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General Milley and the ongoing war on the “terrorists” of the right

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Glenn Greenwald writes:

In other words, to justify the current domestic War on Terror that has already provoked billions more in military spending and intensified domestic surveillance, the Pentagon must ratify the narrative that those they are fighting in order to defend the homeland are white supremacist domestic terrorists. That will not work if white supremacists are small in number or weak and isolated in their organizing capabilities. To serve the war machine’s agenda, they must pose a grave, pervasive and systemic threat.

Viewed through that lens, it makes perfect sense that Gen. Milley is spouting the theories and viewpoints that underlie this war framework and which depicts white supremacy and “white rage” as a foundational threat to the American homeland. A new domestic War on Terror against white supremacists and right-wing extremists is far more justifiable if, as Gen. Milley strongly suggested, it was “white rage” that fueled an armed insurrection that, in the words of President Biden, is the greatest assault on American democracy since the Civil War.

That’s been the narrative from the start. Actually, it was the narrative even before January 6th. The Capitol incursion just gave the left the perfect excuse for ramping things up, but the basic script – that the far right was as dangerous or even more dangerous than any other group today – had already been set. For example, see this, as well as this, this, this, this, and this.

Those links are to just a few examples from a host of similar articles over the years. In fact, we can even go back to the Kennedy assassination, when the actions of Oswald, an avowed Communist who had once defected to Russia, were somehow cast as the results of the supposedly hate-filled right-wing atmosphere of Dallas.

I wrote at length on that subject on the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Here’s an excerpt from that post:

It’s never been easy for the left to admit that a Communist killed JFK. So, as the event recedes into the ever-more-distant background, why not recycle the tired old tried-and-untrue narrative that it was the fault of the right? The mechanism this time was a NY Times op-ed by James McAuley, entitled “The City With a Death Wish in Its Eye: Dallas’s Role in Kennedy’s Murder.” It begins:

“For 50 years, Dallas has done its best to avoid coming to terms with the one event that made it famous: the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. That’s because, for the self-styled “Big D,” grappling with the assassination means reckoning with its own legacy as the “city of hate,” the city that willed the death of the president.”…

It’s hard to believe the Dallas right was an inspiration for the actual killer, the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald, who…had tried unsuccessfully to assassinate [right-wing General Walker]…just a few months before Oswald’s successful attack on Kennedy. As for the influence of Dallas on Oswald, he had only lived there (or in nearby Fort Worth) for the years from first to sixth grade, spending the bulk of his youth in New Orleans, with a two-year stay in New York (the Bronx, to be specific) and then back to New Orleans: “By the age of 17, he had resided at 22 different locations and attended 12 different schools.”

Oswald had dropped out of school and joined the Marines, then defected to the USSR and lived there for nearly three years. He came back to Dallas because he had family there, attempted to kill General Walker about ten months later, almost immediately moved back to New Orleans for about five months, and then tried to get to Cuba through Mexico, and only returned to Dallas in early October 1963. He got the Texas School Book Depository job in mid-October, and started living in a Texas rooming house during the week and visiting his wife (who was living with friends in nearby Irving) on weekends.

A little over a month later, Kennedy visited Dallas—the motorcade route having been published in the newspaper just a few days earlier—and the rest, as they say, is history. But it’s hard to see Oswald as a product of Dallas in any meaningful way, much less of the right in Dallas.

Of course, none of this matters to the Times and writers like McAuley. They have their own bones to pick and their own fish to fry and their own use to make of the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

Well, facts have never stood in the way of a good leftist narrative. And the “incredibly dangerous white-supremicist middle-America insurrectionists of January 6th” is one of the best leftist narratives of all, and the most useful.

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General Milley and the ongoing war on the “terrorists” of the right — 39 Comments

  1. One of the most curious facts of this moment of pure insanity in the life of our beleaguered republic is that most of the same leftists, certainly the DNC-supporting MSM (although not so much the less powerful hard-left or the far fewer left-leaning civil libertarians) who once upon a time hated “the establishment”, are now enamored of corporate America, of the “alphabet agencies”, of the military-industrial complex, and of The Pentagon for their “wokeness”. These same ghouls will also happily betray and turn against anyone with the “wrong” ideology in good Soviet (or East German or Chinese) fashion; one has only to consider to sad case of Joseph Bolanos, a thoroughly decent and completely innocent New Yorker whose life has been “torn into shreds by the FBI” and by his neighbors, in the words of the indispensable Miranda Devine at the NYPost.

  3. The strategy is now clear. The Trump supporters are white supremacists. The POC and right thinking whites (Democrats) are in danger from the “white rage” of of these deplorable and “anti-American” people. The full power of the federal government must be used to stop these racists and the crimes they are sure to commit. The Homeland Security bureaucracy is on board with this and has been since the Obama years. Now it’s time to get the armed forces on board too. If they can isolate the MAGA deplorables from the rest of the citizenry, using lethal force and imprisonment will be possible. The vendetta against the 1/6 capitol intruders is just a warm up. There are elected officials who see what’s going on – Nunes, Scalise, Jordan, Cotton, Paul, and others – but not enough to turn the tide . We can only hope enough voters will see how things are going to hell-in-a-handbasket that the 2022 elections will make a difference.

  4. “One of the most curious facts of this moment of pure insanity in the life of our beleaguered republic is that most of the same leftists”

    In fairness, many if not most of these people are not actually leftists. They’re members of the elite adjacent who primarily understand politics as an extension of their self-worth.

    Remember when Stephen Colbert told his studio audience that James Comey had been fired and they applauded because up to that point Comey was the guy who screwed Hilary Clinton by bringing her emails back up at the end of the 2016 campaign? And then Colbert, after having been part of the Comey-trashing brigade himself, had to explain to his audience that Comey was now a good guy because #OrangeManBad?

    Most Democrats and American leftists are like Colbert’s audience and much of the rest are like Colbert.

    Mike

  5. The military will be torn apart by these political officers, most of them above O-6. I recently talked to a family member who retired after 20 years as a CPO. He told me that this has been going on about 5 years in the military and he got frequent accusations of “insubordination” for resisting. He is highly skilled and will do well as a civilian. Mean while the Navy continues to collide with ships.

  8. They’re members of the elite adjacent who primarily understand politics as an extension of their self-worth.

    Bingo.

  10. What’s amusing is that reciting a few biographical details from Oswald’s life – for the most part, he didn’t grow up in Dallas, that he’d only returned there weeks earlier, and that his worldview bore no resemblance to that of a common-and-garden Texan – makes a complete dog’s breakfast of the whole thesis McAuley is peddling. It never seems to have occurred to him that it’s all hooey. He’s either a sociopath or he’s so thoughtless and bigoted little of what he says should merit anyone’s attention. Which is it?

  11. Milley is scum, not for his opinion but for his dishonesty. He knows exactly of what CRT consists and evades straightforward questions. In approving and promoting CRT he knows he’s betraying his oath to defend the Constitution. Because the Constitution’s principles and CRT’s premises are antithetical to each other. They cannot coexist.

    No amount of rationalization upon his part can change the nature of what he’s doing.

    je,

    Joseph Bolanos neighbor’s treatment of him reveals his neighbors utter lack of character. They deserve Wilhelm de Blasio and the fetid environment they’re enabling.

    J.J.,

    “If they can isolate the MAGA deplorables from the rest of the citizenry, using lethal force and imprisonment will be possible.”

    There are 75+ million MAGA deplorables in America and the democrat’s actions are eroding their support. The more lethal force they use and the more political prisoners tey imprison, the greater the blowback will become.

    “Most Democrats and American leftists are like Colbert’s audience and much of the rest are like Colbert.” MBunge

    Yes. And in rsponse to their mindless hate they “deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.” The wheat is being separated from the chaff.

    om,

    Touche.

  12. I have to put this in: Glenn Loury has a very good interview of Charles Murray on his substack, on the subject of Murray’s new book, “Facing Reality”. It is worth every one of the 70 minutes.

    https://glennloury.substack.com/p/facing-reality-e0b?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDI4Mjg4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzgwMzYwNTksIl8iOiJ0WkpJUSIsImlhdCI6MTYyNDY0NzA2OSwiZXhwIjoxNjI0NjUwNjY5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjU5MDQ0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.l5W3j2Yguh8Wj6vYjFBBLn_0jP1gF7NAeZLSrrl29KM&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play

  13. Milley is a profound embarrassment to our military, but especially to our nation. How in heaven could a mediocrity like this rise to the summit of our military leadership?

  14. @Erasmus:

    At this point in the downward trajectory only a mediocrity like that *can* rise to the top of your military leadership.

    The solution is painful but obvious.

  15. In 1989 I was asked to review all of the notes of the chief detective of the Dallas Police force who had copied all of his notes before they were taken away by the FBI and then he hid them in his attic until a grandson found them in the late 1980’s. The woman who asked me, a gun guy, to look at all of the copies of notes which filled several boxes was and and she still is a liberal good friend and relative of mine.

    I spent several months in the evenings looking over all sorts of interviews and information, looking for any connection to right wing activity and there was none at all. My friend was going to write a book about all of the hidden information about the right because she loved JFK and want to write the whole truth and reviewing all of the notes the fact was it was a demented lefty guy, end of story, and end of months and months of work in the late 1980s.

  16. In another thread recently, someone pointed out, and NEO seemed to agree, that “ fascism” is what the powers that be on the left are setting up. As has been mentioned before, the left projects what they are. Hence, they call the other side “ fascist”.
    When they say the greatest threat is “ white supremacy”, remember the projection principal. What they are pushing is non white supremacy.

  17. @jon baker:

    What they are working themselves up to is White humiliation/subjugation and then Genocide. We get to bandy that word around, too. If it works, use it.

  18. Re: Oswald/JFK assassination…

    Obviously a city cannot will someone to die, even if every inhabitant really wanted such an outcome. But there were people in Dallas, in the South, in the country and on the right who hated JFK. So Dallas functions as what poets call a synecdoche — the part standing for the whole, in this case Dallas for all the right-wing hate.

    Given the peculiarities of the assassination and the suspicions the liberal left had for the right, it was natural to suspect the assassination was a right-wing plot with Oswald as a witting or unwitting participant.

    RFK had strong questions for John McCone who was Director of the CIA at the time. RFK never gave up his suspicion that elements of the US government were behind his brother’s murder. Then RFK was murdered.

    Of course actual evidence that Oswald was involved with the right was thin. There was his relationship with George de Mohrenschildt, a curious Russian with ties to the Dallas Russian emigre community, hostile to the communists. Also, Oswald had been in David Ferrie’s aviation patrol as a youth, though it was never proved the two had any relationship as adults beyond the unreliable stuff which came out of Jim Garrison’s abortive 1967 conspiracy case against Clay Shaw et al.

    Today I am persuaded that Oswald was a leftist, albeit rather crazy, and he acted alone on that day, with the very marginal possibility others were complicit.

    My point is that liberal left’s blame of the right didn’t come out of nowhere. There truly was fanatical, murderous, right-wing hate in the South at the time. Medgar Evers had only been assassinated the summer before JFK. The Alabama Church bombing only nine weeks before.

    That was a deeply polarized and frightening time.

  19. @Huxley:

    I tend, too, toward the Crazed Loner explanation. There’s not always wheels within wheels. And one simply doesn’t have time or the neurons for every single rabbit hole.

    There’s also this debatable tidbit:

    https://jfkfacts.org/april-10-1963-oswald-tries-to-shoot-gen-walker/

    Plenty of riled up folks, as you say.

    OTOH on flip side of Occam’s Quarter… LBJ was not a very nice fellow. Not at all. In fact as probably just as nasty and soul-mortgaging a devil as Kennedy Père. They both had Machines. Home Turf Advantage. Cui bono?

  20. Zaphod:

    And Hoover wasn’t playing pinochle either.

    I was a left-wing assassination “buff” and I have no regrets.

    The ballistics evidence was hard to believe. Jack Ruby’s assassination of Oswald under police escort in a police station was insane. After defecting to the USSR, then returning, Oswald seemed a bizarre character involved in some kind of cloak-and-dagger business. “Quite a mysterious fellow,” as LBJ said.

    As far as I’m concerned, those who were sure that Oswald was the Lone Gunman from the start were believing what they wanted to believe as much as the left.

  21. @Huxley:

    They’re all going nuts about John McAfee’s demise this week. I refuse to cogitate or speculate.

  22. huxley:

    It was clear from the start that Oswald killed Kennedy, and that Oswald wasn’t just a leftist but was a Soviet-philic Communist leftist.

    At the beginning, I think it was understandable that a lot of people thought Oswald might not have acted alone. But in my opinion it was not logical to think he acted on behalf of the right or with the right.

    I have little to no nostalgia for the 60s. They were indeed difficult times with many assassinations and riots. The times we’re in right now feel more dangerous to me, though.

  23. But in my opinion it was not logical to think he acted on behalf of the right or with the right.

    neo:

    Your opinion, as you say.

    However, once one considers the possibility Oswald was a double-agent or that the CIA was pulling strings around him, IMO it’s hard to say where the logic train starts and stops.

    As the sixties and seventies unwound, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X were assassinated. The CIA was revealed to have been involved in multiple attempts to assassinate Castro plus the bizarre MKULTRA experiments to brainwash people and control their minds. The FBI had tried to drive MLK to suicide.

    It was quite the funhouse. Reflexively discarding conspiracy theories was no longer a realistic option.

    Now I’m hearing the same sort of stories from the right. Demonstrations being infiltrated and manipulated by double agents. Widespread voting fraud coordinated at the highest circles of power. Hysterical lying in the mainstream media.

    Yep. It’s Homecoming Week.

  27. However, once one considers the possibility Oswald was a double-agent or that the CIA was pulling strings around him, IMO it’s hard to say where the logic train starts and stops.

    One shouldn’t bother with things for which there is no evidence. You’ve all had 57 years to come up with a case.

  28. Jack Ruby’s assassination of Oswald under police escort in a police station was insane.

    A sentimental man with an explosive temper pulls out a gun and shoots him. (He was on an errand to buy money orders. His dog was waiting for him in the car).

  29. Then RFK was murdered.

    Five years later by an emotionally-unstable Arab nationalist.

  30. My point is that liberal left’s blame of the right didn’t come out of nowhere.

    It came out of nowhere.

    There truly was fanatical, murderous, right-wing hate in the South at the time. Medgar Evers had only been assassinated the summer before JFK. The Alabama Church bombing only nine weeks before.

    By a generous definition of the term, there were about 30 political murders over a period of 13 years, all occurring in a section of the country whose population in 1960 was just north of 6 million. One was someone an ordinary person is likely to have heard of and two others were semi-public figures with a local reputation. The scale of the violence was more along the lines of the Quebec Liberation Front than of any Eurotrash terror group active ca. 1976. AFAICT James Earl Ray was the only assailant who has been proved to have crossed state lines to kill one of these people.

  31. That was a deeply polarized and frightening time.

    There were 700 urban riots over a period of 7 years, and a catastrophic decline in public order in core city neighborhoods (and attendant decay in the level of order in the schools). That was what was anxiety provoking.

  32. Pope Deco speaks and believes we must listen!

    As usual, you dial everything down to suit your purposes. For instance, the concerning thing about Ruby was not that he shot Oswald, but that he did so in a police station surrounded by policemen.

    If a foreign leader had been assassinated, then the assassin promptly murdered in a police station before he could testify, most reflective people would consider the possibility there had been a coup d’etat.

  33. Occam’s razor:

    It’s a high probability that if you fire a gun when surrounded by armed police they will shoot you first and ask questions later.

    Why would that be?
    Because, conspiracy!

  34. most reflective people would consider the possibility there had been a coup d’etat.

    And they’d stop reflecting on it when they figured out who Jack Ruby was and the circumstances of his presence there.

  35. Being slandered over and over with the term “white rage” and similar perjoratives (which leftists conjure up) will eventually cause this imaginary rage to actually happen in response, and I suppose that is the goal. Egg innocent people on, keep poking them until they go crazy and then blame them for real rage and its manifestations.

  37. oswald defected to the russians, went to minsk, where he married the wife of a mgb official, where two cuban regime officers were also training, occams razor,

    General Milley, seems to have as much understanding of his countrymen, as he did with the enemy, that encountered over some of the 20 years of the longwar,

  38. geoffb – Sarah Hoyt isn’t shy about telling us what she thinks.

    I read on along the Insty chain and found a link to this:
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-kruiser/2021/06/25/hillbilly-elegy-author-eviscerates-woke-joint-chiefs-generals-priorities-n1457219

    Ed Driscoll had words to say about Hillbilly author J. D. Vance’s post.
    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/458245/

    Our generals are great at fighting word wars, although with kind of a guerrilla flavor of hit-and-run evasion.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/26/why-does-lloyd-austin-refuse-to-define-extremism-this-army-definition-should-raise-alarms-for-conservatives-n1457375

  39. Sounds like the Biden Brigade and their Generals feel secure with a “purged” organization. That worked so well in South-East Asia and Afghanistan. The cities/bases all depend on the “surround” for fuel, food, potable water, electrical power, manufactured goods. Sounds like they plan to let the cities burn and become the new “homeland” for their Illegal Allies. After all, it worked in Compton, Calif. When they eventually crawl out of their bunkers, it will be a whole new world that they will control. The ghetto survivors will be your new neighbors. I don’t think that Antifa(Burn Loot Murder) was chaos. Destroying the White downtown businesses makes room for the replacement population.

    Oswald and LBJ are gone. Worry about what is coming.

    The Biden Babble about nuclear weapons and F-15s is just fragments of staff talk. They think that they are “safe”.

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