The unfolding drama – tragedy of Shakespearean proportions – in Afghanistan, created by mindboggling incompetence in the Biden-Harris White House and State Department – stands alone. It is emblematic of a broader problem: Systemic incompetence.
To watch an American president stammer before the world, defending an avoidable failure of policy, planning, and execution, leaving thousands stranded in terror – is heartbreaking, defies our can-do history, ideals, and every American’s inner hopes. Flanked by tin soldiers, a black-masked Vice President and Secretary of State only adds to the sense of theatrical nonsense.
Reality is sweeping the country, media to main street: The Biden-Harris team is stumbling, ideologically distracted, over-impressed, under-focused, systemically incompetent. Like the Midas touch in reverse, what they touch withers, wilts, and suffers.
In Afghanistan, between 15 and 40 thousand Americans, based on internal documents, were left flat-footed by the sudden withdrawal and predictable collapse; many will not get safely out.
Another 20 to 40 thousand Afghans who put faith in us, who were promised safe passage by special visa, also may not get out.
Shockingly, internal sources report Biden’s State Department not only deprioritized them – knowing they may die without protection – but put only four employees on processing 20,000 applications. That is either breathtaking incompetence or heartless.
Then we learn that to shift blame to Defense, Biden’s Secretary of State signed in July – a document abolishing the bureau charged with evacuating Americans from danger, the “Crisis and Contingency Response” (CCR) Bureau. It got 100,000 Americans safely home in 2020.
State at first hid this fact, delaying notification to Congress. Then, they tried to hide their statutory obligation for evacuation, which resides at State not with Defense, under federal law.
Pivoting again, they downplayed Trump’s creation of the bureau, suggesting the Consular Affairs Bureau, which put four employees on 20,0000 emergency Afghan visa applications, has evacuation covered. Really? Facts say otherwise.
Then we learn a phalanx of Foreign Service Officers used the “dissent channel” to warn the Secretary and White House – this is going to be a disaster. That memo was ignored.
Now, we see the president blame everyone from our intelligence community and under-supported Afghans to past presidents and US allies. We see him say Americans will not be hurt, as they are dragged from cars and beaten.
We hear him say all 15 to 40 thousand will be rescued when they cannot get to the Kabul airport, are told to “shelter in place,” are not retrieved, and he cannot say how many are there.
We hear him say al Qaida is not in the country; then his own Defense Department says they are. We hear him say allies are not furious, adversaries not emboldened, credibility unharmed – when all know all that is false.
What this travesty tells us is bigger than foreign policy and national security mismanagement and dissembling. This cascading national security failure signals systemic incompetence. We are witnessing runaway federal spending; as inflation accelerates, federal debt shoots for 30 trillion, Social Security trustees labor to deliver bad news on solvency.
We see abdication of law enforcement on the border, attacks on law enforcement across the country, homicides, and drug overdoses at record levels. We are seeing failure to care for American citizens, as sick illegal aliens are secretly shipped to towns that cannot manage them.
We see fanning of racial tensions, attacks on culture, history, moral fiber, constitutional rights, and institutions – from attempts to intimidate individual Supreme Court justices to court-packing, abuse of legislative process to executive orders ignoring Supreme Court rulings.
We see an executive indifference toward – and collusion with social media monopolists to suppress – free speech, worship, assembly, rights preserved by the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th, and 10th Amendments. We see ignorance and politics converging to trample knowledge, history, and law.
So, where is the hope? Hope lies where it always has, in three facts, each in sharp opposition to Biden-Harris’s systemic incompetence.
First, widespread awareness of central facts – near-universal acknowledgment by liberals, conservatives, and centrists that this administration is flailing, sets up consensus correction. Whether that is constitutionally, legislatively, or electorally is unclear.
Second, history teaches that America tends to indulge poor leadership, only to a point. We then snap back – responding with decisive action. We seem to be approaching the point when corrective action is needed on both foreign and domestic policy. Optimally, level heads prevail.
Third, electoral corrections in 2022 and 2024, while requiring patience, assurance of election integrity, renewed confidence in the process, and peaceable assembly – are likely. These corrections may begin with House and Senate, extend to the White House, but will likely involve major rethinking about party loyalty, State, and local elections down to school board.
Net-net, crises are never fun, nor correcting leadership failure. Americans would rather live at peace, undisturbed, free from government failures. But sometimes, things must be put right. As Americans watch Afghanistan in near-universal disbelief, Biden-Harris is demonstrating systemic incompetence on an order seldom seen. National correction approaches.
Where are all these level headed people who are going to right the wrong going on in our government. We cannot wait for 2022. It will be way too late!
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Republican leaders along with all freedom loving leaders must agree to the following; on September 11, 2021 we must have an American rally in Washington D C with millions and millions of freedom loving citizens to shut down this corrupt government of the Democrats. This war has smoldered long enough it is time to let this city burn out it’s evil corruption. The Democrats have burned their cities throughout America and expanded their evil with ANTIFA AND BLM. Biden will not protect American citizens at the border in any where in the world he is saying with his actions you are not my care. He will need every division of his followers to protect his bunker, and we will see if he can get Americans to kill Americans. Biden and most Democrats have brought insurrection to America, in Chicago, DC, and every Democrat strong hold in America, so let the first battle of this war begin where Biden has started it. He has half the country so this battle will most likely be very red with blood so go dig your own grave if fear rules your slavery agenda. Please send this to every Freedom loving leader you know Biden you are DONE DONE DONE AND ALL YOUR DEMON FOLLOWERS. AMERICA WILL SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES YOU HUNTER AND EVERY MEMBER OF YOUR CORRUPT FAMILY AND FOLLOWERS. YOU HAVE THREATENED AMERICA FOR THE LAST TIME. YOU HAVE CREATED AN AMERICAH TALIBON AND AMERICAN ISASS AND WE ARE NOT TERRORIST AS YOU KNOW FOR AMERICA NEVER LOOSES, AND THE ONLY TERROR IT WILL BRING IS TO YOUR CURRENT FOLLOWERS AND HATERS OF THIS GREAT LAND. YOUR AMERICA SURRENDERS BECAUSE IT SEEKS POWER AT ANY AND ALL COST. WE NEED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS AT THIS TIME TO TAKE BACK AMERICA THE BATTLE STRATS IN D C . JILL YOUR DRUGS CANT HELP YOUR DEMENTED HUSBAND. ISIAH 5:20. Pelosie the insurrection you missed was the one YOU AND JOE STARTED, that took place on January 20, 2020. Get your head out of A O C’s ass and go eat your f—ing ice cream in your crap cover home. You and Joe have no power for all you have is a title, WE THE PEOPLE ARE REMOVING YOUR TITLES AND SENDING YOU TO YOUR COVID HOME CHINA. SEE IF CHI WILL SHARE HIS POWER WITH CHUMP WEAK CRAP AS YOU AND JOE. FREDOM AMERICA HAS MUCH WORK TO DO IT IS TODAY NOT NEXT YEAR NOT TOMORROW IT IS NOW. THEY HAVE SHOWN THEIR COLORS AND THEY ARE EVIL. NO COMPRAMISE WITH EVIL IN ANY WAY. BIPARTISAN WITH EVIL IS NEVER POSSIBLE FOR IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO CORRUPT THE WHOLE. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE A LIVING EXAMPLE OF THIS TRUTH. WE HAVE TWO WEEKS AND TWO DAYS GO AND GET READY NO TALK JUST ACTION.
Biden with the Socialist/Communist Democrats are pushing their agenda. They are systematically allowing the influx of illegals across the border, busing, housing and flying them around on tax payers funds. The Biden administration has deliberately sabotaged the U.S., bringing many Afghanistan Muslims, on their 500 million dollar budget here, while charging Americans $2,000 for their return. This is a follow up on Obama’s agenda. Obama’s father was Muslim, so he brought many Muslims to the U.S.. He said in his book, if he political winds should shift, he would stand with Muslims. Biden has been pro China, so now he has just weakened the U.S. again, while empowering Communist China. Pelosi and George Soros had Anti Trump Resistance Conferences in 2016-2017 to regain their Socialist power. If we don’t stand up, and let others know, the U.S. is lost. Canada, Australia, and other nations may be waking up too late. Stop Critical Race Theory in our schools, which is part of the Marxist BLM, Cancel Culture agenda, using the racism.
They all need to be hung for TREASON!!!
Wow! You nailed it. Succinct but complete description of what is sadly going on in our country. And ‘Systemic incompetence’ is a great description—truthful and spot-on.
Yesterday, in Biden’s update speech, he sd “we’re changing America” or something like that, just like Obama used to say, but no one has sd anything about that.
Incompetence or intentional the consequences are similar. The US is at a nadir of weakness and facing three plus years of the same loathsome leadership. One must wonder if Biden is being paid off by CCP to leave Afghanistan for them to exploit, both natural resources and American military treasures. Maybe the VP is plotting the details during her tour. An impeachment is tempting but almost too easy; could it be a Marxist Democratic communist party trap? Time will tell. And rather than imagine the worst I prefer to hope for the best as laid out in the article, and plan for the worst.
Do not agree that this is failed leadership, but intentionally being brought on the American people on all fronts in order to change this Republic. It is the duty of American Military to uphold and defend the Constitution. So is it wrong to disobey the Commander and Chief and move into parts of Afghanistan and extract our fellow Americans? A Government who has no qualms with funding hideous abortions leaves in question the fate of our fellow American in Afghanistan . We must call on all Constitutional minded elected leaders in this Country to Unite against this barbaric assault on those who live and respect this Constitutional Republic and stop those so called elected leaders who are costing American lives through the crisis at the Boarder, Afghanistan and in the womb. I ask AMAC to advocate and do not let up for we all are in a bad way as long as this Administration moves forward with these destructive actions, guised as poor decisions.
Don’t think for a second this was bumbling incompetency on the Biden administrations part, on the contrary, is was done by design from the get go, i.e. once again the US is deliberately being flooded with foreign immigrants, this time, mostly men from a Muslim nation. We know full well how the Islamic radicals love us, don’t we? Look at our southern border & 24/7 flights into Texas from Central America on Southwest Airline planes, chock full of illegal immigrants & being flown to all points around the country. Is this gross incompetence too? Hardly, it is ALL by design & it continues unabated…
We are under attack & it is fully coordinated by the ” Insurgent Force ” currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…Effective immediately – It is time for their REMOVAL & placed under arrest…
The time to act is now & if the US military won’t do it, then We The People will do it…
Bill on the Hill…
The Biden group of complete and utterly incompetent Dems, and those appointed by the goofball, are so back asswards on EVERYTHING that they can’t muster up any common sense on any issue facing the country. Dems are the dumbest people around.
Your monitor stated I had already voted for a comment which was posted only four hours ago. The last time I was on this thread was Aug. 23rd, which was yesterday. I have not voted for any comments other than the one I’m referring to.
I also figure since we are ‘mature adults’ that we’re completely able to decide what is appropriate or not. Monitoring for terrorist supporting behavior is understood, but other than that your monitoring as it stands is no better than Facebook’s Chinese Fact Checkers.
Tin soldiers, indeed. Gen. Milley, dispensing woke edicts and useless strategic advice has become Gen. Milli Vanilli: his lips move, but he says nothing.
Electoral correction REQUIRES getting rid of the machines. They were hacked in the 2020 election by China and they will be again.
Obama said it best. “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f#@* things up.” (Stunning that an American President would allow himself to be quoted making a statement that brutally critical of his own VP.)
As always, Mr. Charles, a very insightful article. “National correction approaches” – from your lips to God’s ears!
SAVE THE ELECTORAL PROCESS so we can remove our problems LEGALLY !!! We must show ID for almost everything, so why should we not be required to show ID for voting ?
I like Mr. Charles’ articles very much, but without election reform, the oligarchy will be able to manipulate future election results to suit their purposes. Their purposes are not moral, neither do they align with our constitution. They are communists to the core and desire to keep the rest of us under their control.
Man proposes, God disposes. God has fore-ordained. Man can choose to conform, one way, or the other. Historically, we have chosen to be moral, and to be on the side of moral rectitude, and to correct ourselves and others who pursued policies which were not. The advent of communication (telephones) and transportation (vehicles) technology, at the dawn of the 20th century, was the cause of great corruption which is at the heart of, literally, all of the problems in society, today. Despite these two most pervasive and enabling technologies, the current world situation is what it is because of communications and transportation and the natural resources needed to make them and fuel them. Between communications and transportation, they can’t fix the problems. Having the means, they can’t fix the problems. Having the means, they were not prepared. If the power to lose is a choice, the will to survive will replace it. America will self-correct and it won’t be pretty.
Can we impeach them both? She is just waiting for him to fail so she can have the mantel of President.
China is loving every second of this. What better than to see Americas fall in world standing. The USA’s image and reputation are riding on, and counting on an incompetent fool (most likely bought off by the Chinese). Who’s the foolish sheep that voted for him? Are they “Woke” to the real truth yet?
The incompetence of Biden/Harris will forever be talked about and remembered. The historians will have a field day, but we must pay. SAD!
The Progressively Communist Democrats refer to President Trump as the “Orange Man” … Well, Jackass Joe will now always be referred to as the “Yellow Man” as in “I SURRENDER” JOE!!! … Lyin Biden!
This article is far too kind on the present administration. When our citizens are beaten, tortured, and killed as a result of corrupted leadership, is that really incompetency? The Democrats, and liberals in general, have elevated a detached, convoluted, and morally stunted ideology into Federal policy. That was a skilled and well orchestrated political maneuvering which brought this clown show into offices across the U.S. True, they are floundering and causing irreversible damage to all aspects of our government. We saw this as inevitable if Trump failed reelection. You cannot blame a dog for barking or a cow for mooing. The incompetency resides in our failure to keep all these clowns from getting elected. We need to apply all of our resources to keep this circus from expanding and dominate in elections. This needs to happen now.
I must say I’m not surprised in the least. Sickened and disheartened yes, but surprised, not in the least. Lord God of the universe, help America become “In God We Trust “ again!!
Great Article. What is scary is 45%or people in the US still approve of their handling of everything. I suppose that means 45% are undocumented immigrants. That seems to match the numbers coming over the southern border
The 3rd Obama term a.k.a., the O’Biden/Harris “woke” administration is filled with morons, idiots, muppets, puppets and clowns all to the delight of the billionaires, Hollywood elites, professional athletes and others who slept thru or never took a U.S. History or Civics class but now want to rewrite everything to their liking with the help of this fraudulently elected cast of misfits. So is it any wonder that America is now the laughingstock of everyone and the delight of the CCP who’s plan of world domination is certainly attainable with America unable to flex any muscle at all? However, once the CCP take over the useful idiots will find out they’re not so useful anymore!
Hey- where are all you liberals and democrats that supposedly vote for this failed clown show??
Aren’t you proud.
Easily the WORST President along with Barry EVER!
Cmon democrats defend thus wasteful lie!
Mr. Charles,
You sir have great,great,knowledge and insight.
Fantastic article, right on point!
This is EXACTLY what a 50+ year,establishment,self serving, corrupt politician is worth. NOTHING!
Bad for America,bad for real Citizens,BAD for Freedom!!!
Thank You Sir for exposing the failed hypocrisy and speaking the truth.
You are a Patriot!
Had to appreciate the Midas reference – YES it IS the Midas touch.
Everything the left touches has the Inverse Midas touch – it turns to excrement.
Until or if these people in the administration , including the president and Vice President, are held accountable then all the talk and articles being said and written about is just that meaningless until something concrete is done.
Okay, I am going to expose all my ignorance here, please excuse me, but this is my question:
The Systemic Incompetence is the entire Biden administration. Another AMAC article discussed “President Harris” under the dethroning of Biden. But…the Incompetence is Systemic. When the body suffers from a Systemic infection a battery of antibiotics and/or multiple treatment ensues to eradicate the problem as a whole. In addition, if you do not take comply with with entire terms of treatment (stop antibiotics before prescribed time period) the infection becomes a “super infection” far more difficult to treat and possibly even fatal.
That all being said (and here comes my Constitutional ignorance) is there any constitutional manner in which the entire Systemic Incompetence can be removed?
I mean other than AR2 because that would just be either Mature American Citizens vs Ignorant, or East Coast (NY, VT, MA, RI, NJ, CT, MD) and West Coast (CA, OR, WA) vs every State in the middle.
How do we remove the entire disease?
What kind of people purposefully and deliberately “sell out” their country? Yet this is exactly what the Democratic party, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have done! And yet they are unfazed. Who does what they have done to the American people, this country, and those who have helped us from other countries. How do they sleep at night knowing they have turned a deaf ear, turned their backs on their own country? What is really pathetic is that our higher education system is at work in the White House destroying our country, destroying the lives of its people! Who does this? My heart breaks for this country, for those who don’t see or can’t see what is happening, for real. WAKE UP AMERICAN CITIZENS!
Mr. Charles, I fear that what you have written is a dream, as far as the elections. Short of a complete overhaul from top to bottom the system is controlled by dems/socialists who want to fundamentally change our Nation. Fat chance of a fair election.
I can only hope that the rest of the article opens more eyes. But if a person such as I can see what you have written, long before you wrote this article, and more did not understand the facts, we sir are in deep trouble! It wasn’t just the horse that got out, the harness and carriage left with it! We sir in my humble opinion can not wait till the elections. How this should be corrected is way past my pay grade, but I can darn sure say it’s the worse mess I have seen in my 77 years and that is counting three tour’s in Viet Nam!
I hate to admit this …but if “we the people” dont start pushing back and pushing back hard whatever means necessary we wont have a nation in six months, forget about 2022. If the 2020 election isnt reversed and things changed what makes anyone in their right mind think 2022 would be any different. If anyone cant see what these low life Dems are doin then you have been sleeping under a rock. The illegal immigrants are being shipped to all red states so the vote will shift in the coming election and not to mention loading the non vetted Afganistan people in the planes before our own and bringing them back here, hoping they will get their vote as well. Patriots better start rising fast or Socialism will sneak in right under our noses.
The games these politicians play. Send in enough troops to get all ouit thats supposed to be out. Then leave and never go back. It’s way past time you do-gooders learned something.
Love the “systemic incompetence” branding. As Marissa Tomei’s character said in My Cousin Vinny, “its dead-on, balls accurate.” May this branding go viral…and the “systemic accuracy” of it be their undoing! Spread the word.
RBC,
If your message is for everyone to sit on their hands and hope for the best until the elections of 2022 and 2024 roll around, you are doing a disservice to the readers. Look at the breath of damage done to date by the Biden / Harris administration in only 7 months. Just image what further lasting damage they can inflict on our country before the administration could potentially be replaced in 1168 days.
The 2024 election for President is the only true stop-gap for this level of incompetence. However, the American people cannot simply sit around and hope this administration doesn’t cause major damage in the mean time. Don’t encourage them that the 2022 mid-terms are a magic panacea either. At best the 2022 mid-terms would put an end to new Democrat legislation being enacted, but does nothing to halt the President from issuing EOs and his Cabinet officials from using the broad ranging power of the Executive Branch to regulate whole sectors of the economy into the ground.
I had enough hearing about Joe and his gal Friday.
I have to agree with most all these comments in that I hope the ‘game’ isn’t already over. They know all about 2022; that’s why Biden laughed off the “pole” question. They don’t care, it doesn’t matter.
If you haven’t seen the move ‘Alone in Berlin,’ — take note. Good luck.
These 2 jerks were elected illeagally so I say we just fire them and put Trump in the White house where he belongs and then he will have his hands full but I think he will straighten out this mess.
Since campaign day 1 to date
The TRUE Americans should start a Go Fund Me page to raise money so our US Navy Seals can go get our people out of Afghanistan because it’s clear that this blundering idiotic administration we have in DC
is NOT capable nor do they care about bringing our people home.
They did this on purpose.
No military presence would leave their equipment in tact before leaving a battlefield so the enemy could use it against us or our allies.
If there is anyone more incompetent that Biden-Harris (Null and Void), then I sure don’t want to know them.
Sometimes I wonder if these egregious policies are incompetence or deliberate. Even a kid could figure out that the civilians should evacuate before the soldiers. Do the firemen go back to the station while the people are still trapped in the house?
Not really surprised. The Democrat Party is one place where you can rest assured that the cream will not rise to the top.
I guess no one talks about the outcome of the audits anymore. The Democrat deception is on the move again. Maybe a smokescreen? I know what’s happening in Afganistan is very crucial but doesnt anyone think this debacle was deliberate? You dont have to be a military expert to know the troops leave last and only after they destroy the equipment beforehand. Or maybe it was done so the Dems get him out of office to put the other incompetent one in his place. She is more left and is an evil Obama favorite. Whatever the case maybe its alot worse and deeper than any patriot can imagine. We are not stupid. What a disgrace to us who love this country…..So what’s next? Does this administration have to put us in a war for people to wake up?
My greatest concern is that the damage thus far may be too far gone. The correction may be a case of “closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out” and that the incompetence is not limited to the Biden-Harris administration, but applies to a goodly number of republicans who have sat back, voiceless, action-less, and gutless. 2022 elections cannot come soon enough, and when they do, there is less assurance now that they will be properly managed, counted, and accepted. America may not have the capacity to turn this around as citizens rest “on the dole”, and non-citizens gain ground in the political arena. While this “ship of state” has always been cumbersome to turn, slowing it down on the course now plotted may be past the point of “no return.” God help us!
What a sad state of affairs, this bunch of incompetent low life’s have put America through, our founding fathers would be appalled at how these IDIOTS, are destroying what so many of them fought and died for. Biden/ Harris, Blinken, and the whole bunch of incompetent members of the Demonrat Party, should be ashamed of the way Biden/Harris, in just 7 short months have not done one thing right, from the Economy, Race, Crime ( except the Biden, crime family) Election integrity, Infrastructure, The border, and now the cowardly cut and run from Afghanistan with the help of incompetent Military Commanders, our good men and women of the Military deserve better leadership.
Pray for America !
There is no way to correct the direction which America is heading without election integrity. We must fight election fraud before the DemonRats lead us to our own destruction.I believe that it was Kruschev who said that America would fall from within. God help us!