), divorce laws, legal age of marriage, custody of children, polygamy, employment, travel, place of residence, honour killing.

Countries under sharia, women can be stoned to death. 

The reality today is that the extremes of Koranic guidance have thankfully been overtiden by statute. But Al Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban, all derive from Saudi wahabism, a back-to-basics attempt to "purify" the religion (a phase all religions go through) and build a world caliphate along 7th century lines. 

Quite frightening. The enemy is not so much Allah and Islam, it is Man and the House of Saud and Pakistan.

Live and Let Live, I say.

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I believe Pakistan's involvement flows from the House of Saud setting up madrassas (koranic schools) and its funding.

While Pakistan has well founded anxieties concerning India dating back to partition, Kashmir, Jamma.

So Saudi money funds wahabist expansion.

The West is held back by dependence on Arabian oil (controlled by the Saudi family) and India and Pakistan's possession of the bomb.

Some extremely clever manoeuvring is needed to extricate from these massive mistakes of the past. Hope the old goat in the White House (the last two presidents in fact) has not signed The West's death warrant.

Virile new leadership is needed if America is to remain top hegemon.

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As our thoughts deepen - for example, will the Taliban have the bomb? Does this open Pakistan and Afghanistan to China's Belt and Road strategy for "World Domination" - the utter folly of what Biden has done will break confidence in the States.

Virile new leadership - peaceful though assertive - is desperately needed.