Commentary: Something Is Wrong with America’s
Top Commanders
Center for American Greatness, Inc.,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: pros7767,
9/4/2021 1:25:36 PM
The fall of Kabul is not the end, as Joe Biden seems to think, of the Afghanistan nightmare. It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country. In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 servicemen, we have been reassured by our military that our partnership with the Taliban to provide security for our flights was wise. We were told that the terrorist victors share similar goals to ours in a hasty American retreat from Kabul. CORRECTION*
*Source corrected.
Leftists... One word answer.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/4/2021 1:31:49 PM (No. 904149)
It started going wrong from the minute the illegal Kenyan Muslim became CinC. The poison seeds he sowed are now beginning to bear fruit.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
David Key 9/4/2021 1:37:52 PM (No. 904151)
The simplistic answer is that Obama ran the warriors off, retired them etc....what was left were the political generals who would kowtow to the left.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 9/4/2021 1:44:50 PM (No. 904159)
I equate what happened to this. Possibly an extreme example, but there were no children involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal process.
I’m standing with my boss and I see him pull a pistol out and point it at a coworker. I tell him not to shoot, but he says bugger off. Do I simply say ok and shut up? If I say ok, I’m as guilty as my boss.
Now, what if I said no but he shoots anyway? Do I continue to stand with my boss as the body bounces on the floor? Do I continue to stand with and support my boss when the police arrive later?
One or both of these examples are what we’re seeing out of the Pentagon.
We need to stop pretending that this was just a bad supply order submitted by some untrained L/Cpl. Between the joint chiefs there are nearly 200 years of military planning experience and multiple combat tours. These people (the entire JCS leadership) should be publicly stripped of their uniforms and marched naked out the closest gates.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sanchin 9/4/2021 1:48:08 PM (No. 904164)
It is becoming clearer every day that this administration was put into place to dismantle the United States. The upper echelons of the military are aware and in agreement with this goal. This control is not being controlled by individuals strictly living in his country or citizens of this country. Davos plays a huge part along with Klaus Schwab.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/4/2021 1:52:12 PM (No. 904167)
They got woke. Gays in the military sex change operations, rainbow flags on military buildings. What do you expect. CRT & BLM indoctrination. It’s pretty obvious.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/4/2021 1:57:41 PM (No. 904176)
This didn't happen by accident or circumstance. It was planned for decades to bring down the last remaining power for democracy and freedom.
The most powerful leaders in the world now are Putin and Xi Jinping, and the Taliban has the most modern military equipment in the world. What could go wrong?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/4/2021 1:58:21 PM (No. 904177)
Recall that one of the first things Obie did in 2008 was to replace 200 or so generals with left leaning clonal activists. I really don't know if Trump in turn replaced these generals during his term, but, if the military's senior ranks remain packed with these activist generals, today's events make sense.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/4/2021 2:00:50 PM (No. 904179)
I am reminded of another ignominious US President who shall remain nameless (Carter) who withdrew support for another foreign leader (the Shah), and gave us an Islamic revolution in Iran. The consequences are still being felt 40 years later. What Biden has done in Afghanistan is very similar. The consequences will be just as bad.
We have terrible generals, but more importantly, we have a terrible President.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 9/4/2021 2:04:57 PM (No. 904182)
It's a good thing the Tolly-bon don't know how to sail run a large ship, Joe et all would have given them our Navy and all the accoutrements...Joe, that's French for accessories.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rama41 9/4/2021 2:11:24 PM (No. 904189)
When they withdrew close air support, logistics, and contract maintenance from Afghan forces as provinces were collapsing, while Biden was telling Ghani to lie as his nation disintegrated, and while Bagram was evacuated in the middle of the night, Austin and Milley aided and abetted a cognitively deficient commander in chief in his goal of ensuring the US military is no longer the world's predominant power.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/4/2021 2:20:47 PM (No. 904202)
They are doing a great job, just not for US.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 9/4/2021 2:26:39 PM (No. 904205)
Yes the military commanders are utter nitwits, and they should be removed with all benefits taken away, but this whole ordeal is on Biteme. There were plans in place to evacuate everyone who needed to be taken out, plus plans to remove all military equipment. It was Biteme that decided everything had to be out NOW. If the process had been started in March, everything and everyone could have gotten out in an orderly manner.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rochow 9/4/2021 2:27:20 PM (No. 904208)
Milley Schnilley is in Ramstein today in fatigues. Oh, wow man, is that impressive!!! He knows other generals and admirals are calling for his head and Idi Amin flat footed fast assed Austin's !!! That one has the brain of the Ashli Babett shooter, dumb and dumber. Can't even speak but has to read every word of his scripted list about our 'victorious with drawl'!!! The community punk is gleefully rubbing his hands that Susan Liar Rice has handled things so nicely.. even the blinken, blanken idiot! The community
'organizer is close to his goal to destroy the country completely so that we are on the par with the banana continent Afffrikkkka! I could never understand why the lefty trash did not move to these heavens of leftydom: China, Afrika, Russia or North Korea~!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/4/2021 2:32:50 PM (No. 904211)
All of this lines up perfectly with the stated objectives of one George Soros, the #1 enemy of the U.S. Constitution. Democrats are simply his toadies.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
thomthomp 9/4/2021 2:35:16 PM (No. 904216)
One of President Trump's few failures was in not fully recognizing the depth of the rot in our government and institutions and the grave danger it presents. But few did. Even watching it being played out the corruption is almost unimaginable.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BillW. 9/4/2021 2:52:44 PM (No. 904238)
All the vetting that may or may not be going on with these Afghanis should have begun when Bathhouse Barry threw his nasty diaper into the ring--not that it would have mattered. Back then, he was clever enough to sweet-talk the bejesus out of America. Now he's just a miserable little Marxist POS, though still bent on "transforming" Amerika with Soros, the Dinks, and his doddering hand-puppet Beijing Biden.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/4/2021 3:05:15 PM (No. 904258)
They are traitors to their oath to defend the Constitution and a disgrace to the uniform they wear.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
coyote 9/4/2021 3:06:17 PM (No. 904260)
These four stars know that their complaints and criticisms aimed at Trump and others are nonsense. So what is their real motivation? If they are true leftists, they really are dumb as a box of rocks.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
presty 9/4/2021 3:34:16 PM (No. 904269)
...and what happens when these military "leaders" sponsor a false flag operation that takes out Kamala permanently...and then some "right wing terrorist" is caught (and meets his own Jack Ruby or is Epsteined in jail)...Congress then rallies to the cry from the "people" to negate the 2A in response to this ongoing "domestic terrorist threat"...Joe's replacement is installed in the VP slot....then they get rid of Joe in a more benign way and guess who becomes President (again?)...
Who do you think the VP replacement pick, would be, hmmmm??? They're running out of time before the 2022 election and they lose control of Congress...I think the intervening time is going to be very bumpy.
I used to think that crazy talk like that was, well, crazy. Yet here I am.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/4/2021 3:42:04 PM (No. 904277)
America's top commanders have no future, except being fired.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hershey 9/4/2021 3:44:58 PM (No. 904284)
Yep, they are 'woke' liberal puzzies....
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/4/2021 4:09:43 PM (No. 904295)
This is one of VDH’s best and that’s a pretty high bar… Read it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/4/2021 4:48:02 PM (No. 904312)
I would guess most of the brass above the rank of Lt. Colonel deserves a courtmartial, a concrete wall and a blindfold.
Not all of them, maybe - hence the courtmartial, but a large percentage.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 9/4/2021 5:02:28 PM (No. 904329)
What is wrong is that they are ignoring the oath they took when they joined the armed forces. Promotions require bowing and scraping to the left. They want promotions.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/4/2021 6:01:10 PM (No. 904393)
Putin would know what to do with them.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
PismoPat 9/4/2021 6:11:13 PM (No. 904407)
I just listened to a Milly interview from Germany on Fox. That guy really can shovel the BS.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/5/2021 10:09:43 PM (No. 905467)
FTA: "But until January 20, retired top brass had constantly smeared their elected commander-in-chief with impunity." Impunity because their elected commander-in-chief did nothing to stop it? Instead, he appointed the wokest of the woke generals to chair the joint chiefs, one who openly insulted him and yet he did not remove him, or worse.
Re: #4 - Depends on whether or not your coworker needed killin'.
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