The Watchman On The Wall

The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Watchman Report Aug. 13, 2021

 


LET’S PRAY YESHUA RAPTURES US OUT OF THIS WICKED WORLD ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS! 

ROSH HASHANAH FROM SUNSET SEPT. 6 TO SUNSET SEPT. 8

 NEW MOON ON 6 SEPT.

 

WOW RAPTURE SIGNS - HOPE FOR 2021
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2021/victor725-2.htm

 

Billy Crone - Are We Ready for the Rapture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJD5fEkZYQ

Preparing for what's coming.......  Pleading the blood of Christ, standing on His precious promises, and walking by faith and not fear, (but at the same time using common sense).  Psalm 91 

 FEMA CAMPS

Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E) | GoArmy.com

https://apis.mail.yahoo.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-ZhQjjkP1pqm8h5qi_2M_S4SPWQgFcKs3Ob8bcmpA2TKcV1J7gp6LO_q6GMX4jHrFOstHGQ2SvOzuBlPC52QM-g/messages/@.id==APB8ES5-fmDOYRZ9kA8uuAK57dg/content/parts/@.id==2/refresh?appid=YMailNorrinLaunch&ymreqid=6da067d1-3cb8-479b-1c53-b20000015e00

CDC announces covid internment camps on a national level with indefinite detention until the plandemic ends


https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/legal-and-law-enforcement/internment-resettlement-specialist.html

 

 

RED CHINA

Chinese censorship rising quickly as era of a single, global internet draws to a close

WAR AGAINST THE UNVACCINATED

Man Forcibly Imprisoned in Mental Asylum For Different Opinion on COVID

Denver to fire cops who turn down coronavirus vaccine, worsening shortage of law enforcement officers during time of increasing crime

BIO WEAPONS

Dr. Richard Fleming interview with Mike Adams: 'The vaccine is the bioweapon'

Dr. Mikovits: SARS-CoV-2 is actually a lab-made monkey cell virus, readily deployed through the flu, MMR and polio vaccine supply

VACCINE MANDATES & PASSPORTS

Thanks to Vaccine Mandates, Segregation Is Making a Comeback. Once Again, Black Americans Will Suffer Most.

1,500 US hospitals are requiring workers to get coronavirus vaccines to keep their jobs

Good news: Loyola University students win battle against "mandatory" covid vaccines

San Francisco Mandates Vaccines To Engage In Social Life

https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/reuters-half-of-paris-cafes-and-bars-refuse-to-require-vaccine-passports/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reuters-half-of-paris-cafes-and-bars-refuse-to-require-vaccine-passports

https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/amid-rumors-about-cancelled-flights-some-airlines-reject-mandatory-vax-for-employees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amid-rumors-about-cancelled-flights-some-airlines-reject-mandatory-vax-for-employees

Job Seekers May Need to Show Proof of Vaccination to Apply for Positions + More

      BAD VACCINE EXPERIENCES

New side effects from Pfizer and Moderna vaccines include kidney inflammation, renal disorders and skin reactions

Vaccinated people causing vaccine-resistant coronavirus strains to emerge: Study

Chicken study shows that getting vaccinated puts others, including the unvaccinated, at risk

Science: "Fully vaccinated" bodies are breeding grounds for new coronavirus "variants"

Study: mRNA vaccines present "tragic and even catastrophic" side effects

PLEASE  SAVE THIS EMAIL FOR FUTURE HEALTH REFERENCE………M

Dr Fleming  2 min

https://twitter.com/Kdawg0_0/status/1410237808829243401?s=01

Dr Fleming on Steve Bannon "WAR ROOM" 

https://www.brighteon.com/646b3586-55ab-4ad6-8da2-9b571460c800

Dr Fleming website to browse for more solid info

https://www.flemingmethod.com/

https://deeprootsathome.com/hear-it-from-their-lips-well-known-doctors-warning-us-on-video/   scroll down to watch all 6 Doctors - VERY Powerful

Dr Sherri Tenpenny  Critical videos

http://stateofthenation.co/?p=61678

Inventor of mRNA vaccines says STOP Vaccinating people NOW

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yn3u9ETcxCbV/

MIKE ADAMS SITUATION REPORT

Under the control of anti-American, anti-human globalists, the Pentagon is now waging biological warfare against the nearly two million active duty soldiers that currently serve in the defense of the United States of America.

This is being accomplished through the mandating of spike protein injections, misleading labeled "vaccines," with the knowledge that the covid spike protein was developed as a biological weapon and causes widespread vascular damage leading to injury and death.

This biowarfare attack on America is being carried out with the cooperation of the communist Chinese military, which helped augment the spike protein bioweapon with gain-of-function research.

Situation Update, August 12th, 2021 - Treason: US military waging biological warfare against its own troops

CLIF HIGH

"Our military is still occupied by the people that have infiltrated the United States.  They came in and infiltrated, not invaded. . . . We have two Presidents, and we have two militaries.”   Clif High

So much good info in here and promising news.

Biden Desperate as Vax Narrative Falls Apart-Clif High

https://usawatchdog.com/biden-desperate-as-vax-narrative-falls-apart-clif-high/#more-25350

J.D. FARAJ

God’s plan will prevail

Aug. 8,  2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKGNMiPojFY

JAMES CORBETT

BoA CBDC, EPA Hair on Fire, Segregated Offspring – New World Next Week

Beyond Pegasus: The Bigger Picture of Israeli Cyber Spying


TY & CHARLENE

It’s an interesting time to be alive, isn’t it? With the constant barrage of propaganda and prevarications from the mainstream media, Big Pharma, and turncoat politicians, it’s hard to keep up all the lies, isn’t it? One of the BIGGEST WHOPPERS is that the COVID vaccines are “safe and effective.” 

 

As of July 30th, Openvaers.com, an organization that monitors the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) online database, published the following adverse events (to the COVID vaccines) have been reported to the CDC:

  • 12,366 deaths
  • 46,036 hospitalizations
  • 68,040 urgent care visits
  • 4,759 cases of anaphylaxis
  • 4,044 cases of Bell's palsy
  • 14,251 permanently disabled

Does this sound "safe" to you? You'd literally have to be totally brainwashed or completely "bought off" to continue pushing the "safe and effective" LIE after seeing the incredible DAMAGE that this vaccine has already done!

 

PAT BUCHANAN

Aug 13

https://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=fdwumQ&m=J1HBFbzkjXxN9f&b=TOG0yDZHJB3tn4I3Nc8_Wg

“FLIP FLOP FRAUDCI”

Covid "clot shots" will soon be mandatory for all school teachers nationwide if fraudster Fauci gets his way

ROBERT KENNEDY JR.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by Mike Adams: How the "War on Terror" morphed into a perpetual "War on Germs" to enslave humanity and destroy the

5G

‘Historic Win’: CHD Wins Case Against FCC on Safety Guidelines for 5G and Wireless

BIDEN HUMOR

Learning to speak Bidenese

https://www.facebook.com/ItsNotTheBee/posts/351623346594045

REASON FOR HOPE

I have been through the valley of weeping, 
The valley of sorrow and pain; 
But the God of all comfort was with me, 
At hand to uphold and sustain.

Read the rest of this beautiful and encouraging poem.

 

ORGAN HARVESTING

UC San Francisco engaging in horrifying experiments, organ harvesting of live babies in the name of "science"

RACISM & SEGREGATION

Segregation returns to Deep South school: Black mother files complaint against black principal after she divided students by race

SURVEILLANCE

Democratic Senate passes provision in infrastructure bill that expands government surveillance on cryptocurrency

BIG PHARMA, follow the money

https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/moderna-and-pfizer-rigged-placebo-group-to-produce-fake-safety-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moderna-and-pfizer-rigged-placebo-group-to-produce-fake-safety-data

 

FDA Approves Boosters for Immunocompromised, Pfizer and Moderna Set to Reap Billions From Sales of Third Shot

BIG TECH, Apple now owns your pictures on your phone; parents with naked children in bathtubs could be charged with sexual abuse    

 

Former Google Employee Tells Russell Brand: Big Tech ‘Stripmining Brains for Profit’

Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on COVID Booster + More

STOCK MARKET

Yes, It’s a Bubble and Yes It Will Burst Soon


SCOTUS

 

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Indiana University Vaccine Mandate

JUDICIARY

Judge Rejects Attempt to Immediately Block CDC’s Latest Eviction Moratorium

https://lists.youmaker.com/links/IykJJOAUF/jLsm7EC3t/F81JwgOItp/qIM2sj9hOZ

u and your physician?

Do you want to go to school, to your doctor's, to the grocery store, to the movies, to any retail store without having to "SHOW YOUR PAPERS?"

Why do we not have that protection RIGHT NOW?

One reason is because State Rep. Scott Lipps from House District #62 in Warren County did not fight FOR this protection, and did not get it moved out of the Health Committee.

Everyone in the legislature knows that if Lipps wanted it through, he could have gotten it through the House.

WE have a "Republican Super Majority" in the Ohio legislature. Don't you wonder why, with a Republican controlled House and Senate in Ohio, Big Pharma and Big Business always seems to win these battles?

Turns out, Scott Lipps has over 20 yrs. experience in the medical equipment business working with Big Pharma.

Follow the money....Connect the dots....

One thing any legislator DOES NOT WANT......is to lose his or her seat.

If We The People of Ohio focus our efforts on this man who has stated he was FOR medical freedom, while behind the scenes he is undermining the efforts of all who support medical freedom, we can show the ENTIRE OHIO LEGISLATURE that we take our freedom seriously, and if THEY don't take it as seriously, we WILL VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!

Scott Lipps MUST be put in the forefront. This grass roots effort of informed, dedicated Ohioans is ALL WE NEED. HE is our focus and WE will take him OUT! 

We must get organized, all be on the same page so that we all will speak on the same subject at the same time to our legislators.

Now is the time.

It’s time for Scott Lipps to take our FREEDOM seriously.

It's time for US to take our FREEDOM seriously.

We will not trade LIBERTY for security.

We will not delegate control of our FREEDOM to any level of government.

We will NOT trade our FREEDOM and LIBERTY for a PAYCHECK!

CALL SCOTT LIPPS TODAY!

WARREN COUNTY DISTRICT #62

STATE REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT LIPPS

Phone (614) 644-6023

Phone (937)-790-0602

Phone (937) 746-2556

FAX (614) 719-3589

Rep62@ohiohouse.gov

Go to Facebook page:

Save Ohio from Scott Lipps

 

OHIO BATTLEGROUND ALLIANCE

2020 Election: That's Not Natural!

Dr. Douglas Frank

August 17, 2021

Meet and Greet: 6:30-7:00 PM

Presentation 7:00-8:00pm

Dr. Frank's analysis of the 2020 election highlights serious

integrity issues in the results.

Information & Free Tickets HERE

Critical Race Theory in the Military

US House Rep. Warren Davidson

August 30, 2021

Meet and Greet: 6:00-6:30 PM

Presentation 6:30-7:30pm

With 12 years of Military service, Rep. Davidson will explore the dangers of a "Woke" Military.

Information & Free Tickets HERE

Republicans Fight to Stop Big Tech's Disregard of the 1st Amendment

 

Republicans have been the target of ongoing censorship from having their sites taken down to silencing speech on social media. New stories keep emerging. Now, not only is the Biden Administration telling Big Tech who to censor, but the Administration is also recommending these individuals be censored across ALL social media platforms.

 

These actions seem to ignore our rights under the First Amendment which states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

 

The "censoring" of individual voices by Big Tech is being used to keep Conservatives from communicating with each other and sharing their viewpoints.

 

Big Tech has removed President Trump, and numerous others, from TwitterYouTube and Facebook. Typically, when sites are shut down, content and contacts are no longer accessible. Ongoing discussions with followers and between followers can be lost, curtailing dialogue and debate. Another technique used by Big Tech is to blacklist sites and topics and manipulate search results.

 

Republicans are focused on protecting this fundamental right of Americans and addressing the relationship between Left-leaning Big Tech and a Left-leaning government.

 

Their approach to protecting our First Amendment Rights is multifaceted, leveraging federal, state, the courts and private companies to address the issue.

 

Suit: President Trump recently filed a class action lawsuit. Significantly, this lawsuit argues that Tech companies are operating as an arm of the government to silence speech. The Constitution prohibits the government from curtailing First Amendment Freedom of Speech.

 

US Congress: Concurrently, the US House Judiciary Committee, under Jim Jordan, is developing legislation to hold Big Tech accountable for their censorship. The proposed legislation makes it easier to break up Big Tech companies. It will also permit censored users to sue Big Tech companies.

 

States: Beyond the US Legislature, the State Attorneys General are engaging in the fight. Republicans are joining bipartisan efforts to address Big Tech, such as the recent suit against Google for alleged app store monopoly.

 

Courts: The US Appeals Court for the Second Circuit in New York has agreed to review Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This is part of an ongoing dispute whether Big Tech is a platform or a publisher, and therefore, under which rules it should operate.

 

Private Companies: Alternative platforms are emerging to provide a place for "uncensored" conversation. This includes GETTRGABPARLER, and FrankSpeech, as well as others that are in the works. However, the road has not been easy for any of these new platforms as they have faced suspensions and hacking by nefarious forces.

 

While there are many areas of concern, a variety of Republican-driven initiatives are strongly moving to safeguard our constitutional freedom of free speech.

Laws and Court Rulings

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TEXAS

GOP Texas House Speaker issues arrest warrants for 52 Dems who refuse to show up and do their jobs

PRAGER

Aug. 10

https://www.prageru.com/video/why-even-atheists-should-teach-their-children-about-god/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2683793

Aug. 3 Che Guevara

https://www.prageru.com/video/who-celebrates-che-guevara/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2664271

PRAGER KIDS

Otto’s Tales

Aug. 6, 2021

https://www.prageru.com/video/storytime-ottos-tales-the-national-anthem-and-pledge-of-allegiance/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2564271

 

PRAGER U. STORIES OF US

Aug. 10, 2021 Amir Odom

https://www.prageru.com/video/stories-of-us-amir-odom/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2701250

DENNIS PRAGER FIRESIDE CHAT

Aug. 12

https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-199-is-the-media-making-you-irrational/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fireside_chat


GOLD GUIDE

https://commodity.com/precious-metals/gold/

CRITICAL RACE THEORY

https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/teachers-union-sues-mom-over-request-for-information-on-critical-race-theory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teachers-union-sues-mom-over-request-for-information-on-critical-race-theory

 9-11 INQUIRY

FRONTLINE

In the Shadow of 9/11

How seven men in Miami were indicted for the biggest alleged Al Qaeda plot since 9/11. From the director of "Leaving Neverland," the bizarre story of an FBI sting that led to a terror prosecution, though the men had no weapons or connection to Al Qaeda.


MILITARY

Pentagon Reveals Religious Exemption to Bypass Mandatory Covid Vaccine


https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/pentagon-reveals-religious-exemption-guidelines-for-bypassing-mandatory-covid-vaccine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pentagon-reveals-religious-exemption-guidelines-for-bypassing-mandatory-covid-vaccine

 Friends & Patriots,

I have serious concerns about "realrawnews.com" and the so-called news they report. I have read the General Berger and SecDef Austin story approximately 4 times and I believe it is a false story. I just can't see General Berger talking to the SecDef as the article notes. 


Marines Rebuke Def. Sec.: “No Mandatory Vaccinations for My Marines.”

 

https://realrawnews.com/2021/08/marines-rebuke-def-sec-no-mandatory-vaccinations-for-my-marines/

 

Marine Corps General David H. Berger on Monday rebuked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s edict requiring all Armed Forces personnel to submit to Covid-19 vaccinations under threat of court martial or discharge, said a source in Gen. Berger’s office who overheard a heated conversation between them.

 

Gen. Berger telephoned the defense secretary minutes after he said in a press conference that the Covid-19 vaccination is needed to maintain military readiness and that he would enforce the mandatary vaccination policy regardless of FDA approval status.

 

“There will be no mandatory vaccinations for my Marines,” Gen. Berger said.

 

In a transcript of the call reviewed by Real Raw News, Gen. Berger lambasted Austin and branded him a traitor.

 

“Under no circumstances will Marines be compelled to take a potentially hazardous vaccination that the FDA won’t even fully endorse,” Gen. Berger told Austin. “You are a coward and a traitor, manipulated by people pushing bad policy on the men and women who provide security to our nation. Neither you nor your puppet president has authority to enforce such a policy.”

 

Austin argued that mandatory vaccinations have always been a requirement for soldiers enlisting into the Armed Forces, and they, as property of the U.S. government, have no right to decide whether to take the Covid-19 jab. The federal government and President Biden would decide for them, Austin said.

 

“They’re incapable of making informed decisions. So we, their leaders, make the big decisions they cannot,” Austin said. “Biden and Harris are in charge, not individual soldiers.”

 

Then Austin got political: “If conservatives and evangelicals see our fighting forces getting vaccinated, they’ll be more likely to get vaccinated themselves,” Austin said.

 

Gen. Berger said it was unfair to compare established vaccinations with a product that was rushed to market with little concern for side effects. He called the CDC and Dr. Fauci corrupt, and he asked Austin why the puppet administration hid from the public an NIH report linking the vaccination to thousands of fatalities.

 

“If someone dies, you say it was Covid-19. There’s a refusal to admit the vaccination carries side effects that can include death in certain individuals.”

 

“I’m not a physician. I’m the Secretary of Defense for Joseph R. Biden, and I follow orders,” Austin retorted.

 

“In case you haven’t heard, Biden’s not in charge of the military, and neither are you. You can sell whatever lies you want to the media. You sold your soul, Lloyd, and I hope you can live with yourself,” Gen. Berger said.

 

Gen. Berger said he had the support of other Joint Chiefs of Staff and would implore them to ignore unlawful orders coming from the illegitimate administration.

 

“If a soldier wants the vaccination, fine. If not, he’s not rolling up his sleeve. If you try to forcibly vaccinate even one of my Marines, you better come armed,” Gen. Berger said, and hung up the phone.

 

In a statement Monday afternoon, Biden said he strongly supports Austin’s message and that he is “eager to see” the Covid-19 vaccination added to the battery of vaccinations soldiers receive upon joining the military.

 

Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate


https://lists.youmaker.com/links/gi02Yen42/jLsm7EC3t/F81JwgOItp/LIEuzJy5nY

CONSTITUTION

 

Constitution Boot Camp Update

Here are our scheduled classes for the next few months.

August 28th - At the Alexandria VFW in Alexandria, KY

September 11th - At the Monroe Church of the Nazarene in Monroe, Ohio

Students attend these classes for free!

To register, email the names, emails, the number of book sets needed and who is a student to:

jim@buildingblocksforliberty.org

In an effort to improve your class experience the class sizes for each of these Boot Camps will be limited to 40 people as a maximum, please register now to reserve your spot.

Would your Church Host A Boot Camp?

We are looking for more locations to hold our Constitution Boot Camps.

Would your Church let you host a Boot Camp? Do you know any other location that we can use?

BBFL is a non-partisan group. We support anyone who believes in and follows the Constitution. Our focus and passion is teaching others about this amazing document.

If you have a location, please contact:

jim@buildingblocksforliberty.org

Please pray for our country

 FOOD & WATER

5 Tips for successful raised bed gardening

Home gardening basics: A detailed guide to growing vegetables indoors

TRANSGENDER BENDERS

Gender Reassignment Surgery Is Child Abuse, Says Texas Commissioner

https://lists.youmaker.com/links/wYzEuFJtW/jLsm7EC3t/F81JwgOItp/JjCTxjWLp1

 

WHO

Head Of WHO Origin Investigation Team Admits Communist China Ordered Them What To Write In Report

Even the WHO says booster shots are unnecessary, but Biden's White House prefers to listen to Big Pharma: Booster covid shots coming to the USA

COMMUNISM

https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/us-teacher-resigns-when-ordered-to-turn-in-co-workers-who-criticize-marxist-agenda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-teacher-resigns-when-ordered-to-turn-in-co-workers-who-criticize-marxist-agenda

CENSORSHIP

The War Against Consciousness and the Ultimate Answer for Liberation

SPY TALK

With thousands of Afghans fleeing the Taliban and the U.S. embassy under evacuation orders, ghosts of disasters past have reared their ugly heads.

Is it Saigon all over again, with its iconic, desperate helicopter rescues as North Vietnamese troops overran the city? Or is it Cambodia, where the U.S. ambassador fled with some 200 other Americans just five days before Phnom Penh fell to the murderous Khmer Rouge? Further, will the Taliban turn out to be more like the Vietnamese communists, who settled scores with their enemy without mass executions, or the fanatical Khmer Rouge, who emptied Phnom Penh and embarked on a genocidal purge that murdered or starved to death somewhere between 1.3 and 3 million people?

A little of both, maybe, longtime observers say. But the story there is far from over, despite dire signs of an imminent collapse.

“The comparisons to Vietnam are more reminiscent of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal after a seemingly endless U.S. military engagement,” Thomas Lum, a longtime Asia expert at the Congressional Research Service, said in an email. “But the comparison to Cambodia may lead us to think about what might replace the U.S.-backed government” in Kabul.

“The Vietnamese communists were relatively pragmatic—they punished their political enemies, but mostly stopped there (they didn’t aim to totally change the way people think); the Khmer Rouge were fanatical, possessed by an extreme form of Maoist anti-intellectualism,” he said. The Taliban, “is religiously extreme.” (Lum emphasized he was speaking for himself, not the CRS.)

The U.S. embassy in Kabul said Thursday it was "hearing additional reports of Taliban executions of surrendering Afghan troops" that were "deeply disturbing and could constitute war crimes." The Taliban has detained "several members of the Afghan government, including both civilian leaders and officers of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces...in several locations,"it said. Human Rights Watch reported in late July that Taliban forces in Kandahar Province had “detained hundreds of residents whom they accuse of association with the government.” Taliban fighters were going door to door to track down provincial government officials, members of the police and army and their relatives and shooting some on the spot, HRW said.

Fears are that Taliban death squads, which have been targeting interpreters that worked with U.S. and NATO forces, will engage in random or even mass executions in  Kabul, should they take it as widely expected. This week a U.S. official told ABC News that an internal military analysis predicted the city could be isolated in 30 to 60 days and be captured in 90 days.

The East is Read

Acclaimed journalist and author Elizabeth Becker, who covered the war in Cambodia intensely for The Washington Post, says the Taliban remind her more of the Khmer Rouge than the Vietnamese communists, ”in their total disregard for human rights. Throwing the population out of the cities and towns into the countryside is on par with some of the worst of Taliban.”

But that’s where the comparison ends, she adds. “The Taliban has long experience governing, however medieval and horrific their governing style. The Khmer Rouge had close to none and were shooting from the hip, figuratively as well as literally.”

She added, “Underlying the murderous regime was a stunning incompetence stemming from the KR ideology that only peasants, especially uneducated peasants, should lead the revolution. Hence the elimination—by execution or slow starvation—of the professional and educated classes, doctors, teachers, journalists, bureaucrats, etc. Once the peasants were in charge they often did not know what they were doing. The crops failed, the health system crumbled, and paranoia exploded leading to the nightmare of the regime with its killing fields.”

In contrast, “The Vietnamese communists had been running North Vietnam since 1954 and had no bias against educated, professionals, etc.,” Becker, author, most recently, of You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of Wartold SpyTalk. “They knew what they were doing and acted like a real government”—notwithstanding their communist “reeducation camps” and disastrous Marxist-style mismanagement of the economy for over a decade.

Thomas Johnson, who’s been visiting and writing about Afghanistan for about 30 years, called the media’s search for Afghan metaphors in Vietnam and Cambodia is “ridiculous. ​​ People are looking for simplistic answers to an extremely complex and nuanced situation.”

“The Talibs” (Arabic for “knowledge seekers”) have been around for centuries, wandering the countryside as ascetics and preaching “the true path to Allah,” much like ancient evangelical Christians, said Johnson, author of Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict. The current Taliban force, with its military and political components, emerged via the U.S.-backed Sunni insurgency against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Today, Johnson says, it has “30 to 40 per cent” of the population on its side (more than twice what Mao Zedong said was necessary for an insurgency to succeed) and controls 17 of the 34 provincial capitals.  The Khmer Rouge, he says, were more like terrorists than a revolutionary insurgency. 

It’s possible Taliban commanders will also carry out mass reprisals, said Johnson, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.. But he doubts such would be authorized by the Taliban’s Quetta shura, or consultative council.

“Now I'm not suggesting that the Taliban would not pursue acts of terror, but they're not a terrorist group. At least not the way I define terrorism,” Johnson said.

“​The old guys” in the shura ”are very conservative compared to some of the radical new commanders,” especially those who were imprisoned (and released under a deal U.S. Afghan envoy Zalmay Khalilzad made with the Taliban during “peace talks” in Qatar). 

“They’re the people I don’t doubt could commit atrocities,” Johnson told SpyTalk. “The older Taliban do not want to do that, they really don’t.” They’ll seek to impose harsh sharia law and reestablish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, he said, “but they also desperately want international recognition. That’s why they played along with this political theater called peace negotiations.”

Saigon Nightmares

Where the comparisons to Saigon and Phnom Penh do seem apt is the rising panic in Kabul, and not just among Afghans.

“The situation at the US Embassy in Kabul is more dire than what the State Department is saying,” NPR’s Tom Bowman tweeted on Friday afternoon. “Mail has stopped. Nearly all employees are packing up and a very small number will head to another location. Staff are gearing up to destroy sensitive papers, computers, phones.”

The Pentagon is dispatching 3,000 troops to aid in the evacuation. The question is whether they will be flying into an ongoing catastrophe.

“The problems in Afghanistan are bringing into focus issues that I had to live with for more than 40 years ago in Vietnam,” former CIA officer Frank Snepp said in a SpyTalk podcast interview last month. The emerging chaos feels the same, but the situation is different in at least one key respect, said Snepp, who authored a lacerating 1978 memoir about the frenzied end to the U.S. war in Vietnam, Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam: Senior U.S. officials had fallen for a communist psychological wafare ruse that there would be a peaceful transfer of power, so they refused to authorize an orderly evacuation of South Vietnamese who has worked with us, much less embassy staff.  (Reports from spy Snepp had inside the North Vietnamese command saying the communists were going for a military rout were dismissed.)

However belated and haphazard, the U.S. has at least has an exit plan for Afghanistan, with a date certain for its completion, Sept. 11. “We didn't have that,” Snepp said. “So the delay and the failure to prepare [in advance] for an evacuation is unforgivable all the more in Afghanistan.”

There’s another reason for some optimism about the fate of Afghans who worked with us, as opposed to our Vietnamese in 1975, Snepp said: Tribal loyalties could blunt individual Taliban commanders’ bloodlust for vengeance

“The individual tribes, the Pashtuns and so forth, will protect their own, even if they did deal with the Americans,” he thinks. “We didn't have that in Vietnam. There were no such constituencies, indigenous constituencies, that could protect those we might leave behind. So it was a horrible situation. And the only consolation vis-a-vis Afghanistan is that those tribal networks could provide some shield for them.”

At least the Taliban doesn’t have warplanes to bomb Kabul’s airports, as the North Vietnamese did in the final days of Saigon’s collapse. Or a regimented infantry and tank force to invade the capital and crush all resistance.

“This is pretty bloodless” compared to Vietnam, says Jason Amerine, who commanded one of the first Green Beret units to enter Afghanistan in October 2001 and organize the rout of the Taliban. “This isn’t the NVA.” As for atrocities, they’ll come “after the capitulation” of Afghan units, he says. “They surrender, then are shot.”

Forever War

The end is near. But the U.S. apparently plans to fight on, at least from the air, with warplanes, drones and maybe cruise missiles. The CIA and special operations units are almost certainly busy organizing stay-behind agent nets. 

“I think in post-war post Afghanistan, you're going to have a very active enemy elimination program—however distasteful it is to talk about,” says Snepp, “but it's going to be far more effective than anything that we could have contemplated in Vietnam.”

The last U.S. troops and civilians in Vietnam were so chaotically evacuated, leaving tons of incriminating files behind, that continuing the fight or organizing a post-war resistance was effectively impossible. And Washington had had enough.

That’s not the case in Afghanistan, as long as the Biden administration sees a threat from Al Qaeda or ISIS. Their fate will largely be up to the Taliban. But the “forever war” may not be over very soon, no matter what happens in Kabul in the next 30 days.

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