Why Should We Elect Good Leaders?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns the need to elect good leaders. An example of poor leadership is the evacuation from Afghanistan. Another example would be the open borders. Good leaders would never place the United States in such situations. Micaela Burrow published the following in The Daily Signal. 

U.S. State Department officials dispatched at the eleventh hour to assist in the Afghanistan evacuation updated tactics in real time as chaotic conditions on the ground rendered any prior planning meaningless, according to new testimony released Thursday. The military began planning to carry out a noncombatant evacuation operation for U.S. personnel as early as April, before the Taliban had overrun most of the country, but the U.S. ambassador in Kabul did not call for the operation until the Taliban captured Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, according to testimony released separately on Monday.

Three officials who arrived who arrived in August – John Bass, James DeHart, and Jayne Howell – said they adapted constantly to increasingly dangerous and disorganized conditions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, with changing guidance from Washington and no formulated plan to direct their decisions.

“We were already in the midst of executing an evacuation that substantially exceeded, I think, the scope and scale of what had been contemplated,” Bass, the top State Department coordinator for the evacuation, said in the interview.

Bass, DeHart, and Howell interviewed with the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2023 and early 2024. Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, intends to release a report later in 2024 drawn from about a dozen testimonies in total and the State Department’s own internal review as part of his continuing investigation into the withdrawal, CNN reported.

The State Department had rushed the officials with virtually no notice to Afghanistan in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, picked for their extensive prior experience in Afghanistan, CNN reported.

They testified to receiving little guidance from the State Department beyond doing their utmost to facilitate the evacuation.

“Given how fluid the situation was on the ground, I’m not sure that additional preparation time would have yielded a significant benefit,” Bass said.

They also said they did not see any written evacuation plans.

Good leaders would have never pulled the military out of Afghanistan prior to removing the civilians. Good leaders would not have given up the military base with all the equipment. President Joe Biden and his followers did not know what they were doing. They are not good leaders, and they should be fired! To maintain our freedom and liberty, we must have good leaders. Stop voting for Democrats and their poor policies!