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We aren’t even six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, and so much has changed. The president himself gave us a bracing reminded of that on Tuesday, when he upbraided the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the woke leftist Gen. Mark Milley, for leaving behind billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware as the U.S. ignominiously cut and run from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Trump recalled: “But with all that equipment that they left, they should have taken every ounce of it. I said, ‘Every screw, every bolt, every nail you take out of there.’ And Milley said, I remember one time, ‘Sir, we’re better off leaving the equipment.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, it’s cheaper.” Trump found that response appalling, and that’s only because it was.
“That’s when I knew he was an idiot,” Trump continued. “Didn’t take long to figure that one out. But they left all that equipment. But they left their dignity behind. It was the most embarrassing moment, in my opinion, in the history of our country. Not that we got out. We should have not been there, but that we got out the way we got out with great embarrassment and death.”
Indeed. And it was all done on purpose. Milley testified last year that “the outcome in Afghanistan was the result of many decisions from many years of war. Like any complex phenomena, there was no single causal factor that determined the outcome.” Uh huh. In light of dissembling statement, it’s useful to remember what the top military brass were doing when they should have been preparing for a safe and successful withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In June 2021, Milley was asked at a congressional hearing about the Biden regime’s effort to saddle U.S. military personnel with mandatory readings and briefings on the topic of Critical Race Theory. Milley bristled at the question and answered: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.”
Sure. But was Milley studying these Marxist doctrines to oppose them… or impose them? Had Milley and his colleagues spent all the time they wasted on studying Critical Race Theory on instead studying the Islamic doctrines of the enemies it was supposed to be fighting in Afghanistan and around the globe, perhaps we would have avoided many of the mistakes which led to the Aug. 2021 debacle.
At that hearing, Milley continued defensively: “So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, ‘woke’ or something else, because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”
Milley claimed that he was studying the causes of the bogus Jan. 6 alleged “insurrection,” uncritically accepting the highly tendentious assumption that the Capitol incident, and support for Trump in general, was rooted in “white supremacism”: “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out.”
Milley was not interested in studying the actual words and views of the groups and persons who took part in that event, but rather in imposing a leftist pseudo-social science approach as the only lens through which the incident might be understood. Milley and the rest of the woke military brass could have spent less time studying Critical Race Theory and imposing it on the troops as a way of weeding out Trump supporters from the ranks, and more time doing their actual jobs. Had they done so, they might have avoided numerous mistakes. But that was left to their successors.
“You know that our military now,” Trump announced happily on Independence Day, “is the most sought-after job there has ever been, being — serving in our military. One year ago, people didn’t want to join our military. They didn’t want to join our police, our firefighters. They didn’t want to join anything having to do with our country. And now, as you probably know, the enlistment is at an all-time record. We’re packed. We’re full. And I just think that’s so important because that was so sad. One year ago, when I heard those statistics, we had a different president, but nobody wanted to join. And now, we’re at a record.”
Nobody wanted to join because the military was being run by the likes of Milley. Patriots can only hope they will not return.
I’m by no means a “Stalin fan.” However, he did have a very tried and true method for dealing with vermin like Milley. Time for Congress to approve the use of Military Tribunals.
Milley was a super-WOKE POS and a treason rat commie. Obama/Biden only promoted the most far-left radical Bolshevik officers, and fired all the good officers
Yes, everyone forgets about that. Obama was especially bad. All the tough, most especially white males were let go. If it would have been black officers, there would have been an uproar.
Having studied a lot of them, generals are not necessarily intelligent.
Military Intelligence has always been an oxymoron. 🙂
General Aunt Milly is fat bloated disgrace of a human being who, fortunately, was finally forced out of the military, along with the rest of the stooges that were serving under Clinton, Obama and Biden.
He also said he would have warned his counterpart in Communist China if Trump had given the order to attack China. A year later we bugged out of Afghanistan under Biden leaving 80 B of equipment on the ground. That is treason. This was the ‘loser’ mentality under the Clinton Obama Biden cabal of losers running the military
Thank God we didn’t end up in any major wars with these clowns running things, Ukraine notwithstanding, What a disaster that would have been.
That is treason!
unfortunately the likes of milley , are to numerous to list . they are part of the faceless bureaucracy that runs the country . when the don has served his term they will still exist because none of them will ever be accountable for betraying the u.s. and its people . their friends in high places will make sure that they escape any type of justice . something about [no one is above the law ] the people who get any jail time are those who arent democrats as j6 demonstrated . if you arent convicted they will ruin your life as you defend yourself . thomas caldwell comes to mind , or they will murder you as in ruby ridge . milley and co. will get their golden handshake and live comfortably off the public purse until they pass from this mortal coil . then he will give an account to the lord jesus christ and there will be no jury . he will stand convicted even before he opens his mouth heb. 10 v 31
milley cyrus can always call the chinks for help, like he did before
Whatever one may think of Douglas MacGregor, he has noted that, at the time of Eisenhower, there were three 4-star generals. Now there are over 40.
Milley was just trying to brush it off as inconsequential. Generals don’t expect their orders to be questioned and certainly aren’t used to explaining themselves. I’m sure Milley didn’t expect Trump to even ask, and certainly didn’t expect him to question the response.
To Joe Biden $80 billion was just chump change, not worthy of his time.
I’ve read Marx too. It should be required reading for Americans who want a thorough political education. But also on that reading list must be Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other works of the Founders. It is after all “common sense” to do so.
Treasonous leftist loser. The United States would never win any conflict with this bozo at the helm.
Besides the fact that Silly Milley seems to be a closet communist/Marxist/socalist/Bolshevik, we all wonder how he amassed overblown position in the US ARMY, was it because of his oral talents in servicing and pleasuring the likes of Obama with his DemonCRAP (socialist/communist) Party issued kneepads? Just asking…