US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's callous stupidity

© 2021 Peter Free

 

14 September 2021

 

 

Can we really not do any better than this?

 

First, we have a dementia-plummeting Commander in Chief.

 

Second, his chief Cabinet hand is a bellicose idiot.

 

And third, almost everyone acts as if this situation is normal.

 

 

Consider the following

 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken — whose wimpish inner nastiness would offend any red-blooded (humanitarian-inclined) American patriot — made an ass of himself, as well as the nation — during Senator Rand Paul's eminently reasonable questioning about the US drone strike that killed 7 children in Afghanistan:

 

 

“The guy the Biden administration droned — was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?” Paul asked Blinken during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

 

“The administration is, of course, reviewing that strike, and I’m sure that a, you know, full assessment will be forthcoming,” Blinken responded.

 

“So you don’t know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative? . . . You don’t know or you won’t tell us?” Paul said.

 

“I don’t know because we’re reviewing it,” Blinken answered.

 

“See, you’d think you’d kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he’s an aid worker or an ISIS-K” operative, Paul said.

 

© 2021 Zachary Evans, Blinken Dodges on Whether Afghanistan Drone Strike Targeted Aid Worker Instead of ISIS Bomber, National Review (14 September 2021)

 

 

Watch video of the Senate interaction here:

 

 

Fox News, Rand Paul grills Blinken on Kabul airstrike in heated hearing, YouTube (14 September 2021)

 

 

Yes, one would think that . . .

 

. . . we would properly identify and correctly hit our target.

 

Even a four-year old would assume so.

 

But evidently not — Secretaries Blinken and Austin, Joint Chiefs chairman General Milley — or that combined piss puddle's Commander in Chief.

 

 

We can deduce that

 

American leadership has given up even the pretense of being morally guided.

 

All that is left on global display now, is our gargantuanly murderous national incompetence.

 

 

The moral? — If you want to see Evil in action, watch American leadership

 

It does the Devil's work every day.

 

Worse, no one genuinely influential bats an eye. At least not for any of the right reasons.

 

Ted Rall describes us appropriately:

 

 

Unfortunately for us and the world, we learned nothing from 9/11.

 

Not even losing Afghanistan back to the Taliban in the most humiliating U.S. defeat since Vietnam, having nothing to show for 20 years of war, has taught us a thing.

 

We’re still a hammer that sees everything as a nail — a blunt, stupid people whose idea of a plan is to keep indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians.

 

 

© 2021 Ted Rall, 20 Years After 9/11, We're Still Morons, Unz Review (10 September 2021)