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Home Front: Politix

Mark Steyn: Dead Superpower Walking

2021-08-24

[JEWISHWORLDREVIEW] The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what's left of "Hamid Karzai International Airport" (the signs will be coming down even as you read this).

America is a global laughingstock right now, but that's no reason not to give Chairman Xi and Putin and every up-country village headman in Helmand a few more yuks. Step forward, State Department spokeswanker Ned Price:

State Department calls for Taliban to include women in its government

The United States is dead as a global power because of this kind of indestructible stupidity. You've lost, you blew it, it's over: The goatherds just decapitated you; could you at least have the self-respect not to run around like a headless chicken too stupid to know it's nogginless? Or like a broken doll lying on its back with its mechanism jammed on the same simpleton phrases: "Diversity is our strength... diversity is our strength..."

Contrast the Washington presser with that in Kabul:

Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid says 'We have defeated a great power.'

Hmm. Ned Price vs Zabiullah Mujahid: tough call. The mountain of non-existent dollar bills that the bloated husk of federal government blows through every minute surely should buy sufficient self-awareness to know that, whatever else it may be, this is not a day for wankery as usual. Even CNN has a more proximate relationship to reality.

Just for the record, the Kingdom of Afghanistan introduced votes for women in 1964 - whereas Switzerland did not get even a very limited female franchise until 1971, and full suffrage not until the Nineties.

Yet, oddly, every Pushtun warlord prefers to keep his retirement account in Zurich.

Posted by:Fred

#3 US will need to rebuild our military and cull the woke elements from command ranks. I don't really know how easy/difficult that is but its necessary.

Posted by: ruprecht 2021-08-24 16:02

#2 I'm glad the state department is worried about the real problems.

Posted by: Chris 2021-08-24 10:28

#1 A nation is a mirror of its people and their mindset. The new majority mindset was a group of minorities just a few years ago. it is a very different mindset than the white majority that founded and ruled this nation until very recently.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-24 01:26

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