Oregon Muse's thoughts on Afghanistan and our woke elites

Oregon Muse writes,

I will never forget 'woke' General Mark Milley getting up there in front of the cameras and saying "gee, we had no idea this would happen so quickly", like it was an unfortunate (but understandable) accident. What are paying him for? Isn't it to prevent precisely this sort of thing? They had one job -- at which they utterly failed. I feel the same helpless anger that I felt last summer when I watched out cities burn and the police retreating.

But alas, we do not live in a just world. The worst thing that will even happen to Mlley is that he'll be asked to resign. And he'll supplement his full pension with a full-time gig on CNN or MSNBC as a military "expert", badmouthing everything President DeSantis does.

And our intelligence services aren't exactly covered in glory, either. The problem with the Deep State is not that we have a Deep State, but that we do not have a competent Deep State. The 1983 Beirut bombing, the collapse of the USSR in 1989, the 1993 WTC Bombing, 9/11, and now, the fall of Kabul, they completely whiffed on all of these things. That kind of track record does not inspire a lot of confidence.

Why? Because our Deep State is not run by competent bureaucrats, but by fools and poltroons who are only good at manufacturing evidence to bring down a sitting president. And, in the case of the FBI, trying to goad and trick unstable men into planning terrorist attacks, and then busting them for it, rather than stopping actual terrorist attacks by actual terrorists. If our intelligence services had been focused on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan rather than the Russian collusion hoax for the last four years, maybe the rest of the world wouldn't be laughing their asses at us right now.