AMERICA'S GREATNESS UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN

America's greatness and exceptionalism are under attack. This Blog provides a forum of published views that discuss solutions to our Country’s problems – solutions ignored by our government leaders and rarely addressed by the media. Its focus is on the travesties of 1) government debt and corporate welfare; 2) unwarranted disdain for America’s producers; 3) our failing public school system – a poverty trap; 4) our declining world leadership position; 5) disrespect for our military.

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Biden - Taking The Definition of WEAK to A Higher Level.

Biden lied, they died.

That’s no longer just an accusation. It’s now a fact, with Tuesday’s Senate testimony shredding President Biden’s nonsensical fictions about Afghanistan and confirming that he alone made the fateful decisions that created the chaotic and deadly withdrawal.

We now know for certain what was suspected all along — that the president rejected the advice of his top military aides about how to reduce the troop numbers while keeping the Taliban in check. He also falsely claimed to the public that al Qaeda was no longer in Afghanistan and declared the withdrawal a ringing success.

Reluctantly, but clearly, his commanders begged to differ. One by one, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said they advised the president either to keep 2,500 troops in Kabul or supported the proposal.

All three also said al Qaeda remains in Afghanistan and, as Milley put, is still at war with us. And none dared call the conclusion a success.

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“The war is lost,” Milley said. “The enemy is in control in Kabul.”

The tone of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing belied the bombshell testimony. There were no political histrionics and, for a welcome change, Democrats and Republicans followed similar lines of questioning, with the result that the devastating answers were mostly delivered in clipped, matter-of-fact style.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley fully admitted the “enemy is in control in Kabul.” Getty Images

Although a Dem here and there tried to blame former President Donald Trump for his original agreement with the Taliban, there was no serious effort to sugarcoat Biden’s blunder.

Clearly, the president’s attempts to deceive the public were part of the events that put our vaunted military in the weak, vulnerable position of protecting a mass evacuation from a civilian airport in a city overrun by the Taliban.

The good news in all of this utter incompetence - Biden is breaking the record for disapproval by the We The People for (an excuse for) "President" in the first months of his term.

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TomG said...: Our generals always seem to be willing to sacrifice yet another young American man or woman for a lost cause. Rather than weak, Biden showed real courage to make the hard decision to get out. A withdrawal is never easy and this one was made even more difficult by the Trump administration's (led by Cadet Bone Spurs) capitulation to the Taliban in Doha without any involvement of then Afghanistan government. How long should we have expected the Afghanistan police and army to die for a disenfranchised government? It's actually a credit to the administration that we got out so many in such a short period with so few losses.; October 3, 2021 at 3:24 PM

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The Blog provides a forum for dialog re: the extraordinary greatness of our Country that has made it, by any measure, the most prolific contributor of 'goodness' in the history of mankind.

The emphasis is on topics that highlight the constant attack on our greatness and exceptionalism by elitists in the government and the right coast/left coast media who are out of touch with the priorities and needs of ordinary hard working Americans at all levels of the economic spectrum. Americans expect the government to serve their needs. They do not look to know-it-all Washington bureaucrats to impose tax payer funded programs that override their hard fought for personal freedom to choose for themselves - the magnet that has attracted immigrants to come to America from all over the world

The Blog posts already published pieces that express rational views counter to those promulgated by government leaders (the "leadership vacuum") and the mainstream media. For example, there are politically conservative views represented here by a growing segment of blacks who grew up in poverty but believe, based on their personal experience, that there are alternate paths for all minorities to economic freedom - quite different paths than those prescribed by all too many well financed government and-media backed minority leaders.

In summary, the Blog attempts to combat the high level of voter ignorance, promulgated by an out-of-touch-with-middle-American-values elitist media and federal government bureaucracy, that currently surrounds the important subject of American exceptionalism.

The author of this Blog has put his money where his mouth is - based on the belief that the key building block of greatness and exceptionalism is access to an affordable high quality education for all Americans regardless of where they live. He and his family are fervent donors to privately funded charitable enterprises that focus on improving America's education system: a) at the K-12 level by offering poor families, trapped in poverty by our failing urban public school systems, a high quality public school choice; b) at the college level by offering high quality undergraduate level STEM based and special education programs. The underlying purpose of a) and b) above is to provide an education that enables graduates to compete for high paying jobs in a global market.

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These are really scary times. The Federal bureaucracy is filled with civil servants who pursue a daily agenda that attacks or ignores the private sector while building up a staggering national debt. They have no clue as to the disastrous consequences will be for our children and grandchildren - saddled with debt and little chance to create wealth that, as always, will be continue to be used to advance America's exceptionalism around the world.

No serious thinker doubts the fact that we are at a tipping point in our history - torn between adopting the European model of global government, political correctness, a socialistic concern for the welfare of the general populace and its result in mediocrity vs. continuing the pursuit of the qualities that has made America great. America exceptionalism places a premium on: -- protecting individual freedoms (that has attracted immigrants from all over the world); capitalism as a force for good for all people; a strong military; ingenuity; and just plain hard work. There can be no doubt but that America's wealth creators and capitalism in general have done "good" for millions of disadvantaged!! There is no better example than the plethora of wealth creators' unbridled support of public school choice aimed at offering millions of black families a chance to free themselves from the urban poverty trap - to a large degree created by a failing K-12 public school system.

It is disconcerting that a good part of the developed world (whose current well-being has, to a large degree, been the result of the goodness and sacrifice of America's citizens) resents the strength of our leadership position in world affairs and is hoping that we will follow them into their state of mediocrity. But, our primary challenge is to deal with the attack from within. This 'attack' includes the misguided pursuit of a socialist ideology that has failed everywhere it has been tried (how about Venezuela and Cuba!!) by offering false hope to productive, responsible families trapped in poverty in the form of offering government welfare as opposed to promoting private sector jobs that promote pride in individual accomplishment. This is not to say that there shouldn't be a government funded safety net for the disabled and otherwise unemployable.

There is good reason for concern that a growing segment of our citizenry is buying into 'teaching moments' emanating from government and media elitists living in the DC bubble:
~The flaws of America's free market and private sector driven system are relentlessly exaggerated.
~The enormous generosity and sacrifice of Americans in making the world a better place for their children is ignored or denigrated.
~The utter irresponsibility of millions of our citizens who continue to make foolish choices - like borrowing beyond their means is encouraged.
~And, the dangerous role that the US Congress has played in all of this is ignored. They have made it easy for the less fortunate Americans to live outside of their means while passing laws that require the more fortunate Americans to bail them out.

The irony of all of this is that it will be the participants in the game of blaming everyone but themselves for the sins of the world who will wake up someday and wonder what caused America to sink into mediocrity like Japan, Germany and France where the government controls almost everything and individual freedom is sacrificed for the good of all.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Biden - Taking The Definition of WEAK to A Higher Level.

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