Antony “Bloody” Blinken’s Awful, No Good, Very Bad Day

In this season of Christmas, always brimming with hope for the future in the birth of Christ, there are scores of people populating the American government that will no longer be there in 39 days. And for that, I am enormously grateful and full of optimism. 

Yesterday, we learned that FBI Director Christopher Wray has spared the nation from witnessing Donald Trump telling him, “You’re fired,” announcing his exit coinciding with President Joe Biden’s. That is a very good thing. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland will no longer be affiliated with either the Judicial or the Executive Branch of government. That is spectacular news. 

The buffoon currently serving as the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellin, will no longer be drawing a federal paycheck. On her way out the door, she sat down with the Wall Street Journal, and only now is she willing to admit she’s worried the country is on a fiscally unsustainable path, and regrets she didn’t do more to tackle the deficit and/or the national debt. 

The list goes on and on. Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Jake Sullivan, Deb Haaland, the entire incompetent herd of radical activist locusts in Biden’s cabinet feeding on the American economy will be sidelined on Inauguration Day, and the beginning of the great American recovery will be felt almost immediately thereafter. 

But of all the names one can mention that will no longer be near the levers of power – John Kerry, Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, Lloyd Austin, Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden, no person leaving government gives me more joy and relief than outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken. 

The man who oversaw and implemented 2021’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan, resulting in the death of 13 American servicemembers in a terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, got a taste of what I hope follows him for the rest of his days on Earth as the House Foreign Affairs Committee convened one more time before compiling their report looking into the signature Biden administration foreign policy disaster.

Blinken was heckled from the gallery from the outset, and these weren’t Code Pink outbursts. These were from people directly affected by his performance that got 13 brave Americans killed in one day, and thousands more Americans and Afghani allies abandoned and left to the devices of the Taliban after our departure. The onlookers’ derision continued off and on throughout the entire hearing. 

Protesters deservedly and repeatedly interrupt Anthony Blinken during his opening statement at the hearing on the failed US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

It’s hard to believe anything he says is genuine. pic.twitter.com/pZHsvdyiEc

— ꧁𝓖꧂ (@G__Tweets__) December 11, 2024

Regrets for the deaths of 13 Americans, he apparently now has a few. House Republicans, during his opening remarks, had a monitor over his left shoulder for the benefit of the gallery and C-SPAN audience of exactly who the 13 were that were killed in Kabul that fateful August day at Abbey Gate. 

Notable: As Sec. Blinken testifies about the fall of Afghanistan, lawmakers are displaying photos of the 13 U.S. service members killed during the evacuation at Abbey Gate pic.twitter.com/p66kvybABq

— Mark Meredith (@markpmeredith) December 11, 2024

If the debacle at Karzai Airport were the only event in the worst episode of American foreign policy in a century, it would be more than horrible enough to haunt Blinken forever. But the collapse in Afghanistan was so much more than just the logistical failure of giving up Bagram Air Force Base, forcing American military to defend an indefensible public airport as the country disintegrated into panic with the news of the impending bugout of the United States. 

Blinken’s State Department not only oversaw the botched withdrawal of personnel, they abandoned thousands of people into the hands of the Taliban. Included in these people the United States left behind were families of American service members, private contractors and their families, and Afghans who had partnered with us as part of our 20-year Global War on Terror. Some of them were fortunate enough to eventually escape the country due to heroic efforts of members of Congress who are retired military that set up a modern-day underground railroad. Many, many more were left to their own devices, and once the Taliban assumed power, were never seen or heard from again. 

The criticism of Blinken’s role in the catastrophe by Republicans on HFAC was sustained and withering, and it came from the moderates on the committee as well as from those on the far right. 

Mike Lawler, one of the centrist Republicans from New York, didn’t really wish to hear much from Blinken directly. He has eyes to see and read, and ears to hear testimony from those affected directly and indirectly from Blinken’s failures, but instead used his time to confront the Secretary of State head-on to let him know how he would be viewed by history. 

Antony Blinken’s legacy as Secretary of State is one of dysfunction, weakness, and death. He has made the world a more dangerous place, and at today’s Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, I urged him to reflect on those failures. pic.twitter.com/tMiC56HwBg

— Congressman Mike Lawler (@RepMikeLawler) December 11, 2024

Blinken’s day didn’t get any better. Tennessee’s Mark Green, retired Army, called out the Secretary of State for leaving people behind, including those directly under his charge at State. 

Secretary Blinken, and the entire Biden administration, left people behind. They left those in their care behind. They left Americans and our allies behind. Secretary Blinken’s delayed appearance before @HouseForeignGOP is a disgrace to those Americans who died in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/yxqqaqfJ3U

— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) December 11, 2024

There really can be no greater dishonor for a diplomat than to abandon vulnerable personnel dispatched across Hell’s half-acre who are serving as the tip of the spear for American foreign policy. 

Blinken maintained throughout the day that the State Department was a positive force trying to evacuate personnel out of Afghanistan. Not only is that not true, the record shows State specifically blocked efforts to get people out of harm’s way. Ohio’s Warren Davidson called BS on Blinken. 

🚨 Secretary Blinken and his State Department BLOCKED American citizens from leaving Afghanistan.

And he denies it.

His failures to do his job endangered Americans and allies who were left behind and were killed in his botched withdrawal.

SHAMEFUL. pic.twitter.com/J8zDssVqAg

— Rep. Warren Davidson (@Rep_Davidson) December 11, 2024

Tim Burchett, also from Tennessee, pointed out that American foreign aid went directly to the Taliban, whom we fought for 20 years as one of our chief terrorist enemies in the war. Blinken’s response? It’s only $10 million we’re talking about out of $8 billion spent in Afghanistan. 

It’s only $10 million. When I first saw this, I immediately flashed back in my mind to J.D. Vance’s appearance on ABC’s This Week program with Martha Raddatz a couple months ago. 

NEW: JD Vance torches ABC’s Martha Raddatz after she minimized the illegal immigrant gang takeovers because “only a handful” of apartments complexes have been seized.

Raddatz: “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes…”

Vance: “Do you hear yourself? Only… pic.twitter.com/TPXdNTD5UH

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 13, 2024

Back then, it was the left walking themselves into a box canyon, defending evidence of armed gangs of illegal aliens taking over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado as ‘only a handful’. Vance left a mark by asking Raddatz if she heard herself. Blinken’s argument that only $10 million was given directly to the freaking Taliban demonstrates that three-plus years removed from the catastrophe in Kabul, he still has no self-awareness for the contempt in which the American people holds the Biden administration for this disgrace. Remember, the collapse of Joe Biden’s re-election chances began immediately after the collapse in Afghanistan. His approval rating plummeted in the aftermath of the slow-motion foreign policy humiliation, and he and Harris never recovered. 

Rep. Brian Mast, who left his legs in Afghanistan in the service of this country, will be the Chairman of House Foreign Affairs when Congress reconvenes in January. He picked up where Burchett left off on payments directly to the Taliban. 

NEW: Rep. Brian Mast just ripped Tony Blinken over the BILLIONS in cash that we have sent to the Taliban since the botched withdrawal in 2021:

“The United States right now is literally sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban, $14.9 million to teach Afghans how to do… pic.twitter.com/gJpZM1Vcq7

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 11, 2024

Mast also used his time to counter Secretary Blinken’s testimony that regrettably, there was nothing that could be done to prevent the death of the 13 servicemembers at Karzai Airport. The receipts Mast cited to rebut Blinken’s claim? 26 State Department staffers who previously warned Blinken what would occur if the same course of action continued. 

🚨 Watch incoming @HouseForeignGOP Chairman Brian Mast call out @SecBlinken for refusing to take responsibility for Afghanistan’s collapse.

Blinken says he’s “wrestled with what could have been done differently” — then claims nothing could’ve saved our 13 fallen service members. pic.twitter.com/eFJffe1x1L

— Morgan Ortagus (@MorganOrtagus) December 11, 2024

Cory Mills, an Army sniper who served tours in Iraq before coming home and representing Florida’s 7th Congressional District, tore into the legacy of Antony Blinken, noting that on his watch, terror groups have metastasized. 

Thanks to Secretary Blinken’s failures, terrorist groups have gotten richer, stronger, and bolder over the past four years. pic.twitter.com/Y5QSAS1C0l

— Rep. Cory Mills 🇺🇸 (@RepMillsPress) December 12, 2024

Mills’ criticism of Blinken continued with Biden administration policies in the wake of the October 7th attacks in Israel by Hamas. Blinken walked right into the trap of comparing State’s record of rescuing American stuck in a hostile zone with Mills’ personal record. It didn’t go well. 

I personally rescued 255 Americans from Israel following the attacks on October 7, 2023.

How many did you rescue Secretary Anthony Blinken?

NONE! pic.twitter.com/ahnBnVzQrY

— Rep. Cory Mills 🇺🇸 (@RepMillsPress) December 11, 2024

Finally, part of Secretary Blinken’s defense of the pullout from Afghanistan is it allegedly made NATO stronger. Kentucky’s Andy Barr vehemently disagreed, and cited all sorts of voices who believe that claim is absurd. Who are these voices? Our NATO allies. 

Blinken keeps claiming Biden made NATO stronger by withdrawing from Afghanistan.

Even NATO allies think that’s ridiculous – watch @RepAndyBarr completely dismantle Blinken’s claim. pic.twitter.com/nVVGye8GKY

— POLARIS (@polarisnatsec) December 11, 2024

Anthony Blinken has been a blight on American foreign policy for four years. It will be another blow to the families of diplomats and military personnel whose blood remains on his hands if one day in the future, Blinken gets the John Kerry treatment – a ceremony and a portrait at Foggy Bottom. Blinken deserves to only be remembered as a warning to what carnage can take place as a consequence of a Democrat winning another term in the White House. Beyond that, he has justly earned the protests and the heckling. 

I would consider myself blessed to never see or hear from Anthony Blinken again. He is a loathsome character, and has turned in such a villainous performance during this administration that I don’t even care to watch a video of him with a guitar in his hands. I’d rather take in a Goose or Tedeschi-Trucks Band concert. In short, he simply needs to go away in shame, and stay there. He should never be taken seriously on foreign affairs again, and if he truly had a conscience, he would spend the rest of his days serving in acts of charity benefiting survivors of the very Americans his policies and performance as Secretary of State got killed. 

As the late Charles Krauthammer used to say, “Strong letter to follow.”