“Afghanistan proves our failed generals no longer care about winning
By Michael Walsh
August 21, 2021 8:06am
“To the surprise of only the Biden administration and its top brass, the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last week after 20 years of frivolous American adventurism. It was a spectacular failure of American diplomacy, statecraft, intelligence and, most of all, military capability. In short, mission very much not accomplished.
*But that’s pretty much standard operating procedure for the nearly useless behemoth called the Pentagon, which hasn’t won a war since…” many decades ago.
After swift victory came something else… “that soft-headed American notion of mission creep and ‘nation building’ took hold, abetted by a succession of weak presidents and a careerist military utterly unfamiliar with the sweet smell of victory.
“The result? Thousands of dead Americans and trillions of borrowed dollars down the drain. The demise of a sham ‘nation’ that never existed in the first place. And another military humiliation as the world’s major superpower piteously is reduced to begging Islamic fundamentalists not to abuse our nationals trapped in the country and please, pretty please, don’t be beastly to the Afghan women and, by the way, please put one or two in your cabinet….
Instead of “the Failure Generals in Iraq and Afghanistan such as David Petraeus, Jim Mattis, Stanley McChrystal, and Mark Milley (currently the embarrassing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), have consistently failed upward despite divulging classified information to their mistresses, sabotaging President Trump’s military policy, and fretting about “white rage” in the ranks….
Neo,
I was thinking about the Sanity Squad yesterday and found a blog by Dr. Sanity from 2004. IT is amazing how ahead of the times she was.
Do you keep in touch with her or Siggy or Shrinkwrapped? If so, how are the doing. You all were great.
For the guys: How to put on a Roman toga. Needed: about 16 square yards of wool cloth and two slaves to make sure the thing is properly draped. Don’t miss the part about the fishy smell (on the tunic beneath the toga) as a status symbol:
Virginia Postrel’s “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” was excellent. (I think all her work is 1st rate).
Highly recommended!
Deep State Hatred for normals and Trump from Spook General:
“Former head of the NSA and the CIA during the George W. Bush presidency, General Michael Hayden, declared that he thinks it would be a “good idea” to send unvaccinated supporters of President Trump to die in Afghanistan.
Hayden, who infamously declared that the Fourth Amendment ‘changed’ on September 11, 2001, and went on to oversee mass surveillance of Americans at the NSA while the invasion of Afghanistan was implemented, made the comments on Twitter.
“Hayden responded to a post stating ‘Can we send the MAGA wearing unvaxxed to Afghanistan, no use sending that plane back empty?’
“Hayden also retweeted a picture labelling Trump ‘MAGA’ supporters as ‘Our Taliban’:”
TJ,
But Patton slapped 2 soldiers. Listen to VDH’s Hillsdale lecture on Patton. It’s on youtube
When did our sophisticates become so unsophisticated? The question occurs after reading several people remark on Biden’s seeming indifference and even callousness to what’s going on in Afghanistan despite supposedly being such a “compassionate” person.
And it seems these people all regard Biden as compassionate because they’ve seen him endlessly repeat the story of how his wife and child got killed…NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO. The idea that continuing to flog a tragedy that happened to you almost half a century ago demonstrates sociopathy is something these people cannot even conceive.
Mike
expat:
I’m only in touch with Pat Santy, not the others. She and I usually speak a couple of times a year, and every now and then I’ve visited her when I’m on the west coast. She was fine when last we spoke, which was maybe 10 months ago.
Does anyone think it’s strange that the #FDA would fully approve something in 2021 when the trial doesn’t end till 2023 & they haven’t lifted a finger to evaluate the deaths and injuries?
– Dr Jane Ruby
I was at a Recall Newsom rally yesterday and spent a couple hours chatting with people while waving signs.
There are a ton of people who desperately want nothing to do with the Stab but are pressured if they want to maintain employment.
In Russia they repelled a Vaxx Passport when both vaxxed and unvaxxed boycotted businesses requiring the passport. Dubious if that will work here.
JimNorCal:
There’s constant evaluation of the supposed deaths and injuries from the vaccine. I’ve read research on it (I don’t know who does the bulk of that research, but I don’t think the FDA is tasked with actually conducting it themselves). You cannot say that all events post-vaccine are FROM the vaccine, of course, and that’s where the research comes in. It’s a question of whether the incidence of a certain problem in the vaccinated population is greater than the usual instance of it in a matched population at large, and how much greater. Some results, such as those who die of a massive allergic reaction, are very rare but occur with all drugs and all vaccines.
And it seems these people all regard Biden as compassionate because they’ve seen him endlessly repeat the story of how his wife and child got killed…NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO. The idea that continuing to flog a tragedy that happened to you almost half a century ago demonstrates sociopathy is something these people cannot even conceive.
Biden at one point was claiming the other driver in the accident was drinking. Some of that man’s survivors have put some effort into attempting to shame Biden into retracting this slander. (Nelia Biden inattentively missed a stop sign and her vehicle was T-boned by an oncoming truck; the truck driver had no time to avoid her).
Many years ago, Nancy Reagan offered an opinion in an interview that you hear the trope ‘why doesn’t the government do something?’ rather more often than you hear someone say ‘why can’t I do something about that?’. Of course, Mrs. Reagan was a normal range person and lived her own life, limiting her charitable activities to lending her name to certain promotional activities and perhaps cutting a check. AFAICR, Jimmy Carter is the only person occupying the presidency in my lifetime who in his free time put sweat equity into helping people.
PA+Cat,
Thanks for that video on the toga! I was literally just wondering about that the other day while on a bike ride. I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me to search for a video when I got home. I’m grateful you did the work and shared it! The tunic part was also interesting, especially how it was sewn. I would have never guessed a toga was that large when off the body!
Regarding the tragic car accident with Nelia, Hunter and Beau Biden,
I don’t mean to slander here through speculation on someone’s medical history (although it’s hard to top Hunter Biden’s ability to impugn his own character), but I sometimes wonder if Hunter did not suffer a head injury in that accident that affects his behavior. It sometimes happens that a head injury causes a shift in someone’s personality that makes them less risk averse, or less capable of perceiving risk. Comedian Sam Kinnison claimed this happened to him, as does comedienne Roseanne Barr.
Rufus T. Firefly:
I don’t have time to find it now, but I have read – and I have written about – the fact that Hunter DID suffer a head injury in that long-ago accident, and I have wondered if it’s a factor in his behavior.
Rufus T. Firefly:
Glad you liked the toga video. If you ever make (or have someone else make) a toga for yourself, please post a photo/video of the results here on Neo’s blog!
Incidentally, the Roman toga figures in the etymology of the English word “candidate,” referring to someone running for political office. It comes from the Latin adjective candidus, usually translated as “shining white.” Candidates for office in ancient Rome would have their togas coated with chalk or bleached to look as white as possible when they made speeches or appeared at public functions. (White supremacy, much?!)
As for Biden as the once and future candidate for any office: ‘Nuff said.
PA+Cat,
I apologize in advance. I don’t usually work blue, but your description of Roman politicians bleaching their garments brought to mind this scene from Monty Python’s, “Holy Grail.”
Man: “Who’s that then?”
The Dead Collector: “I dun’no, must be a king.”
Man: “Why?”
The Dead Collector: “He hasn’t got sh*t all over him.”
Rufus T. Firefly–
Thank you for the laugh– we all need a few these days!
Inscrutably Oriental Covid Suppression Data Point Number 10,569:
5 Pakistanis on this plane tested positive despite boarding in Dubai with all the correct testing paperwork.
Get tested again on arrival in Hong Kong, show up positive, get bunged in quarantine station or hospital depending severity until cleared … but they are looking at at least 21 days out of general circulation.
Government immediately bans that airline from operating flights to Hong Kong for two weeks.
And the world keeps turning and I’m sitting in a coffee shop in a mall on Hong Kong Island underneath an office tower full of Goldman Sachs Bankers happily laundering China’s trillions slurping my iced mocha and not locked up in my home in some suburb of Sydney with the army patrolling the streets and trying to shoot my abo’s dog or something. Plus Almond-eyed Temptresses >>= Karen Sheilas anyway and twice on Sundays. The East is Red, Baby! 🙂
“As a passenger flight (EK384) operated by Emirates arriving from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and Bangkok, Thailand, to Hong Kong on August 22 had five passengers confirmed to have COVID-19 by arrival testing, the DH thus invoked the Prevention and Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-boundary Conveyances and Travellers) Regulation (Cap. 599H) to prohibit the landing of passenger flights from Dubai and Bangkok operated by Emirates in Hong Kong from August 24 to September 6.”
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I found this Youtube channel years ago which has many things about life in 18th century America.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
Michael Walsh names names:
“Afghanistan proves our failed generals no longer care about winning
By Michael Walsh
August 21, 2021 8:06am
“To the surprise of only the Biden administration and its top brass, the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last week after 20 years of frivolous American adventurism. It was a spectacular failure of American diplomacy, statecraft, intelligence and, most of all, military capability. In short, mission very much not accomplished.
*But that’s pretty much standard operating procedure for the nearly useless behemoth called the Pentagon, which hasn’t won a war since…” many decades ago.
After swift victory came something else… “that soft-headed American notion of mission creep and ‘nation building’ took hold, abetted by a succession of weak presidents and a careerist military utterly unfamiliar with the sweet smell of victory.
“The result? Thousands of dead Americans and trillions of borrowed dollars down the drain. The demise of a sham ‘nation’ that never existed in the first place. And another military humiliation as the world’s major superpower piteously is reduced to begging Islamic fundamentalists not to abuse our nationals trapped in the country and please, pretty please, don’t be beastly to the Afghan women and, by the way, please put one or two in your cabinet….
Instead of “the Failure Generals in Iraq and Afghanistan such as David Petraeus, Jim Mattis, Stanley McChrystal, and Mark Milley (currently the embarrassing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), have consistently failed upward despite divulging classified information to their mistresses, sabotaging President Trump’s military policy, and fretting about “white rage” in the ranks….
“Until we return to prizing our Shermans and Pattons over Milleys, expect more Afghanistans.”
https://nypost.com/2021/08/21/afghanistan-proves-failed-generals-no-longer-care-about-winning/
Neo,
I was thinking about the Sanity Squad yesterday and found a blog by Dr. Sanity from 2004. IT is amazing how ahead of the times she was.
Do you keep in touch with her or Siggy or Shrinkwrapped? If so, how are the doing. You all were great.
For the guys: How to put on a Roman toga. Needed: about 16 square yards of wool cloth and two slaves to make sure the thing is properly draped. Don’t miss the part about the fishy smell (on the tunic beneath the toga) as a status symbol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EyStjkII-Y&ab_channel=UniversityofLeicester
Last year a fascinating book was published.
Virginia Postrel’s “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” was excellent. (I think all her work is 1st rate).
Highly recommended!
Deep State Hatred for normals and Trump from Spook General:
“Former head of the NSA and the CIA during the George W. Bush presidency, General Michael Hayden, declared that he thinks it would be a “good idea” to send unvaccinated supporters of President Trump to die in Afghanistan.
Hayden, who infamously declared that the Fourth Amendment ‘changed’ on September 11, 2001, and went on to oversee mass surveillance of Americans at the NSA while the invasion of Afghanistan was implemented, made the comments on Twitter.
“Hayden responded to a post stating ‘Can we send the MAGA wearing unvaxxed to Afghanistan, no use sending that plane back empty?’
“Hayden also retweeted a picture labelling Trump ‘MAGA’ supporters as ‘Our Taliban’:”
See Tweets in original post, here
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bush-era-nsa-head-says-its-good-idea-send-unvaxxd-trump-supporters-afghanistan
OUR ENEMIES HATE US. WILL YOU RETURN 5HE FAVOR?
Waiting for the Everly Brothers and Tom T. Hall videos.
WHY, OF COURSE THEY DO!
Wash Examiner editorial: “The Left trusts the Taliban more than they trust their fellow Americans.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-trust-the-taliban-more-than-their-fellow-americans
Tuvea,
That is on my to-read pile.
TJ,
But Patton slapped 2 soldiers. Listen to VDH’s Hillsdale lecture on Patton. It’s on youtube
When did our sophisticates become so unsophisticated? The question occurs after reading several people remark on Biden’s seeming indifference and even callousness to what’s going on in Afghanistan despite supposedly being such a “compassionate” person.
And it seems these people all regard Biden as compassionate because they’ve seen him endlessly repeat the story of how his wife and child got killed…NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO. The idea that continuing to flog a tragedy that happened to you almost half a century ago demonstrates sociopathy is something these people cannot even conceive.
Mike
expat:
I’m only in touch with Pat Santy, not the others. She and I usually speak a couple of times a year, and every now and then I’ve visited her when I’m on the west coast. She was fine when last we spoke, which was maybe 10 months ago.
Does anyone think it’s strange that the #FDA would fully approve something in 2021 when the trial doesn’t end till 2023 & they haven’t lifted a finger to evaluate the deaths and injuries?
– Dr Jane Ruby
I was at a Recall Newsom rally yesterday and spent a couple hours chatting with people while waving signs.
There are a ton of people who desperately want nothing to do with the Stab but are pressured if they want to maintain employment.
In Russia they repelled a Vaxx Passport when both vaxxed and unvaxxed boycotted businesses requiring the passport. Dubious if that will work here.
JimNorCal:
There’s constant evaluation of the supposed deaths and injuries from the vaccine. I’ve read research on it (I don’t know who does the bulk of that research, but I don’t think the FDA is tasked with actually conducting it themselves). You cannot say that all events post-vaccine are FROM the vaccine, of course, and that’s where the research comes in. It’s a question of whether the incidence of a certain problem in the vaccinated population is greater than the usual instance of it in a matched population at large, and how much greater. Some results, such as those who die of a massive allergic reaction, are very rare but occur with all drugs and all vaccines.
And it seems these people all regard Biden as compassionate because they’ve seen him endlessly repeat the story of how his wife and child got killed…NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO. The idea that continuing to flog a tragedy that happened to you almost half a century ago demonstrates sociopathy is something these people cannot even conceive.
Biden at one point was claiming the other driver in the accident was drinking. Some of that man’s survivors have put some effort into attempting to shame Biden into retracting this slander. (Nelia Biden inattentively missed a stop sign and her vehicle was T-boned by an oncoming truck; the truck driver had no time to avoid her).
Many years ago, Nancy Reagan offered an opinion in an interview that you hear the trope ‘why doesn’t the government do something?’ rather more often than you hear someone say ‘why can’t I do something about that?’. Of course, Mrs. Reagan was a normal range person and lived her own life, limiting her charitable activities to lending her name to certain promotional activities and perhaps cutting a check. AFAICR, Jimmy Carter is the only person occupying the presidency in my lifetime who in his free time put sweat equity into helping people.
PA+Cat,
Thanks for that video on the toga! I was literally just wondering about that the other day while on a bike ride. I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me to search for a video when I got home. I’m grateful you did the work and shared it! The tunic part was also interesting, especially how it was sewn. I would have never guessed a toga was that large when off the body!
Regarding the tragic car accident with Nelia, Hunter and Beau Biden,
I don’t mean to slander here through speculation on someone’s medical history (although it’s hard to top Hunter Biden’s ability to impugn his own character), but I sometimes wonder if Hunter did not suffer a head injury in that accident that affects his behavior. It sometimes happens that a head injury causes a shift in someone’s personality that makes them less risk averse, or less capable of perceiving risk. Comedian Sam Kinnison claimed this happened to him, as does comedienne Roseanne Barr.
Rufus T. Firefly:
I don’t have time to find it now, but I have read – and I have written about – the fact that Hunter DID suffer a head injury in that long-ago accident, and I have wondered if it’s a factor in his behavior.
Rufus T. Firefly:
Glad you liked the toga video. If you ever make (or have someone else make) a toga for yourself, please post a photo/video of the results here on Neo’s blog!
Incidentally, the Roman toga figures in the etymology of the English word “candidate,” referring to someone running for political office. It comes from the Latin adjective candidus, usually translated as “shining white.” Candidates for office in ancient Rome would have their togas coated with chalk or bleached to look as white as possible when they made speeches or appeared at public functions. (White supremacy, much?!)
As for Biden as the once and future candidate for any office: ‘Nuff said.
PA+Cat,
I apologize in advance. I don’t usually work blue, but your description of Roman politicians bleaching their garments brought to mind this scene from Monty Python’s, “Holy Grail.”
Rufus T. Firefly–
Thank you for the laugh– we all need a few these days!
Inscrutably Oriental Covid Suppression Data Point Number 10,569:
5 Pakistanis on this plane tested positive despite boarding in Dubai with all the correct testing paperwork.
Get tested again on arrival in Hong Kong, show up positive, get bunged in quarantine station or hospital depending severity until cleared … but they are looking at at least 21 days out of general circulation.
Government immediately bans that airline from operating flights to Hong Kong for two weeks.
And the world keeps turning and I’m sitting in a coffee shop in a mall on Hong Kong Island underneath an office tower full of Goldman Sachs Bankers happily laundering China’s trillions slurping my iced mocha and not locked up in my home in some suburb of Sydney with the army patrolling the streets and trying to shoot my abo’s dog or something. Plus Almond-eyed Temptresses >>= Karen Sheilas anyway and twice on Sundays. The East is Red, Baby! 🙂
https://geoexpat.com/forum/415/thread361593.html#post3820516
“As a passenger flight (EK384) operated by Emirates arriving from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and Bangkok, Thailand, to Hong Kong on August 22 had five passengers confirmed to have COVID-19 by arrival testing, the DH thus invoked the Prevention and Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-boundary Conveyances and Travellers) Regulation (Cap. 599H) to prohibit the landing of passenger flights from Dubai and Bangkok operated by Emirates in Hong Kong from August 24 to September 6.”