The New and Improved Taliban
With the help of the international media, the Taliban now wears Clark Kent's glasses.
Jack Carr is one of my favorite thriller authors (and a fellow Park City resident).
He, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, and Tom Clancy (who got me hooked on the genre) are my "go to" writers.
Carr has written about our ignominious exit from Afghanistan here, it is well worth your time.
Carr is a SEAL who spent time dodging lead and IEDs in Afghanistan, so he isn't a lightweight. His last book, "The Devil's Hand" is prescient - it is more than fiction, it is a study of how terrorists watch and learn and how they have been patient during 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan, watching us, learning and waiting.
The Taliban was once a bunch of rural fundamentalist savages but have mutated into a far more sophisticated and media-savvy bunch of fundamentalist savages by learning from the idiots in our State Department and Department of Defense.
They have learned the key lesson of what to say and what not to say that plays well with the international media, which is already anti-American.
Gone are the days of beheadings in soccer stadiums, these will now be done quietly and out of the eye of the international media.
They learned how to play a media that is already inclined to help them hide their true identities, sort of a Clark Kent/Superman glasses on/glasses off thing.
Want evidence of what is already in place?
Tucker Carlson was put under surveillance, the capture of his communications was illegally leaked, and he was called a Russian stooge and a traitor for just trying to set up an interview with Vladimir Putin. He was then excoriated from the left and soft-shelled "right" in the media for going to Budapest and interviewing Victor Orban.
And yet, not a peep about MSNBC interviewing a Taliban spokesman in the middle of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul.
Not. A. Freaking. Word.
Nor is anybody but conservative media having any issues with the Taliban having a Twitter account while President Trump is still banned.
BNMT*, amiright?
This IS a different Taliban - the same old 7th Century savagery just wrapped in new bright colors with the "New and Improved!" sticker slapped on the package.
For God's sake, CNN has already reported that the Taliban is yelling "Death to America" but "they seem friendly".
Holy crap, Batman.
A mostly peaceful takeover, I guess.
Biden is too focused on destroying his own people to care about destroying a country we fought for and promised to support, promises, by the way, bestowed by the Constitution to the American people.
But the Democrat quest for Utopia requires them to break a few promises, as well as a few eggs.
Threats over forced vaccination, hysterical lying about an "insurrection" that wasn't, the creation of a police and internal security state, redefining our constitutional right to question and disagree with our government as "domestic terrorism", destroying our sovereignty by opening the southern border, and implementing East German style "papers" for citizens while shipping illegal aliens with no papers to the four corners of the country show why he must be impeached and every vestige of the anti-American Democrat Party ripped from the halls of Congress.
And the lies keep flowing like the Amazon during rainy season.
But they don't think they are lies because what they say is true in the alternate reality in which they live.
Given Biden's world class cowardice and incompetence, the Taliban has more credibility than America does at this point.
Think about that.
* But No Mean Tweets.