President Joe Biden will honor Pride Month this Friday — just before meeting with the leader of a country where the maximum penalty for sodomy is death.
Biden ‘will deliver remarks to commemorate LGBTQ+ Pride Month,’ the White House announced this week. And later, ‘the President will welcome Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani and Afghanistan High Commission for National Reconciliation chair Abdullah Abdullah to the White House to highlight the enduring partnership between the United States and Afghanistan as the military drawdown continues’.
Staffers will undoubtedly rush to box up the rainbow neck beads and Pride flags when Biden steps off stage to avoid an awkward bump in the hall when Ghani rolls up to the West Wing. But Cockburn is miffed that the administration won’t be inviting the Afghan leader to sashay down the hall with the President in honor of the Stonewall queens.
For 20 years, America’s foreign policy objective was to export ‘Western values’ across the undeveloped world one missile at a time, particularly in the Middle East. A noble effort for cosmopolitan globalists, a jihad for Arabs.
Presently, Afghanistan’s constitution operates under the guise of Sharia law. But when America invaded in 2001, the country’s Penal Code of 1976 was reinstated. It offered less severe, although similarly oppressive, punishments for homosexuality. In 2018, former president Donald Trump began withdrawing American presence in the region. The Taliban and their sympathizers in the Afghan government used this as an opportunity to enforce old traditions — and so the Islamic Republic Penal Code of 2017 came into action, making sodomy a hanging offense. No one has met with the death penalty for homosexuality in Afghanistan since the US invaded in 2001. Score one for the military-industrial complex!
As Trump bunkered down in the final days of his presidency, he cut the number of US troops in Afghanistan by half. Upon assuming office, Biden announced a complete withdrawal by 9/11 — after realizing the national security apparatus could be better spent targeting political dissidents of the opposition party at home than Sunni insurgents half a world away.
The Bush-Cheney Middle East legacy is now coming to an end, so it’s only fitting that the current progressive regime must now scurry twinks out the back of the White House to avoid offending their two-decade-old puppet. Between Pride and Juneteenth, it’s been a hard month for social conservatives. Perhaps they should chalk up Ghani’s visit as a win — a culture war ally is back in the White House!
