by WorldTribune Staff, February 11, 2022 Calls from Jill Biden and Pope Francis for special favors to get certain people out of the chaos enveloping Afghanistan made a bad situation worse, according to the commander of U.S. troops in charge of the evacuation of Kabul. Rear Adm. Peter Vasely “said the Pentagon was being pulled […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Russian tanks and mechanized infantry are churning dangerously close to Ukraine’s borders. Politicians are in overdrive trying to find new adjectives and soundbites to describe the combustible situation. Diplomats throughout Europe and the USA are trying to stop the clock on what’s presumed to be Russian President Vladimir […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The political reverberations following America’s Afghanistan pullout debacle still shake the geopolitical landscape from Ukraine to the Taiwan Straits. But shall pending military calculations in Moscow and Beijing take advantage of a perceived power vacuum in the wake of the Afghan fiasco or will diplomacy deflect the sword […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler When the Taliban forces overran Afghanistan a few months ago, not only did they capture a country continuously in conflict since the initial Soviet invasion in 1979, but they equally seized huge stockpiles of American supplied weapons provided to the defeated Afghan military. The unexplained and reckless U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Back in August, as the Biden administration prepared to dump 82,000-plus Afghan refugees onto U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assured Americans that it was “working around the clock to conduct the security screening and vetting of vulnerable Afghans before they are permitted entry into the United […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Following the Taliban’s lightning takeover of Afghanistan and America’s humiliating withdrawal, the remote South Asian country soon morphed into the political netherworld. The U.S. war was over, the Taliban Islamic fundamentalists had won, and the long-suffering Afghan people were relegated to the tragic club of conflict-wrecked countries that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John McNabb On this past Veterans Day a certain Air Force Maj. Gen. Rick Deveraux (Ret.) embarrassed himself, probably yet again, with his Veterans Day remarks in Weaverville, North Carolina. He told patriots in attendance the following: Military service members do not pledge allegiance to the flag but take an oath […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 4, 2021 Team Biden allowed the Taliban to take over Afghanistan and is even engaged in direct talks with the terror organization. In return, will the Taliban bend to Team Biden’s plea for diversity and inclusion in the Mideast nation? Doesn’t look like it. The Taliban has created a “kill list” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 2, 2021 Former Afghan security personnel who aided the United States during the war are now being hunted by the Taliban and have resorted to joining the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) after being abandoned by Team Biden, a report said. A former Afghan official told the Wall Street Journal that several […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 28, 2021 Team Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan includes the abandonment of more than 400 Americans who remain trapped in a nation now controlled by a terrorist organization. There are at least 439 American citizens still in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday. The White House had previously […]
