Afghanistan

Richard Engel has described himself as "basically a pacifist." But when it comes to telling it like it is regarding the Afghanistan fiasco, NBC News' chief foreign correspondent is taking no prisoners today. When on his MSNBC show this morning, Ali Velshi asked Engel whether it is surprising "not that it is happening, as much as how fast it is happening," Engel flatly rejected the notion. "No…

At any moment, Kabul would fall, the Taliban would return to running Afghanistan, and the victories in America’s 20-year-long war would be largely washed away. All of that was due to President Biden’s decision to hastily pull out of the country and leave civilians to be oppressed. Yet, on their Sunday morning newscast, ABC’s Good Morning America ran damage control for Biden by…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough scoffs at the claim by Biden's State Department spokesman who said of Afghanistan that "this is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not the wholesale withdrawal." That's "exactly what it is," retorts Scarborough. And retired Navy Admiral and Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis says calls the abrupt Biden withdrawal a "very dark moment…

Rick Stengel, formerly of Time, turned Obama State Department flack, turned MSNBC analyst, appearing on Nicolle Wallace's show this afternoon, says of the Afghanistan fiasco: "It hasn’t quite worked out as we thought." Shades of Hirohito's surrender speech in 1945: “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

During a contentious exchange with Biden State Department Spokesman Ned Price on Friday, MSNBC’s usually reliable Democratic Party shill Andrea Mitchell lost her patience with the administration flack’s nonsensical talking points on the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan. Amid Price’s absurd suggestions that Taliban terrorists could be countered with diplomacy, Mitchell decried…

In the last 24 hours, the Taliban has swept through major parts of Afghanistan, taking their tenth major city. And while the networks all gave that substantial coverage on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, one person was mostly missing: Joe Biden. The evening newscasts and morning shows barely mentioned the President of the United States, just 28 seconds

The United States under Joe Biden is slowly betraying Afghani translators who loyally helped us during the 20 year war in Afghanistan. Thousands are still stuck in the country as the U.S. prepares to complete a pullout. Yet, the networks have largely buried this abandonment. It was left to the very liberal comedian John Oliver on Sunday to condemn the “inexcusable” betrayal for his HBO host…

Retirement plans warn of a “penalty for early withdrawal.” Might that also apply to the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan? If you set aside the victory by coalition forces that expelled Saddam Hussein's overmatched troops from Kuwait in 1991, the U.S. has not won a war since World War II. Not in Korea. Not in Vietnam and now, says President Biden, Afghanistan is a war we…

Under close questioning by New Day co-host Brianna Keilar, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby doesn't deny the Taliban's claim that it has taken control of 85% of Afghanistan. Kirby supports Biden's claim that there will be no "fall of Saigon" moment in which people have to be evacuated from the roof of the US embassy in Kabul.

CNN has been a slavish supporter of all things Biden—with one glaring exception. The network has been critical of Biden's precipitous withdrawal of all US combat troops from Afghanistan.  As early as April, when Biden first announced his intentions, we noted a very critical CNN segment on the subject. That downbeat drumbeat continued today. Co-host John Berman opened New Day by solemnly…

Former two-time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Given his role in the Iraq War, both in its conception and in how it was fought, it was inevitable that media reaction would be at least somewhat critical. On his MSNBC show, Ayman Mohyeldin, however, went much further, blaming him and the U.S. for the misery that exists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes again let his far-left views show, this time by defending Congresswoman Ilhan Omar including the U.S. and Israel on her list of countries that she claims have committed "unthinkable atrocities" alongside Hamas and Taliban terrorists.

CBS's new series The United States of Al tackled the Afghan conflict this week by introducing an American-hating leftist who blames the United States for everything from the creation of the Taliban to the existence of Osama Bin Laden.

The White House press briefing returned on Tuesday following a week-long hiatus and, with plenty to talk about, Fox News’s Kristin Fisher burst out of the gate and asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether teachers unions hold sway over CDC recommendations for school reopenings as well as what the White House thinks Americans should be allowed to do once vaccinated.