{"id":79397,"date":"2021-09-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79397"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:48:47","slug":"the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79397","title":{"rendered":"The Math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Biden administration did its unearned victory lap yesterday, in of the most catastrophically bad speeches I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; a formidable bar indeed for our senescent president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the worst part?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Administration brags about getting around 120,000 people out in the &#8220;biggest airlift in history&#8221; (not even close to the Berlin Airlift 73 years ago, but whatever).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed Morrissey notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also: NBC News reports that only 8500 Afghan SIV allies got out in our evacuation, and tens of thousands got left behind. <br><br>What a success, eh? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vsHUnikJhg\">https:\/\/t.co\/vsHUnikJhg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdMorrissey\/status\/1433062844254334985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We know the evacuation carried out perhaps 6,000 Americans.  Add in 8,500 SIVs, to whom we owe some degree of safety, and who will likely make better Americans than 30% of our current electorate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s further assume that some of them brought out family; let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s 25,000 as a generous guesstimate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That means about 35% of the evacuees are <em>the people who actually needed to get out<\/em>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s like the Dunkirk evacuation bringing back 50,000 British solders, 25,000 French troops, and 250,000 Belgian farmers who happened to make it to the beaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, as the military left Americans behind in droves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image.png 843w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-300x284.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-768x727.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-317x300.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption>Text message between Michael Yon and a US Army colonel in the 82nd Airborne Division, writing from the Kabul Airport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saigon, Jimmy Carter, and the CIA people who botched the US Embassy in Teheran in 1979 can breathe easy; they are no longer the greatest humiliations in US history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey &#8211; at least no mean tweets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration did its unearned victory lap yesterday, in of the most catastrophically bad speeches I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; a formidable bar indeed for our senescent president. But the worst part? 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