Milley should have studied Muslim rage, instead of white rage.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white,” Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whined at a congressional hearing.
He might have done better to understand Muslim rage.
A week after his testimony, the Taliban had not only doubled their number of districts, but possessed hundreds of captured U.S. armored vehicles, along with artillery and drones.
The Pentagon’s spokesman told reporters to ask the Afghan military about the gear.
In May, Milley had shrugged off questions about whether the Afghan military would survive. “We frankly don’t know yet. We have to wait and see how things develop over the summer.”
The Afghan military was beginning to fall apart while Milley was defending critical race theory.
A week earlier, the New York Times had described “demoralized” Afghan forces “abandoning checkpoints and bases en masse.” Two days after Milley’s disgraceful performance, the media reported that even the Taliban were “surprised” at how fast they were advancing.
At the beginning of July, the Biden administration abandoned Bagram Air Force Base. A week later the Taliban reclaimed the Panjwayi District where the Jihadist movement had gotten its start, seized the largest border crossing with Iran and the millions in revenue that came with it.
The United States Army responded by announcing that it was putting “a renewed emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and equity” or DEI. Had the brass ordered it as diversity, inclusion, and equity, the resulting acronym would have been more reflective of the real world.
While the Taliban were conquering Afghanistan’s rural provinces and then moving on to besieging its cities, the Army was wrestling with the “effective messaging that demonstrates why DEI efforts are critical to the success of the Army”. The new messaging would explain how the “talents of a diverse workforce” that included “language, race, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity” were vital to whatever its mission was.
The Taliban, who were mostly Sunni Islamist Pashtun tribesmen, would spend the next two months demonstrating that diversity was not a strength, but a serious weakness.
While the Afghan government and its military were divided between diverse tribal factions, some of whom would flee to Iran and others to Uzbekistan (depending on whether they were Hazaras or Uzbeks) while the Pashtuns would surrender to their fellow Taliban tribesmen, the Taliban showed that unity would stomp diversity in the face and then dance on its grave.
Meanwhile the military brass in this country, as discussed in my recent pamphlet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, was busy dividing our own military from within in pursuit of diversity, pitting black and white service members against each other in “critical conversations” and urging them to accuse their country and services of “systemic racism”.
As the Army brass were striving to establish the “Army as a global leader in DEI”, America’s enemies were plotting to become global leaders in land, power, and military victories.
By late July, Milley admitted that, “Strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban.”
By “sort of”, Milley meant that the Taliban had more than doubled their territory again and were marching on half of the provincial capitals.
Few reporters asked follow-up questions about the “sort of” because the leading story in D.C. was an anti-Trump book which flatteringly portrayed Milley as preventing a Trump “coup”.
No one, from the media to Milley, cared about the actual coup underway in Afghanistan.
“This department will be diverse. It will be inclusive,” Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted. “I’m committed to that. This department is committed to that. The chairman’s committed to that.”
While Biden’s brass were pledging allegiance to diversity, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi welcomed Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to the People’s Republic of China. Yi praised the Taliban as a “a pivotal military and political force” and mocked the United States.
The United States Army was busy “developing and implementing a strategic plan to advance DEI across the Total Force” as the Taliban seized the capitals of Helmand and Herat.
But the Navy faced its own crisis when Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr. warned at a DEI panel at the Sea Air Space conference that removing photos from promotion boards, a diversity measure from last year, actually undermined diversity because the brass no longer knew exactly how many minorities they were artificially promoting to fit diversity quotas.
While the Navy was grappling with this dark night of the soul, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jones with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion received the Navy Cross for his heroism during a six-hour battle with ISIS last year during which he rescued a French ally and risked his life to try and rescue two wounded comrades.
Jones “continued fighting until forcibly evacuated”.
Sadly, Jones is a straight white man from Kansas, and doesn’t really fit the DEI template, but in happier diversity defense news, the new Navy Secretary is an immigrant, the first female sailor graduated from Naval Special Warfare training, and the Naval Institute published a confession by Lieutenant Commander David Elsenbeck that he was “unconsciously biased” and a “member of the dominant group in a society suffering from institutionalized and historically ingrained bias”.
Eisenbeck urged immediate “bias education”.
American POWs used to be starved, beaten, and had bamboo shoots driven under their fingernails without repeating the Marxist dogma they were being indoctrinated with. But hardly a week goes by now without another litany of Marxist confessions at military struggle sessions.
The Taliban, who actually are a member of the dominant group, began swallowing up a series of provincial capitals and marrying off young girls to their Jihadists. Back home, the Virginia Military Institute’s first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, Jamica Love, announced that she intended to pursue “institutional change” to transform the VMI’s culture. That’s what the Taliban were also up to.
While the Taliban advanced, CIA Director William Burns commented that increasing “diversity and inclusion” was among his top priorities. “We cannot be effective around the world if everybody looks like me,” he complained. To that end the CIA had unrolled an ad campaign featuring a Latina cisgender intersectional worker wearing a pink gender power clenched fist t-shirt. But the widely hated woke ad was only the tip of the agency’s diversity iceberg.
“At CIA, we don’t just leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion; we embrace and celebrate it,” an agency diversity report insisted. “This ethos must be woven in to our day-to-day tasks.”
How were diversity and equity woven into the task of monitoring the Taliban’s advance?
No one knows. But, like the military, the CIA went on holding “critical conversations” in which minority employees were encouraged to spout racism accusations.
Sonya Holt, Deputy Associate Director of CIA for Talent for Diversity and Inclusion, who had started out as a mere recruiter, assured that through DEI, “the Agency will be better prepared to address intelligence challenges and support its customers.”
While CIA officers were learning “how diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to mission success”, the agency began belatedly considering how to extract its assets from Afghanistan.
Recent intelligence reports “warned that Kabul could fall to the Taliban within years”.
But while the CIA tried to figure out how it would collect intelligence on the Taliban after the withdrawal, its employees did have the benefit of 15 affinity groups including ANGLE (Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Officers and Allies), DAC (Deaf Advisory Council) and SALAAM (South Asian Leadership and Advisory Membership.)
The CIA was also working to hire “neurodiverse” personnel, which it defined as people suffering from ADD, Dyslexia, or Tourette’s Syndrome. Or as the CIA ‘wokely’ put it “differences labeled with” these syndromes.
Key Afghan figures had warned that there was a conspiracy underway to hand Afghanistan to the Taliban. The drumroll surrenders of cities and much of the Afghan military appeared to confirm that backroom deals had been made. The obvious players able to pull off such deals were Pakistan’s ISI spy agency, the original backers of the Taliban, along with Turkey and Qatar.
Biden’s CIA director had turned to Pakistan in the hopes of allowing the agency to run a spy base in the country that had harbored Osama bin Laden. The Biden administration’s military and diplomatic response to the Taliban was being run out of Qatar. And it had handed security at Kabul Airport over to Turkey before frantically taking it back when the Taliban took the city.
The CIA should have been on top of this, but it had better things to do with its time.
An unclassified intelligence community report did warn that the Taliban was “broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights.”
The Taliban have now taken over Afghanistan, but it’s not all bad news on the military front
.”While Trump administration Pentagon nominees were overwhelmingly white and male, the Biden administration says 54% of its national security nominees ― to the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development ― are women, 40% are people of color, and at least 7% identify as LGBTQ,” the publication thrillingly reports.
Better yet, “recent weeks saw two LGBTQ women confirmed to top military positions. Air Force Undersecretary Gina Ortiz Jones is the first out lesbian to serve as undersecretary of a military branch, while Shawn Skelly, the assistant secretary of defense for readiness, is the first out transgender person in the job and highest-ranking out transgender defense official in U.S. history.”
The State Department is doing its part by asking the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative government.” And if they refuse to have as many neurodiverse black transgender defense officials as us, Biden won’t give them any more humvees, artillery, choppers, or drones.
The Taliban may have won Afghanistan, but we’re winning the diversity race. And since diversity is more important than winning wars or being a military superpower, we’re beating the Taliban. Not to mention Russia, China, and Iran in the field of transgender defense officials.
As I warned in the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s booklet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, wokeness is leading our military to disaster, disgrace, and defeat.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, (sorry, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is at “the heart of everything” that Biden’s military does and our performance reflects the focus on DEI.
Afghanistan is a disaster, but we’ll have the most diverse military in the world or DEI trying.
mortimer says
The Bribed-man is PRESIDENT CHAUNCEY GARDNER as played by Peter Sellers in the film ‘Being There’. Except, this tragedy is real … and the fraud which brought this fraudulent dotard to the White House is real as well. The Bribed-man is clearly the worst president and the worst commander-in-chief. He is unfit in every way for the job. He abandoned a whole country to a mob of thuggish terrorists.
Gen. Milley did not do his duty. Bribed-man was clearly wrong about dropping the ball in Afghanistan after so much costly progress. The Taliban did not have to return. Now all NATO countries will have to re-conquer Afghanistan. Milley should resign and tell what happened and demand that Bribed-man be sacked as an incompetent nincompoop.
gravenimage says
This withdrawal has been handled incredibly badly, but the second we left the Taliban was going to take over. And I see no sign that NATO or anyone else wants to set foot in this quagmire again.
Civilizing 100% Muslim Afghanistan was sadly never feasible.
Paul says
So many people comment that Biden and his team are complete incompetents, but, I believe otherwise (even though Biden is obviously in dementia), as, all of the catastrophes that Biden`s administration has engendered since 1/20/21 are deliberate, as, all are part of the plan by the left/NWO to destroy the USA, so that it and the west will fall, to be replaced by some sort of world totalitarianism. We are watching what Klaus Schwab calls the “Great Reset”. If opponents of this evil don`t organize, then take whatever actions will be necessary to end this “reset”, a very dark period will happen very soon.
IanB says
Unfortunately what we are witnessing is the downfall of Western Civilisation.
The signs are the same as those witnessed before the collapse of the Roman Empire:
INTERNAL STRIFE and BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL COHESION
ECONOMIC DETERIORATION
WEAK GOVERNANCE
MORAL DECLINE
WEAKENED MILITARY LEADERSHIP
BARBARIAN MIGRATION AND INVASION
The West hasn’t learned from history.
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Keys says
Yes, they were focusing on diversity, but don’t forget they were also focusing on CRT and extreme vetting of the current military while Afghanistan fell. Afghanistan was not as important as the Plan, the Agenda, the Cause.
Are they vetting the military for anti-American views, Muslim Extremist views, or for conservative political views. Why ? Afraid of a military coop, or a popular uprising ? To establish a Leftist version of martial law to enforce Leftist ideology at odds with the Constitution ? To establish a Socialist-Communist State ?
Did not Obama begin this purging of the military ? Here is a list of over 100 Military elite fired or forced to retire by Obama compiled by General Paul Vallely who said:
“Absolutely every communist regime on the planet did this as soon as they got in power. I am surprised this communist traitor [Obama] with his feet up on our furniture in the white house hasn’t done this until now!”
https://rense.com/general96/listof.html
Biden is being handled to continue and deepen the purge. Go along Generals or lose you command or your job or your retirement, if you push too far.
The Left must control those who rebel – so must control the military ! One of the final steps in the plan.
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As the Star Wars Emperor says: “Excellent ! Everything is going as planned.”
“Power! Unlimited Power!”
GFF says
A great piece, made me laugh (better than crying).
…”The Taliban may have won Afghanistan, but we’re winning the diversity race…”
I was reminded of Edmund (King Lear, Act 1 Scene 2), but I humbly paraphrase,
_’Now, gods, stand up for hetero white bastards!’
(William Shakespeare April 1564 – April 1616)
Isabella van der westhuizen says
There are tow ways to be remembered in military history. The first is to be a great captain like Alexander the Great , Marlborough or Napoleon. The second is to be in charge of a greta disaster like Custer of Chelmsford. General Miley has chosen the latter
owensgate says
This “general” has no business being in the U. S. Military. The most important function for a “General” in his position, is to UNDERSTAND THE ENEMY, and contemplate ways to WIN A WAR with same. Thank the Lord he wasn’t in charge in WWII. MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower didn’t have a clue about “White Rage” other than Hitler’s, they knew NOTHING about “correct pronouns”, “racial equity”, or “gender inclusiveness”, BUT THEY WON A WAR. It was the LAST time we won a war. At this rate, we’ll never win another. Our enemies KNOW this, and it empowers them.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Me, I heard that, before he goes to sleep at night, General Milley checks under his bed for white extremists,
Wellington says
Imagine Milley in charge of the Continental Army instead of Washington. Imagine Milley in charge of the Union Army instead of Grant. Imagine Milley in charge of the AEF instead of Pershing. Imagine Milley in charge of the European Theater in WWII instead of Eisenhower (and a nod to the British here by imagining a British version of Milley in charge of the British forces in WWII instead of Viscount Montgomery—and just think what that great British commander would have thought of Milley). Imagine Milley in charge of the Southwest Pacific Theater in WWII instead of MacArthur. Imagine Milley in charge of the Pacific Theater in WWII instead of Nimitz. Imagine Milley in charge in the Korean War instead of first MacArthur and then Ridgway.
Well, I’m sure everyone gets the point—except the Milleys out there (and there are a lot of them). God almighty, between the Milleys and the Bidens and their idiotic supporters America is falling precipitously.
Yep, lunacy on parade. The Great Power very possibly self-immolating. What a waste. And for what? For Leftism? For wokeness? For political correctness? For multiculturalism? For BLM? For critical race theory? For Islam? Time for a beer.
gravenimage says
+1
IanB says
Wellington,
Unfortunately what we are witnessing is the downfall of Western Civilisation.
The signs are the same as those witnessed before the collapse of the Roman Empire:
INTERNAL STRIFE and BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL COHESION
ECONOMIC DETERIORATION
WEAK GOVERNANCE
MORAL DECLINE
WEAKENED MILITARY LEADERSHIP
BARBARIAN MIGRATION AND INVASION
The West hasn’t learned from history.
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marc says
Hi IanB,
That’s very spammy what you did there, pasting the same reply to a half dozen posts, please refrain from this behaviour,
IanB says
My apologies Marc.
Jon Sobieski says
How much poison can a nation take before it dies? DIE is everywhere in the US. You cannot escape from it. It is all a fraud, yet the price is gong through the roof. Buy DIE!
IanB says
Unfortunately what we are witnessing is the downfall of Western Civilisation.
The signs are the same as those witnessed before the collapse of the Roman Empire:
INTERNAL STRIFE and BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL COHESION
ECONOMIC DETERIORATION
WEAK GOVERNANCE
MORAL DECLINE
WEAKENED MILITARY LEADERSHIP
BARBARIAN MIGRATION AND INVASION
The West hasn’t learned from history.
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gravenimage says
While Afghanistan Fell, Military and CIA Focused on Diversity
…………….
This is what societal suicide looks like.
IanB says
Unfortunately what we are witnessing is the downfall of Western Civilisation.
The signs are the same as those witnessed before the collapse of the Roman Empire:
INTERNAL STRIFE and BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL COHESION
ECONOMIC DETERIORATION
WEAK GOVERNANCE
MORAL DECLINE
WEAKENED MILITARY LEADERSHIP
BARBARIAN MIGRATION AND INVASION
The West hasn’t learned from history.
Shirley Ann says
Shame on the SELF-LOATHING WHITE MAN, GENERAL MILLEY, he hates every White Military Man & while showing his hatred on TV, the Taliban was taking over Afghanistan. Milley’s Hatred for President Trump is Legendary & that Hatred has allowed this man to FORGET HIS DUTY TO THE USA. A More Honorable Man would have resigned in SHAME, but not this Self-Loathing General. The Trio of Milley, Biden & Pelosi must accept the blame for the horror in AFGHANISTAN. MY VIEW!
IanB says
Unfortunately what we are witnessing is the downfall of Western Civilisation.
The signs are the same as those witnessed before the collapse of the Roman Empire:
INTERNAL STRIFE and BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL COHESION
ECONOMIC DETERIORATION
WEAK GOVERNANCE
MORAL DECLINE
WEAKENED MILITARY LEADERSHIP
BARBARIAN MIGRATION AND INVASION
The West hasn’t learned from history.
Spideyweb1 says
Where is a General George Patton when you need him!? This “General” needs a hard slap across his face! Yellow bellied coward bowing to woke Marxist scum who this officer swore to protect the constitution of the U.S. against foreign and domestic enemies.. disgraceful
Giacomo Latta says
”To that end the CIA had unrolled an ad campaign featuring a Latina cisgender intersectional worker wearing a pink gender power clenched fist t-shirt.”
A terrific idea! No evil foreign government will be able to tell the difference between ordinary US Embassy employees and those which are CIA plants.
OLD GUY says
I don’t know what world our leaders live in, but it sure doesn’t look like the same one the rest of us live in. In their make believe world they can change the world with their magic wand $ spent and expensive talk. You know what it is not working. Sometimes you have to just step up and kick ass. Or stay the hell away from the thugs.
The western world including Russia, China, Europe and the Americas need to stop the Islamic threat to the civilized world. You can already see the migration invasion of islam around the world, and what it is doing to the coast countries society.
Major Tom says
Cleverly timed for the anniversary of 9-11…….Now watch the Jihadi attacks commence….
IanB says
Marc
On re-examination I replied to four posts, not “half a dozen” that I understand to mean six. Perhaps you have a different interpretation. I wanted the original posters to see my message and I hope they have.
I object most strongly to any implication that the CONTENT of my post was spam. It was not, it was a very important contribution.
Perhaps Americans are very sensitive at the moment so that any expressions of US weakness are resented. I can understand that. I don’t apologise for that.
My apology for transgressing any multiple post rule still stands.
I have cancelled my subscription to JW.
IanB
marc says
Cross posting and reposting the same comment is widely considered as spammy.
Posting in all CAPs as you did is rude and shouty.
There was nothing wrong with the content, but your feeling entitled to just dump on our doorstep, and then say we are too sensitive says more about you than me.
But yeh, my math sucks, sorry.