{"id":81416,"date":"2021-08-29T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81416"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:17:03","slug":"where-have-all-the-flowers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81416","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AFGHANISTAN!<\/b><\/h2> <h3>&#8220;The American Empire disintegrates under the weight of one unfathomable crisis after another.&#8221;<\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Where Have All The Flowers Gone<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1626, \u201c<i>The New Atlantis: an unfinished work,\u201d<\/i> written by Sir Francis Bacon, was published posthumously. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It described a utopian land of \u201c<i>generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit<\/i>\u201d with citizens of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c<i>high moral character and honesty.<\/i>\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is believed that <i>The New Atlantis<\/i> planted the seed for transforming a continental wilderness into a democratic republic that became the United States. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fast forward four hundred years and that same nation is hardly recognizable today as the American Empire disintegrates under the weight of one unfathomable crisis after another.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once a country whose origins were the result of divine providence, devoted to the concept of self rule and individual liberty, as it grew into the world\u2019s most esteemed system of government and its people, extraordinary and honorable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is something surreal about the Afghanistan troop withdrawal scenario that does not fit the facts as they have emerged. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We are asked to believe that the pathetic, doddering Joe Biden should be held solely responsible for the gross failures committed by the US State Department and the military hierarchy including Joint Chief Mark Milley and Afghanistan Commander General Kenneth McKenzie. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clearly, the Presidency is where the buck stops, but scratching beneath the surface reveals we are being spoon-fed that a massive bungling operation is simply a more than normal bureaucratic snafu not unexpected of the Federal government. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is undeniable that there are Administration officials who view American lives as no more valuable than any other nationality as well as the distressing reality that there has been a government infiltration at the professional political class level that is more devoted to Klaus Schwab\u2019s collapse of American society rather than the New Atlantis vision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is not one scintilla of humor about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/08\/stranded-congressmen-others-accuse-biden-blocking-us-citizens-kabul-airport-leaving-beaten-taliban-terrorists\/?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&amp;utm_campaign=dailyam&amp;utm_content=daily\">State Department<\/a> bureaucrats being confused with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/08\/biden-effect-americans-told-not-travel-kabul-airport-situation-deteriorates-10000-americans-trapped-afghanistan\/?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&amp;utm_campaign=dailyam&amp;utm_content=daily\">Apple Dumpling Gang<\/a> on steroids as they inexplicably held the Taliban\u2019s hand throughout each day, leaving any thinking person to consider the unthinkable: that the unmitigated failure of geopolitical consequences, a disaster of unimaginable negligence can have only been the result of a planned strategy and an intentional series of decisions to further destroy American sovereignty. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is not to say that Biden, who may have less than half a functioning brain, is responsible enough to be held responsible via Amendment 25 but rather that he is the convenient scapegoat for a dark ops situation, the full awareness of which may lie beyond our comprehension.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The credibility of the entire withdrawal tragedy relies on the US government\u2019s open door communications as well as trading messages with its newest best friends, the Taliban as if they are partners in some otherwise malodorous project that defies definition.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As of January 20<sup>th<\/sup>, the Biden forces made the conscious decision to reject Trump\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/kashs-corner-we-knew-this-would-happen-in-afghanistan-and-we-had-a-strategy-to-prevent-it_3968920.html?utm_source=ATLNewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2021-02-19\">conditions based withdrawal<\/a>\u201d plan as incoming <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2021\/02\/08\/defense-chief-lloyd-austin-orders-armed-services-stand-down-to-confront-issue-of-white-supremacy-and-extremism-in-the-military\/\">Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin<\/a> issued a dramatic sixty day \u2018stand down\u2019 order to investigate \u2018white supremacy\u2019 within the ranks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Declaring it to be the nation\u2019s number one national security risk, Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee that \u201c<span class=\"s1\"><i>The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can\u2019t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own rank<\/i>s<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an embarrassingly inadequate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?514150-1\/defense-secretary-joint-chiefs-chair-hold-briefing-afghanistan\">joint press conference<\/a>, knowing that the Taliban offensive in Kandahar had begun a week earlier, Defense Secretary Austin and Joint Chief of Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlson-chairman-joint-chiefs-of-staff-should-be-fired\">Mark Milley<\/a> announced that the Kabul airport was secured by the US military.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Austin added \u201c<span class=\"s3\"><i>There have been no hostile interactions with the Taliban. And our lines of communication with Taliban commanders remain open, as they should be.<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\">Milley who was Joint Chief during the Trump Administration and had attended weekly meetings on Trump\u2019s withdrawal plan, feigned ignorance that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c<\/span><span class=\"s5\">t<i>here was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 day<\/i>s\u201d when he well knew the Trump team assessment was always 2-4 days for a Taliban takeover.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s5\">Milley repeated his best reassurance at least twice that the \u201c<i>State Department is currently working with the Taliban to facilitate safe transit to the Airport for American citizens.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s the primary means; that\u2019s the primary effort.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s5\">It was all one big staged lie; the Biden Administration, Milley and Austin had the assessments at their fingertips and chose to reject it because it came from the Trump Administration. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hours after the Abbey Gate attack that took the lives of 13 young Marines, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/centcom-commander-reveals-u-intelligence-201833659.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall\">General Kenneth McKenzie<\/a>, Commander of US Central Command in Afghanistan held a press briefing exhibiting a cold-hearted lack of humanity as he announced:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt was a failure by Taliban operates with varying degrees of competence; some are scrupulously good, some are not. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The other thing we do is we share a version of this information with Talibans so they can actually do some searching out their forces and we believe some attacks have been thwarted by them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We also use Taliban as a tool to protect us as much as possible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We share a common purpose; as long as we keep that common purpose aligned, they have been useful to work with. They\u2019ve cut some of our security concerns down.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>McKenzie added that the intelligence sharing with the Taliban had been in effect since August 14 and included the biometric program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Almost simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/26\/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957\">Politico <\/a>reported that \u201c<i>US officials gave Taliban a list of names of American citizens and allies to grant entry into the outer perimeter of the city\u2019s airport.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some of the curiosities that defy explanation include what names were on \u2018the list\u2019 that McKenzie referred to as sharing with the Taliban and as reported by Politico?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And for what purpose were Taliban recipients other than to enjoy a favored game of torture as their favorite sport?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are we naive enough to believe those names will be given a personal escort by the Taliban out of the country? Were any of the names on that list State Department whistle blowers who have been leaking information about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodnewsstudio.com\/video-archives\">dark ops<\/a> biochemical program being run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdit.com\/dvc\/a\">Dynaport Vaccine Company<\/a>?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How has Eric Prince, founder of Blackwater Services and less known for humanitarian impulses, offered rides out of Kabul to favored individuals?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What exactly were the circumstances of the Abbey Gate bombing and the whereabouts of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/533356-mother-marine-biden-dementia\/\">martyred<\/a> thirteen Marines?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A logical question at this point might be why the US committed twenty years of war in Afghanistan since the Taliban was never known to be complicit with the 911 attack?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>After spending $4T in Afghanistan, with 800K US armed services, 2,448 fatalities, 20,722 wounded and 4,000 contractors,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>what government would justify a total walk-away from $80 Billion of military hardware including 70,000 vehicles, 600K American made weapons, hundreds of aircraft and some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">Meanwhile, in no less an incomparable political crisis masquerading as a massive health pandemic<\/span>, the utter chaos in Afghanistan has not stopped Big Pharma\u2019s Covid campaign to wage a concurrent crisis against the no-vaxxers as the southern border continues to explode with thousands of illegals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s5\"><b>Renee Parsons\u00a0served on the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. She can be found at\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"mailto:reneedove3@yahoo.com\"><span class=\"s6\"><b>reneedove3@yahoo.com<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Have All The Flowers Gone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}