Joe Biden told us that under no circumstance would the abandonment of Afghanistan look anything like that of South Vietnam nearly half-a-century ago. Yet in ways it was even worse. Where most South Vietnamese had relatively little or no direct experience with the North Vietnamese before we abandoned them, Afghans knew firsthand what awaited them at the hands of the Taliban. Joe said there would be no scenes of people hanging onto helicopters lifting off from the US embassy. He was right. What we saw was people hanging onto jets taking off, then falling off in midair.

Considering the Afghanistan development, we harken back to all the scorned comments about New Americans, the illegal immigrants intended to replace you and me as we trundle off to FEMA camps. These New Americans will fill the elites’ need for cheap labor, or cheap subjects for medicine trials. No problem if pandemics or wars take off a third, or half, or more; there’s plenty lined up where they came from, still drawn by the magic of the America of bygone days where dreams could be made real by honest, God-fearing, hard-working men and women. How many years will it take before the truth filters down to the aspiring in other lands, that America was Trojan Horsed by its own leadership?