Daniel Greenfield May 01, 2023
In 2006, 25,000 Americans were trapped
behind enemy lines in Lebanon. Hezbollah had attacked Israel and the
Shiite Muslim terror group which had overwhelmed the formerly Christian
nation had once again dragged it into a destructive war.
The
Bush administration responded by hiring a cruise ship, the Orient
Queen, which brought over 1,000 Americans to Cyprus. The massive cruise
ship was part of a rescue flotilla that included the USS Nashville (as
captured in an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations who was
evacuated aboard the cruiser), the USS Trenton, on one of its final
voyages, along with hired civilian vessels from other nations that got
Americans out.
Vice Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, announced
that the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group was being moved into
position so “that we have the capability to extract people, no matter
where their location is.”
The Biden administration has taken a very different approach with the estimated 16,000 Americans trapped in Sudan.
Two Americans are dead in Sudan after Biden, once again, washed his hands of them.
“It
is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living
abroad,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, fresh off
celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week with the cast of The L-Word,
announced.
In the Biden administration, lesbians are visible, Americans looking to get home aren’t.
“We
extend our deepest condolences to the family,” National Security
Council spokesman John Kirby whined. And then announced that, “We
continue to make clear at the highest levels of our government the
leadership of both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support
Forces that they are responsible for ensuring the protection of
civilians and noncombatants.”
The Rapid Support Forces, better known as the Janjaweed, are a Islamic Jihadist operation infamous for its mass rapes and massacres of Christians.
“Men
were mutilated and murdered, women raped, and children kidnapped.” One
survivor described how, “they raped us in a group. Some women were raped
by 8 or 10 men. Seventeen women were raped together. All of us were
raped. Even the underage girls were raped.”
Instead of taking
responsibility for protecting American lives, the Biden administration
is once again telling Islamic terrorists, first the Taliban in
Afghanistan, now the Janjaweed/RSF in Sudan, that it’s their job to
protect Americans. Not his job.
Karine Jean-Pierre, as usual, was
lying. Both Republican and Democrat administrations had a long proud
history of evacuating Americans from war zones.
During the racist
Muslim riots in Indonesia in 1998, the Clinton administration prepped
more than “10,000 American troops and a flotilla of United States Navy
ships” if needed to evacuate an estimated 6,000 Americans. The Clinton
administration had helped evacuate Americans from Albania and dispatched
troops to Zaire to get Americans out of the country.
This was so commonplace and routine that we took it for granted. Until Obama.
Obama
set the precedent of abandoning Americans in Benghazi. But what Obama
did on a small scale, Biden has once again implemented on a much larger
scale. The abandonment of thousands of Americans behind enemy lines in
Afghanistan was not an aberration. Sudan has made it clear that
abandoning Americans is the formal new policy.
“Americans should
have no expectation of a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation at this
time, and we expect that’s going to remain the case,” National Security
Council spokesman John Kirby warned.
And claimed that it’s “not as simple as jumping in a taxicab”.
True,
it’s not. That’s why we spend hundreds of billions on a military and
diplomatic infrastructure that is capable of doing more than jumping
into a D.C. taxicab to get some drinks.
Not all that long ago,
during the Lebanon War, the State Department figured out how to hire a
cruise ship, bring together vessels from different countries and planes
to transport Americans to Cyprus and Turkey. They were on the phone with
a ship urging its captain to miss his deadline to sail so that
Americans could board. Maybe there was more time to do that without
Lesbian Visibility Week and all the other narcissistic exercises in
virtue signaling that define the Left.
Rescuing Americans isn’t
easy, but it’s a nice break from those demanding cocktail parties, Zoom
meetings and press briefings that the State Department and the NSC are
busy at.
What was an outrage under Obama has now solidified into a
new normal. Biden administration officials dismiss even the notion that
they have any responsibility to evacuate Americans.
“Shouldn’t Americans abroad expect some help from their government?” a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre.
“It
is not our standard procedure to evacumate — evacuate American
citizens living abroad… the State Department does its best to provide
information to citizens who are abroad and — and giving them the warning
when necessary.” Jean-Pierre, resenting having to take time out from
partying with the L-Word cast, responded with blithe contempt.
It
may no longer be standard procedure for America, but the British, the
French, the Germans and even the Italians are getting their citizens
out. Much as some of them did in Afghanistan.
During that
evacuation, the Biden administration refused to go out and get
Americans, and woke generals yelled at their European partners that they
were making them look bad. But the British weren’t making American
generals look bad. Biden was disgracing America. And by going along with
his treasonous policy of leaving Americans behind, they were disgracing
themselves.
“The government has begun a large-scale evacuation
of British passport holders from Sudan on RAF flights,” UK Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted. “I pay tribute to the British Armed
Forces, diplomats and Border Force staff.”
Is there a reason that
the Brits, the French and the Italians, who not only evacuated their
own people, but the Vatican staff and Swiss citizens, can do this, but
that America can’t?
Obviously we can. The Clinton and the Bush
administrations did it. Evacuating Americans used to be the norm before
Lesbian Visibility Week became the norm.
Obama and Biden have
made a point of refusing to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan and
Sudan because they wanted to make the point that the military and
diplomats were not there to serve national interests, but global ones.
Americans should not expect the State Department or the military to
protect them just because of their birthright or citizenship. American
institutions no longer serve Americans, only leftist causes. Their
mission is equity and inclusion, it’s Lesbian Visibility Week: not
rescuing people who happen to have an American passport week.
And that’s the way it will stay until Americans take back their country from the un-American Left.
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