Former conservatives and the shame of military leaders

 Mark Steyn:

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There are not a lot of real conservatives, are there? The most eminent right-side commentators back when I wrote After America - George Will, Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot - are now all enthusiastic Biden voters, assuring us he's a "moderate" Democrat. The moderate opens the borders, transgenderizes the laws, and turns a two-decade inconclusive colonial policing operation into a devastating global humiliation. Perhaps we should launch a competition to spot which conservative pundit will be endorsing Miss Ocasio Cortez a decade hence.

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There are a lot of "dead things" going with the stream. The United States military is utterly dead, at least in terms of being a force of influence in the world for anyone other than German supermarket managers dependent on the local base's patronage. Thoroughly Modern Milley goes with the flow because he's all ribbons and no chest. Pentagon press releases read like Teen Beat in the Seventies. Last Wednesday, as the chaos at the gates of Hamid Karzai International was beamed around the world, the United States Army stayed on message:

V Corps Hosts 'Don't Date A Jerk' Workshop

FORT KNOX, Kentucky -- V Corps Soldiers took the opportunity to enrich their personal lives during the chaplain-led single Soldiers Strong Bonds retreat in Mason, Ohio, Aug. 20-23.

The retreat, themed "How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk," taught Soldiers relationship enhancement with a focus on the importance of picking a future partner that leads to a healthy, sustainable relationship.

The United States has picked the Taliban as its "future partner". Are you really going to take relationship lessons from Milley & Co?

The following day, as near two hundred poor souls were blown to smithereens, the Pentagon's irredeemably oblivious wankers were Tweeting up a storm about "Women's Equality Day", even as the women they abandoned are being fitted for their Sharia body-bags.

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Still and all, after Milley and the other buffoons, I would have backed a drone for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Jen Psaki could surely have sold it as a great breakthrough for diversity and a first for the Drone-American community.

It was a drone which took out an alleged "ISIS-K" plotter on Saturday. On Fox News, Johnny "Joey" Jones said his fellow veterans were almost uniformly cynical at how the same "intelligence community" that thought Kabul would fall in sixty-to-ninety days had somehow identified the unfortunate Mister Big and droned him in nothing flat. I'm inclined to agree, and feel a wee bit sorry for surely the unluckiest goatherd in Afghanistan: "Where are you going, Ahmed?" "O beloved, I am just taking the goat for a walk. I will be back in twenty minutes."

But last night the departing Americans droned some other ISIK-K bigshot a stone's throw from the airport, and by this morning the BBC was interviewing Ramin Yousoufi, who said ten members of his family had been killed in the strike, including six children, the oldest twelve-year-old Farzad, the youngest two-year-old Sumaya. Mr Yousoufi had pictures of the infants - and the much coveted "Special Immigrant Visas" issued to them by the US State Department. Also among the dead was Ahmad Naser, an interpreter for the Americans.
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It is looking more like a never-ending debacle for the military brass which was wasting time and resources on looking for the mythical "white supremacists" in the ranks.  As for "white rage" I think Milley et.al. have created a strong diversity of rage against their incompetence.