Posted on 08/27/2021 4:15:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rip those stars off your pathetic nostalgia costumes and resign. Quit. Tell that crusty Pinocchio in the White House and the faculty lounge Geppettos tugging his strings that you will have no more to do with his human centipede of failure in Kabul.
It’s not hard – your stars are right there, generals, right on the shoulders of those new uniforms you decided to adopt with the express purpose of evoking World War II and the memory of victory over a modern, peer-competitor military. Maybe, you thought, wearing winner’s gear would ease the pain of getting creamed by a bunch of Seventh Century throwbacks.
Yeah, we know your boss is a senile old fool with delusions of competence. His failure will be addressed at the ballot box. But your failure, generals and admirals, is something only you can address, at least until President DeSantis comes and separates the wheat from the chaff in the Pentagon.
Yeah, we know, you have to follow the orders of the civilian authorities – though not if it’s Trump, since he was not part of the in-crowd you aspired to join as adjunct military members. Your passive-aggressive mutiny against the guy the American people elected set back civil-military relations 250 years. You took the one institution most Americans still trusted and turned it into a roiling cauldron of hot garbage. And don’t try to hide behind “You gotta support the troops.” We do. But you suck, and we know you suck, and you know you suck.
If you didn’t suck, you’d have quit. When President Durwood told you to ditch Bagram Air Base, you joint chiefs should have got together, realized this was going to get a bunch of the guys that America entrusted to you killed, and decided to resign. You can’t disobey, but you can take a stand.
Well, you did take a kind of stand. You just stood there. As one sergeant major told me today, the newest second lieutenant would identify this op as a disaster in the making. Now, far be it from me to contradict an E9, but I expect he would agree that even the greenest Girl Scout recruit would ask, “What the unholy hell are you idiots thinking, pulling the military out and giving up our secure airbase before you’ve completed your noncombatant evacuation operation?”
You could have quit. You could have salvaged some shred of honor after your years of total failure, but making a stand would come at the expense of your careers.
Yet it would have worked. A bunch of generals saying “No more?” That would have forced the politicians to do a rethink. But you just saluted, same as the guys who enabled Vietnam – something Army schools used to tell us (before they hired faculties full of pronoun people) we officers needed to do if the time came.
You chose not to.
Maybe you dug the pomp and circumstance – it’s good to be the general. Or maybe you imagined that you – the guys who have not won a war in two decades – were the only ones competent and capable enough to polish this strategic turd into a tactical diamond.
But it’s hard to believe you’re that delusional. It’s hard to believe that even the same band of Ibram X. Kendi fanboys who couldn’t decide whether our greatest strategic threat is the weather or Americans who voted for Donald Trump could imagine that only they stood between President Asterisk and total defeat.
You know what the Sergeant Major of the Army tweeted today, just before about a dozen of our troops were blown apart in exactly the way anyone not rocking in his chair, gulping mush, and staring at his stories on the tee-vee saw coming?
“Diversity is a number - do you have people that don’t look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people. #WomensEqualityDay reminds us we’re smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team. Our values demand it.”
This gooey pablum would be funny if a dozen families weren’t getting a knock on the door tonight. But they are, and this frivolous idiocy is not funny. You need to resign too, Sergeant Major. Just go away.
Maybe General Milley did get something right. A soldier of recognized bravery earlier in his career, and (according to one soldier who served under him) a good battalion commander as a light colonel, he has demonstrated the Peter Principle in spades. He is the worst Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in history, a disaster in every way, but he has accomplished one thing besides adding to America’s “L” column. He has united the country. Remember his ridiculous screed about “white rage?” Well, today – because of his failure – he has managed to unite Americans of all colors and shades in their rage at a failed military establishment whose lack of seriousness and gross incompetence has not only humiliated our country but gotten our troops killed. He has created a rainbow of rage.
Resign.
Salvage some dignity. Though, if I had a say, the whole lot of you would be court martialed for your negligence. You’d happily nuke from orbit a specialist who dropped his NVGs on a patrol, but you just lost another war and you’re probably headed to a board seat at Raytheon. The British Royal Navy used to shoot admirals for failure to encourage the others. I note that when this innovative personnel incentive program was in effect, Britannia ruled the waves.
Today, what does America rule? The Chinese are laughing at us. The Taiwanese have got to be rethinking their position. Iran is cackling. Our allies are furious. Way to go.
This happened on your watch. You didn’t give the order, but you chose to go along and get along. Now a dozen of the men we entrusted to you are getting along to Dover, and we can only pray more don’t follow.
You won’t do it, because if you were the kind of men who would do it you would not have to be told to do it. But you should do it. It might save a little shred of your dignity. Rip those stars off your shoulders and throw them down on the Resolute desk.
Resign.
Austin and Milley have politicized the military destroying one of the last institutions the public respected. A “woke” military is a loser. Recruitment and retention will become more difficult. Quality will decline. A fish rots from the head down.
I’m beyond furious. 13 of my brothers are dead. And yes, I count a Navy Corpsman as a brother Marine. It didn’t have to happen. This was entirely preventable.
This was a massive failure of the entire chain of command starting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Any Flag officer with a shred of honor would have resigned on the spot when given such ridiculous orders.
We need more than resignations. We need Courts Martial, and a lot of them.
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Fat Bastard Milley should be hanged for the Deaths of 13 Americans.
Later.
This debacle was inevitable given the “wokeness” of the current mediocre military brass.
The same "Resign!" directive that he gives to the incompetent politicized military leadership in Washington should have been given to every serving member of the U.S. military a long time ago.
At a time when we have an all-volunteer military, there's no excuse for enlisted personnel and junior officers to be ignorant about what kind of @ssholes they work for.
I can understand leaving Bagram and using Kabul airport for evacuation.
What I DO NOT understand is why we did not send in enough troops to hold the airport and perimeter.
The Taliban be-damned. The airport would be theirs after we evacuated US Citizens, allies and supporters that are being murdered daily.
The Taliban could have done NOTHING about it.
We are the United States of America. We can hold an airport and the airspace for as long as we need.
The Taliban would not have challenged us if they knew we were leaving.
Instead, the POTUS decided to rush things and relinquish control over the withdrawal to the Taliban.
Similarly, another general was recognized as an outstanding military officer, brave in winning battles, until he turned traitor. That man was Benedict Arnold.
And live with kamala...and whomever she choses as VP?? Let’s just hold our place.
Than more would have been killed by isis. I am not saying that that idiot in the People’s House made the right decision, don’t misunderstand me.
Yep.....
The Democrats are killing themselves
Biden is their leader
Let the internal dissention and destruction continue and intensify
The whole administration needs to resign, a complete reset. Biden, Harris, the all of the top leadership.
The next time you see a recruiting commercial, pay attention to who and what they’re recruiting. I see, barely physically qualified, diverse women who want to help in a storm or a pandemic. They don’t want traditional soldiers, they want woke numbskull products of the teacher unions. The wokest get promoted. Rotten, yes, and fully staffed with “onward, woken soldier” recruits.
“ Biden is their leader”
Nonsense. Biden is a nobody. One of the least important Democrats on the planet.
“ We are the United States of America. We can hold an airport and the airspace for as long as we need.”
You sure about that?
Wow. Echoes my thoughts exactly.
POTATUS curling up into a fetal position. Pathetic.
The time to have resigned is past for the high ranking officers & others who were responsible, & I should think this would include the CIC as well. Since it’s rather late now to be resigning, what is left? What is suitable punishment for having ended lives unnecessarily & putting our country at extreme risk? Sadly, at this point there will likely be many more lives put at risk in short order. What would be suitable punishment for all of this? Somebody needs to take responsibility for all this that’s happened & is about to happen. I think there are many more guilty parties than just the ones I have mentioned.
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