Comments on: Afghanistan and the Surrender-Monkey-In-Chief: what’s really going on here?

By: Doctor Mist

Doctor Mist — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:59:37 +0000

PA+Cat: very insightful essay. The business about interpreting the world in terms of our own internal squabbles— “Who’s the PoC? Who’s the Nazi?”—rings very true, and is an interesting contrast to the Cold War when we interpreted internal disagreements in terms of “Who’s the Godless Commie?”

By: Mike O'Malley

Mike O'Malley — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:41:30 +0000

Two relevant events from the Obama years come to mind:
1: Obama’s purge of our most competent military leaders who were not left-wing political hacks; See here: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
“Obama’s Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years ” 10/29/13
I recall that number was roughly doubled toward the end of Obama’s second term.

2: The PRC’s hack of OPM’s personnel files:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach

By: porkypine

porkypine — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:11:00 +0000

I started out assuming incompetence a couple weeks ago, when the implosion first became unmistakable. But Lara Logan (who knows the local players) has published a number of pieces pointing out that, in the extended runup to this disaster, the toast has landed butter-side-down far too many times in a row for mere stupidity to explain.

This. Was. Intentional. It’s becoming multiple-nines certain that the core of our foreign policy establishment INTENDED this result. Meanwhile our top military leadership was too busy pushing CRT on the troops to lodge more than token protests.

So. What now? Pareto wrote about “circulation of elites”, that if a leadership elite stops letting new top talent circulate in retail, instead selecting on other criteria – the right schools, the right families, the right politics, the right (lack of) religion – a wholesale circulation will eventually occur.

So, how do we start “eventually” rolling in time to save this nation?

By: Innocent Victim

Innocent Victim — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:24:57 +0000

If one marks the beginning of the United States of America as the issue date of the Declaration of Independence the country has existed for 245 years. The 56 signers of that document certainly did; for them there was no going back once the ink had dried.

And, a large enough portion of the 2.5 million residents of the then-British colonies believed taking the chance to build their own country was valuable enough to support going head-to-head with arms against a country three times the size of the colonies, with a very well established and proven successful military, to pretty much risk everything in the attempt.

In the ensuing 245 years quite an assortment has declared war against the United States: Great Britain (the War of 1812), Mexico, Spain, Germany (twice), Italy, Japan, Romania, Austria, Hungary, and a few others who have engaged in activity against America without a formal declaration (USSR, China) or without official sanction (Colombia, and their fellow drug cartel-supporting comrades). The leaders of those foreign countries through a declaration of war openly expressed a desire to destroy the United States and put no small effort, however ineffectual it may have turned out to be, into achieving it; that the United States has long had enemies who wish to destroy it comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention.

This is the first time, however, that those enemies have actually lived in America and drawn government paychecks. And, they may – and I emphasize “may” – have the power to accomplish it, especially if a large enough cohort don’t care enough to resist it.

I’m trying to figure out why if war has been declared against America one side has adopted the position of willful acquiesense and submission. In 245 years we’ve never done that.

By: The Ideologically Lobotomized ?Collide? with Reality | The Reformed Sojourner

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:10:05 +0000

[…] by the behavior of the entire Biden Administration over the Afghanistan debacle (as am I). So she recently began “thinking a bit out of the box” in order to generate a hypothesis that covers the known facts. She’s not saying this is […]

By: Nate Redshill

Nate Redshill — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 05:22:04 +0000

Some of us have been saying this since Obama came to power. Deliberate. Still others say this goes back to 1950 and the Mess in Korea. A few say 1913 (Federal Reserve, Direct Election of Senators, and Income Tax) or even 1861 or 1801!

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:10:49 +0000

“I have come to dread the news.”

Yes.

By: CDville

CDville — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:43:34 +0000

Victoria Taft had a report in PJMedia a few days ago saying that Blinken had wanted to leave Afghanistan abruptly during the Obama administration. John McCain said in 2014 that Blinken was dangerous. John McCain was right.

By: Bill Serra

Bill Serra — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:24:12 +0000

My brother–among others–refers to this as “the managed decline of America”.
Not sure the end game but I can’t help but think of the scene in the movie “Network” (the most prophetic film ever?) where Ned Beatty explains ‘Globalism’ to Howard Beale–might be close. BTW, the ‘Mao Tse Tung Hour’ scene is pure BLM.

By: b

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:15:38 +0000

“no obvious reason for the reckless speed other than the idea that Joe wanted to brag about the withdrawal in a speech on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.”

Exactly! The entire timeline of our pullout, including the very fact that it was being done at all, was so Biden could have some bizarre brag ceremony for the 20 year 9/11 anniversary.

Remember this is the same idiot that was bragging about Iraq being a huge success of Obama’s and his administration despite the fact that they did nothing other than to take the stable situation they inherited and screw it up royally by pulling out—just like Afghanistan. And just like he and Obama did in Iraq, Biden now blames the previous administration as having tied his hands, which is a blatant lie, to wit, if the May pullout date was so sacred, then why didn’t Biden stick to it? I mean, it’s slightly maddening to hear these imbeciles claim they had to stick to Trump’s May 2021 withdrawal date and couldn’t alter it with the Taliban (who anyway had not stuck to Trump’s conditions) when IT IS FREAKING AUGUST! 3 months after May. So BS they had to stick to the plan!