In the course of that bit of advocacy, for what did Mirengoff blame Trump?

He was responsible for a great many less-than-perfect creations, according to our son the architect, because he was too arrogant (honest or not) to let anyone interfere with his visions, including the clients paying for his services or the structural engineers pointing out the flaws.

It is not hypocritical to admit your limits, or to decline the lure of making every issue all about yourself.

So a modest rephrasing: “They show the same moral failing with regard to the way they handle every one of these issues: a complete absence of honesty.”

The talented, but still less than perfect, architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was reported to have claimed in effect: “honest arrogance was preferable to hypocritical humility”. He was capable enough to get away with that – many others are not.

Being right about everything means never having to say you’re sorry.

Circling back, as someone we know is wont to do…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/08/30/judge-revokes-mothers-custody-of-son-over-vaccination-status-n2594999?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky3
“Judge Shapiro just issued an order vacating portions of his prior order of August 11th so Rebecca Firlit can see her son again,”

All Jennifer Rubin Reports gratefully accepted.

Her utterances are to me as Beer was to Ben Franklin: Proof that God loves me and wants me to be happy!

Nope.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/08/30/state-dept-spox-resorts-to-tweeting-jennifer-rubin-op-ed-about-who-deserves-more-credit-for-afghanistan-mess/

The last of U.S. military personnel on the ground in Afghanistan flew out of the country before 4 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday. After that it didn’t take long for the Taliban to take over the side of the airport that was formerly controlled by the U.S.

However, there are still, by the State Department’s estimate, around 200 Americans in Afghanistan who don’t want to be there in spite of Biden’s promise a couple weeks ago that nobody would be left behind.

Add it all up and the Biden administration’s withdrawal has basically been a disaster. But as that was happening, State Department spokesman Jake Price found an unsurprising ally in the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin:

Opinion | The State Department deserves more credit for its effort to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan – The Washington Post https://t.co/U7hmb6jRiu

— Ned Price (@nedprice) August 30, 2021

There’s shameless, and then there’s whatever THIS is.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/08/30/royal-flush-of-ron-klain-retweets-white-house-chief-of-staff-retweets-joy-reid-responding-to-jennifer-rubin-praising-the-airlift/

A lot of people think it’s White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain who’s calling the shots in the Biden administration; it has to be somebody. After all, somebody’s always instructing President Biden which reporter to call on, and he always says he’s going to get in trouble with someone if he takes unscripted questions.

We know that Klain spends a lot of time on Twitter, because he does a lot of retweeting. Matt Whitlock caught him in the “royal flush” of retweets, retweeting MSNBC’s Joy Reid marveling at the “astounding human achievement” that was the bug-out from Afghanistan, in a reply to Jennifer Rubin being reminded of the end of “Schindler’s List.”
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But wait, there’s more: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about a scoop in the Washington Post that the Taliban offered control of Kabul to the U.S. military, but the military deferred and said the airport was fine. Psaki said she hadn’t heard about it.
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“Big news that Jen Psaki apparently doesn’t read the Washington Post while the WHCOS retweets Jen Rubin 30 times a day.”— Stephen L. Miller

This debacle does have some resemblance to “Schindler’s List” – but not the positive one they are thinking about.
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1432399441139482633

However, Schindler also lamented that he hadn’t done enough to save more people, so maybe they are right after all.

“As Biden Pulls out, bin Laden’s Security Chief Triumphantly Returns to Be Embraced in Afghanistan”

Joe Biden has had talking points when he tries to talk about the “success” that he achieved in Afghanistan.

Among those points are two things he constantly says: that we went in to get Osama bin Laden and that we went to make sure that we were safe from being attacked by al Qaeda/terrorists from Afghanistan again. He said that we successfully achieved both long ago.

But he voted against getting bin Laden and he’s ensured that Afghanistan may be even more dangerous now than before, with the Taliban controlling the country. We were attacked by terrorists before we even left, with the Kabul Airport suicide attack. And now the country will be a haven, not just for the Taliban but for al Qaeda and for ISIS as well.

Biden even lied and claimed that al Qaeda was gone from the country. His own team had to contradict him and say yes, al Qaeda was still in the country.

But perhaps nothing was a more stark example of how empty Biden’s words were than the images today — as the U.S. finally pulled out after 20 years, having gone in to deal with al Qaeda — to have Osama bin Laden’s security chief now return to be embraced by admirers to his home province in Afghanistan, under Taliban protection. A gut-punching image as we come up on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, if ever there was one.

“That’s It: All Planes Out of Afghanistan, Gen. McKenzie Admits Americans Were Left, Praises the Taliban”

…“We were not able to bring any Americans out… none of them made it to the airport and were able to be accommodated.” Again, hundreds of Americans and allies did make it to the airport over the last couple of days, but were not allowed in. That’s shameful and now they’re trapped and McKenzie admitted it, trying to downplay it as “very few hundreds” left.”
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Joe Biden said they were going to stay until they got everyone out. We knew that was a lie at the time. He knew it was a lie at the time. Well, here it is, and yes, it’s a lie.
He kept his word to the Taliban to get out by their date of August 31. He didn’t keep his word to the American people to get Americans out.

“Reports of Americans, Allies Still Trapped: Some Say Denied Entry to Kabul Airport by US”

…There was also an American family in contact with Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) who said they had tried multiple times to get into the airport but had been unable to get in. Kim said he asked the State Department for whatever emergency number they had for this situation to help people trying to get in. They told him there was no such number.
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Charge d’Affaires Ross Wilson denied that Americans were being denied entry to the airport by the State Department but there are multiple reports about the State Department not letting people in, including among members of Congress who the people were contacting.
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The State Department says only a few hundred Americans are still trying to leave Afghanistan. I’m sorry, but that’s a LIE. We have WAY more requests than that coming in from people begging us to help them escape.— Glenn Beck
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Hundreds of Afghan students & alumni of American University in Kabul told evacuations are canceled after 7 hours waiting in buses today to get to the airport. They are in panic and say their names and passport information was shared with the Taliban.

But THIS guy made it out.

“Rapist Evacuated From Kabul to US Reveals Bigger Problem With People the Biden Team Evacuated”

If only 5,400 of the 122,000 people are Americans and by some reports, only 7,000 are SIVs, who are all those other people, what kind of vetting did they get, and were they legitimately on the planes?

But the Biden Administration is incompetent so they can’t even begin to tell us how many SIVs were among the group as we reported previously — something which should have been the primary part of putting people on the planes.

Now, the SIV number can be a little deceptive in that those are the most vetted people and the ones who, along with Americans, should have been the ones they were trying to get out. There also would have been a number of Afghan allies who may have been contractors, embassy staff, interpreters who didn’t have SIVs, who still needed legitimately to get out with us because they helped us and that likely would be a big number.

Unfortunately, because it’s the Biden Administration, lying and incompetence go hand in hand with each other so it raises the real question of whether people on the planes were adequately vetted or just packed onto the planes to bump the numbers. I put nothing past the Biden team at this point.

This latest story confirms that not everyone was vetted sufficiently

According to the Washington Times, a convicted rapist who had previously been deported from the United States was one of the people who made it on an evacuation flight all the way to the U.S., until he was flagged by border officials when he arrived at Dulles Airport. He’s now being held at a detention facility in Virginia.

“Afghanistan Veteran Puts Dire Situation in Perspective With Message That Should Make Biden Feel Shame”

Johnny “Joey” Jones is a retired United States Marine who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2010, Jones lost both his legs below the knee after he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan. In addition to the loss of both of his legs, the explosion “caused severe damage to his right forearm and both wrists.”

Jones, who is a Fox News contributor, naturally had a lot to say about the situation in Afghanistan during his appearance today on the network’s “Outnumbered” program. I transcribed the first two videos, but please make sure to watch all four clips below as he perfectly put in perspective why the sacrifices his fellow officers made mattered and how going forward we need to put leaders in charge who might have had the foresight to put forth an exit strategy from a country that didn’t lead to what we’ve seen happen over the last several days:
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“I have a daughter now. Every time I look at her I think about [ Gunnery Sgt. Floyd Holley] and his two daughters. And all I can think is that these men sacrificed not just their lives but when you sacrifice your life, you sacrifice every single minute and day that you would’ve stayed on this Earth making an impact in other people’s lives. And as mad and frustrated as I am today, I just hope the American people understand these people died for you. Let’s make this world a better place, let’s elect leaders that are leaders and not just politicians. And as much as we want to complain, maybe let’s look forward and look for the right people to do the right things because haven’t had much of that in a while.”
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Jones’ powerful message should be cc’d to Joe Biden and his apologists in the mainstream media who oddly believe that maybe Americans will be willing to give Biden a “pass” for the way the Afghanistan war ended, considering so many here are war-weary.

The tragedy is that many Democrats will give him a pass (or even spin it up into credit!), but all of those trapped Americans and our allies from Afghanistan and NATO have families and friends; all of the killed and wounded troops, past and present, have families and friends; all of the veterans and charity groups and (yes, even some) politicians trying desperately to help get people out have families and friends.

They won’t give Biden or anyone in his administration a pass.
Not anymore.

This was the post Neo linked.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/08/29/marine-officer-relieved-of-duty-for-slamming-leaders-over-afghanistan-debacle-issues-blistering-warning-n434835

Here are headlines from some of the other ones currently in the sidebar or directly accessible (not linking them, so as to not trigger the Hall Monitor):

“USMC Take Troubling Step Against Marine Commander Who Demanded Accountability on Afghanistan”
(threatening to paint him as having mental health problems and being a “threat” because he spoke about bringing the “system down.” — But as he said, “You can’t fire me, I resign!”)

“ABC Just Did Something Unthinkable to Commander of Marine Company Hit by Kabul Suicide Attack”
(He wrote a touching post about the death of his men; then ABC stole the post, used Capt. Ball’s name and published it as an op-ed by him, titled “My fallen Marines will always be my heroes: Opinion.” They even created an “author” profile for him on their website. All without his permission.)

“NBC News Reporter Triggers Leftists After Brutally on-Point Assessment About Afghanistan Legacy”
(Even the MSM are warmongers now.)

“Jen Psaki’s Answer on if Biden Regrets How Afghanistan Exit Strategy Played out Is Unacceptable”
(it certainly was)

“The Administration Lied About Giving a List of Names to the Taliban and Not a Fact-Checker to Be Found”
(some of those names were of the female students at the American University, mentioned in other threads)

“Blinken Confirms Everything You Thought About Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster in One Awful Sentence”
(to wit, on Americans and allies being free to leave: “Now, of course, we don’t take the Taliban at their word; we take them by their deed. And that’s what we’re going to be looking to.”)

I will link this one, because it’s important to read the whole thing.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/08/30/blinken-official-final-remarks-on-afghanistan-show-how-little-they-care-about-americans-n435573

Remember Obama’s strawman catchphrase?
This IS what Democrats are.