Like the generals who came before him, CENTCOM Commander General Kenneth Frank McKenzie Jr. (USMC) is responsible for the deaths of men America entrusted to his care because he made an affirmative decision not to know and understand his enemy.
His decision not to do basic due diligence to KNOW THE ENEMY is unprofessional. When people die because of a person’s unprofessional conduct, the law calls that “Criminal Negligence.”
We put doctors and lawyers in jail for that.
Today, 10 Marines, 2 U.S. Army soldiers, and 1 Navy corpsman are among the 73 dead in a martyrdom attack by jihadis in Kabul, Afghanistan.
General McKenzie, like most people in the U.S. national security apparatus, made an affirmative decision to never read/understand any Islamic law/sharia despite the fact 100% of the people killing Americans across the globe tell us they are “Muslims waging jihad in the cause of Allah” to establish a “caliphate under Allah’s divine law/sharia.”
owensgate says
The blind can see it now. Our military has been purged of any officers like MacArthur, Patton, Nimitz, Eisenhower, etc., and instead we’re left with leftist commie garbage. Sen. McCarthy was correct; there would be no “Deep State” today if he was allowed to finish.
maria says
Mc Kenzie should be immediately recalled and indict for the death of American soldiers.
The best general in the US is Gen. Mike Flynn
And you are right McCarthy was correct. He was trying to save the US
Sharon ODonnell says
73 % of military volunteers come from Florida Georgia and Maine .
We side with the American People .
God County Corps .
gravenimage says
Criminal Negligence
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Grimly insightful analysis by John Guandolo.
mortimer says
Guandolo is correct: the top generals should be accountable for MALPRACTICE … namely, they did not know the Taliban enemy and what he was planning to do. The POTUS is equally to blame as a naïve, uninformed, lazy yes-man devoid of the ability to make informed, wise decisions. The 98-lb weakling in the White House is an empty suit. The generals should have resigned, rather than implement his disastrous, stupid withdrawal.
Political Islam has annihilated every culture it has invaded or immigrated to. The total time for annihilation takes centuries, but once Islam is ascendant it never fails. The host culture disappears and becomes extinct.
We must learn the doctrine of political Islam to survive. The doctrine is very clear that all forms of force and persuasion may and must be used to conquer us. Islam is a self-declared enemy of all unbelievers. The brilliant Chinese philosopher of war, Sun Tsu, had the dictum—know the enemy. We must know the doctrine of our enemy or be annihilated.
Terry Gain says
Mortimer
Your use of the term political Islam is itself negligent. You are dreaming in technicolour if you think NATO is going to invade Afghanistan.
Nothing has been accomplished in 20 years so you want to continue doing the same thing for another 30 to 40 years. This is insanity.
Yes, it’s true that Muslims are leaving Islam. They leave when they realize that Islam is not a religion or that Mohammed, if he existed at all, was an evil man.
People who use expressions like “radical Islamic terrorists” are brain dead. What is the difference between an Islamic terrorist and a radical Islamic terrorist?
gravenimage says
Mortimer, “political Islam” is just Islam.
IQ al Rassooli says
Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” sums up America’s total failure in Afghanistan: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle; because it is obvious that not a single one of the political and military leaders have done their work to understand the Muslim mind and belief system of Sharia thus sustained repeated failures no matter how well armed they are.
One cannot realistically threaten Muslim Jihadists with death, since this is exactly what their Sharia mandates to them; to die slaughtering Infidels/Kuffar/ non Muslims. Hence Biden is a total imbecile threatening with retribution what he cannot actually accomplish with the forces he has at hand unless he unleashes the air force to annihilate Taliban villages slaughtering their families just as they are doing to Afghans they consider traitors.
Muslims fear and respect only overwhelming force. How can one defeat an enemy who prefers Death over Life short of obliging them with death and sending to Muhammad’s whorehouse version of paradise???
gravenimage says
What would victory even look like for us in a nation that is statistically 100% Muslim?
Peter Burrows says
Good question!!
mortimer says
‘Victory’ means that large numbers of Muslims are leaving Islam and are leading others to leave it. In Afghastlistan, there were already many who secretly had left Islam. Afghastlistan must be occupied for at least another 30 or 40 years by NATO to stop Islamic terrorism. Once two generations have grown up without Islamist rule, they will have a chance to become a modern country.
Remember that the US still has military bases in Japan, Germany and Korea long after WWII and the Korean war. There was every reason to stay in Afghastlistan to keep the lid on and NATO should immediately take the country back so the Taliban doesn’t become consolidated. NATO will return eventually. May as well be right now when the Taliban are out in the open. Slaughter and exterminate the Taliban now.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, your idea that the US presence in Afghanistan has led to most Muslims there leaving Islam is mistaken. Afghanisgtan is still statistically 100% Muslim–estimates have been that there are about 5000 Christians there. Even if this pace continued, how many more westerners should die so that another few thousand Muslims might possibly leave Islam? This is out of *38 million* Muslims there.
There have been over 3,500 coalition deaths in Afghanistan. That is–what? More than one death for every two Muslim converts–and ten times as many maimed for life.
The idea that even 10,000 converts from Islam would lead to an end to Islamic terrorism in a nation of 38 million is mistaken.
And your constant claims that the Taliban are only a tiny handful of Jihadists in Afghanistan who can be easily wiped out makes no sense at all. Ignoring the 99% of Afghan Muslims who want the imposition of Shari’ah law there is suicidal.
DBM echo says
“General McKenzie, like most people in the U.S. national security apparatus, made an affirmative decision to never read/understand any Islamic law/sharia”
Stephen Coughlin did just that, and got booted for the effort.
gravenimage says
+1
IanB says
When he sees one of the Taliban Mob in full garb his first concern is what pronoun to use.
Walter Sieruk says
That CENTCOM commander is guilty of criminal because he totally failed to understand the violent and deadly essence of Islam.
StacyGirl says
Walter, we will not know our country in 2 years.
PRCS says
We don’t know what he knows or doesn’t.
As DBM echo reminds:
Stephen Coughlin did make an affirmative decision to read/understand Islamic culture and law. and suffered for that.
Of note: for every Coughlin who makes the effort to inform our “leaders”, the “radical Islam” bilge regurgitated by General Jack Keene (ret), Senator Lindsy Graham and so many others is what gets air time.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
Excellent video of Stephen Coughlin from 2016:
“Can Islam Coexist with Civilization?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQpVsa4YTg
OLD GUY says
I guess if you want to follow this back, you could take this to the university that he attended and see what WOKE, LEFTIST propaganda they were teaching our future leaders. If you teach weakness and individualism and that America is the problem to our children how can you expect strong national leadership when they become adults?
Our school system teaches mostly what we’ve done wrong and our mistakes without teaching the good that America has brought to the world. The GOOD way out weighs the bad. God bless America and the thousands of men and women who gave their lives for our freedom and future.
Jim Austin says
When the military leadership becomes politicized, defense of America and Americans ceases to be a paramount concern.
Walter Sieruk says
That CENTCOM general, Kenneth Frank Mc Kenzie, in indeed very guilty of criminal negligence because he totally failed in the basic rule of all warfare clearly made known the book THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu . Which is “Know your emery.”
Mc Kenzie completely failed to understand the violent and deadly nature that is one of the major parts of the religion of Islam. Therefore he lacked good judgement in knowing the jihadist enemy.
peter says
The truth is Afghanistan is not really 100 % islamic . Like Iran thousands of muslims who have left islam and leaving Islam are afraid to do so openly . I think the number of true adherents to islam is much less ans similar to people in Iran . And also there lot of closet gays,other minorities who are afraid to come out . You can trust any statistics from a muslim theocracy and ways and means should be found to support the secular elements in Afghanistan which may take time but will eventually happen in the next few decades and hopefully will overthrow this brutal theocracy . I am very optimistic!
gravenimage says
Uh huh–citations, please. And the Afghan army did almost nothing to stop the Taliban, despite outnumbering them and having sophisticated western weaponry.
StacyGirl says
+1
peter says
The truth is Afghanistan is not really 100 % islamic . Like Iran thousands of muslims who have left islam and leaving Islam ,the people are afraid to do so openly . I think the number of true adherents to islam is much less and similar to people in Iran . And also there are a lot of closet gays and ,other minorities who are afraid to come out . You cannot trust any statistics from a muslim theocracy and ways and means should be found to support the secular elements in Afghanistan which may take some time but will eventually happen in the next few decades and hopefully will overthrow this brutal theocracy . I am very optimistic!
I have tried to correct a number of typos in my last response .There may still be a few for which I beg your pardon!
gravenimage says
99% of Afghans say they want the impositon of Shari’ah law–how does this jibe with your claims? And just spamming something does not make it so.