US Pentagon lied (again) about Afghanistan troop numbers — to the then Commander in Chief

© 2021 Peter Free

 

17 March 2021

 

 

Where is Joseph Stalin's 'purging' directness, when we need it?

 

To wit, from The New York Times:

 

 

Facing a high-stakes choice and running out of time to make it, the Biden administration is wrestling with whether to follow through with a full withdrawal in the next seven weeks of the 2,500 American troops still in Afghanistan — except, as it turns out, that number is actually around 3,500.

 

The cloudy accounting around the troop numbers results from some Special Operations forces having been put “off the books,” according to a senior U.S. official . . . .

 

Having more troops in a country than the Defense Department officially acknowledges is common practice. From Syria to Yemen to Mali, the United States often details military troops to the CIA or other agencies, declares that information “classified” and refuses to publicly acknowledge their presence.

 

So last year, as former President Donald J. Trump pushed for rapid troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, the Defense Department and other national security agencies used familiar methods to move numbers around, which made troop levels seem to be dropping faster than they really were.

 

It was comparable to what happened in 2019, when Mr. Trump wanted to pull forces from Syria, U.S. officials said.

 

© 2021 Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt, U.S. Has 1,000 More Troops in Afghanistan Than It Disclosed, New York Times (14 March 2021)

 

 

In other words

 

When an American commander in chief wants to do something that the Military Industrial Complex disapproves of — such as withdrawing US troops from Syria and Afghanistan — Subterranean America's four star military apparatchiks reportedly lie to him. And to us.

 

So much for civilian control of our own country.

 

 

Structurally speaking

 

No chief executive should permit such duplicitous undermining of his and her structurally granted chain of authority.

 

Ergo, the historically demonstrated merit of Joseph Stalin's 'purge-the-weasels-away' solution.

 

Or similarly, the arguable virtue currently embodied in China's emphatically top down — as opposed to corporations and connivers up — societal authority chain.

 

 

In short — America exists solely to benefit its Military Industrial Complex

 

Everything else is a charade designed to mask truth and prevent reining in the Imperium's profiteers.

 

Remember this, when tempted to complain about other nations' supposedly "aggressive" behaviors.

 

There are no angels at the United States' lucre-worshipping, hidden helm.

 

Devils only, from sea to shining sea.

 

 

The moral? — Should we purge these uniformed miscreants in Jesus and Stalin's names?

 

Admittedly, exercising morality and control in national leadership is, seemingly always, twisted. Ya gotta be happy, wielding the purge scalpel.

 

Aesthetically speaking, I 'sorta' favor public firing squads for the Lying Four Stars. That way, everyone's dignity can be maintained, during the Great Winnowing's truth reconciliation process. Blindfolds optional.

 

We could sell Witnessing Tickets.

 

Maybe exclusively from American small businesses. A win-win for the little guys. As well as a form of post-COVID shut-down(s) economic relief.

 

Do you see any downsides?

 

At all?

 

These firing squads, you know, could be 100 percent 'diverse'. A sop to Democrats.

 

We could even start an Identity Fractionization Lottery to fairly appoint firing squad leaders. They could wear special uniforms of the lottery winners' choosing(s). An affordable hundred dollars extra for the privilege.

 

By golly, I'm getting excited about this Grand Purge Idea.

 

America's privately-run prison complex could be appointed to build and staff a gulag system. Gulags are where the many associated Deep State miscreants — who do not rise to Lying Four Star execution status — would go.

 

Forever, of course. Can't be too lenient with Underminers of the Great American Democracy.

 

Gee willikers, I think that we've stumbled across a verifiable Make America Great Again program.

 

Joe 'Scumbag' Biden and Kamala the Harasser could initiate all this.

 

They would, thereby, leave their (otherwise sub-mediocre) names finely emblazoned in Time's human-accorded honor roll.

 

I can see the museum's embodiment now:

 

 

Joe and Joseph, metaphorically striding together across History's great cutting swath.

 

Certainly equivalent to paintings of George Washington crossing the Delaware.

 

Kamala could be seated at the boat's stern, keeping its crew on course to their far-shore destination.

 

 

Even a dementia-battling American president, should salivate at such a glory-earning prospect.