Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 We couldn't beat the Taliban with guns or bombs, but we're still trying to beat them with words, as the anti-Taliban propaganda continues non-stop. 

And besides being unable to stop the Taliban, we couldn't stop ordinary Afghans from storming our cargo plane. And once they did, our crew apparently decided, "ah, what the hell."

So, they took off with them, but not before taking a picture.

So, this was a U.S. Military decision: to take off with all those people who forced themselves on the plane to Qater. But, I'm not buying it. If they really forced themselves on the plane, then it didn't happen in an orderly way; it was like a stampede. And you know what happens in a stampede; stampeders get hurt. They can even get killed. And they said that 7 people have died at the Kabul airport so far. But, these people look awfully relaxed and unrumpled for being in such a hazardous situation. 

And wouldn't this have to be a super-spreader event? What about Covid? What about the Delta variant? What's Fauci got to say about this? I see only one woman on the left wearing a mask. And that's amazing because here in Texas where I live, they ended the mask mandates, but when you go in the supermarket or Walmart, I'd say about half the people and all the employees are still wearing masks. Of course, I don't. I have never worn the mask when it wasn't mandatory. 

But, the Americans decided to just take off with them, eh? It's a 3 hour flight from Kabul to Doha, Qater. And you know how people are; they have to pee and poop. So, how was that going to happen here? And people can have all kinds of crises: medical, psychiatric, or both. So, what if somebody gets in a bad way? What if someone gets in acute pain? What if someone goes berserk? What if a fight breaks out between two or more people? How can you exert any control at all in a situation like this?  

People can go 3 hours without eating, but what if someone gets seriously thirsty? And look at the bald guy on the left holding the baby. Where's the baby's mother? Or is he a single father? And why does he looks so relaxed, considering how easily a baby can get hurt or killed in a mob commotion? Why do they all look so relaxed? 

And what happens when you get them to Doha? Do all these people know someone in Doha who was coming to the airport to pick them up? Of course not. These people were an instant humanitarian crisis for the U.S. government and the government of Qatar. So, did we actually fly them to Doha and dump them on the Qatar authorities? Where the hell did we get the nerve to do that? And if we really did do it, then it only goes to show that the U.S. thinks it owns the world and can just impose and commandeer with complete abandon. And we're not talking about just putting them up overnight. It's an instant ongoing responsibility to take care of them. But, if it really happened, I don't doubt that our State Department will eventually cut a huge check to Qatar because one thing we have an unlimited and unquenchable supply of is money. We can conjure up any amount of it. 

But, why spend the taxpayer's money that way? (although the U.S. government gets most of its money from Federal Reserve computers and printing presses rather than taxpayers) I can answer that: It's to make the Taliban look bad; to make it look like very few Afghans support the Taliban, when there is no way the Taliban could have done what it did over the last week without widespread support from the Afghan populace. 

Look at that mob. And notice that there are only a few children, even though the adults don't look that old. They don't look like grandparents; they look like parents.  So, how could you have so many people of child-rearing age fleeing the country without their children? And obviously there are a lot more males than females? So where were their wives? Left behind? 

And obviously the picture was taken from a high elevation. So, a crew member whipped out his cell phone? And then what? Turned it over to the press? 

And since the cargo plane was about to take off when the people forced themselves on, what was the cargo supposed to be? Had these people not shown up, what was the plane going to be flying away besides the crew? Or are we just sending planes there to take out any Afghans who want to leave Afghanistan? 

The photo came from Defense One, which is a news organization that focuses on the military. It's a publication of GovExec Media, which focuses on all things government. 

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