As Biden Flails . . . Is U.S. Becoming Failed Nation Just Sheltering Increasing Refugees From Its Defeats?

By DEXTER DUGGAN

The cop on the beat patrols a tough neighborhood. He keeps getting in gunfights with thugs, but the thugs repeatedly win and kill the neighbors he’s trying to protect. The kindly but ineffective cop ends up with his house filled with all the children orphaned due to his failures on the job.
That might resemble the supposedly mighty U.S. government today, which hasn’t outright won a war since 1945, World War II. Which was all of 76 years ago. Some U.S. citizens might have been born, lived a full lifespan, and died without seeing their nation as the declared victor of an actual war.
Why does the U.S. go to war at all? To make the war territories tolerable or better for those who live over there. It wasn’t because dictators were landing their troops in Miami, Manhattan, or Seattle.
If the U.S. loses the wars, this country gets refugees fleeing the mess, which presumably was not Washington’s original goal. Losing war after war makes the U.S. a failing nation-state that has outlived its better days, forced to shelter the increasing results of its defeats. The chaos caused in Afghanistan by Joe Biden is the latest tragedy.
The people who come here due to our collapse elsewhere may be great additions to our shores, but many of them presumably would have continued happily as the natives back in their homelands if Communists, for instance, had been defeated.
There was no major Vietnamese presence in the U.S. until Communists triumphed over free Saigon in 1975. Wikipedia succinctly notes what a number of histories recognize: “The Vietnamese community in the United States was minimal until the South Vietnamese immigration to the country following the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.”
A June 2020 article at the Migration Policy Institute site notes the same impetus for Cubans, who “began arriving in the United States in large numbers after the 1959 Communist revolution led by Fidel Castro….The flows then grew to include middle- and lower-class Cubans as the revolution radicalized.”
When the U.S. clumsily tried to end Castro’s rule in 1961 with the Bay of Pigs invasion conducted by Cuban exiles, Washington got another whipping.
I remember driving by a parish church that I sometimes attended in the city of Tustin, in southern California, in the 1980s while a weekly Vietnamese Mass was in progress. The Vietnamese-language singing floating outside sounded beautiful.
And a large Catholic church that I’m familiar with in San Diego has shrines in a hallway just behind the nave that recognize four different cultures in its membership.
Before their defeats, both South Vietnam and Cuba suffered from left-wing media misinformation fed to international policymakers in Washington, D.C., and also D.C. bureaucrats figuring that a perfect system of democracy had to be imposed on these developing countries, which directly led to no democracy at all under the Communists.
Vietnamese- and Cuban-heritage people in the U.S. are likelier to vote Republican because they or their parents have direct knowledge of the poisons of Communism — a system of brutal oppression that, unfortunately, draws the admiration today of many in a Democratic Party that used to think it was self-evidently correct to oppose Marxism.
When Joe Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, recently said Cubans fleeing to the U.S. would be sent right back to the island, these power-mad Democrats knew they didn’t want more potential Republican voters settling in to disrupt dreamed-of everlasting Democrat voting majorities.
Also unfortunately, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic Party draws ever closer to a Marxist system eager to suppress the U.S. into a one-party dictatorship, even putting state elections under the heel of national Democrat coercion while an enforced policy of wild open borders lures countless illegal, unvetted immigrants.
Even as Biden condescended to give a talk about the Afghanistan tragedy on August 24, the despicable bad Catholic president first of all devoted an entire 17 paragraphs, according to the White House text, to peddle his filthy lies and diversions about his radical-left political agenda he’s trying to impose on the U.S.
If the horror this feeble creature created in Afghanistan wasn’t enough to make people vomit, Biden emphasizing his raw political priorities during this tragedy did. How long can this seriously impaired old man be left in charge to destroy all that he touches?
The White House must not even expect Americans to believe a word it bleats out. Biden press secretary Jen Psaki actually insisted repeatedly that Americans weren’t stranded in Afghanistan when everyone knew for dead certain they were. Why, Psaki snapped, there are phones, texts, and emails being used!
Well, that certainly solves the problem when a Taliban gunman pounds at the door in Kabul.
“First of all, I think it’s irresponsible saying Americans are stranded. They are not,” Psaki boldly lied. Are her little children proud of Mom?
A columnist at The Federalist site posted on August 24: “This kind of blatant dissimulation has become a disturbing pattern….But instead of acknowledging what news reports and social media clearly show — Americans stranded, deadly chaos at the airport, Afghans rushing the gates — the Biden administration is displaying an inability or unwillingness to answer questions or even talk about the evacuation in a way that’s tethered to reality.”
I loved Neil Diamond’s (“They’re Comin’ to”) America song when it was released in 1981. Even though this was after the Cuban and Vietnamese defeats, I still regarded it as a positive recognition of historic immigration to America.
So I was puzzled when left-wing Massachusetts Democrat Michael Dukakis used it as the theme song for his 1988 presidential campaign. How dare Dukakis steal “my” song! But in the current age of Democrat uncontrollable open-borders policy, we might ponder that he was just ahead of his time.

A Lot More Dangerous

The Wanderer asked Seth Leibsohn, a conservative strategist and daily radio talk host at Phoenix-based KKNT (960 AM), for his reaction to the current ignominy. Leibsohn said: “Afghanistan is a defeat whose reverberations will be around our and the free world’s necks for years. We went to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban (though Joe Biden forgets that). The Taliban is in power and there is more al-Qaeda in Afghanistan now than before 9/11.
“People recall the pictures of Saigon,” Leibsohn said. “Awful as they were, they were not the worst of it, just as the pictures from Kabul are not the worst of it — the reverberations will include allies’ and would-be allies’ hesitancy to work with us in the future, enemies knowing we don’t have the physical or moral makeup to fight the kinds of wars we need to fight to have the kinds of victories our enemies understand, and allies put in danger by mutual enemies who know we won’t be there to defend them.
“The world was just made more dangerous, a lot,” Leibsohn said. “And we now look like the kind of country we used to send aid to. Why bother fighting wars is a good question — our enemies know why they fight; I wish we knew why we do. Or did.”
During his KKNT program, Leibsohn recalled that the defeat of South Vietnam meant people escaping into dangerous waters in small boats — a perilous enough course, Leibsohn said, but nothing to compare to Afghans trying to hang onto the outside of jet aircraft.
Conservative Republican political strategist Constantin Querard told The Wanderer that war refugees coming here actually aren’t so numerous: “Compared to the huge numbers of legal and illegal immigrants we have absorbed over the last 20 years, the entirety of the refugee population that has come to America thanks to the wars, successful or unsuccessful, of the last 70 years is a relatively small number.
“It is likely good policy, as well as morally right, to provide a safe refuge for those foreign nationals that have fought by our side or aided our military efforts in countries where the mission ultimately failed. Afghanistan in 2021 as the most recent example,” Querard said.
“Does this mean thousands of new arrivals? It almost certainly does,” he said. “But the entirety of the refugees we protect from Afghanistan may ultimately amount to just a few days of what would cross our southern border on a regular basis.”

Trump: No Vetting

Meanwhile, Donald Trump noted in an August 24 email blast that Americans being rescued had been only a small minority of evacuees. Trump added that “we can only imagine how many thousands of terrorists have been airlifted out of Afghanistan and into neighborhoods around the world. What a terrible failure. NO VETTING. How many terrorists will Joe Biden bring to America? We don’t know!”
An opinion column posted on August 24 at The Wall Street Journal looked at the hopefully positive results to arise from Afghan tragedy refugees.
This column said: “Over the past 70 years, waves of Cuban, Hungarian, Iranian, and Vietnamese immigrants fleeing Communism and Islamism have transformed themselves from desperate refugees into icons of the American dream through hard work and initiative, the strength of their families and communities, and above all their recognition that the freedoms they enjoy as Americans aren’t free.”
Or, as an opinion column at The New York Sun said on August 23: “Americans are skeptical of open-ended military commitments and of opening the door to a flood of poorly screened refugees, but we also see the humanity of those seeking an escape to freedom from persecution. We want to help. Never mind that the most efficient way to help might have been to leave some GIs there rather than surrendering.”
On the other hand, commentator Steve Cortes posted at The National Pulse site on August 23 that it’s a characteristic of globalism to strip down a nation then send its refugees fleeing to the U.S.
Many on the left, Cortes said, believe that “immigration is either some intrinsically inherent and pure good, or a cudgel with which to batter American culture and identity. For globalists, mass migration must be embraced, as a means to cheap labor and free votes, but now also as a matter of ‘social justice.’
“Because nothing says ‘equity’ like stripping impoverished nations of their labor force and working them to the bone before sending them back to their American ghettoes,” Cortes said.
He concluded: “Given these risks, we simply should not allow the globalists to, once again, inflict the costs of their disastrous war and mindless nation-building upon the citizens of America. This pattern of invading a country, massively destabilizing it, creating a refugee crisis, and then settling those migrants in America is not a sustainable path to security and prosperity. But then again, the globalists know that all too well.”