Our Modern Military

If you need further proof that our military leadership is spending too much time trying to welcome transgendered individuals into the ranks, studying up on critical race theory and fighting climate change, here it is.

Yesterday, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stood before reporters and said, "There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army (the Afghan army) and this government."

Well, general, that isn't exactly reassuring since that's exactly what happened. Plus, someone is lying. Our national security agencies leaked to their favorite reporters yesterday and said they were giving the top brass and the commander-in-chief that very warning for months. 

Let's put everyone involved in this fiasco under oath and find out who the perjurer is.

During the same press conference, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said this: "We're going to get everyone that we can possibly evacuate evacuated. And I'll do that as long as we possibly can, until the clock runs out or we run out of capability."

Which clock are you referring to, sir? You couldn't possibly mean the clock that the Taliban has, right? Does the U.S. military now run on jihadi time? Our defense budget last year was $740 billion. Don't we have the capacity to set our own time and save or own people?

The excuses we heard yesterday from Austin and Milley is the kind of rhetoric you hear from defeated militaries. Secretary Austin, you do know that the world is listening, don't you? 

Have we really gone from, "I have not yet begun to fight!" (John Paul Jones) and "I shall return!" (Douglas MacArthur) to "I will fight until the Taliban's timer runs out"?