Daniel Greenfield August 19, 2021 Sultan Knish Blog
"I
want to understand white rage, and I’m white," Gen. Mark Milley, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whined at a congressional
hearing.
He might have done better to understand Muslim rage.
A
week after his testimony, the Taliban had not only doubled their number
of districts, but possessed hundreds of captured U.S. armored vehicles,
along with artillery and drones.
The Pentagon's spokesman told reporters to ask the Afghan military about the gear.
In May, Milley had
shrugged off questions about whether the Afghan military would survive.
“We frankly don’t know yet. We have to wait and see how things develop
over the summer.”
The Afghan military was beginning to fall apart while Milley was defending critical race theory.
A
week earlier, the New York Times had described "demoralized" Afghan
forces "abandoning checkpoints and bases en masse." Two days after
Milley’s disgraceful performance, the media reported that even the Taliban were “surprised” at how fast they were advancing.
At
the beginning of July, the Biden administration abandoned Bagram Air
Force Base. A week later the Taliban reclaimed the Panjwayi District
where the Jihadist movement had gotten its start, seized the largest
border crossing with Iran and the millions in revenue that came with it.
The
United States Army responded by announcing that it was putting "a
renewed emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and equity" or DEI. Had the
brass ordered it as diversity, inclusion, and equity, the resulting
acronym would have been more reflective of the real world.
While
the Taliban were conquering Afghanistan's rural provinces and then
moving on to besieging its cities, the Army was wrestling with the
"effective messaging that demonstrates why DEI efforts are critical to
the success of the Army". The new messaging would explain how the
"talents of a diverse workforce" that included "language, race, color,
disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and
gender identity" were vital to whatever its mission was.
The
Taliban, who were mostly Sunni Islamist Pashtun tribesmen, would spend
the next two months demonstrating that diversity was not a strength, but
a serious weakness.
While the Afghan government and its military
were divided between diverse tribal factions, some of whom would flee
to Iran and others to Uzbekistan (depending on whether they were Hazaras
or Uzbeks) while the Pashtuns would surrender to their fellow Taliban
tribesmen, the Taliban showed that unity would stomp diversity in the
face and then dance on its grave.
Meanwhile the military brass in this country, as discussed in my recent pamphlet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country,
was busy dividing our own military from within in pursuit of diversity,
pitting black and white service members against each other in “critical
conversations” and urging them to accuse their country and services of
“systemic racism”.
As the Army brass were striving to establish
the “Army as a global leader in DEI”, America’s enemies were plotting to
become global leaders in land, power, and military victories.
By late July, Milley admitted that, "Strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban."
By
"sort of", Milley meant that the Taliban had more than doubled their
territory again and were marching on half of the provincial capitals.
Few
reporters asked follow-up questions about the "sort of" because the
leading story in D.C. was an anti-Trump book which flatteringly
portrayed Milley as preventing a Trump "coup".
No one, from the media to Milley, cared about the actual coup underway in Afghanistan.
"This
department will be diverse. It will be inclusive," Biden's Secretary of
Defense Lloyd Austin insisted. "I’m committed to that. This department
is committed to that. The chairman’s committed to that.”
While
Biden’s brass were pledging allegiance to diversity, Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi welcomed Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to
the People’s Republic of China. Yi praised the Taliban as a "a pivotal
military and political force" and mocked the United States.
The
United States Army was busy “developing and implementing a strategic
plan to advance DEI across the Total Force” as the Taliban seized the
capitals of Helmand and Herat.
But the Navy faced its own crisis
when Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr. warned at a DEI
panel at the Sea Air Space conference that removing photos from
promotion boards, a diversity measure from last year, actually
undermined diversity because the brass no longer knew exactly how many
minorities they were artificially promoting to fit diversity quotas.
While
the Navy was grappling with this dark night of the soul, Staff Sgt.
Nicholas Jones with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion received the Navy
Cross for his heroism during a six-hour battle with ISIS last year
during which he rescued a French ally and risked his life to try and
rescue two wounded comrades.
Jones “continued fighting until forcibly evacuated”.
Sadly,
Jones is a straight white man from Kansas, and doesn’t really fit the
DEI template, but in happier diversity defense news, the new Navy
Secretary is an immigrant, the first female sailor graduated from Naval
Special Warfare training, and the Naval Institute published a
confession by Lieutenant Commander David Elsenbeck that he was
"unconsciously biased" and a "member of the dominant group in a society
suffering from institutionalized and historically ingrained bias”.
Eisenbeck urged immediate “bias education”.
American
POWs used to be starved, beaten, and had bamboo shoots driven under
their fingernails without repeating the Marxist dogma they were being
indoctrinated with. But hardly a week goes by now without another litany
of Marxist confessions at military struggle sessions.
The
Taliban, who actually are a member of the dominant group, began
swallowing up a series of provincial capitals and marrying off young
girls to their Jihadists. Back home, the Virginia Military Institute’s
first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, Jamica Love, announced that she
intended to pursue "institutional change" to transform the VMI's
culture. That’s what the Taliban were also up to.
While the
Taliban advanced, CIA Director William Burns commented that increasing
"diversity and inclusion" was among his top priorities. "We cannot be
effective around the world if everybody looks like me," he complained.
To that end the CIA had unrolled an ad campaign featuring a Latina
cisgender intersectional worker wearing a pink gender power clenched
fist t-shirt. But the widely hated woke ad was only the tip of the
agency’s diversity iceberg.
"At CIA, we don’t just leverage
diversity, equity, and inclusion; we embrace and celebrate it," an
agency diversity report insisted. "This ethos must be woven in to our
day-to-day tasks."
How were diversity and equity woven into the task of monitoring the Taliban's advance?
No
one knows. But, like the military, the CIA went on holding "critical
conversations" in which minority employees were encouraged to spout
racism accusations.
Sonya Holt, Deputy Associate Director of CIA
for Talent for Diversity and Inclusion, who had started out as a mere
recruiter, assured that through DEI, "the Agency will be better prepared
to address intelligence challenges and support its customers."
While
CIA officers were learning “how diversity, equity, and inclusion are
essential to mission success”, the agency began belatedly considering
how to extract its assets from Afghanistan.
Recent intelligence reports "warned that Kabul could fall to the Taliban within years".
But
while the CIA tried to figure out how it would collect intelligence on
the Taliban after the withdrawal, its employees did have the benefit of
15 affinity groups including ANGLE (Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Officers and Allies), DAC (Deaf Advisory
Council) and SALAAM (South Asian Leadership and Advisory Membership.)
The
CIA was also working to hire “neurodiverse” personnel, which it defined
as people suffering from ADD, Dyslexia, or Tourette's Syndrome. Or as
the CIA 'wokely' put it "differences labeled with" these syndromes.
Key
Afghan figures had warned that there was a conspiracy underway to hand
Afghanistan to the Taliban. The drumroll surrenders of cities and much
of the Afghan military appeared to confirm that backroom deals had been
made. The obvious players able to pull off such deals were Pakistan’s
ISI spy agency, the original backers of the Taliban, along with Turkey
and Qatar.
Biden’s CIA director had turned to Pakistan in the
hopes of allowing the agency to run a spy base in the country that had
harbored Osama bin Laden. The Biden administration’s military and
diplomatic response to the Taliban was being run out of Qatar. And it
had handed security at Kabul Airport over to Turkey before frantically
taking it back when the Taliban took the city.
The CIA should have been on top of this, but it had better things to do with its time.
An
unclassified intelligence community report did warn that the Taliban
was “broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights."
The Taliban have now taken over Afghanistan, but it’s not all bad news on the military front
."While
Trump administration Pentagon nominees were overwhelmingly white and
male, the Biden administration says 54% of its national security
nominees ― to the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for
International Development ― are women, 40% are people of color, and at
least 7% identify as LGBTQ," the publication thrillingly reports.
Better
yet, "recent weeks saw two LGBTQ women confirmed to top military
positions. Air Force Undersecretary Gina Ortiz Jones is the first out
lesbian to serve as undersecretary of a military branch, while Shawn
Skelly, the assistant secretary of defense for readiness, is the first
out transgender person in the job and highest-ranking out transgender
defense official in U.S. history."
The State Department is doing
its part by asking the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative
government.” And if they refuse to have as many neurodiverse black
transgender defense officials as us, Biden won’t give them any more
humvees, artillery, choppers, or drones.
The Taliban may have won
Afghanistan, but we’re winning the diversity race. And since diversity
is more important than winning wars or being a military superpower,
we’re beating the Taliban. Not to mention Russia, China, and Iran in the
field of transgender defense officials.
As I warned in the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s booklet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, wokeness is leading our military to disaster, disgrace, and defeat.
Diversity,
Inclusion, and Equity, (sorry, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is at
“the heart of everything” that Biden’s military does and our performance
reflects the focus on DEI.
Afghanistan is a disaster, but we’ll have the most diverse military in the world or DEI trying.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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