On September 23, 2021,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021…but before we begin, consider this claim by Bob Woodward:
“The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward claimed that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley’s calls to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of the Trump presidency were made “in the interest of protecting the country.“
Just so we’re all on the same page, these were the calls in which Milley assured the ChiComs he’d give them a heads-up in the event The Donald ordered a nuclear attack on the PRC:
“General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” – General Benedict Milley, taking his cue from Sun Tzu’s adage, “If you’re going to attack your enemy, forewarn them so as to give them ample time to prepare a crippling preemptive response.”
Wow! Milley knew Li for…FIVE WHOLE YEARS!!! So General Li would have dutifully informed Chairman Xi Jinping, who would have then: (A). Ducked and covered; (B). Launched a preemptive nuclear strike on the United States and her allies; or, (C). (B) then (A).
Think about it: HAD The Donald ordered such an attack (which was about as likely as Bill having marital relations with Hillary the evening she found out about Monica…or any other evening for that matter!) and Milley HAD forewarned his ChiCom counterpart, how DID Milley expect Xi to respond?!? With a hale and hearty…
And what puts Bob Woodward in any special position or provides him some unique knowledge to render judgment on either the motivation behind Milley’s ChiCom contacts or what constitutes the interests of the United States?
Here’s two shots of the juice. Shot One: General Milley, despite his exalted position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had two direct reports: His immediate superior, the Secretary of Defense, and his boss’s boss, the Commander-in-Chief. Nothing…we repeat, NOTHING…in his job description, duties, responsibilities or privileges allowed him to deliberately withhold knowledge from the President (see Chief, Commander-in) of his surreptitious contacts with a foreign power, let alone his nation’s most powerful foe.
Shot Two: Based on Woodward’s asinine assessment, Benedict Arnold’s act of treason was made “in the interest of protecting the country”; only in the case of Arnold, the country Arnold was protecting was Great Britain, whereas Milley was acting in the interests of the People’s Republic of China. Consider also Arnold only offered the British the plans to West Point, while Milley promised to provide America’s enemy an opportunity to launch a preemptive nuclear strike.
To which we say, shoot ’em all and let Satan sort ’em out.
Now, owing to having spent most of the day helping the plumber install our new sink and temporary countertop and keeping TLJ comfortable following her surgery (she’s recovering nicely, thank you!), here’s another somewhat abbreviated edition of The Gouge!
“The American retreat from Afghanistan, with its whimpering and scurrying and its generally cringing tail-between-the-legs posture, would have been debacle enough without the Biden administration’s having added a massacre of children and innocents to it. The fact that it was a massacre enabled by incompetence does not improve the situation.
General Frank McKenzie, who is in charge at U.S. Central Command, confirmed last week that a drone strike carried out in Kabul in order to ward off an imminent attack from ISIS-K actually killed a carload of civilians, mostly children. “I offer my sincere apology,” General McKenzie said. Oh, at least it’s sincere. He affirmed that he is “fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome.” If General McKenzie is fully responsible, then perhaps he — or someone above him — should act like it and see to it that he is, at a minimum, fully relieved of his responsibilities.
But is General McKenzie really fully responsible?
“The strike on 29 August must be considered in the context of the situation on the ground,” General McKenzie said, “in Kabul at Hamid Karzai International Airport following the ISIS-K attack that resulted in the deaths of 13 soldiers, sailors, and Marines, and more than 100 civilians, at Abbey Gate on 26 August. And also with the substantial body of intelligence indicating the imminence of another attack.”
That is a useful context to consider, because it is not a relevant military context at all — it is a political context.
The horrifying attack on August 26 confirmed only the general sense that violent attacks against U.S. forces and those under their protection were likely, if not inevitable, during our headlong retreat from Afghanistan. It told us what we already knew. The events of August 26 did not tell us anything about whether that particular vehicle — packed with an aid worker and his family — was likely to be part of an ISIS-K operation. The events of August 26 are unlikely to have shed any light on whether the intelligence, if we can call it that, preceding that drone strike ought to have been judged credible.
The events of August 26 are relevant mainly for political — or, we might as well say, cosmetic — reasons.
And it seems to have been the politics that we were responding to.
The collapse of the Afghan government and the surrender of U.S. forces to the Taliban (and we might as well call it what it is) already was shaping up to be a fiasco. Subcomandante Malarky boasted that the Afghan military had been so well-trained and splendidly provisioned by the U.S. government that its ability to hold off the Taliban was a near certainty. “They have an air force,” Joe Biden said of the Kabul government. “The Taliban doesn’t.” Someone might have reminded him that the Taliban already conquered Afghanistan once without the benefit of an air force, and that the attack on the United States that precipitated our involvement in Afghanistan was carried out by means of box-cutters and building schematics.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was even more emphatic: “We are not withdrawing. We are staying. The embassy is staying. Our programs are staying.” (I know the Blinken type. When one of these bloodless, dead-eyed Ivy League lawyers says he isn’t going to screw you, you’re already screwed. Blaming them for it is like blaming a wasp for stinging you — it is what they do, their nature.)
…Because Barack Obama had at least the good sense to more or less ignore Joe Biden out of existence for eight years, Osama bin Laden did not live to see his expectations finally come to pass. But a symbolic retaliation followed by retreat is precisely what President Biden ultimately intended to offer, at the end, in Afghanistan. After the airport attack — the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in a decade — President Biden was politically compelled to do something, lest his Big Man Mojo be seen to wane and the Mandate of Heaven slip from his quavering grasp. That compulsion surely was felt all the way down the chain of command. And it resulted in taking the first opportunity to make atheatrical show of force — in this case, against a car with seven children in it.
Because Congress is run by Democrats, there probably will be no serious oversight effort made to learn how that decision was made and how it went wrong. But the political dynamics animating the administration are plain enough…”
The Left has always excelled at one thing: Paying the debts and obligations they’ve incurred with other people’s blood, sweat, toil and assets.
Since we’re on the subject of the Big Man, also writing at NRO, Zach Evansreports on the exposure of yet another of his bald-faced lies, as an…
“Two crucial emails included among the material reportedly taken from Hunter Biden’s laptop last year are genuine, according to new evidence presented in the book The Bidens by Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger.
A 2015 email from Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharsky thanking Hunter Biden for “giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together” is genuine, according to a person described in Politico Playbook as having “independent access” to Hunter’s emails. Pozharsky was an adviser to Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat while his father was vice president.
A second email from 2017 that reportedly outlines a deal between the Biden family and a now-defunct Chinese energy company is also real, the person said. That email, sent by Biden business partner James Gillar, includes the line “10 held by H for the big guy?” which Tony Bobulinski — Hunter Biden’s former business partner and a recipient on the email — said referred to Hunter holding a 10 percent stake in the deal for Joe Biden.
…President Biden has insisted that he was never involved in his son’s business dealings…”
Yeah,…and Slick Willy never had sex with that woman…Ms. Lewinsky. Then again, perhaps 46* feels the fruits of graft and corruption are just as much his due as Clinton did sex from those in his employ.
Next up, again courtesy of NRO, Michael Brendan Dougherty sagely warns America…
“…There is evidence everywhere — if only the authorities would consult it — that children are not efficient transmitters of COVID-19. A studyof 150 schools in the U.K. showed that we do not have to quarantine students who come into contact with other COVID-positive students. We can just test them, and so long as they stay negative, they don’t spread the coronavirus to their classmates. I expect that even the testing regimen will begin to go away in Europe.
Young unvaccinated children are in far less danger from COVID than vaccinated adults are. The adult world is starting to allow itself more and more events without anti-COVID interventions, so of course we should allow the same for children. Then again, at the Met Gala and in many restaurants around the world, masks are becoming a de facto class signifier. Servers are expected to wear them because masks signal their commitment to keep the clientele safe. But the patrons don’t have to wear them, presumably because they are paying. If the images of masked servants make us step back in disgust, so should images of masked children standing aside unmasked adults.
We will regret doing this. None of the experience in Europe suggests that masking children is an effective intervention against COVID. The coronavirus is such a small risk for children, according to a mounting body of data, that some public-health authorities are recommending against vaccinating children. And we have lots of studies showing that the cloth masks that are imposed in schools and day cares do little or nothingto prevent the spread of respiratory disease.
We have no good medical or public-health-related reasons to impose universal masking on children, and we have commonsense reasons for not imposing them. But one factor is the most persuasive of all: our simple duty to reality. It is perverse to treat children as if they are in more danger than they are. We shouldn’t let ourselves off the hook and in years hence excuse ourselves by claiming that we didn’t know enough. We know enough to stop this right now.“
And anyone who tries to tell you different is either in favor of Socialist government control over every aspect of our lives or blinded by unreasoned fear.
Moving on, we offer a sextet of special selections certain to cater to inquiring Conservative minds:
We’d no idea Progressive jurists’ telepathic powers enabled them to discern the intent of the North Carolina legislature. Who are these guys, Dirty Harry?!?
“Not that we don’t trust our senior Military, but, might we see the bodies, along with some form of ID…and a little bit more on their positions in ISIS-K other than they were a “planner” and a “facilitator“? Given the Brass’s willingness to lie in support of the Dimocrats’ deliberate devitalization of our Armed Forces, odds are if anyone was actually killed, their planning and facilitating activities might well have involved a night out on the town with a couple comely nanny goats.”
(5). The Washington Free Beacon details how Chinese vessels patrolling waters near Alaska have spooked U.S. leaders, as Beijing appears to increase its Arctic aims. Everyone but General Milley, who quietly called his ChiCom counterpart to inform him Biden is non compos mentis and couldn’t find the nuclear button if he had to, so please, exploit America’s backyard to your Communist heart’s content! Bob Woodward couldn’t be reached for his expert assessment of Milley’s mindset or how giving the ChiComs advance warning of U.S. intent served our national interest.
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of one Isiah Jumanne Hampton, age 25, as a…
Socialists would suggest Mr. Hampton, the expectant father, wasn’t responsible for his actions; rather he’s yet another victim of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. We, on the other hand, hold not only Isiah Jumanne responsible, but also the 65 years of deliberately destructive Progressive social policies programs which are slowly destroying the nuclear family and condemned tens of millions of Americans to a dependence on government giveaways that essentially amounts to perpetual bondage.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Tucker’s guest Lara Logan reveals the reality behind the situation at our southern border. Border? WHAT border?!?
Tales of the Hypocritical Side
Courtesy of the great Geffoir, we present the epitome of Progressive hypocrisy.
On the Lighter Side
It’s truly terrifying this doddering, deceptive, demented old douchebag has any control whatsoever over any part of our nation’s government.
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