[Retain Mike]

I would say the guys in utilities create the environment for winning a war, but then the folks in suits have to secure the final victory. Mao Tse-tung, echoing Sun Tzu, said “It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed”. War and politics reside on a continuum. They are not a dichotomy. War as overt and covert conflict invests and surrounds traditional diplomacy with the force to bring meaningful change by frustrating plans, breaking alliances, isolating factions/regimes, and engaging the enemy’s mind with scenarios where war as overt conflict becomes the ultimate arbiter.

Once again politicians and their acolytes in the State Department failed to respond to this reality thereby disregarding the sacrifices of our armed forces, which had created an environment for victory so many years ago before Obama became president. Even today is a great example of just how far the State Department is detached from reality.

State Department calls for Taliban to include women in its government https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anthony-blinken-speaks-on-the-fall-of-kabul

[WMarshal]

If America rounded up 3,000 everyday Americans and told them to run the Stare Department we would get a better result by far than we do now.