Posted on 08/15/2021 6:46:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To reprise a line from a decade-old column of mine:
Afghanistan is about Afghanistan – if you're Afghan or Pakistani. But, if you're Russian or Chinese or Iranian or European, Afghanistan is about America.
That's the point to remember: if you're an Afghan schoolgirl, today is the fall of Kabul; elsewhere, in the chancelleries of allies and enemies alike, it's the fall of America. Even by their usual wretched standards, the world's most somnolent media are struggling to stay up to speed on the story. Here's the scoop from USA Today:
Taliban's Afghanistan Advance Tests Biden's 'America Is Back' Foreign Policy Promise
You don't say! Did he misread the prompter, or mishear the guy in his ear? "America is on its back", surely?
But don't worry, the world's most lavishly over-funded "intelligence community" is on the case:
Kabul Could Fall To The Taliban Within 90 Days, U.S. Intelligence Warns
Thank you, geniuses. That was Thursday. So it turned out to be well within ninety hours - which is close enough for US intelligence work.
Was this the same "seventeen intelligence agencies" who all agreed Russia had meddled in the 2016 election - and with whose collective intelligence only a fool would disagree?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Generally it takes a guy like Hitler to become a world class
problem.
This time it took a man like Biden to become the world’s
leading ass.
World class problems, GREEN LIGHT!!!!
Result of American foeign policy in Afghanistan: Women and children last.
"Harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend": a devastating indictment, and entirely correct. But it neglects the ultimate reality: the bungling superpower can inflict defeat only on itself.
If only our generals could challenge the Taliban to a two mile race.
Wow, painfully true.
Anybody interview George Bush yet to ask him how his nation-building crusade went?
” General Thoroughly Modern Milley “.
Mark Steyn is a classic !
Or a makeup contest..I bet we win that one
So what happens to the funds to recruit women into the afghan army that were approved with one of the COVID relief bill? Is that still on?
Quote:
that's an awful lot of chest ribbonry for a nation that hasn't won a war in three-quarters of a century. During his recent wokier-than-thou Congressional testimony on "white rage", I wish someone would have asked Thoroughly Modern what they were all for: Well, this is for Korea... Vietnam... This small ribbon's for the Jimmy Carter helicopters-in-the-desert fiasco, because that went tits up far quicker than it usually takes...
The people who have just been humiliated don’t appear to appreciate that they’ve just been humiliated. They’re that stupid. That these now populate the highest positions of power in the United States federal government is a perfect representation of the scale of everyone else’s humiliation. The clowns don’t know they’re clowns, and they aren’t going anywhere unless we push them.
Incompetent ?
Or
Complicit ?
Well while you're at it, figure out a way to fire those clowns who sit on the Supreme Court and ruled that no one has "standing" to complain about voter fraud--and that therefore election fraud is de facto legal in the USA. There must be a way.
Love Mark Steyn! His humor leaves a definitive bite mark!
” General Thoroughly Modern Milley “.
Mark Steyn is a classic !”
He is brilliant and a Canadian of all things!😆
They could be both. With the media covering for them they might not care they’ve been humiliated. Without it, well...
America is not "too big to fail": It's failing by almost every metric right now. The world-record brokey-brokey-brokeness manifested by the current spending bills is only possible because the US dollar is the global currency. When that ends, we're Weimar with smartphones. Clearly, Chairman Xi and his allies occasionally muse on the best moment to yank the dollar out from under. If you were in Beijing watching telly today, would you perhaps be considering advancing those plans?
The good news: It's a brilliant piece. The bad news: We really are that screwed.
I wonder if our government will offer to service the equipment which the Taliban has pilfered from us. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are.
Steyn is spot on!
The man is brilliant and loves America more than most of its elected chair squatting, China swallowing tools.
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