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Afghanistan was a ghastly display of how wokeness weakens America
NY Post ^ | 8-18-21 | Vivek Ramaswamy

Posted on 08/18/2021 8:58:37 AM PDT by Meah

Twenty years ago, the military-industrial complex rushed the United States into a pair of wars that cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives — only to end in the abject humiliation of American power in Kabul over the past few days. Meanwhile, defense contractors, who had no financial incentive to properly train an Afghan military to operate independently of them, made off handsomely along the way.

Today, a new alliance of big government and big business seeks to profiteer from the domestic culture war. I call it the woke-industrial complex. The consequences could be even more devastating this time around, for democracy at home and for the moral standing of the United States on the global stage...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
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We’ve arrived at the intersection of wokeness/CRT and misbegotten, grift-laden foreign policy. Not pretty.
1 posted on 08/18/2021 8:58:37 AM PDT by Meah
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To: Meah

And no one will be held to account or punished in anyway.


2 posted on 08/18/2021 8:59:16 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Meah

When the whole Left are Useful Idiots.


3 posted on 08/18/2021 8:59:32 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Meah

The DC Swamp is run by eunuchs (figurative and literal.)


4 posted on 08/18/2021 9:03:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Meah

And this comes as a “surprise” to whom?


5 posted on 08/18/2021 9:04:52 AM PDT by Howie66 (TRUMP WON!)
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To: Meah

Woke Milley trying to CYA

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9904819/Biden-IGNORED-Milleys-request-2-500-troops-Afghanistan.html


6 posted on 08/18/2021 9:05:03 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Meah

Was?!!

Unfortunately this cluster ain’t over by a long way.


7 posted on 08/18/2021 9:08:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Meah
America lost the support of Afghanistan because we supported corrupt Afghan leadership and we tried to export PC woke culture to Afghanistan.

The Afghan people hated the corrupt leaders we propped up and they rejected wokeness because they recognized it as the debauched, immoral lie that it is.

8 posted on 08/18/2021 9:14:35 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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..........the fact that Zuckerberg supports a group like the Taliban but worked aggressively and vehemently against an American President says it all about the man.

Arguably, Zuckerberg’s demonstrated predilections CERTIFY beyond any doubt that he IN FACT is an enemy of the United States of America. As such, he should be treated accordingly by all Patriot’s.


9 posted on 08/18/2021 9:14:56 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: KC_Lion

In the end Milley and possibly Austin will be the sacrificial lambs for the disaster. They will be blamed for giving the order to abandon in the middle of the night the last secure, fortified US Air Force base at burham. This should have been the secure portal of departure, resupply and eventual withdrawal for remaining American citizens and troops. Those civilians and troops are now at the tender mercies and whims of the Taliban. The worst may be yet to come.


10 posted on 08/18/2021 9:19:42 AM PDT by allendale
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To: RummyChick
It really would have been nice to have been the recipient of Milley’s sage predictions of impending disaster in, say, March of this year when a public opinion backlash could have made difference instead of being informed three days after the Taliban are sitting in the President's desk in Kabul and Afghanistan is fallen and irretrievably lost
11 posted on 08/18/2021 9:20:33 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: BenLurkin

A country founded by geniuses now being run by morons.


12 posted on 08/18/2021 9:27:17 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Don Corleone

This applies to both the US and Afghanistan.


13 posted on 08/18/2021 9:38:53 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Meah
"Wokeness"--in fact the left and the Democrat Party--is DECADENCE! The decadence of Western Civilisation in America.

Unless the American People wake up--and fast!--and expunge this EVIL from the USA ENTIRELY--America is lost and the consequences will be far more horrible than they can even imagine!

14 posted on 08/18/2021 9:49:21 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Wokeness is weakness, and diversity is where nations go to die. Mark Steyn)
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