I probably shouldn’t start making fun of it until after landfall but they downgraded Henri to a tropical storm or maybe even down to a fairly hefty belch and it is moving the trees around and dropping a decent amount of rain. I’ve upgraded it to Superstorm status since I like things that are super. The worst of the trouble may come from downed power lines but so far it’s a relatively tame storm.
I said the other day that it was too soon to declare the Afghanistan Withdrawal a full blown horror show that finishes Joe Biden’s credibility as POTUS. Well we’ve inched a little closer to that stage. The level of incompetence is pretty impressive both on the military side and the intelligence side. It looks like the Taliban is giving the Americans the chance to get out but the Biden administration appears extremely inept at marshalling its forces to follow through on a coherent plan. If this goes on much longer I wouldn’t be surprised if bad things start happening almost on their own. A power vacuum draws in secondary players who see an opportunity to grab some small prize. American hostages would seem to be the biggest opportunity.
As for everything else, I’ll put up a few posts on stuff that I’ve been thinking about.
Glad Henri’s a dud. The Conservative Tree House presents a capsule of internal US DC political combat web relative to Afghanistan.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/22/through-the-media-prism-afghanistan-and-u-s-geopolitical-teams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=through-the-media-prism-afghanistan-and-u-s-geopolitical-teams
Thanks Neil. So it sounds like the State Department and the Pentagon are separate wings of the permanent Deep State and hate each other almost as much as they hate us. Where this all ends up is way beyond my understanding but if we ever get the Presidency and the Congress under our control again gutting the Deep State should be the priority.