Trump’s Criticism of ‘Idiot’ Woke General Is a Reminder of How Far We’ve Come

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We aren’t even six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, and so much has changed. The president himself gave us a bracing reminded of that on Tuesday, when he upbraided the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the woke leftist Gen. Mark Milley, for leaving behind billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware as the U.S. ignominiously cut and run from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Trump recalled: “But with all that equipment that they left, they should have taken every ounce of it. I said, ‘Every screw, every bolt, every nail you take out of there.’ And Milley said, I remember one time, ‘Sir, we’re better off leaving the equipment.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, it’s cheaper.” Trump found that response appalling, and that’s only because it was.

“That’s when I knew he was an idiot,” Trump continued. “Didn’t take long to figure that one out. But they left all that equipment. But they left their dignity behind. It was the most embarrassing moment, in my opinion, in the history of our country. Not that we got out. We should have not been there, but that we got out the way we got out with great embarrassment and death.”

Indeed. And it was all done on purpose. Milley testified last year that “the outcome in Afghanistan was the result of many decisions from many years of war. Like any complex phenomena, there was no single causal factor that determined the outcome.” Uh huh. In light of dissembling statement, it’s useful to remember what the top military brass were doing when they should have been preparing for a safe and successful withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In June 2021, Milley was asked at a congressional hearing about the Biden regime’s effort to saddle U.S. military personnel with mandatory readings and briefings on the topic of Critical Race Theory. Milley bristled at the question and answered: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.”

Sure. But was Milley studying these Marxist doctrines to oppose them… or impose them? Had Milley and his colleagues spent all the time they wasted on studying Critical Race Theory on instead studying the Islamic doctrines of the enemies it was supposed to be fighting in Afghanistan and around the globe, perhaps we would have avoided many of the mistakes which led to the Aug. 2021 debacle.

At that hearing, Milley continued defensively: “So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, ‘woke’ or something else, because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”

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