December, 2019, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: The Failure That Is Afghanistan, Ocasio-Cortez Takes Her Gaffes and Anti-Israel Gaffes International and A Democrat For President Gets Punked

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Often times the race to be the Democratic Presidential candidate for 2020 reminds me of a clown car. A bunch of clownish figures that run around making fools of themselves in an attempt to get our attention. It would be funny if it were not so scary to think that one of these folks might actually run for President.

One of the strangest candidates is a so-called self help guru, Marianne Williamson. To my knowledge she has never held elected office. To my knowledge she is not a dynamic and successful business person. To my knowledge she is not trained in law, economics, or international policy, traits that one might want in a President.

And based on a recent gaffe, she seems to not be real thorough when it comes to stating as fact something that is impossible:

• She recently believed a fake news story that stated that Trump had pardoned mass murderer Charles Manson.
• Problem is that Charles Manson died in 2017 so that Trump could not have pardoned him to give him his freedom and he did not even pardon him posthumously.
• She wrote to her Twitter followers that “there is something deeply sinister about Trump pardoning Charles Manson, even posthumously.”
• The theory is that she picked up this information that was originally published on a known satirical website called MoronMajority and the story was then picked by the Daily Kos, a left wing website that did not label the story as satire.

After she got lambasted on twitter she took the initial Manson Tweet down, offered a half ass apology and then took the apology down.

Seriously, in this age of instant information access, she could not have done two minutes of research before making a fool of herself? If she is so easily fooled by an idiotic Internet story like this, how easily would Putin, Kim, and the rest of the world fool her and take advantage of her if she was President? Lord help us. 

2) Not happy displaying her ignorance on a whole range of topics in this country, our favorite political gaffe machine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex decided that she should display her ignorance on the international stage as well. She recently Twitter endorsed and supported the leader of the British labor party Jeremy Corbyn in advance of national elections over in England:



Let’s start off with the reality that she really has no business sticking her nose in the elections of a foreign country, it is not appropriate and she probably has no value to add to that election. But more importantly, think about what she is endorsing:

• The National Review recently listed out the strong anti-Semitism history of Corbyn.
• He once invited members of Hamas and Hezbollah, sworn terror enemies of Israel, to the British Parliament as “friends.”
• He was paid about $27,000 to appear on Iranian Press TV, a country that is the worst terrorist nation in the world.
• He once falsely asserted that Israel was involved in a terror attack in Egypt.
• In 2014 he went to Tunisia to celebrate the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
• He once compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
• He has attended events hosted by Deir Yassin Remembered, a group operated by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen.

This is the kind of person that Ocasio-Cortez is supporting. Rather than focus on taking care of her NYC constituents and the affairs of this country, she pokes her nose into foreign affairs, where she has no stake or knowledge, and supports a hateful, anti-Israel foreign politician. Sad, sad set of priorities.3) We have often reported on the disaster that is Afghanistan from a financial and wasting of tax payer wealth. It is also obvious that militarily this has not been a success since 18 years into the affair we are still mired down in a no win situation.And now the Washington Post has reported on how the past three Presidential administrations have been a total failure in this endeavor:

• The Washington Post recently reported on as massive trove of documents that illustrate how many government officials felt that the war in Afghanistan has been a failure even though they had publicly proclaimed that it was going well.
• Douglas Lute, who served both Bush and Obama and is a retired three star Army general had this opinion in 2015: "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn't know what we were doing. What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
• He continued: "If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction ... 2,400 lives lost. Who will say this was in vain?"
• Yes, over 2,000 American lives lost, over 20,000 U.S.soldiers wounded, over 700,000 troops having been deployed in the country, almost a trillion dollars spent and we have basically nothing to show for it.
• According to the Post, Bush, Obama and now Trump "have been unable to deliver on their promises to prevail in Afghanistan."
• All told, since 2001, the Pentagon, the State Department and the U.S.Agency for International Development have likely spent between $934 and $978 billion in the country. 
• Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy SEAL told government interviewers in the documents: "What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth $1 trillion? After the killing of Osama bin Laden [in 2011], I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave, considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”

Another example, a very, very gross and expensive example, of how the American political class does very few things well and far more often than not does many things horribly and expensively bad. Which is why our desire is for politicians and the government bureaucracies they overlook to do very few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things and do them horribly bad. The Afghanistan disaster is probably one of the grossest examples of government ineptness and it cost the country dearly in lives and wealth.That will do it for today: a gullible Presidential candidate, an ant-Semitic NYC politician and a massive and expensive government failure in Afghanistan.

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