O, AFGHANISTAN

         As part of the Public-Relations buildup towards the 20th Anniversary of the last national panic attack, the Regime decided to end US Occupation of Afghanistan. Despite all of the arm-flapping from the Controlled Opposition, there's really no story here. Basically what happened in Afghanistan during the last two weeks can be summarized as this:

       1. The Afghani people were sick of being bullied by American Corporate and Political bureaucrats and they rose up in fury.

      2. Our Politically-Correct Pentagon realized that our brave men and women in uniform would get their brains beaten out in a ground war with the Taliban.

      3. Corporate America decided then to cut its losses, and do what they always do with unprofitable subsidiaries: pulled out and abandoned everyone dependent upon them to their fates.

     4. Republicans run around screeching that corruption in our foreign policy and our military weakness only started in January when the Junta that they helped install took power. 

     That is all that the situation in Afghanistan amounts to: a distraction. It's reminiscent of the flap last month over Critical Race Theory.  As with our schools, our Military has been a national disgrace for 30+ years; but the Right is carrying on as though seeing them run screaming from Afghanistan is a new phenomenon. In 2017, the North Koreans chased an entire US carrier group from its shores. In 2016, Syrian villagers beat up an elite Special Forces unit, which had to be rescued by the Turkish Army. Earlier that year, a US Naval patrol panicked when it saw an Iranian Coast Guard vessel approaching and surrendered. The Iranians later showed video footage of our great heroes begging for mercy and breaking down in tears in front of their captors. In an incident repeated in Afghanistan, Obama picked up the whole Occupation Team in Iraq and ran away when ISIS was getting big enough to fight us. The International Bully never fights unless the odds are all in his favor. 

   Obama had so little confidence in the combat abilities of US troops that he relegated our roles mostly to air and missile support while employing proxies to handle the fighting on the ground. Trump realized early in his term that we were wholly unprepared to fight anybody and wisely chose not to. The Pentagon was such a bastion of Deep State resistance that when the Color Revolution broke out last year, Trump could barely scrape together enough reliable troops to defend the District of Columbia. 

   The Cultural Rot in the Pentagon started---as most of our national decline did---during the Post-Reagan years. Reagan inherited a demoralized force, suffering from the defeat in Vietnam, four years of Carter's incompetence, and incessant ridicule from the MSM. Aided by a team of competent advisors, Reagan rebuilt the US Military into a powerful and efficient machine, capable of defending the US against any foreign aggression. But then, we got a "kinder, gentler America" and group of ideologues ready to enforce "Pax Americana" and a "New World Order" at the "End of History;" terms which sound suspiciously like the Great Reset rhetoric of today. Bush Sr. and his Deep State friends didn't want such a great resource to go to waste defending America, and soon sought ways to project power abroad on behalf of vested interests. 

   The Clinton Co-Presidency used the Military the same way and began the ideological purges and enforced Political Correctness and feminization throughout the whole system. Many of our top commanders were forced out either through political pressure or ginned-up sexual misconduct scandals. Defense Contracts were awarded more for the ideological purity of the Corporate Board than Military necessity. The Republican-controlled House and Senate protested some of these things, but did nothing to prevent any of it. 

   After Bush Jr. was coronated at the 2000 GOP Convention, he promised an end to policies of 'nation-building', outsourcing military functions, the feminization and PC indoctrination of our troops, and restoring its high-quality function as a professional defensive force. Even before 9/11, he had reneged on all of these promises; and after 9/11 accelerated the Military co-opting beyond anything both his father and his predecessor had accomplished combined. Recruiting standards dropped to an all-time low, and corporate looters had a whole new field of enterprise taking over military functions. Bush introduced foreign and corporate mercenary organizations into military strategy. 

    But probably the most pernicious policy Bush instituted was eliminating the long-standing transparency which previously existed between the Pentagon and the public. 'National Security' became a pretext for cloaking any Pentagon-related policy in secrecy. Even Pentagon budgets are submitted to Congress today with huge sums allocated to projects with no explanation. Bush also broke the boundaries between Military and Police functions (which was expedient because the 9/11 Attacks were criminal---not military---offenses). 

  Given the low quality of American Military personnel, Military strategy since the 1990s has changed considerably. The new way of fighting a 'war' is to demonize some country whose resources the Corporate and Financial Elites covet as some great threat to world peace. The Elites have understood since the First Gulf War that the average Ameroboob isn't going to bother with actually thinking about how little a real threat these countries can actually be, and demand that we "go in and kick butt," like a bunch of frat-boys during a college homecoming game against a completely overmatched opponent. 

   The nations that the International Bully attacks have military forces which, despite Corporate Media exaggeration, are scarcely more than national guard units or militarized police agencies. The method of attack is to impose sanctions first to weaken the opponent as much as possible; then obliterate their infrastructure with remote-controlled bombs. Then they move in with computerized tanks and drones---operated remotely---and employ mercenaries or proxies to handle any actual fighting. Then, when everything is completely safe, the defense contractors swoop in an build bases which become hotbeds of crime, drug trafficking, and corruption.

   American Conservatives were well aware of these problems long before the Fall of Bagram Airfield last week. But it took a fairly doughty spirit to say anything about the American Military unless it was in praise without risking a ferocious backlash. To a great extent it still does, despite the fact that from Hurricane Katrina to the 2020 lockdowns, our frontline heroes have shown no reluctance whatsoever to turn against the public on command. This is largely because decades of propaganda have conditioned people on the Right to hold anybody who puts on a uniform as worthy of respect. Street bums who pick up old uniforms at thrift stores and pose as homeless veterans have used that conditioning to personal profit; so have the criminals who've infiltrated the Armed Services as we saw during the Fat Leonard Scandal. This isn't even considering the almost daily crimes committed by current and former military personnel. Or that whenever there's an active shooter at a military installation, our troops fly to their safe spaces and have to be rescued by the local police.  Putting a uniform on a street thug, a woman with Penis Envy, a snivelling career bureaucrat, or a homosexual pervert doesn't suddenly transform them into real soldiers. If and when these armed punks start loading us onto boxcars and off to FEMA camps, I've no doubt that some Conservatives will still be thanking them for their service.

     So what about the situation in Afghanistan? It's a lot of people getting everything they deserved. In fact, I hope that starts a global trend. This glaring display of weakness by our Pride-Month Pentagon might inspire peoples of other nations to stand up to the International Bully. 

   But let's not deceive ourselves; the Right has known all about what was going on both there and inside our Armed Forces in general for a long time and looked the other way. It's not going to change by making Bruce Jenner or Rand Paul President in four years (assuming that we even have elections). The Right seriously needs to start pulling their heads out of the sand; putting down the Happy Pills, and turning off the porn-sites long enough to start facing reality. Just look through the press of foreign powers like China, Russia, Iran, and others with real militaries; and it's very clear that they smell blood in the water. Nature abhors a vacuum, and when a powerful nation is on the verge of collapse, there are others waiting to move in; and Americans need to start getting it through their drug-addled brains that we're a lot closer right now to seeing the scenes in Afghanistan happening in our own cities than we are to "restoring our national honor" over there.