The Great Betrayal

Steyn Online ^ | 28 Nov 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

~How was your Thanksgiving? On a day to give thanks for all the blessings of America, it fell to Gary Beckstrom to announce to the world the death of his twenty-year-old daughter, Sarah. That will taint Thanksgiving every year for the rest of Mr Beckstrom's life - in part because his child's blood is on the hands not just of her killer but of the public policy that enabled the murderer to be on the streets of what passes for the national capital. Thanks, America!

Bill Kristol
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Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk.

Mr Kristol was the most prominent cheerleader for the two-decade unwon wars that made the supposed hyperpower a global laughingstock. After spending so long urging Americans to die for Jalalabad, he should surely have picked up along the way an actual fact or two about the joint. Otherwise, he risks appearing a shallow, parochial bleepwit whose "Project for the New American Century" looks more like a Project for a No American Century.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bleepwit

[ClearCase_guy]

Today? Well, Gary Beckstrom has one surviving daughter - which is one fifth of the children of Sarah's killer: five. Which is fairly typical of the fecund Afghans. So, in a few years, the murderer's progeny will be out-voting Mr Beckstrom's.

Demographics is destiny.

[iamgalt]

Kristol has descended from a simple Trump hater to a treasonous America hating scumbag. His race to the bottom has been something to behold.

[Captain Walker]

Another well-written piece by Steyn.

[Carl Vehse]

The betrayal of Americans will continue as long as this murderer, even years past his trial. conviction and sentencing, continues, to steal oxygen.

Then those who block or delay justice also become the betrayers of the United States.

[laconic]

Kristol is like Dick Cheney, a soul he admired. Both were constant warmongers for places like Iraq and Afghanistan, yet curiously, neither ever served in the US military and Cheney at least actively dodged it with six draft deferments during VN. When the warhawk Kristol was asked why he was always advocating some Mideast war when he never served in the US military, he called the question “contemptible”. Kind of like telling your big but stupid friends to beat up some guy down the hall who is giving you trouble.

[No name given]

Kristol is nothing but a worthless braying fool.

[fhayek]

Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk.

??!

[tinamina]

Bill Kristol said that

[sauropod]

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[fhayek]

Yeah, I know. I just can’t comprehend it.