BY BRYAN PRESTON | P J MEDIA
AP
Photo/Alex Brandon
Simple question: Why?
At this point, the Pentagon is best known for publicly downplaying the threat the Taliban posed for
taking over all of Afghanistan, and for greenlighting closing its largest
operational base in Central Asia. It’s still purging competent minds but retaining and encouraging
its woke drones. Gen. Mark Milley, the 21st-century version of Gen. Custer,
still has a job.
Biden has lied, or remains unaware, about the fact that our allies are livid at him and questioning whether working with the United States is in their interests anymore. The Biden government hasn’t been straight about anything, from the number of stranded Americans to who is on the planes getting out to the inflation it has unleashed on the country. This regime still thinks white supremacy is a greater threat than the monsters they’ve unleashed and armed in Afghanistan.
One hesitates to go down the “question the timing” route,
but the fact is the Pentagon needed a good news story after weeks of
humiliating disaster and a terrorist attack that has now claimed 14 American lives. The Pentagon has also bought into
the “over-the-horizon” approach to terrorism.
Suddenly, BOOM, it had a positive story that just happens
to fit the over-the-horizon narrative. Supposedly.
It’s told us nothing specific about the strike that it says it carried out — not the targets,
not so much as a sketch of the intelligence that led up to the strike, not the
time or location other than an entire province in Afghanistan — Nangarhar.
That’s in eastern Afghanistan, so near Pakistan, so we can do some very rough
math from that. But it’s still a fairly big place.
We’ve seen no video or image. And it’s refusing to name
the individuals it claims have been turned into pink mist.
Again, why?
There might be a valid reason or two. This arrogant
administration isn’t bothering to offer one, if there is one. The two most
plausible reasons are that the targets weren’t really high-level, or there was
no strike. Or maybe they don’t really even know who they killed.
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