On Oct. 7, 2001, we started bombing Afghanistan in the beginning stage of Operation Enduring Freedom. Our brains discovered the convoy that was carrying Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar as he fled Kandahar that evening. However, Omar’s surveillance plane, which was heading its way, had no authority to fire its antitank missiles at him. The CIA said it would offend our rules of relationship. When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld learned of the event, he was so angry that he began kicking through the Pentagon’s glass windows.
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On that day, the very first day of the War on Terror, we lost the war.
Our ingrained officials held back for another 20 years while posturing and hiding their stupidity. In the time, there was a lot of finger-wagging among Americans about the “religion of serenity,” about America’s unique alleged role in promoting terrorism against us, and about how the only way to success is through winning the “hearts and minds” of the” Muslim road.”
But unfortunately, the attitude that let Mullah Omar push aside on Oct. 7, 2001, was the same thinking that led to our unconditional surrender in Kabul on Aug. 30, 2021. It was obvious. The field of illiterate barbarians murdering our soldiers as we fled community was the great culmination of the war’s end, which was a spill of American body, wealth, and credibility by Deep State parasites who only care about their professional advancement.
A significant portion of the blame lies in our officials, who almost always lack the moral conviction to act in the interests of what is appropriate and almost always lack the moral conviction to pursue what is just. Possibly our best and only chance to restore the post-Cold War get came right after 9/11. The battle lines today show that extreme Islam has advanced ruthlessly and almost unopposed to the remaining vestiges of European civilization. Keep in mind that this is with no cease-fire, peace, or truce in position with our foes. Just because we’ve unilaterally chosen not to fight them does n’t mean they’ve reciprocated. Why did they?
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To be sure, there have been scattered triumphs. Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s murders were humbling relief from our country’s utter placid attitude toward radical Islam. Even these successes, however, should n’t had required years of brains work and trillions of dollars. It does n’t seem to have opened the eyes that our alleged “allian” Pakistan was using to keep bin Laden afloat.
If you’re an entrenched Strong State official, it means not having to admit you’re bad. The State Department’s” cogs” favor diplomacy because they place too much value on the effectiveness of their sworn weapons of speech and persuasion, not because they value peace over conflict or triumph over beat. Conferences, talks, consensus building, and accords are summits are the soft arms of the powerful and senior to bring about” modify” in ways opposed to the impulses and powers of bloodthirsty combat forces.
If yet another round of talks fails to achieve a peace, it’s because some earth person, almost always the West, has chosen “escalation” and “bellicosity” and “intransigence” over harmony. Our banal instructors are not the Talleyrands and Metternichs they claim to be, so it is a mystery.
Our enemies, in contrast, see all too plainly what our officials are and are not. And they play them to the soothing beat of their own cabinets, playing them like strings. They willfully series us together, having achieved a “framework” below, a “basis for the next round of deals” it, all the while achieving nothing except the conditioning of the army at our expense.
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Israel is a nation the size of New Jersey, surrounded by zealous fanatics who purport to be conducting a murder against it. More completely out of confidence than the 9/11 strikes did for Americans, the Oct. 7 problems seem to have jolted Israelis. As a result, a year into the battle, there is little talk in Israel about a “quagmire”, about the “need for dialogue”, or about how Israel sooner or later needs to come to an hotel with Hamas.
Instead, they just capped a magnificent 10-day operation that almost eliminated their most potent regional enemy, Hezbollah, as an effective fighting force. The pager explosions that nearly eliminated the entire Hezbollah’s command hierarchy, which culminated with Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah himself, immediately followed a quick sequence elimination of almost all of Hezbollah’s command hierarchy.
Naturally, Western elites could n’t have been more upset about the demise of a sociopath responsible for the murders of Israelis, Americans, and French, not to mention how many untold Lebanese resisted his ascension.
The BBC decried the “massively escalatory action”, which it alleged was instigated by “powerful forces” in the Israeli government. They lamented that Prime Minister Netanyahu has “made a habit of defying President Biden’s wishes,” as if an Israeli prime minister’s wishes should be taken into consideration over everything. It lamented the fact that it has left Western diplomates with a” sense of powerlessness” but did n’t celebrate the fact that Nasrallah’s killing probably saved thousands of Israeli and Lebanese lives.
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Way to keep your eye on the ball, boys.
Politico describes the terrorist group Hezbollah as a “militia” and not once mentions the fact that it was Hezbollah, again, that started this latest war with Israel. The late Nasrallah was described by the Associated Press as” charismatic and cunning.” Who else possessed charisma and intelligence, do you know? Ted Bundy.
The Pentagon made an effort to immediately assure Islamic terrorists that we were not involved in the decision-making process. We had no prior notice of the operation against Nasrallah, so Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided to take a break from his search for white supremacists and inform the” Arab street.” Nonetheless, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired a barrage of missiles at U. S. warships off the coast of Yemen. Our response? Nothing.
Israel no longer informs us about its activities because our own government gives to our obedient adversaries the information. We then make a quick pacification to our adversaries that the operations were not our responsibility. Our enemies attack us anyway. And we let it happen with no consequence. Is there not a clearer picture of the pitiful cravenness that has destroyed the Pentagon from the inside out?
There are three reasons why our political class, particularly the deeply ingrained bureaucracy, despises any successes Israel has made in its own war against terror:
- Good old-fashioned antisemitism.
- Good old-fashioned anti-Westernism.
- Israel’s astounding victories have revealed our talking heads, our think tanks, our “experts”, and our cocktail generals at the Pentagon as the absolute fools that they are.
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Israel is n’t winning of the” Arab street”, it’s defeating it. Israel is n’t interested in winning “hearts and minds”, it’s interested in winning the war. Every victory for Israel provides a mirror image to American bureaucrats and generals, exposing the glaring reality of their own narcissistic failures.
The Pentagon bears the brunt of the blame for the subpar outcomes of 20 years of warfighting, so I’m picking on it here. We lose a lot of taxpayer money if the Department of Energy falsifies for 20 years straight, which the government will simply print in its place. But if the Pentagon screws up for 20 years straight, we lose thousands of American lives.  ,
In this, those antisemitic college brats yelling about Israeli financial aid unintentionally raise a significant issue. We flush billions in “aid” dollars down third-world toilets as an indication of our diplomatic acuity, with nary a peep of accountability. But Israel’s military spends the money we give it pragmatically and competently.
To date in 2024, Israel has budget-and-expenditure/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>spent a little over$ 30 billion, almost all of it from America, in military expenditures in a literal battle for survival, which it is incontestably winning. In 2024, the Pentagon budget is just north of$ 841 billion. Our massive spending is the direct opposite of what the Israelis ‘ spending is, and we spend almost 30 times more than they do. We lose wars, but they win.
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Why not just let the Israelis use the$ 800 billion that is currently available to them? They possess the military acumen, competency, and willpower that our generals obviously do n’t. They could have used that additional$ 800 billion to win the global war on terror a long time ago for our indolent Pentagon brass at the same rate that they’re using our$ 30 billion to decimate Hamas and Hezbollah and to reduce the ayatollahs to hiding in undisclosed locations.
Alternatively, maybe our generals could just do the jobs they’re getting paid to do. Possibly, but that ai n’t gonna happen under a Harris-Walz administration. If Donald Trump wins, he needs to rectify the biggest missed opportunity of his first term, i. e. purging the Deep State, and above all the Pentagon, of its dead weight. Any general of any kind would have resigned in disgrace following their 2021 Kabul blunder, but since they appear to be incapable of both honor and shame, they must be forced to show the door.
In ten days, Israel decapitated Hezbollah. Can you picture a Pentagon that can decapitate al-Qaeda or ISIS in ten days? Regaining this ability will not only save lives for Americans, but it will also reverse Islamism’s relentless advance. It will prevent the mullahs and ayatollahs from spitting their Turkish coffee all over their baba ganoush plate amid their hysterical laughter as the phrase” American military deterrence” is used.
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