Tucker: The rules are different now

good evening and welcome to a special edition of tucker carlson tonight in july of 2017 every member of the joint chiefs of staff met with newly elected president donald trump for the first time it didn't go well you're all losers the president's told them according to a foreign policy magazine account you don't know how to win anymore now that's a harsh assessment obviously though arguably true but the joint chiefs of staff are keep in mind the country's highest ranking military officers their job is to follow the orders of elected officials and protect the country no matter how much their feelings may be hurt but in this case that's not what happened because the rules are different now according to u.s army major general paul eaton the president's insults that day and similar comments he made in public were a bitter humiliation for the country's military leaders and they made it their mission to undermine civilian control of the pentagon ever after quote i was really shocked by how many of my former colleagues voted for the former president and openly supported him eaton said but when trump turned on the military well the military turned on him end quote now keep in mind that's not how democracy is supposed to work military leaders report to the people you elect but again that's not what happened stories began leaking about how the president president trump was ignoring classified intelligence about russian bounties in afghanistan where do you think those stories came from they came from the pentagon that was payback then the military simply refused to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan even though they were ordered to do so by the elected president of the united states again no more civilian control of the military when joe biden finally became president on inauguration day the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley was so excited he couldn't control himself quote no one has a bigger smile today than i do millie told michelle obama sucking up like a child you can't see it under my mask but i do the media people who supported biden from the very beginning including a former cia director there are many of those on television these days also celebrated they told us that the adults were back in charge the orange man is gone everything is going to be better now anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched that and said the adults are back in the room it seems as though we have a a professional adult once again in the white house who's just simply doing the work really the the theme i would say is the adults are back still it is a relief to have adults in charge now we have adults in the white house okay the adults are back in the room there is a sense i think the world over that the adults have returned we have an adult in the white house now and it's glorious those clips are amazing to watch now simply because they consist of the most childish people in the country celebrating adulthood but they look especially absurd in light of what we've just seen in afghanistan these days joe biden's friends in the pentagon and the foreign affairs desk at nbc news no longer think he's an adult he abandoned american citizens he got 13 americans killed and suddenly they seem a little ashamed plus he's turned his back on the neocon project and that's the greatest defense of all but the bigger question is why our media and the military were talking like this in the first place the adults are back in charge what does that mean exactly well if you follow the generals who've been telling us for the past 20 years about afghanistan you realize very quickly adults means people who are willing to pretend that everything is fine when it's very much not fine consider that no matter how badly our mission in afghanistan was deteriorating by the way we were never clear what that mission was but clearly our strategy of pacifying the country was falling apart no matter how badly it got in afghanistan the pentagon and its many spokesman repeatedly told us we were making incredible progress and progress is the word they used again again and again almost as if they coordinated it in 2005 for example the head of u.s central command general john abazad told reporters quote over the three years we've been operating here afghanistan has shown interesting progress two years later the website task and purpose reported that another senior general dan mcneil had a similar message he said quote i'd like to point out there is significant progress in the forward move of the afghan national army in 2008 the commander the 101st airborne apparently another adult concurred that progress was ongoing quote we're making some steady progress here then in 2010 even as coalition casualties were increasing the progress somehow continued to unabate it it was progress no matter what a normal lieutenant general called david rodriguez informed reporters at a news conference in kabul quote we are steadily making deliberate can you guess progress that same year stanley mcchrystal then the commander of all u.s forces in afghanistan also wanted us to know progress was being made quote i think we have made significant progress in saying the conditions in 2009 and beginning some progress and we'll make real progress in 2010 which we remind you was 11 years ago then stanley mcchrystal was fired for criticizing the obama administration in particular the total incompetence of the current president joe biden and david petraeus took over and sure enough general petraeus quickly declared that quote progress has been achieved in some critical areas and we are poised to realize more progress just a year later in 2011 petraeus doubled down he told lawmakers that year that the past eight months have seen important but hard-fought progress speaking that summer to troops in kandahar the defense secretary at the time robert gates echoed that theme and what you've accomplished uh is extraordinary because over the last year essentially you have ejected the taliban from their uh from their home territory and if we can hold this territory and expand the bubble then i think i think by the end of the year we can turn the corner in this conflict gates didn't actually use the word progress he had more original language than that but the message was the same and just to make sure that message was crystal clear senior military leaders kept using that word a few years later the chairman of the joint chiefs general joseph dunford confirmed that progress was indeed continuing quote at this point we've made significant progress he said that in 2013 and then three years later in 2016 the new commander in afghanistan john w nicholson said the same thing we are seeing some progress as recently as last year a spokesman for mark milley said he was hard at work making sure to accelerate progress in afghanistan so if you're wondering why americans were so confused by the fact that kabul fell in an afternoon and the taliban controlled the country that we occupied for 20 years maybe it's because they thought we were making progress so consider that whole chronology you just heard consider the news that reuters broke this week about joe biden's recent conversation with the guy that we installed as the president of afghanistan some college professor called ashraf ghani joe biden told gani that even as the taliban were taking over the country this summer the most important thing to do is to keep up the appearance of you guessed it progress quote i need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of afghanistan i believe is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban president biden said and there is a need whether it is true or not there is a need to project a different picture end quote now two things to say about this first we know that conversation took place because the pentagon and or the state department leaked it to reuters now why would they do that because whatever biden's faults he did pull american troops out of afghanistan and they hate that so they leaked an audio tape of the president speaking to another head of state that's illegal you can't conduct statecraft if people are leaking the contents of your conversations and yet they're doing that to get back at him because he broke the rules he stopped permanent war he did it ineptly but he did it so lying to the rest of us about what is actually happening with our troops and our money in our name in foreign countries that has been the philosophy of this country's military establishment for 20 years it's also the philosophy of every high-ranking official in the biden administration project the illusion of progress even when it's clear we're failing tony blanken who runs the state department ineptly just announced the news that more than a hundred american citizens remain trapped in afghanistan really kind of progressed now u.s military flights have ended and our troops have departed afghanistan a new chapter of america's engagement with afghanistan has begun we believe there are still a small number of americans under 200 and likely closer to 100 who remain in afghanistan and want to leave we're trying to determine exactly how many we had 20 years to figure it out but we have no idea how many americans including school children remain in afghanistan because we're the adults in the room and that's why we're going to lead with our diplomacy now what does that look like exactly how do you lead with diplomacy well here's one example back in april of this year tony blinken state department announced that it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars in social programs in afghanistan to destroy the patriarchy because that's really our goal impose our modernist social values on prehistoric countries we're going to pay for programs that support women's empowerment would that money go well to people like dr bahar jalali who just posted this dirge for equity in afghanistan on social media quote for 8.5 years i taught at the american university of afghanistan as a faculty member and academic administrator she wrote i founded the first gender studies program in afghanistan's history there all our work hopes dreams progress only to have it snatched away so needlessly so you got to think it takes a special kind of arrogance we used to call this cultural imperialism to imagine that other cultures want to ape your family structure for example isn't it up to the afghans what kind of families they want no we tried to impose our customs on them and they hated it maybe that's one of the reasons the taliban took over in a weekend we hired people like bihar jalali and ashraf ghani to lead with our diplomacy that's what afghanistan looked like for the past 20 years meanwhile we've been leading with our diplomacy we've given billions of american military dollars with equipment to the taliban row upon row of sophisticated assault rifles boxes of pistols ammunition vision equipment videos posted by the taliban online in recent days boast of what they say are their seizures of the assault rifles in the afghan city of herat and at kunduz airport armored humvees by the dozen some mine resistant ambush protected vehicles called mraps costing half a million dollars a piece even a small drone these are the potentially lethal spoils the taliban are believed to have captured in recent days from defeated afghan forces weapons made in america supplied by the u.s to their fallen afghan allies so now we're arming the taliban and we're ruining our own citizens in afghanistan who could possibly have seen that coming hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 11min 44sec (704 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021