Clarice Feldman – If you ever doubted that the country was in the hands of some very stupid and corrupt people, this week should have thoroughly disabused you of that fantasy. In one fell swoop, the administration left billions of dollars of military equipment in the hands of the barbarous anti-American Taliban; broke the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance by bugging out without warning to its members who were in Afghanistan in support of our mission there; left as many as 50,000 Americans and tens of thousands more of our Afghan allies to the not so tender mercies of the enemy; and on Friday Biden lied about it all.
It’s not that most of us wanted this Afghan Mission Impossible to continue forever. It’s just that there’s a right way to do it. President Trump’s Secretary of Defense Mike Pompeo had a well-conceived plan. It included preconditions on the Taliban and removal of all U.S. military equipment and civilians before any group withdrawal. Continue reading
Andrew W. Coy – As we grow up, age and mature, we come to think that there are some that we can count on to call it straight. We can count on umpires to be neutral arbitrators of the strike zone. We thought we could rely on the Supreme Court to judge all laws, all ideas, all thoughts, all regulations, and all speech according to the U.S. Constitution. We thought scientists would pursue the truth.
Brooks Agnew – When the Global Syndicate scripts the news, all outlets use the same words for the same message with the express purpose of creating resonance with human consciousness. You have already heard the simple phrase, “Follow the science,” so many times you have found yourself repeating it. This is how it works. You know I speak the truth.
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Joseph P Farrell – Today’s story was shared by many regular readers here, and all of them are asking the same question. We’ll get around to asking that question, but first a thank you to all of you who shared the story. The story itself is… well… concerning. Or at least in my case, it gives me a severe case of Angst and Weltschmerz: