I watched the movie, “Argo” last night. It came out in 2012, but somehow, evaded my movie radar until Monday night when I was chastised by my darling son for not having watched it.
It’s a film about the 1979 Iran Hostage crisis, during which 66 American citizens at the US Embassy in Tehran were captured and 52 of them held for more than a year in horrible conditions.
The Carter Administration planned a rescue attempt. It failed miserably. It was not only unsuccessful, eight US servicemen were killed and more injured.
The hostages were captured on November 4, 1979. President Carter gave some speeches, sure, but nothing happened. The hostages were released within minutes after President Reagan’s inaugural address on January 20, 1981.
The movie, “Argo,” focuses on the successful American-Canadian joint effort to sneak out six American diplomates who had escaped to the Canadian embassy by passing them off as a Canadian film crew scouting for movie locations.
It’s a really good movie, and while it IS a movie with all it’s inaccuracies and embellishments, I could not help but notice the parallels to it and the train wreck that was the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, namely the failure to anticipate/grasp/prepare for the situation, killing American military and leaving Americans and Afghan allies behind.
Yeah, it’s not play-by-play similar, but enough that I said “Afghanistan” out loud at least five times while watching the film.
“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” ~President Biden
And yet, yesterday in the news, we learned that the Taliban is banning girls from attending high school, ordering women to wear a hijab, segregating parks by sex, prohibiting females traveling solo...you know, all the extreme Taliban actions we knew would happen.
I mean, who's going to hold them accountable?
US? This administration?
Please. Scout would have a better chance at that, and she's a 10lb Yorkie.
What's more, there are STILL Americans in Afghanistan needing to get out, but it no longer makes the news. To do so would only remind the American public of the failure of this administration when it comes to Afghanistan.
From inflation to gas shortages to high prices to perceived American weakness, Joe really is Jimmy 2.0
Except, unlike Carter, I suspect he’s never built a home for anyone.
Point to Carter.