Meltdown of a Superpower

[Bud_Spencer]

Mark Steyn with an absolutely brutal column about our worthless elites in civiliand and military worlds:

https://www.steynonline.com/11628/meltdown-of-a-superpower

It is not just that General Milley and the Joint Buffoons of Staff cannot plan; they cannot execute. Compare the 2,500 Americans evacuated from Kabul over this last week to the 7,000 Americans and allies choppered out of Saigon in just nineteen hours. Can Milley do anything in nineteen hours other than call his tailor and order up his next row of ribbonry?...

On Friday the chump who serves as US Defense Secretary was asked why his US troops at Kabul Airport couldn't do (as the French, British and others are doing) and fan out into Kabul and surrounding provinces and extract their nationals. Mr Austin replied that American forces don't have "the capability" - and, as a hack lobbyist formerly on the board of Raytheon, he should know....

Yeah, yeah, I know... Somewhere across the fruited plain a transgender Hispanic is shattering a glass ceiling... Our schoolchildren are, on the rare days their unionized "educators" are willing to tolerate their physical presence masked or unmasked, taught by the very best Critical Race Theorists... In the heart of America's most famous cities citizens are randomly attacked with impunity by hammer-wielding #BLM aficionados, but relax, the poor lads were triggered by a statue of Teddy Roosevelt or Kate Smith... The Los Angeles Times is denouncing Larry Elder, a black man, as a white supremacist, because next thing you know all the black white-supremacists will be putting on viking horns and storming Governor Newsom's French Laundry...

 

[RobDownSouth]

Mark Steyn is using PatriotMath, where 2+2=5 if you really really squint.

Meanwhile, back in the real world...
https://i.imgur.com/7noOZ96.png

 

[BoyNextDoor]

They only hear what they want to hear, and disregard the rest.

( La la la la la la)

 

[pecksniff]

America does not need to be a superpower.

 

[CornusKousa]

America does not need to be a superpower.

Peck finally says something reasonable.

 

[KeithD]

This seems more a meltdown of the Trumpettes.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

This seems more a meltdown of the Trumpettes.

Dementia Joe and his administration are getting ass-raped by goat herders from the Seventh Century on international teevee, our allies are lambasting our lame-brain CiC, and all is well with the Left.

 

[HisArpy]

Mark Steyn is using PatriotMath, where 2+2=5 if you really really squint.

Meanwhile, back in the real world...
https://i.imgur.com/7noOZ96.png

Who to believe, the liars in the WH and those who blindly support them, or...

Pentagon says 7000 people evacuated sine Aug 14th

 

[KeithD]

Dementia Joe and his administration are getting ass-raped by goat herders from the Seventh Century on international teevee, our allies are lambasting our lame-brain CiC, and all is well with the Left.

There's nothing going on in that regard now that hasn't been going on throug four administrations, two Republican and two Democratic, that a Republican administration got us involved in in the first place. The big difference here is that the Biden administration is biting the bullet and ending the kicking of the can down the road. Your hero, Trump, started the process, including, quite notably, the capitulation to the Taliban process.

So, you can just take your partisan hackery and shove it up your ass.

 

[Counselor706]

Alarming leaked cable shows how few US citizens have actually been evacuated

A leaked cable from the U.S. Department of State detailing the number of American citizens who have been successfully rescued from Afghanistan in recent weeks raises serious questions about the Biden administration's handling of evacuation efforts.

Biden administration officials have been inexplicably vague regarding both the number of Americans that have been evacuated and the number that remain stranded within the Taliban-controlled country, saying only that "several thousand" have been pulled out.

According to a State Department cable — which was*obtained by Politico national security reporter Alex Ward — as of Monday night, only 4,407 American citizens have made it onto outbound flights from Kabul since the evacuation operation began on Aug. 14.

The figure is particularly troubling given that low-end estimates indicated the number of American citizens present in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. military withdrawal was between 10,000 and 15,000. That number, however, could actually be much higher.

Source

 

[Wrong Element]

This seems more a meltdown of the Trumpettes.

That last paragraph — and Steyn is Canadian so he can STFU with this "our" shit — read like the AJ version of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha."

 

[WillJ8787]

America does not need to be a superpower.

Yes, I agree...it is costly(to American taxpayers) to think this way.

 

[phrodeau]

Dementia Joe and his administration are getting ass-raped by goat herders from the Seventh Century on international teevee, our allies are lambasting our lame-brain CiC, and all is well with the Left.

I didn’t know that Mark Steyn herded goats. Learned something new.

 

[RoryN]

I didn’t know that Mark Steyn herded goats.

Actually, he herds sheep - specifically, Tucker Carlson's.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The replies here are priceless. Typical and expected, but priceless.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Who to believe, the liars in the WH and those who blindly support them, or...

Pentagon says 7000 people evacuated sine Aug 14th

"People." Note that it doesn't say "Americans."

 

[Sean Renaud]

We aren't having a meltdown and the only reports that are showing this being worse than we should have expected are FAR right wing places so crazy Fox won't echo them because it would hurt what credibility they have. You guys really need to drop the "fake news" thing. Assume the media is honest if not biased and then search for other sources than the first one you hit. If you go into CNN with FAKE with out provable points you're just fucking yourself.

I'm not claiming they are perfect. They are not. MSMBNC chases what they want so they find what they want but there aren't a lot of provable lies they are caught in.

Actually, he herds sheep - specifically, Tucker Carlson's.

I'm not gonna lie. All us OG criminals need to get new AVs in the not to distant future. Like how did I take the Trump admin off and the first thing I thought of with you was how the fuck did a dog get that fucking smug? That dog thinks he's better than me.

Also good to see ya, who is this new punk or is this busybody 2000?

Oh yeah. Good to see you.

 

[Lazaran]

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Harpy posts a five day old article and Pud cites it as evidence of.........something.

LMFAO

 

[millionairenextdoor]

The replies here are priceless. Typical and expected, but priceless.

You mean worthless.

What kind of POS says the USA doesn't need to be a super power?

Get the fuck out of this country, loser!

The USA has done more to help the world than the rest of the world combined.

I am proud of that and proud to be an American. You USA HATERS have one thing in common, you hate Trump too. Trump is a winner. He put USA first and that is how it should be. Fuckin cucks.

 

[pecksniff]

I didn’t know that Mark Steyn herded goats. Learned something new.

Well, "herd" might not be exactly the right word.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The Largest Hostage Crisis in American History:

https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/the-largest-hostage-crisis-in-american-history/

Rothman seems to think we can bribe our way out. I'm not so sure. I think the Taliban are a shrewd consumer of American media, and understand what the visuals of blindfolded hostages would do to the country. They may give up the bulk of the hostages to maintain a manageable number, but they'll keep enough to make Biden a Jimmy Carter doppleganger.

 

[KeithD]

YTrump is a winner.

That statement certainly deserves to be preserved.

 

[pecksniff]

What kind of POS says the USA doesn't need to be a super power?

The FFs would, I'm sure. They were suspicious of "entangling alliances," let alone the responsibilities of empire.

 

[RoryN]

I'm not gonna lie. All us OG criminals need to get new AVs in the not to distant future. Like how did I take the Trump admin off and the first thing I thought of with you was how the fuck did a dog get that fucking smug? That dog thinks he's better than me.

Also good to see ya, who is this new punk or is this busybody 2000?

Oh yeah. Good to see you.

Good to see you too!

I know - this dog, he creates...visceral reactions, lol.

I'm losing track of which alt is which, mostly because they all spew almost identical garbage nowadays. They let Trump molest their brains for 4 years and that's the result.

 

[phrodeau]

The Largest Hostage Crisis in American History:

https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/the-largest-hostage-crisis-in-american-history/

Rothman seems to think we can bribe our way out. I'm not so sure. I think the Taliban are a shrewd consumer of American media, and understand what the visuals of blindfolded hostages would do to the country. They may give up the bulk of the hostages to maintain a manageable number, but they'll keep enough to make Biden a Jimmy Carter doppleganger.

The Taliban wants Americans gone by the end of August. If they round up Americans, it will be to help them to the airports.