Poor guy won’t be forgetting THIS one anytime soon.
On a day to give thanks for all the blessings of America, it fell to Gary Beckstrom to announce to the world the death of his twenty-year-old daughter, Sarah. That will taint Thanksgiving every year for the rest of Mr Beckstrom’s life – in part because his child’s blood is on the hands not just of her killer but of the public policy that enabled the murderer to be on the streets of what passes for the national capital. Thanks, America!
The Democrats are in favour of admitting the killer of the next Sarah Beckstrom, and non-Trump Republicans are happy to string along. Here is the famously rock-ribbed “conservative” Bill Kristol, a few weeks after the fall of Kabul:
Follows, a particularly obnoxious Tweet/X from the loathsome Kristol asserting, to wit:
Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/CdKZCCm2BO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol)
Is Mr Steyn done, you ask? No, Mr Steyn most certainly is NOT done; in fact, Mr Steyn is just getting started.
Mr Kristol was the most prominent cheerleader for the two-decade unwon wars that made the supposed hyperpower a global laughingstock. After spending so long urging Americans to die for Jalalabad, he should surely have picked up along the way an actual fact or two about the joint. Otherwise, he risks appearing a shallow, parochial bleepwit whose “Project for the New American Century” looks more like a Project for a No American Century.
Facts? For starters, as I wrote in The National Post of Canada twenty-four sodding years ago, in Afghanistan it is forbidden by law for women to feel sunlight on their faces. Perhaps Bill Kristol could impose similar strictures on his own womenfolk and let us know how it goes.
To take him more seriously than he deserves, presumably Kristol believes that Charlie Kirk’s claims to Americanness rest on outmoded concepts such as being born in America to American parents and being raised in American institutions such as the Presbyterian Church and the Boy Scouts. Whereas to the Wanker Right America is nothing so vulgar and restrictive but is instead an “idea”, whereby simply by getting off the boat at Ellis Island and setting foot on American soil one imbibes the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of nine-year-old child brides from the next village. Whoops, sorry, I mean the pursuit of happiness.
Had it right the first time, Mark, but what the hey.
Loads more to this one yet, of which you should definitely read the all, it being Steyn and all. For my own part, I’d like to ask a question if I may: Has there ever, in all of recorded history, been any other single person who has been so spectacularly wrong so many times as Bill Effing Kristol? Take your time with that answer, gang, no rush. Really, when you get right down to it, this could well be another instance of the type of question which, as they say, to ask is to answer.
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It’s also on the hands of those who first called the deployments “illegal” and “Unconstitutional” and then called for disobeying “illegal” orders.
Well, if the Troops are obeying illegal orders aren’t they doing something illegal, Unconstituional and frankly, immoral too?
In the sick minds of their followers this is simple logic. She DESERVED to die, or at least get shot. She’s a Fascist Stormtrooper.
Besides the decades long dehumanization of our troops, and the Deplorables that cling bitterly and volunteer for the Fascist Military led by OrangeManBad Literally Hitler…
BTW a framework of a thought in my mind develops (I know, the jokes write themselves)
What if something was made to appear Stochastic, but behind the scenes was manipulated so that it wasn’t random at all. It was pre-planned?
You take misfit malcontents and groom them. You set it up so they’re ready to go. Then they just wait. When a certain mass communication that was preplanned arises they are triggered.
Sort of an actual Manchurian Candidate set up like the Solitaire Game and the Red Queen of Diamonds.
Except the Queen of Diamonds is a random politician who is tasked with giving a Speech in which he says the Magic Words. The politician may not even know they are the triggering mechanism. Doesn’t matter. As long as they deliver the line. As a matter of fact, having no connection beforehand between the politican and the terrorist is preferable.
But the connection is there amongst the Intelligence Agents running the Terrorist and their counterparts running the Politician.
Who is going to Investigate the Investigators?
The CIA has spent billions learning how to do these type things.
kristol is probably on many lists where ever he is. It’s a good thing probably
I went to the Ellis Island museum. Even there they went to great lengths to note that people didn’t just get off the boat and get into America.
They were screened for health issues. Any found, back on the boat home.
Then they were interviewed for anti-American sentiments or simple craziness. Fail and back in the boat home.
Each one has to have a sponsor of good standing already in America. None? Back on the boat home.
That wasn’t a perfect system but it was far better than we have now. At least until Trump got involved and started fixing it.