We outlined yesterday some of the ideological teams within the current political dynamic as it relates to a massive foreign policy failure in Afghanistan {Go Deep}. Before going further and reviewing the current Sunday talking points by political actors within this mess, it is worth expanding slightly so we can see the institutional agendas that drive the visible messaging.
Big Picture – Remember, there was a time when the eagle’s gaze on the official seal for the Office of the United States President, did not point toward the olive branch. There was a long time in our nation’s history when the eagle’s gaze on the Presidential Seal pointed toward the arrows, and the State Dept. Seal pointed to the olive branch. There were always two conflicting teams, by design. There were always two different roles and responsibilities. Those distinct purposes are now diluted by ideology and size of government…. But the distinction is playing out amid the crisis in Afghanistan.
The State Department has been undermining the message and ‘narrative’ from the White House. Part of this is driven by an ideological distinction and self-interest that has existed for decades. However, the current dynamic is being played out by corrupt institutional actors on both sides who do not have our best interests in mind. Both sets of federal actors are two factions within the same ideological tribe of leftists & globalists.
♦ TEAM One – The Department of State is aligned with the CIA. Their media PR firms are CNN, CNNi and the Washington Post. Their ideology is favorable to the United Nations. Their internal corruption is generally driven by relationship with foreign actors. References: Hillary Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, John McCain, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Cass Sunstein, Brookings Institute, Lawfare, China-centric, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Council on Foreign Relations.
♦ TEAM Two – The White House is aligned with the Pentagon (DoD) and National Security Council (NSC). Their media PR firms are domestic in nature. New York Times, Politico, etc. Their internal corruption is generally driven by domestic influence. References: Barack Obama, George Bush, Wall St, Big Banks, Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, FBI (state police), Judicial Branch, and community activists writ large.
[Presidential elections only affect Team Two (nationalism -v- globalism). In the modern era Team One is independent.]
Both teams were responsible for the Afghanistan mess. In the aftermath of the mess; and with the current situation in/around Kabul, each team is positioning to avoid scrutiny. Scrutiny on either team runs the risk of identifying massive corruption; so the objective is to push the spotlight onto the other team. State Dept. blames White House/Pentagon…. Pentagon/White House looking to avoid sunlight.
The Pentagon (arrows) is supposed to working in coordination with State (olive branch), but both institutions are corrupt regarding Afghanistan; so it’s a game of hot potato. If the executive office wasn’t corrupt, the eagle would be having whiplash; alas, the White House was/is an active participant. [So much for school civic ‘checks-n-balances’ eh?]
Externally, we are seeing the executive appointed heads of each faction battling for position on behalf of their institution. The media get to pick and choose which faction they will support. CNN will support the State Dept. ABC, CBS, NBC will lean slightly toward the White House/Pentagon.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is a White House appointee (senate confirmed), but he doesn’t control the internal mechanisms any more than Secretary of State *Rex Tillerson did. [*That transparently predictable dynamic led to Trump firing Tillerson, and Pompeo (CIA) stepped-in to diffuse the issues. CIA/DoS are partners, makes sense.]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is a White House appointee (senate confirmed), and he has more control over his agency, U.S. Military, than Blinken. Look for Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley to be the guy who gets canned to protect Joe Biden. Mark Milley knows this is likely.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is another White House appointee (no confirmation needed), and is the best target for the State Dept to hit the White House in the ongoing effort. Sullivan controls the National Security Council (NSC). It is likely Biden’s NSC people are jumping all over Tony Blinken telling him to get the Kabul Embassy people in line.
Joe Biden (WH), Lloyd Austin (DoD) and Jake Sullivan (NSC) are likely trying to bolster the efforts of Tony Blinken (DoS) amid the internecine battle. However, Blinken doesn’t really have a lot of control over the internals at the State Dept., and that crew has the CIA and intel agencies in their arsenal.
Now we’ll check today to see the Sunday talks and how the media are lining up…
Lloyd Austin (DoD), Kamala Harris (¹CBC), Joe Biden (WH), Anthony Blinken (DoS), Jake Sullivan (NSC)
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¹Congressional Black Caucus: Barack Obama’s race-based leverage group.
Globalism versus Nationalism. Female versus Male. Get down to the primary, the basic. Fight or Flight. Reality versus Fantasy.
Simply ask your questions using those above templates and see what answers you may come up with to provide clarity of thought.
Nationalism is the answer, but relearning this lesson will be hard…
Those of us who choose nationalism can’t get our act together.
We would, I think, if just one major politician would say, “I’d like for you, 80 million strong, to NOT do business with these global corporations, American owned, that work against your interest here at home by siding with China and by adopting divisive policies that are tearing us apart, and doing so intentionally to appease China.
Then, list the companies, and ask each of us to print them out and tack them on our front doors at home.
We will start with a biggie, Apple.
Had a mega-commie prof who tossed me out of a prestigious private east coast institution. Knew it was a rook job but didn’t complain cuz it was pointless to go up against a powerful professor like that. Then he threw out my Polish anti-communist classmate, so I complained. The explosion was off the charts cuz he was caught in a bad position. Finished up at a more modest public school in flyover country. My Polish classmate’s career was crushed. Where did the commie prof end up? Apple.
Not one suggestion as to what to do, just more talking heads. Our Country should have this mess cleaned up in a week or so….if the troops were given the orders to just do it….this is a broken arrow situation. Get in the and destroy all air craft and vehicles, and use whatever resources necessary. This is our Rendezvous with Destiny.
The most important thing to is eliminate rigged, fraudulent elections. Nothing else has any meaning in terms of saving the Republic. Nothing else matters by comparison.
Yes, their are vital issues; Afghanistan, Covid-19 Bioweapon, Southern border invasion, Hyper-inflation, Middle-class elimination, Politician criminal corruption, Illegal incompetent President and the list goes on.
However, there is nothing without the Constitutional legal vote of the People. Solve election fraud and the United States remains a free Republic. Otherwise it is; Communist/Fascist/Totalitarian slavery.
This is so true. If the election fiasco is not fixed there will never be another free election. We will not have any voice in how we are governed.
It will be, “Shut up and OBEY” or else!
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What do you think the message of ‘wear a mask’ is?
Mask = Shut-up + Submit (or obey, in your vernacular).
The picture of Kamala and Blinken on each side of Biden dressed completely in black with black masks is very ominous to me. They are signaling something.
That is exactly what believe must happen Fangdog. Honest and transparent elections will solve this. Everything else is a distraction, a shiny object. I live in Ohio and work elections. It was reported that Trump won Ohio by 8 points so you draw a sigh of relief thinking at least my elections were clean. I just listened to a training by Dr Frank this week. In it he states that it is estimated that Trump actually won by 16 points in Ohio! What kind of a difference could that have made to all down ballot votes? Who was fraudulently elected that gave the house majority across the country to the Dems resulting in Pelosi having the gavel? What kind of majority could the state and local races actually had? We are all questioning the GA race that put 2 Dems in in January at the end. What did Stalin say? “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” There are some pretty slick ways to count the votes these days and get away with it. Biden is such a dunce he admitted the fraud on camera.
Great idea Bob, but too late, the assets have already been dispersed.
I think they are waiting until the US citizens and troops are mostly ecav’d before stirring up the hornets nest
We see it happening before our eyes, yet too many are too distracted or refuse to see it.
One of the truest sayings ever! ?
Seppuku should be their only option.
I would be glad to assist.
They haven’t the sack for that.
With a rusty spoon
Pretty devastating take. So we are in the turf war phase while our people are trapped in a shithole country and an Admin who could care less and blames the victims.
Kev said on Maria B’s show today that he was on a leadership call and Che Pelosi was praising Biden’s leadership. That’s sane of her. Did Kev think of telling his underlings to record the call so we all can hear Ms. $20k Refrigerator Lady? If the shoe was on the other foot and it was Kev instead of Pelosi, the call would have been leaked before the call ended.
Biden sent her a truckload of fancy ice cream. That is all she needs to praise him.
johnnyfandango, “Kev” is the perfect name for this slippery operator. He’s exactly what you would expect the republicans in congress to elect as speaker.
Sundance – thank you for this analysis and explanation. Clarity.
These are still just 2 factions of leftists. They have far more in common than any differences. Both were hives of insurrection during Trump’s 4 years and both are fully on board the COVID fascism now being employed against US citizens.
All government bureaucracies are near monolithic in their leftwing staffing. Appointing a real conservative to direct them is useless. The “tenured” civil service will sabotage and disobey as they please.
There is no reform possible. The only solution is to abolish the civil service.
The civil service doesn’t understand, and thus despises the private sector. And the private sector rightfully understands and despises the civil service.
Absolutely every agency that is “extra-Constitutional” must be abolished.
Someone should nuk& Washington DC and be done with it. Down to glass, it’s the only way to be sure.
Spot on analysis. Not having his appointees purge the bureaucratic staff that are deeply intrenched in every government agencies was one of Pres. Trump’s greatest mistakes.
As always, thanks for breaking it down Sundance. Your insights are treasure to this Deplorable… you are doing great work and it is much appreciated.
Mark Steyn nails it again with a brilliant essay that nicely compliments Sundance’s analysis.
https://www.steynonline.com/11628/meltdown-of-a-superpower
Thank you Seneca.
Excellent article.
That’s excellent. I’ve already forwarded the article.
I keep recommending Jim Collins’ book How the Mighty Fall. It should be in everyone’s library. His observations apply not just to companies but to every human endeavor because they are all populated by ….. us. How the Mighty Fall describes the Five Stages of Decline. The first stage is Hubris Born of Success. A synopsis at Collins’ web site here:
https://www.jimcollins.com/books/how-the-mighty-fall.html#articletop
Yes he does.
Brilliantly written by a gifted political pundit and commentator, like so many other’s such VDH and Schlichter, et al, but all they do is eloquently express what we already know about the dire situation our country is in.
So what of it?
Will a few more ‘sheeple’ read them and become woke to the Commie take-over of the nation? Maybe, but it won’t be enough in number to make a difference.
I wish I knew what the answer is to save the country.
Fantastic article, thank you for posting.
After a belly-laugh at the usual Steyn wit in his opener with “Thoroughly Modern Milley,” I found myself writing a parody. Maybe some of the oldsters here will remember the theme song to that silly 60’s musical:
Everything today is thoroughly woken
(Check your white supremacy)
Everything American just has to go
(Better face plurality)
It’s not rank tyranny, says Vanity Fair…
In fact, it’s prudent to throw West Pointers in solitaire…
Have you seen the way we cancel their culture?
(No longer metaphorical)
Pull those MAGA hats right off of their brows
(Crush all the deplorables)
Goodbye to my duty, boy
I’m changing and how!
So muffle the drums, ’cause here comes
Thoroughly Modern Milley now!
I’m a decades’ admirer of Mark. His books are imminently readable and prescient. Especially America Alone and After America. Highly HIGHLY recommended. He sees what other do, only he’s a few years ahead of them, making them all Johnny Come Latelies.
Lloyd Austin splits from Biden and confirms today that some intelligence assessments predicted the Taliban would gain control of Afghanistan within months of a U.S. troops withdrawal. (6:47)
Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse,’ a reporter said to the president during the July 8 press conference.
Biden ‘That is not true.’
Embarrassment!
I suspect behind closed doors Austin, Milley and the rest of the pentagon staff have told and been telling Biden a lot of facts, Intel and truth….he refuses to listen.
They called, but he takes no calls.
We told them forcefully to Knock it off.
Evacuating thousands of people every day? It was 169, most likely pulled over the wall into the airport, like that baby we saw. That means we should be done in a week. LIAR, LIAR Pants on Fire.
C’mon Man!
Sounds to me like they want to bring all of their #Jobs4Jihadis friends with them.
I am absolutely furious at this. “Try our very best?” Any VP in any company who would tell his CEO he would “try his very best” to meet his annual objectives should be fired on the spot. You are there to ACCOMPLISH the objective. Not “try.” Anything else is failure.
No doubt this guy was promoted and passed up the chain his entire career in the military for “trying his very best.”
So, if only 20% of Americans there are left behind, is that “success” in this doofus’s mind? Will that get him another medal?
It’s the ” everyone gets a trophy & Losing is winning “philosophy of the left.
Great-Grandpa Kiddie Klamper is stunned and confused as an NPR reporter asks him a question not on his large print Pre-Approved List of Pre-Cleared Inquiries.
Blinken looks like a Maitre d’ with projectile flatulence issues and no more Crab Florentine.
Kamala is staring at her shoes like a used condom is stuck to her high heel.
Again.
She has since fled to Vietnam to get as far away as possible from the smell of old man and abject failure, but mostly abject failure. Except she unfortunately carries around a bottle of Eau de Failure in her purse like Hillary carries around hot sauce and vodka nips. In fairness, it’s not her fault that Joe also sold out the South Vietnamese. She was just a little girl riding on Biden’s segregated school bus, blaming the Beaver for her missing homework. Always the Beaver.
And now she’s on the floorboard of Obama’s Fascist Fiat, trying to make a clean getaway. But some things will never come clean, no matter how long you scrub them, lady. “Out, damned spot!” she cried to nobody there, and no one heard at all, not even the Ottoman.
Especially the Ottoman.
“Hello Darkness my old friend“.
Rest in the Vine: America Held Hostage Day 7: The Sands of Iwo JoeBama
I care less what happens to Kamala. The same goes for Biden. They are just pathetic diversion from the real make a difference issue….Fraudulent Elections.
Agreed!!!!
They are also the pathetic embodiment of Fraudulent Elections.
I agree. They plan to steal all important elections forever. They have to–to cover the previous crimes.
And we have to stop them, Whatever It Takes.
<…no more Crab Florentine>
LOL! All of your references are gold…Some fine writing, Gip!
Under Obama, leaders of Agencies were selected on their ideology, not qualifications and when Obama team messed up, Obama never fired anyone.
Biden has many same/similar heads but he is not given same latitude as Obama. When Biden lies the media is not so willing to look the other way.
Be interesting to note if Biden team remains loyal to appointees or if will use as scapegoats furthering the distrust of Biden Administration.
The position of the Eagle’s head is an interesting commentary starter.
When exactly did the Eagle’s head on the Presidential seal turn?
Seems to have been very early in Truman’s admin. On October 26, 1945, he approved the direction and position of the eagle’s head toward the olive branch to symbolize the preference for peace over war.
In retrospect, it should have remained as it was. In clutching both olive branch and arrows, but watching the arrows,
the meaning should be, “We prefer peace, but if need be, to keep the peace, we remain vigilant and are prepared for war.”
That is interesting, as it is arguable that the genesis of the present Deep State originated with OSS and the uncontested emergence of the United States as a global superpower at that time. Some might add that the OPA may have been the very first big step several years prior, but why quibble.
Add in Operation Paperclip, and the flood of totalitarian-derived research (and researchers) that followed with it, and you have a witches’ brew of new currents running through the American government’s bloodstream.
Within two years of that Seal decision, the CIA was established. And the American civilian government, military, and foreign policy landscape has never been the same since.
Thank you Sundance for this pointed reminder!
I saw the tweet from Meghan McCain reminding everyone about her father warning about Blinken as Deputy S of S . . .
that’s fine, Meghan . . . your father was warning the country about the harm that could be done by Blinken . . .
did you know, Meghan that your father, Evan McMullin and Adam Kinzinger went to Syria to meet with the Founding Fathers of ISIS?
(those of us who had the blessing to find out about CTH know – we read about it way back when it was happening)
Everything one needs to know about what Government thinks of the American people can be seen in someone that is not officially a member of either Team 1 or Team 2 but embodies them in spirit: Cryin Chuck Schumer doing his little tight asshole war dance on t.v. There it is in plain sight and you can bet your ass those demons are plotting the next foreign intervention in order to further weaken America and kill off and maim more of our breeding stock.
Yes, they are demons.
All the governmental institutions are corrupt not only regarding Afghanistan but about everything.
All of our institutions have been fundamentally destroyed by corruption and must be dismantled this depth of corruption can not be repaired.
This will not change as long as fraudulent elections prevail.
Sundance: Would you please draw one of your diagrams with arrows and perhaps big circle. I get lost in the verbage. Thank You. And, Thank You for all you do Please keep yourself and your family safe. GOD Bless!
In other words, both the socialist State Department and the globalist Department of Defense (DoD) are allied against the American people. Thanks for the truthful but not-so-great news SD…
Barak Obama, by orchestrating the handover of Afghanistan to the Taliban (pinning the blame on husk-of-a-man Biden) might be trying to peel off the Muslim Brotherhood to his side. Both the MB and the Taliban are Sunni.
This is the reverse of the divide and conquer tactic they always use on us. The would-be elites have their own internal schisms and fractures. May the divisions and power struggles intensify.
Part of a large part of Ol Jug Ears plans are exporting the Taliban…excuse me Doctors,Lawyers,Scientist’s , who still wipe thire arses’s with thire hands into this country. Surely thire intentions are noble?
More likely, Odumbo is just equipping Israel’s enemies with top notch military equipment for free. Nothing new with that communist piece of trash taking every shot possible at Israel
The Taliban has established the Islamic State of Afghanistan, which we can guess is following the ISIS model of a religious dictatorship as its foundational construct.
Assuming that the Taliban is following the ISIS model, then what will the Taliban choose to do with the 15,000+ Americans stranded in that country?
Hold them all hostage for ransom? Slaughter them in mass executions in revenge for Trump having exterminated the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria?
Some combination of the two options depending upon which faction of the Taliban holds which Americans and where?
It’s predictable that if a mass slaughter of Americans begins, the Biden administration, the Democrats in Congress, and the MSM will double down on blaming Trump for the debacle — all the while minimizing the scope and extent of the executions.
Will they just hang tough regardless of what happens, doing so in the not unreasonable belief that their committed Democrat voter base will still support them regardless of what happens in Afghanistan, or what happens anywhere else in the world for that matter?
They have ostensibly killed 600k to rig the election, support murder in the womb and on the birthing table; do you think any number of people dying a terrible death in Afbidenstan will mean anything to them?
On the one hand there is the best part of $10B Afghan money frozen in the US and IMF. On the other hand there are thousands of US citizens in country.
Whether it is called hostage money or not there must be a deal to be done there.
I don’t think blaming PDJT will work for them on this sort of thing.
I suppose the real battle is between the part of the swamp that wants to hand off the place to China and the other part of the swamp that wants the war contract gravy train to keep rolling. Which way Swamp?
Well China owns most of the “swamp” real-estate , so there is that.
Look at how old some of these swamp creatures are – some have been in Washington for more than 40 years. Heck one swamp creature is 3 years away from her 90th birthday, many are in their eighties, and almost all have been fighting the same fight with the same people their entire careers. We have people in Washington who started out as middle-of-the-road and morphed their political thinking into Marxism and socialism as octogenarians just to remain in the swamp. How progressive of them!
look how many fo in as upper-middle-class “representatives of the people” and after a career with commensurate pay in an expensive DC come out as millionaires…their ability to trade on inside information and shift campaign dollars over to personal use are very useful for rapid wealth creation
What outcome are these two squads in disagreement about or what has not gone according to their plans?
It is a mess but a lot of pundits in the know are saying it was all planned.
Friends, take action.
Get the education that you need, including at this site, and then, act! Use your economic power. Cut off your funding or patronage to any organization or business that offends your values.
At every opportunity, starve the beast.
As for taking action in the public sphere, remember your Tactical Civics. Local, local, local.
I would add that when you withhold doing business with various entities, make sure you tell them that you are and WHY you are.
This desire to abandon so many Americans in Afghanistan by this admin, almost seems like the same generalized contempt this admin feels for ‘normal’ people, not that the people trapped are necessarily typical. Certainly being forced to rescue them is bad optics when this was all preventable.
Democrats will use anybody, and when they stop being useful, they’re abandoned, or worse.
This is a National blood transfusion. Out with the old. In with the new.
” Look for Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley to be the guy who gets canned to protect Joe Biden. Mark Milley knows this is likely.”
Color me unconvinced on two counts.
1) That he will be canned.
2) If he is canned, that it will protect Joe Biden .
He might get canned, and he might get canned to protect Biden… temporarily.
Milley is sacrificed now to relieve the immediate demand for accountability, but the deep stain of Afghanistan (and who knows how deep that stain will be) will continue to haunt Current Occupant. When the time comes for CO’s removal, it can be used as part of a larger narrative to give plausible cover for doing so.
Milley is a pawn. CO is a rook. At the appropriate time both will be offered up to protect the king.
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Weaken, Blinken, and Nod (off to sleep) . . .
Wow!
So succinct.
Garrison has outdone himself!
Agree – that’s one of his very best!
I’m wondering if the public bickering, (contradictions ) is simply a show so we think these people actually care about the “mistakes” which we all know aren’t mistake at all. All intentional.
Behind the scenes, they are just talking about making it go away but at the same time pretend they are having disagreements so people think they have some kind of conscience and feel bad.
In other words, they will blame their *intentional* destruction of Afghanistan and our military’s credibility in “mistakes”
‘Oh dang! We destroyed our military with woke BS and armed terrorists, but it was a mistake’ (wink wink.)
Illusion
I’m sure that is part of it. It always is.
Were there mistakes made? Sure. Are we contrite? Of course.
“What difference at this point does it make?” coming soon.
Benghazi 2.0
Exactly. Even the media turning on Joe is part of the script. The do as they are told. Doubtful they woke up with a infusion of patriotic blood.
Not the first time Biden has been undermined by his own people. I’m trying to remember the specifics but can’t, but I do recall earlier in his term Biden made some sort of statement about the border situation and the White House issued a press release saying that was not their official position on the subject.
All we are now living through will lead to Obama and the minions he has burrowed into American government. Remember he announced his intent in 2008 to ‘Fundamentally Change America’. Weaponizing of Government was begun many decades ago as detailed by Sundance. The Trump WIN in 2016 disrupted the steady march of Uni-party/Globalists. Politics follows culture. Patriots now, being led by President Trump, are in the process of renewing our great American culture. Sometime, in order to cut the head off of a snake, you must grab the body and work up to the head. I hope all of our suffering will be addressed by the largest RICO military tribunal in history.
Two teams, both equally corrupt, but serving different interests. Unfortunately, righting this ship, would take a monumental purging of both teams. An honest bleach style cleansing of this cancerous government, would reduce the workforce by 30%-40%. A needed occurrence, to rid the country of the overwhelming amount of corruption.
The eagle’s head is turned and bird brain Biden’s head is still stuck up his a$$!
Sundance, great explanation of the teams. You have accurately described the IC as the 4th branch of government which has the other three by the ….short hairs. Since there are 17-18 intelligence agencies, what are your thoughts on their alignments. You have nailed the CIA and the DOJ/FBI and which team they represent. In your analysis, is the ODNI aligned with the WH/DOD or with the DOS/CIA? According to my understanding, the DOD has 9 intelligence agencies (e.g., DIA, NSA, Army, Air Force, etc.). Are they all aligned with DOD or are there some that support the CIA “team”?
Clearly, just replacing the top four or five layers of these agencies is not enough. Obviously, years of swamp life has populated the majority of their staff are loyal to the swamp and not to the elected leaders, the Constitution, or the American people. The only way to address this problem is to revise the federal civil service rules and make all federal employees at will, and allow removal of any employee for any reason. The legislation can be called “The Drain the Swamp Act” or DSA (yes, that is the same moniker as the Democratic Socialist of America – I like that).
Why are we still talking about the Kabul Embassy where there is no such thing?
People are a lot more forgiven when it comes to accidents than premeditate destruction.
If a person accidentally sets a building on fire and kills people, everyone is more likely to forgive the tragedy than if someone intentionally sets a building on fire to kill people. Or a traffic accident for example.
Joebama people will play dumb, oopsie! We screwed up, my bad. Mistakes you know…
I have a feeling this will be the narrative. Mistakes.
But we all know it’s all intentional.
This country is being run by America-haters.
And Blinkin worked for Susan Rice.
Richard Grenell tweet brought that fact to light.
Who is pulling the strings of Afghanistan mess…I agree with Grenell….Susan Rice…and Obama.
Obama, Obama and Obama
Found this picture of Obummer showing off his JoeBama voodoo doll…
A fictional, plastic play-toy of dubious sexuality from the 1960’s–and Mr. Potatohead.
“Joe Biden gave our enemies all around the World a great and lasting victory when he unexpectedly and inexplicably removed our great soldiers from Afghanistan before taking out our U.S. citizens and allies, along with abandoning many billions of dollars of highest-grade Military equipment. Leaving our Military till the end was such a simple decision that anyone with intelligence & common sense would have made, but he called it wrong and instantly created perhaps the greatest embarrassment for our Country in its history—and it is far from over!”
Team 3? ?
If the swamp factions are fighting each other, instead of patriotic US citizens, that’s good for the moment but surely they will stop at some point to keep the charade in place. The big question is, what does the charade look like going forward.
Jake Sullivan is a snake. Heavily involved, on the Clinton State Department side, with Russia, Russia and hanging it around Trump’s neck.
Again, if even 50% of the media had any integrity to probe a story, the big picture looks much different and our resistance would have a chance.
I would say that the Pentagon is like Nero, except at least Nero had the common courtesy to provide some music to go along with his continued incompetence.
And yes, this is mostly the fault of the DOD, with their stupid decades long Great Islamic Society Nation Building insanity, not America’s Dementia Patient in Chief with an estimated IQ of 72, who doesn’t even know where he is or where he is going most of the time.
Maybe term limits would help, but Congress will always fall one vote short to preserve their own money stream.
Very much appreciate the breakdown on the various deep state actors! There is more finesse and subtlety to the tribes than I previously thought. I’ll try that lens for a while, see if it helps my comprehension of events.
Also thanks for quashing the comments on the prayer thread. I’m seeing an explosion of racist commentary on CFP and other places, even here, and that shit needs to stop. It is anathema to American values. I suspect it’s manufactured as pretext to censorship, much like the “decimal bomber”. Please do what you must to protect this place.
Contrary to popular opinion, the Incredible Shrinking President is not Jimmy Carter, but George W. Bush, who has not been seen since sometime around 2006, and statistically may or may not exist.
Bush could have ended his foray in 2007, but chose Nation Building, to bring Jeffersonian Democracy and Purple-Fingered Honest Elections there.
Now America has neither, either. We have an Occupation Government and Rigged Elections ourselves.
Osamabama could have withdrawn us in 2014. We controlled 95% of the country then.
But instead of his expected anti-Colonialism, the Obama/Biden Syndicate had acquired the taste for money-laundering billions in Sandbox foreign aid kickbacks, such as the Biden Crime Family’s Billion-Dollar Deal to build Brady Bunch split-levels in Samarra, despite not knowing one end of a hammer from the other.
Obama made the decision to milk it. Besides, that would created an American victory and freed the Afghans from the Taliban–unacceptable outcomes. So he bidened his time.
All through the unexpected Trump Presidency, Shadow President Obama kneecapped President Trump’s goal of Withdrawal Through Strength, hamstringing him with FBI frame-ups, impeachments and dirty deals with Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and their Chinese partners.
Until now. Until the Overthrow was completed. Until a costly, humiliating and dangerous defeat could be safely secured by a disposable throwaway figurehead. And trillions could be stolen to replace the cashflow.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe.”
But somebody had to.
The Syndicate already paid.
“You don’t have to do this Joe” ( Except that you are perfect for the job since you have no soul and now no brain).
I can’t let this go by…the “Woke” crowd baffles me with their pie in the sky dreams, which, when rendered, comes the scream “Mommy will come, Mommy will come!”
Spring of ’66 I got my “wake up call” which was…I found myself in an environment where those I yet could not see had every intention of killing my young ass!
Every veteran of that period and since who has walked into the “shadow of death” knows exactly what I am saying.
Woke versus a wake up call…one is real, the other an unattainable dream which will bring nothing but nightmares forever!
Take a long look at the Sec of Defense Austin (Idi Amin), then spend some time with his spokesman, Admiral Kirby…what the hell happened to these clowns? Expect to see Wesley Clark show up with his word salad too. Note how General Keane comes on TV and tries to work around these clowns who he knows personally.
When will we see Susan Rice on major media outlets telling us “her truths” writ by none other than her one true love, Obama?
Every veteran of that period and since who has walked into the “shadow of death” knows exactly what I am saying!! This +a million!!
Dear Sundance, it is my understanding that the leader of the Taliban was held some time and then released by US. I believe that the same happened with the leader of ISIS.
We know that IS and the US were allied with the same Sunni in-betweens: Saudi, GCc, Turkey, Baathists, Morsi’s Egypt.
in Gitmo for years until the 5 top leaders + $5B were swapped for the traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl by the Muslim usurper Ozero administration
Every American on the ground in Afghanistan knows how it works there, knows how the money flows, knows the corruption of both TEAMS up close and personal. Neither TEAM wants the Americans in Afghanistan doing interviews, writing books and articles, testifying before congressional committees, telling their stories. What was it that Lara Logan said again?
Apocryphal I know, but supposedly it was the United Kingdom’s Macmillan whose quip “Events, Dear boy, Events” sums up where these utter incompetents and frauds are today. Things didn’t go as they had undoubtedly mapped out in their semi- ivory towers. They have been exposed for what they are and have been absolutely, completely crushed by events. And having put themselves in this position, as well as having destroyed our credibility on the world stage, and having shamefully dishonoured the men and women (and their families) of our military who gave their very best, unto their lives, these chinless wonders stand in the klieg lights of their perfidy. There is no recovering from their treachery, for them…or more poignantly, those who will pay a terrible price for, I think decades to come. Their titles or Offices of State will not avail them of credibility. This is their “legacy”… and it will follow all of them like a bad odour no matter what else happens.
Great article! I’d never even noticed where the eagle’s head is directed in the presidential seal, much less that it had swiveled at some point. So when did it happen? I figured it must have happened about the same time the War Department was renamed as the Defense Department – which I thought was around the time of the “Good War”. (Apparently just thereafter; thanks, Norseamerican.) And, by a curious coincidence, just when the US Empire really got going with its aggressive wars. Hah. Turns out the history was somewhat more complicated, but by another curious coincidence, the “Department of Defense” was christened just two months after the publication of George Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, wherein the military branch of the government was named the Ministry of Peace. Ah yes:
The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognised and not recognised by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
“I have been forced to conclude that virtually everything in this world is the outright opposite of what we were taught it is.” – Rich Zubaty
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
“If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction . . . 2,400 lives lost,” Lute added, blaming the deaths of U.S. military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department. “Who will say this was in vain?”
“Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible,” Bob Crowley, an Army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2013 and 2014, told government interviewers. “Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.”
https://forliberty.news/2021/08/18/the-litany-of-untruths-half-truths-and-outright-lies-about-afghanistan-rs-nl/