Posted on 09/05/2021 2:48:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ordered to do so, a soldier charges through a hail of bullets toward his objective. Instinctively a soldier falls on a live grenade and his life is snuffed out. Folks at home honor these soldiers, as they should. Why? What is going on here? The answer is found in one word: trust.
The soldier trusts that the order is meant to prevent a greater harm. He trusts the system. He is willing to bet his life on this trust. The hero who sacrifices his life to save his buddies has infinite trust that this is necessary. Those who honor this bravery and self-sacrifice do so in gratitude for the trust those soldiers have given them when they sent them into battle.
All societies are based on trust. It doesn’t matter how the society is organized. It could be a democracy, king and country, or even a totalitarian dictatorship. What matters is that the people of that society have trust in their system and in their leadership. Without that trust there is chaos.
The imbecilic way we withdrew from Afghanistan has created a monumental crisis, not just domestically, but for the entire world. Everywhere now, within and without, trust in United States has been irretrievably lost. We are now at a pivot in time around which all of history is in rotation. As a result of the stupendous incompetence of the Biden administration the world will never be the same.
The American order following the Second World War has been permanently demolished. What will replace it we don’t know. Will the world be more dangerous? Again, we don’t know. Perhaps it may even become safer. What we do know is that it will be very different.
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Afghanistan-Graveyard of Empires. Our insane bugout has made the conditions for America to stay within that tradition. Without a radical housecleaning that can only be accomplished by coup and probably dictatorship following, that dissolution seems inevitable. We are no longer a coherent society and those who desire to dismantle the Republic are in charge of all our institutions and processes. We have lost the trust of our allies and we, the only force in the world that can maintain peace, have abdicated.
Face it...it will be DECADES (if ever) before the US will regain the esteem or trust of other powers.
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