Elections have consequences

 Councilman Vincent Cavaleri

When the weak lead, people die. As the humanitarian catastrophe continues to unfold in Afghanistan, the bumbling and incompetent Biden is nowhere to be found. Last reports have him hiding in Camp David, sitting at a table by himself, while the Taliban goes house to house searching and slaughtering innocent Americans and Afghan’s. They have surrounded the airport with heavily armed Taliban soldiers; and are screening and photographing anyone asking for access to the airport. At this point, they are running the show. I watched several Afghan citizens attempting to access a barrier set up by the 82nd Airborne division by climbing to the top of the wall. These people and their families have been labeled and targeted for death by the Taliban for helping America, so their only hope is to save their children. As my eyes filled with tears, I watched parents passing their children to American soldiers in the hopes of getting them out of country and to America without them. Many mothers and fathers didn’t make it to the airport and were beaten to death in the streets just outside Karzai airport. Some were whipped to death, others pummeled by the Taliban mob. People were waving their passports to American soldiers in the hopes of being allowed access on to the airport. We all watched in horror as an America C-17 transport plane was forced to start rolling on the tarmac with hundreds of people running alongside. The cargo plane was carrying roughly 800 people out of country and would have been overrun without the Airforce pilot making this life saving decision to get the aircraft into the air. Thankfully, 800 souls were transported to safety. As some would be passengers clung to parts of the C-17 outer shell, the plane lifted into the air. Video shows these poor people falling to their death as the cargo plane ascended into the sky. For them, the mere thought of being taken by the Taliban was enough for this act of desperation. I could not help but be reminded of my fellow American citizens in the World Trade Center opting for this desperate act as well on September 11, 2001. Amnesty International has been reporting on the brutality since July and this will undoubtably get much worse with the vacuum the United States has created. Make no mistake, we own every bit of this, with Biden and company having the lions share. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, NSA director Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Blinken and of course the cackling vice president Kamala Harris make up the cast of newly appointed buffoons in charge of this humanitarian mess. Their unique skillset of having no clue on foreign policy is one thing they all have in common. As this chaotic scene continues to unfold heads should roll immediately. The folks listed above are Biden’s chief advisors and they not only dropped the ball, but single handily manufactured another global humanitarian crisis. If they can do this to the American border, then Afghanistan is a piece of cake. Would this have happened on Trump’s watch? I assure you no, they simply waited for the incompetent weaklings to take charge. Despite repeated intelligence warnings, these nincompoops thought they were smarter than everyone else. They assumed they had months to draw down and evacuate in the face of the Taliban advancement across the country. At the very least, American citizens should have been fully evacuated months ago. Unfortunately, we must sit and watch this travesty unfold as the body count will undoubtably rise. It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse, but I assure you they will. As I listen to Biden’s current press conference it is abundantly clear he still believes he has the situation in hand. He and those around him will continue to place American lives in jeopardy and make the world a more dangerous place. To hear him double down on his botched response is unconscionable.