Sarah said: "They didn't know Afghanistan, a place that is like our primordial tales where parents are served a stew of their children, a place that not only has never been civilized but relishes barbarism, would fall that fast."
Okay, you pushed my button Sarah. Here doth ensue a rant:
Can we all stop pretending these people are stupid? They're not. They are the very smartest of the smart, and they are EATING OUR LUNCH.
This fall of Saigon II is not a mistake. Not a miscalculation. Not a screw-up. It is quite deliberate. Everyone involved, for the last 20 years, knew this would happen. The Afghans knew it, the Taliban knew it, NATO knew it. They fucking well knew.
I'm not going to pretend that I knew it, but as news reports stop being able to lie their way out of this fiasco, reports keep popping up of documents and officials in and out of government who called this right from the start. They knew.
So why the surprise now? Why turn Trump's orderly and gradual withdrawal into a rout with people falling off airplanes? Because now they can pin the disaster on the doddering old man in the White House who can't find the bathroom on his own. Perfect fall guy.
Deeper issue, why let it happen at all? Because what happens in Afghanistan is not important. They don't care. As long as their gravy train keeps running and those biscuit wheels keep sopping up all that beautiful wonderful gravy, they do not give a single shit about guys falling off the outside of C-17s trying to escape the Taliban. They don't care about the world-wide reputation of the United States. They don't care about soldiers dying for nothing. They don't care if inflation drives the whole middle class into poverty, destroys your savings and fucks over the whole nation for 20 years.
Those things are not important, okay? They don't care.
And how do we know this? We know because we've seen it before! Anybody out there old enough to remember John F. fucking Kennedy playing chicken with Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban Missile Crisis? It was revealed in his memoirs that Khrushchev turned those ships around because he finally understood that Kennedy was insane. Kennedy wasn't paying any attention to Khrushchev, he was busy positioning himself to win the coming election.
It wasn't important to Kennedy what the Soviets did. It wasn't important if a war started. It wasn't even important if nukes were launched. He didn't care. It was only the next crooked election that mattered. All those Joint Chiefs of Staff guys and the whole Cabinet knew that, and they let him do it.
Okay? That's what this really is. We are the stupid, clueless idiots who go along and let them do it.
Here endeth the rant.
Update: Support for my thesis is showing up.
Mr. Fox attributes this massive problem to bureaucratic “brainworms“, or a mistake by professional bureaucrats within the State Department trying to help but actually making things worse. However, there is a possibility it’s not a mistake. Perhaps this was done purposefully.
As previously noted by Lara Logan, outlining a position I happen to agree with {GO DEEP}, the growing scale of the crisis in Afghanistan cannot simply be chalked up to mistakes, snafu’s, blunders and errors in judgement. At some level it must be accepted that these events are happening because they are intended to happen.
While it is never a good idea to assign duplicitous motives to issues and events which can be more easily explained by stupid errors, the scale of the errors in this situation beggars belief.
When you think about the people within the chain-of-command inside the U.S. State Department, specifically the number of people currently assigned to review everything U.S. Embassy Kabul operations is conducting, this instruction to blitz a document to all applicants, that is so easy to duplicate had to be made intentionally.
Tens of thousands of fraudulent State Department documents showing up at the already overwhelmed gates of the Kabul airport will only make things exponentially more difficult to sort through.
Something like this is beyond FUBAR. This level of specific evacuation crisis is benefitting some purpose. Essentially, this “mistake” as outlined in the video above, is going to collapse any hope for an efficient evacuation with verified personnel.
We have seen this play out before [Bathtub Principle] where a crisis is created because the crisis has a purpose.
In Libya rather than Hillary Clinton and CIA Director Leon Panetta getting busted for selling surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) to al-Qaeda (Operation Zero Footprint), the State Department and CIA -essentially brother and sister agencies- helped “the Benghazi rebels” take over the Kadaffi weapons caches. If SAMS were then used elsewhere (Syria), well, they came from Kadaffi’s stores… see how that works?
Based on current political alignment, alliances, and the ideology behind who is in charge of specific U.S. government agencies, it can reasonably be assumed someone (insert Obama here) wants Pakistan and Iran to have advanced military technology via the stolen weapons we leave behind in Afghanistan.
Why?
Because those same people already made money selling advanced military tech to Iran, and this ‘crisis’ provides cover when it shows up later in their arsenal. (more)
“Something is going on”… Something much more consequential than appears at the surface.
Yeah. We've seen them do this shit before. They're doing it all the time now.
You really think the US Border Patrol can't secure their southern border? They can! They've just been told not to. You really think the Portland cops can't stand up against Antifa? They can! They've just been told not to.
You really think it's an accident that the USA abandoned Bagram air-force base with its fortifications and multiple landing strips because they couldn't stand up to the toothless hillbillies called the Taliban? You really think that the US military would -choose- to stage out of the single landing strip of Kabul airport? No way. This is an arrangement.
Whoever is pulling Biden's strings ordered this. I assume because they have to. I must assume this is because they're all guilty of things that will earn them the death penalty, and have nothing to lose. I think the big movers and shakers in DemocRat Washington have been doing shit that if we all knew about it, there'd be no crack deep enough for them to hide in. Pizzagate, if true, would be the least of it.
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This is a "why not both" case.
Yes, the entrenched bureaucratic managerial caste (Deep*) state) and their corporate-political overlords (oligarchy) have been winning, and will continue to win (money, status, power) until there is not enough left to *be won*.
Example: Bigotry makes you functionally stupid about the thing you're bigotted about, and everyone is bigotted about something (one of mine is doctors). Divide and conquer is a time-honored tactic. So what do the smart bois do? Acurately I.D. the issue, then make it impossible to resolve: "ACTUALLY, Mrs. Hobbit, you are anti-semitic. Or racist. Go do white guilt, or if you are stubborn, white nationalism."
Something like Solidarity can't really happen in this environment. So... winning in terms of taking the ticket and getting the lollipops and fancy pants**
Mrs. Hoyt is correct as well that they act like they are losing, because the MAGA movement was a lefit cross-social-borders movement that even included members of the deep state and bottom tier oligarchy. Cue running around with your hair on fire; to wit making D.C. look like the Presidential Palace in Jakarta back in the 1960s. They fail because they do not care about truth, or fairness, or virtue. Trump was not supposed to happen, and he was a very mild form of Solidarity.
If the universe were truly a nihilistic materialist thing, that just happened, there'd be no hope. But everywhere we see love, and sacrifice, and brave truth-telling, and fairness, we know that the people who don't care are on borrowed time.
Because though they do not know it, their goals are incompatible with "winning" humanity***. They will sting the back of the fox carrying them across the river. All JFK's scheming, treachery, and narcissism did't keep him in power.
In the end, we win, they lose.
But they can make life very, very unpleasant for a lot of us en route.
*I originally wrote "derp state"
**Christian theory says this is because the Ruler of this world is not humanity's friend.
*** Ct says they've already lost.
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