On 4 September 2021, Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, said this on his own show:
"When Joe Biden finally became president, on inauguration day, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mark Milley, was so excited he couldn’t control himself. 'No one has a bigger smile today than I do,' Milley told Michelle Obama... The media people who have supported Biden from the very beginning, including a former C.I.A. Director, there are many of those on TV these days, also celebrated. They told us the adults were back in charge, they said. The orange man is gone—everything is going to be better now...
These days, Joe Biden's friends in the Pentagon and the 'foreign affairs desk' at NBC News no longer think he’s an adult. He abandoned American citizens and got thirteen Americans killed, and suddenly they seem a little ashamed. Plus, he’s turned his back on the neocon project and that’s the greatest offense of all.
But the bigger question is why our media and the military were talking like this in the first place. 'The adults are back in charge?' What does that mean, exactly? If you follow what our generals have been telling us for the past twenty years about Afghanistan, you quickly realize exactly what it means. 'Adults,' means people are willing who pretend that everything is going fine when in fact it is not going fine...
No matter how bad it got in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and its spokesmen repeatedly told us they were making incredible progress. And "progress" is the word they used again and again and again—almost as if they coordinated it... So if you’re wondering why Americans are so confused that Kabul fell in an afternoon and the Taliban controlled the country we occupied for 20 years, maybe it’s because they thought we were making progress...
Lying to the rest of us about what is actually happening with our troops with our money in our name in a foreign country has been the philosophy of this nation's military establishment for the last twenty years, and it's also the philosophy of every high-ranking official in the Biden administration. Project the illusion of progress, even when it's clear we're failing. Tony Blinken, who runs the State Department ineptly, just announced the news that more than a hundred American citizens are trapped in Afghanistan...
Back in April of this year, Tony Blinken's State Department that announced that it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on social programs in Afghanistan, to destroy the patriarchy—because that’s really our goal. Impose our modernist social values on prehistoric countries. We’re going to pay for programs that support 'women’s empowerment.' Where did that money go? To people like Dr. Bahar Jalali, who just posted this dirge for equity in Afghanistan on social media. 'For 8.5 years, I taught at the American University of Afghanistan as a faculty member and academic administrator,' she wrote. 'I founded the first Gender Studies program in Afghanistan's history there. All our work, hopes, dreams, progress. Only to have it snatched away so needlessly.'
It takes a special kind of arrogance, we used to call it cultural imperialism, to imagine other cultures want to ape your family structure for example. Isn't it up to Afghans to decide what families they want? No. We tried to impose our customs on them and they hated it and maybe that’s one of the reasons the Taliban took over in a weekend."
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