Steyn at his best.

yep

And Broadwell gets the new position ´Secretary For Military Affairs´.

FTA:
it seems a fitting comment on America´s longest unwon war that the last two U.S. commanders exit in a Benny Hill finale, trousers round their ankles, pursued to speeded-up chase music by bunny-boiling mistresses, stalker socialites, identical twins and Bubba the Love Sponge.

I love this man. To read him - to listen to him - I just love this man...

Not only did they waste tax dollars, but partied on donations meant for cancer patients.

When does a person that sends 20,000 to 30,000 emails have time to work ? Would you say his mind wasn´t on the job ?

Must read. Classic Steyn.

Somehow, Mark Steyn is able to make something funny out of a most unfunny situation.

I concluded less than halfway through the piece that this one just might be Steyn´s all-time best. Glad to see that others would tend to agree.

The smell test, yes. In the current Democrat administration one wonders what smell, exactly, it is they´re testing. And if failing that smell test isn´t the fastest road to promotion...

Mark Steyn´s finest hour. Please make a must-read?

The dictator, morsi, is in trouble so he stages the kabuki theater of trying mubarak.
Wonder when obama tries this?

This is one of the funniest things I have ever read and sadly it is all too true.

While I´m a big fan of Steyn, and this is classic Steyn at his best, the state of our country and the world is so corrupt and the actions of world leaders so insane that this piece hardly leaves me laughing. In fact the humor seems to barely match the absurdity of the reality to which it alludes. And when the reality is almost as outrageous as the humor, the result is sadness inducing and depressing.

No one turns a phrase better than Mark Steyn. This is a great choice for a "Must Read."

Our world in America is truly upside down. Although Steyn is perhaps the only one who can make it seem like a comic tragedy and find the absurd humor in our lives as citizens of Ameritopia.

And this is what the majority of our countrymen/women want running every last aspect of our lives!

FTA: "As for Afghanistan, it seems a fitting comment on America´s longest unwon war that the last two U.S. commanders exit in a Benny Hill finale, trousers round their ankles, pursued to speeded-up chase music by bunny-boiling mistresses, stalker socialites, identical twins and Bubba the Love Sponge"

I laughed out loud and woke up the dog and then laughter turned to sorrow as I realized the lack of respect for this country these two generals have. They speak of honor but have none and their lack of judgment is monumental. The Generals and their paramours have grabbed the brass ring of "entitlement". This time the benefits being sexual, but the mindset is the same. I deserve this and will worry about the consequences tomorrow.

Sounds like a democratic idea. They seem to draw from the bottom of the heap....

LZK

For those of you who enjoy listening to Mark Steyn, he will fill in for Rush on Monday at noon EST.

Who cares who gets to be Sec. of STate. The whole regiem is so messed up, one more or 20 more gekes are not going to make a difference. Our country is as bad as Egypt. Obama wants to be a dictator just like Morsi and I think he will suceed. We have no say anymore. We are outnumbered by the "takers" of this country.

One can only hope the parties involved are reading this.
Perhaps the only way to get through the next four years is to mock our way through the muck.

I love listening to Mark Steyn, but even more I love reading him. This is one of his very best.

The sad thing is, the whole situation is so absurd on its face, that all Mark had to do is tell the story....but no one does it better, or puts these people in the clown spotlight like he does.

Agree with all above posters who vote this as Steyn´s best. However, #13 expressed what I feel deep down: "the reality is almost as outrageous as the humor, the result is sadness inducing and depressing."

When looking back over the administrations on which I exercised my vote - 1960 being the first - I think America has had some very strange characters around each Administration. However, none of the previous Administrations, can hold a candle to the people Obama has chosen as leaders or their hangers on. Of course, all those people are just a reflection of Obama himself - think Valerie Jarrett.

poster #1 is correct. This is Steyn at his best and his best is excellent indeed.

I have always thought Steyn was good. Today I believe he is a Genious!

Truth and Humor and Pathos perfectly blended!

Oops #23 I must be half asleep! I´m not that old! I didn´t vote in the 1960 election because I wasn´t old enough! I was quite engaged, though, in that election. My next door neighbor (a year younger than I) was pro JFK and I was pro Nixon. She really rubbed it in when Nixon lost. I cast my first presidential vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964.

..if being an"honorary ambassador" to CENTCOM gets kelley diplomatic immunity..I wonder if being captain of my basketball team 30 years ago will get me a military pension??

If only Steyn had ghosted that model´s autobiography, it would have been the first in its genre worth reading.

Steyn at his absolute best. A very gifted writer.

As for the generals, they appear to be the type of leaders(?) the administration wants.

"...longest unwon war..." Indeed. Where are the hippie protesters? Whither Hanoi Jane? Folk singers? Anyone. Anyone...

It has been my contention that this country no longer has any intelligence, if you get my drift. So why do we still need a director for it?

As all have said before me, this is Mark Steyn at his finest. I absolutely love him. Forwarded it to several friends.

#26: I´m with you. Voted my first time for Barry Goldwater in 1964. Weren´t many Republicans in the Democratic stronghold of Miami, FL back then.

The Great Steyn at his most mordant! We cannot but rejoice in his barbecueing of General Allen -- Allen who deployed social-climber-on-steroids Kelley as his personal diplomatic representative, acting on behalf of his aggrieved Muslim friends. Kelley for Secretary of State, why not? Actually she would be a notch or two above either Hillary or the worthless Susan Rice.

My local rag is full of Krugmans and Dowds and Friedmans and Reichs and local lefties, but all they´d have to do to achieve editorial objectivity would be to run Mark Steyn´s weekly column and that rag would instantly become balanced (if not tilt rightward.)
Best polemicist on the planet!

It would probably fly better than Susan Rice!

I feel the same as #13 and #15. Now I know how Rome fell. I never thought it would come to this but this morning I´m actually researching what it would take to off the grid.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)
1.Government under the control of a nation´s worst or least-qualified citizens.

No one turns a phrase like Steyn. And he can sum up a situation in one sentence like this:

In the Gaza "peace agreement" signed last week, they flew in Hillary Clinton to give the impression that she had something to do with it, where as, in reality, she was entirely peripheral to the deal.

"...entirely peripheral..." Splendid.

Glad to see this as a Must Read.

The United States Navy would not currently have its quickly movable and versatile carrier task forces had it not been for the "Revolt of the Admirals." This occurred in April 1949, during the tumult of reorganization of the War Department into the Department of Defense, when Louis A. Johnson, the brand new Secretary of Defense, cancelled the funding of the super carrier program and replaced it with the super-bomber program of the U.S. Air Force.

A group of admirals and important civilians resigned in protest of this action and convinced congress to change Johnson´s mind.

An overlook of the current crop of three and four star military, wet and dry, doesn´t seem to reveal the type of person to put his country first and career second when push comes to shove;

Jill Kelley might actually be a better choice than Susan Rice.

I really don´t picture Jill ever falling on her sword or being thrown under a bus.

Petraeus sure looks like a bonehead. This is the caliber of people running the country. No wonder we are in the shape we are in.

Mark Steyn sets the pace. Mark´s article is an outright gift to us, his writings acting as a perfect model for future news obscuro, ALL of it to be written in mocking exaggeration. Think of these monarchial fools, we call them leaders, see them as the Marx Brothers running up and down government halls and in and out of endless doors. It´s all a non explicable comedy act. The only way for a reporter to stick with the truth is to slap a cream pie in the face of Obama, puglosi, Boehner, Cantor, Reid, laughing Joe. They all play comedy straight and we slap them facially with pies and stumbling down pratfalls. Mark shows us perhaps the best way to deal with these privileged criminals to make outright fun of them. Mel Brooks did it with SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER. We have a vote giving festival with Holder standing by the border handing out voting passes as he invites the illiterates through the Golden Giveaway Gates. 47 billion food stamp abusers, receive “One Vote For Obama” stamps. We show the signs pointing dorectly to WELFARE. Actually showing Moochel’s giant staff, on their half billion dollar weekend trips.
Steyn´s pacesetting example has the tone of craziness needed in these impossible times. Mark see it so clearly. It’s all a charade, it’s all farce, and we are the simpleton fall guy

#37, great find on "kakistocracy." Certainly explains the ascendancy of the Congressional Black Kakis.

With a few exceptions, the world, along with American liberals, has long been looking forward to a post-America World Order, or whatever you want to call it, a time when America has lost it´s influence and/or ability to shape events. They´re seeing the first stages of it now.

They aren´t going to like it very much.

Many a truth is spoken in jest. Stern does it so well!

Broadwell and Ireland should both be given medals - for meritoriously serving under the generals - and on top, as required. It should be noted that they also fended off many rear attacks, only surrendering when ordered.

Mark Steyn seems to be able to get to the "bottom" of the issues in such simple and amusing terms. It´s a disgrace that the MSM can´t do this or better yet will not do this.

Favorite part of the article:

The FBI was initially reported to have printed out 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and other communications between Gen. John Allen, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Jill Kelley of Tampa, one-half of a pair of identical twins dressed like understudies for the CENTCOM mess hall production of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." Thirty thousand pages! The complete works of Shakespeare come to about three-and-a-half-thousand pages, but American officials can´t even have a sex scandal without getting bogged down in the paperwork.

So Kelley was a "social liaison" to the military. Hmmm. In my day that was called a madam. And I´m with 20. It doesn´t matter much who gets to be SecState. America will be sold down the river anyway. (Is that racist?)

The incomparable Mr. Mark Steyn is able (always) to distill the most seemingly complex issues of the moment into pure and coherent commentary that both informs and educates. That he is able to deliver that same commentary with rollicking humor and with distinguished grace is nothing short of phenomenal. How very fortunate we are to have him.

I wish we could have Mark Steyn for President.

FTA:*But don´t worry. As America´s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, assured the House Intelligence Committee at the time of Mubarak´s fall, the Muslim Brotherhood is a "largely secular" organization. The name´s just for show, same as the Episcopal Church.*

Lord. Have. Mercy.

Brilliant writing as usual! Steyn pegs the situation perfectly - who better to fit the role of SoS than Kelley for our Kardashian Nation?