The Great Complacency

Amen, Mark. Amen! America is being weakened for the communist and one world government takeover. We all should know that. What other group would do the one world thing. They're using the rag heads by the way. Allah will not be happy when the communists are exposed.

NEVER miss a Mark Steyn article or program. The man is brilliant.

Unfortunate that Mark singled out Jim Jordan and General Keane. I’m afraid, though, his criticism is 100% spot on. Say goodnight, America. RIP

The remark about everyone across the world - only because it's easy and not necessarily because of the American Dream - is brilliant. Like Mr. Steyn said, try getting into Japan.

*Everyone across the world wanting to come here*

Absolutely spot on. I have been amazed to see most people who I used to admire and respect, who I used to think were freedom loving patriots, simply rolling over to have their belly rubbed by their new masters. "Sorry...I don't want to think about it...I have to get back to watching my football with all the marxist propaganda written on their helmets..."

Keane was deputy CSA to Shinseki at the start of OIF and initial occupation of Iraq. He visited and saw personally the chaos and amateur performance of the military high command there. He saw the transplantation of a chunk of DC, both civilian and military, which led to lost opportunities and a lack of action to fix what amounted to a massive capture the flag exercise. Ever since, he has talked a good talk on the nets and has tried to assuage concerns that, to reverse Mark's analogy, the glass is actually 15/16 empty. A much better use of time is to read Colonel David Hunt's book "They Just Don't Get It." With people like Keane, is it any wonder folks are surprised how we were defeated in the central region.

Thanks, Mark, for calling out Jim Jordan. I have to mute the TV sound each time this do-nothing fast-talking blowhard comes on TV.

Total agreement here. Think we have already reached a point of no return. A truly competent honest man was forced out of the Presidency and replaced by a senile dishonest corrupt bully and fool. Out debt is about to hit 30 trillion, and will likely hit 40 trillion. No border. Being white is evil. So many other problems. The fire alarm has been blaring for some time now, but nothing has changed. Great complacency indeed. This does not end well folks.

The betrayal comes from those we choose as leaders and turn into unquestionable icons. The US is a "superpower" that is actually an effete milquetoast with an attitude. Remember the lesson of Vietnam? What was it? And what's the immediate lesson of Afghanistan? Let's revisit "Desert Storm"...Colin Powell..."Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it." Think back to the "Highway of Death." He also said, "Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand." So now we have the next generation of career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels, now the generals, experts and politicians of today...who made theirs in the post 9/11 era of nation building and payoffs for peace. Blame Obama for "purging" capable officers. I think they were largely the products of hubris in achieving an incomplete victory with "Mission Accomplished" celebrated, a nation thanking them for their service. Careers were built on this Potemkin nonsense built in Afghanistan...and the result cum legacy was an Afghan government that fled with suitcases of US cash and a US-trained "security force" that melted away in the face of a fight, which we now find was more a make work project than honorable duty.

Stern and Logan are right. All the wimpy Republicans do is talk and when they controlled the Congress all they did was talk and try to be buddies with the leftist, liberal, and socialist Democrats who would crush those wimpy Republicans politically in a minute, and put some of them in jail if they could find a way to do that. As for the Democrats who are always looking to increase their political power, bringing both the good and bad of Afghanistan in unlimited numbers to the USA, the vast majority of who did not render any substantial assistance to US Forces in Afghanistan, through so-called “humanitarian parole” over 90% of who are adherents to, and believe that the world and the USA should be run in accordance with Islamic Sharia law, and resettling the vast majority in the US political swing States through schemes run by the liberal Democrat aligned refugee resettlement organizations who are paid with State Department funds, in amounts which are determined based upon the number of foreigners, in this case Afghans, with “humanitarian parole” who they resettle and of course indoctrinate into becoming future leftist and socialist Democrat voters. So for the Democrats and their NGOs resettlement industry, the more mostly all poor and uneducated foreigners that the Biden crew allows into the USA as asylum applicants, with “humanitarian parole, or as “refugees” all the better.

Says it all, which is why 2022 and 2024 are meaningless. As Mark has said, once you lose the culture, elections don't matter.