ADMIRAL BYNG SMILES: Mark Milley Deserves To Be Fired And Court-Martialed For His Afghanistan Lies.
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August 19, 2021
KEITH KELLOG: Our Military Must Remain Focused on Its Mission. “In war, momentum on the battlefield has a quality all its own. The Taliban have it. What we need to ask is, how did this end state happen and what lesson should we learn? In the end, it was a question of will. We wanted our efforts to succeed more than the Ghani government did. Prior administrations and their military advisers wanted Afghans to begin acting like Jeffersonian democrats. That seldom works and comes at a high cost. Each nation is unique, be it Iraq or Afghanistan. Our senior leaders, especially our generals, forgot this.”
EVERYONE IS CONSERVATIVE ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS BEST: Socialist magazine founder fires staff for socialist organizing, confesses he felt ownership of what he’d made.
NOW OUT FROM LARRY CORREIA: Monster Hunter Bloodlines.
VOTE FOR BIDEN, THEY SAID. HE’LL RESTORE OUR INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION, THEY SAID.
UPDATE: A friend comments:
None of the experts in our government thought to contact our NATO allies before our disastrous decision to leave, and now the UK is openly debating in Parliament the usefulness of NATO and if they can trust the United States going forward since they were caught flat footed by a unilateral decision we made without speaking to them. The UK has been ride or die with us for over a century, and it’s shameful that the “experts” not only put our people in harm’s way by the thousands, but the citizens of our allies who didn’t even get a courtesy e-mail.
But hey, at least the young buck national security advisor who has no discernable work history went to an Ivy League school and was a Rhodes scholar, right?
I really think between Afghanistan and COVID, Americans should really question why our “expert” class exists, and if they should ever be listened to again.
Indeed. And don’t diss Jake Sullivan’s work history. He was an advisor to Hillary Clinton! Not delivering very well on this, though: “He also emphasized that the Biden administration aimed to repair American relations with allies that he regarded as being damaged during the Trump administration.”
PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF CENSORSHIP. Glenn’s earlier post about Facebook censoring an Asimov quote about censorship – a decision that inexplicably survived Facebook’s appeal process – brings up a point opponents of censorship (including me) don’t make enough: It seems apparent that the “line workers” of the censorship apparatus are, in the aggregate, too stupid and/or ignorant to do the job. This makes sense, though. Who else would do it?
(It’s also possible the big companies have hired non-Americans to do this who don’t understand English or America very well. That’s actually worse, if true.)
BLUE STATE MEDICAL ETHICS: Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Covid Shot or Drop Dead.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT ESTABLISHING “TRUE COMMUNISM” BUT ABOUT ELIMINATING POTENTIAL COMPETING POWER CENTERS… OK, SAME THING: Chinese president vows to ‘adjust excessive incomes’ of super rich.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: The media refuse to call Biden a liar on Afghanistan despite the evidence — unlike what they did with Trump.
WELL, SURE, THAT’S THE POINT OF WOKE EDUCATION: Students call Iowa State University’s woke orientation materials ‘propaganda,’ ‘indoctrination.’ “One ISU student that participated in the training module said the school tries to ‘shove propaganda down the throats of new students.'”
Again, that’s the point. Glad people are punching back.
I’M NOT SAYING MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN IS HARSH, BUT I DO INVOKE ADMIRAL BYNG: Fire the military and intelligence bigs who bungled Afghanistan — now.
IT’S A TRICYCLE: Are the wheels coming off the Biden administration?
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Anti-Racist’ Princeton Seminary — and Won.
MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT FLAVOR ICE CREAM DO YOU HAVE? The Taliban may have seized biometric data that can ID US allies in Afghanistan.
TOO LATE: Biden scrambles to tamp down panic over Afghanistan.
Plus: Should ABC publish the full, raw video of the Biden-Stephanopoulos interview? Not if you want to tamp down panic over who’s running the country.
PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.
Kevin Downey Jr: The Durham Report Is a Glacier: Slow Moving But Potentially Devastating. “Durham is said to have asked people questions about evidence related to the now-debunked lie that a server for the Trump organization covertly communicated with a bank in Russia, called Alfa Bank. The FBI investigated this and found it to be untrue. Durham’s prosecutors appear to be pursuing people who may have knowingly passed off this false info to the FBI, or passed it to intermediaries, who then gave it to the FBI. Anyone in the chain who knew the info was false could face charges for lying to the federal government.”
Matt Margolis: Democrat Strategist Says Dems Needs to Steamroll Their Agenda While They Still Can. “All in all, the 46th president and his allies should probably stop worrying about his approval ratings and just get as much done as they possibly can while they still control Congress.”
Yours Truly: I’m Not in a ‘New York State Of Mind’ (And You Won’t Be Either After Hearing This Bill de Blasio Cover). “Now de Blasio is in Panic Mode, trying one stunt after another to bring people back to the city he drove them from.”
HARSH, BUT UNFORTUNATELY FAIR:
TOMORROW’S CLEAN ENERGY OR PERMANENT WILL O’ THE WISP? Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of energy. “Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California said they had focused 192 giant lasers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) onto a pea-size pellet, resulting in the release of 1.3 megajoules of energy in 100 trillionths of a second — roughly 10% of the energy of the sunlight that hits Earth every moment, and about 70% of the energy that the pellet had absorbed from the lasers. The scientists hope one day to reach the break-even or ‘ignition’ point of the pellet, where it gives off 100% or more energy than it absorbs.”
ERIC COWPERTWHAITE: “Facebook banned me for quoting Isaac Asimov.” Disgraceful, but no longer shocking.
More here.
I’VE HAD A FEW: Regrets: Trump would beat Biden today, more women and blacks support.
UPDATE: A friend messages: “The Dems pursued a win at all costs strategy, the most ruthless of our lifetime. Fascinating to watch that bill mount, and how fast it is coming due. … unexpectedly.”
WE’RE NOT SENDING OUR BEST INTO GOVERNMENT: China outflanking US in the wake of Biden’s Afghan debacle.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Even Biden’s Media Monkeys Are Finding It Difficult to Spin for Him Now. “The insidious relationship between the hacks in the mainstream media and Joe Biden has been a bit rough even on my cast-iron gut. From the moment that it was obvious that he was going to be the nominee, I knew that the MSM would be working overtime to prop him up. What we’ve endured thus far has been worse than what we saw during the Obama years. They just looked the other way a lot when The Lightbringer was in office. This year they’ve been creating a president out of whole cloth.”
