This month is the third anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.  It is an anniversary that the Biden/Harris administration would prefer we forget.  Biden rejected the advice of our military leaders who told him that his surrender plan was fatally flawed and unnecessarily risked the lives of our brave men and women in uniform.  Harris stood with Biden against the military.
 
We all know what happened next.  Chaos erupted at the Kabul Airport.  On August 26, 2021, a suicide bomber penetrated our security perimeter at the Abbey Gate and killed 13 of our courageous warriors in a bomb attack.  Many, many more suffered horrendous wounds that they will carry with them for life.  The world saw it and decided Biden/Harris were weak.
 
To “celebrate” this third anniversary of our humiliation, the Taliban organized a military parade at Bagram.  They proudly displayed the American weapons and vehicles left behind by Biden/Harris, including helicopters, Humvees and tanks.  Newsweek reports that over 10,000 men participated.
 
Neither Biden nor Harris have ever taken responsibility or apologized for the needless deaths of our military heroes.  Adding insult to injury, when our dead were returned to Dover Air Force Base, families were shocked to see Biden repeatedly looking at his watch as if he had somewhere better to be.  Gold Star mothers said they felt disrespected by Biden’s actions.  One grieving family member yelled, “burn in hell” at Biden when he left. 
 
May God comfort these families today.  Biden and Harris want us to forget the results of their weak policies.  We have a chance in November to make it clear that we remember. 


 
Harris & Walz’s Scary Advisors
 
Earlier this week, I recapped Gov. Tim Walz’s membership in a church that elevates the “right” to abortion and the worst aspects of the LGBTQIA+ (their acronym) movement.  Now come stories, from the Washington Examiner and CNN, that Walz cozies up as well to a bigoted Minneapolis imam named Asad Zaman.
 
Zaman, a public figure, is the executive director of a group called the Muslim American Society of Minnesota  (MASM).  A review of his social media shows he has had a consistent affinity for posts expressing hatred of Jews and Israel and even for a Neo-Nazi film that praises Hitler (links to some of the posts show they have now been removed from the web).
 
Walz now claims he has no “personal relationship” with the imam.  These are “weasel words.”  The imam prayed at Walz’s 2019 inauguration.  A just-uncovered video shows Walz speaking at a MASM event, singing Zaman’s praises: “I would like to first of all say thank you to Imam. I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it[.]” 
 
Well, this “master teacher” is actually a “master hater.”  He expressed solidarity, as CNN put it, with Hamas’s murderous attack on Israeli civilians last October 7th.  In 2016, he pushed out a Hamas press release defending a Bangladeshi Muslim leader who had been convicted of and executed for war crimes.
 
Do “religious” leaders somehow deserve a pass when they engage in rhetoric and actions like this? It’s reminiscent of the controversy that raged, rightly, around Barack Obama’s attendance, for years, at the Chicago church pastored by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Obamas were close with Wright, who had presided at the Obamas’ wedding.
 
On the very first Sunday after 9-11, Wright thundered about the terrorist attacks, expressing no sorrow at the carnage, but instead arguing that America had gotten what it deserved, concluding, “No, no, no, not God bless America, G— d—n America. That’s in the Bible.”
 
Wright’s remarks, especially in view of candidate Obama’s 20-year relationship with him, deserved scrutiny and debate. In the first week after then-Sen. John McCain won the Republican nomination in 2008, I met with the Senator and urged him to make the sermon an issue. He replied, “Do you want a civil war?”
 
Obviously not, but what radical Islamic leaders believe about our national life clearly matters and cannot be immune from challenge.  And this isn’t old news. Kamala Harris has sought the support of a prominent San Francisco pastor, Amos Brown, who offered a sermon similar to Wright’s in the days immediately after the slaughter of more than 3,000 innocent Americans.
 
It has been reported that “Pastor” Brown’s sermon was so offensive that senior Democrats who were present walked out. Nancy Pelosi, who was also present (it’s not clear if Harris was), responded at the time with tears in her eyes, “The act of terrorism on Sept. 11,” Pelosi said, “put those people outside the order of civilized behavior, and we will not take responsibility for that.”
 
Harris, who considers Amos her pastor, called him after Joe Biden was forced out of the race last month and sought Amos’s support for her candidacy.  He was happy to oblige, the ultra-liberal magazine Sojourners reports.
 
How much does any of this matter?  I’m a few years on from my childhood, but I remember some wise advice from my mother about the company you keep. 
 
If you’re a political figure in a nation as large as America, you have a choice of the religious leaders you associate with or whose endorsement you seek.  But that old irony will remain.  If you’re a Republican or Donald Trump, expect the media to tag you with every controversial statement your pastor or other religious allies have made.
 
If you’re Tim Walz or Kamala Harris, on the other hand, count on the media to overlook your effusive praise for radicals who entertain warm thoughts of Hitler or terrorists – no matter how often you show up at their churches or they attend your celebrations.