The national office of the Log Cabin Republicans issued a statement today (Monday, Aug. 16) criticizing the Biden administration’s “abandonment of LGBT Afghans during the withdrawal” from Afghanistan as the country fell into the hands of the Taliban.
Log Cabin Republicans Managing Director Charles Moran said in a written statement:
“What’s happening in Afghanistan is without question a catastrophe. We are grateful to every American who served in Afghanistan over the last 20 years and sacrificed so much to give the people of Afghanistan a chance to fight for their own freedom. The Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal without conditions dishonors their sacrifices.
“But one angle we cannot overlook is what is about to happen to Afghanistan’s already-persecuted LGBT community. Make no mistake, the reinstatement of the Taliban is a literal death sentence for LGBT Afghans. Human rights abuses will absolutely increase under this radical regime. The Biden Administration talks a tough game about supporting the LGBT community, but that support evidently doesn’t extend to our allies in Kabul.
“We hope the administration will be held accountable by both parties for this unprecedented disaster, but right now the priority must be to evacuate as many proven U.S. partners and allies from Kabul as possible, including LGBT Afghans.”
— Tammye Nash
Who gives one shit what the self haters have the say? Not reading or having it!
I am the founder of the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas. I was a former countywide Democratic elected official. I’ve worked my entire life in the progressive vineyard. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments of the Log Cabin Republicans on this issue. President Biden’s recklessness was a scandal of catastrophic proportions. His morbid incompetence, and that of Anthony Blinken and General Milley, suggest that this administration is ill suited to lead the nation in this perilous time.
The proverbial leopard does not change his spots. The Taliban was and still is a ruthless Islamic terrorist organization. Despite their assurances to the talking heads on CNN, the first thing they did after entering Kabul was to gun down their opponents and start compiling a list of unmarried 15 year old and up girls for forced marriages to Taliban fighters. Last time around they beheaded gay men in the public squares and stoned women and girls who had the audacity to learn to read and write. Those times are coming again.
Nothing that happened during the benighted Trump administration was as embarrassing as the sight of thousands of our friends desperately chasing a gigantic U.S. military C-5M in a last ditch effort to climb aboard. Today we found human remains on the hulls of those planes. Undoubtedly many of those belonged to gay men trying desperately to flee the country.
The U.S. made a commitment to the people of Afghanistan who supported us; men and women who sacrificed their lives for our interests. That wasn’t just Bush and Obama. That was also the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden in 2002 and 2003.
Joe Biden bald-faced lied to the American people when he declared that “nation building was never our purpose in Afghanistan.” The record shows otherwise. You can google his committee remarks in support of Afghanistan re-authorization in 2002 and 2003 which he co-authorized with Chairman Lugar in which he calls it a new “Marshall Plan” (the nation building plan that rebuilt Germany.) His frequent trips to Afghanistan reassured her people of his steadfast “commitment” to their betterment.
Afghan people made decisions about their lives based on our commitment – the commitment of the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. I understand that most of us in our culture today think a commitment is something disposal; but people in places like Afghanistan don’t know that, or didn’t until this week.
Abandoning our friends has become a bipartisan preoccupation. We abandoned the Kurds, our best friends in the middle east, not once but thrice. The last time, Trump unceremoniously bugged out of northern Syria literally abandoning our Kurdish compatriots on the field to the revenge of their enemies: ruthless Turkish imperialists at whose hands they were the victims of genocide. The Kurds finally figured out that America’s word means nothing; out commitments mean nothing; and so now they’ve turned to Russia and Iran.
Joe Biden promised the world “America is Back!” That too was a lie. His Afghan policy was no different than Trump’s. We had 2,500 troops in Kabul that saw no action. It was the Afghans we were training who were dying for their country. We occupied Germany for fifty years and in that time it became a bullwork of democracy. In thirty years, the Taliban would have been a memory. But no, let’s not let anything distract us from our mass consumption of pornography, food, online tsotchkes and toys, and attacking each other over bogus equity and social justice “issues.” Meanwhile, my gay brothers over the next year will be executed, beheaded in the streets of Kabul in the name of Allah. Shame on Joe Biden, and shame on the Stonewall Democrats and other self-anointed social justice warriors; democratic tribalists who when not sitting in abject silence, are making the most pathetic excuses for an amoral policy that has made us a pathetic global byword.
Joe Biden ordered the “gay pride flag” flown over the American embassy in Kabul. I’m sure some Afghan gay men thought it meant America had their backs. Little could they have guessed that it was nothing more than a sentimental sop for his effete HRC donors so easily bought off with facile shtick. We will see the bodies of murdered gay men hanging in Afghanistan with a curse on their lips for the American gay community too busy manufacturing new and more exotic forms of luxury oppression than look at the real oppression staring them in the face.