How about impeachments, courts-martial and mass firings all the way around?

Mark Steyn positively unloads on the phony experts and the political generals who have maneuvered the U.S. into what is turning into one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in our history.

I'm in favor of razing the Pentagon and salting the earth - or, at the very least, firing Milley and the massed ranks of "parade generals" (a useful Commonwealth term) and moving the few guys left to a new HQ in a strip-mall on the edge of Cleveland. The bigger your armed forces get, the more they become a racket - as the US-created "Afghan National Army" "300,000-strong" (and now down to, oh, twenty-seven maybe) has just conveniently demonstrated.

Update  Missing horse, open barn door: "Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told senators on a briefing call Sunday that U.S. officials are expected to alter their earlier assessments about the pace of terrorist groups reconstituting in Afghanistan". 

Who knows? Maybe the greatest American general since Horatio Gates will now set his critical race theory manuals aside in order to take a look at the real world for awhile.

Update II  I'm sure Joe Biden is going to have to face a lot of questions over the coming weeks concerning the sudden collapse of the Afghani government before the onslaught of the Taliban, and here's an issue I'd particularly like to see addressed: "It Sure Looks Like Joe Biden Sabotaged the Afghan Air Force".

Reports are coming out that the reason the Afghan Air Force couldn’t operate is that the Biden Administration banned foreign maintenance contractors (i.e. the only people with the expertise) from entering Afghanistan.

The question is why? Why would the Biden administration want to bar foreign contractors from maintaining the Afghan Air Force, thereby keeping them mission ready? None of this makes sense, and there needs to be a major investigation into what went into these terrible decisions. Will there be, though? Who the heck knows.

Update III  Hey, General Milley, why don't you hang this on your wall so you can keep your priorities straight?

Update IV  George Bush maintained radio silence during the eight years of the Obama regime, then became chatty during Trump's term - attacking Trump. When Biden was elected, he apparently contracted laryngitis again. Would he like to struggle to say a few words now?

Update V  Watch the fool (or possibly scoundrel), Milley, in his own words, attesting less than four weeks ago to the capacity of the Afghan Security Forces to defend the country from the Taliban.

Weasel words, which I believe Milley chose carefully in his weasel way. The Afghan army has the "capacity" to defend the country. Sure they did: 300,000 troops and billions of dollars in arms and equipment. But they didn't have the will and they didn't have the leadership. Milley was either being deliberately misleading - i.e., he must have known the Afghan army was not up to the task - or he is an idiot - i.e., he was unaware that the Afghan army was a paper tiger.  If this brasshole has even a shred of honor remaining to him, he will tender his resignation. My supposition is that he will fight tooth and nail to keep his job. If he leaves now, I'm prepared to argue that he can keep his uniform - shorn of all military insignia, of course - so that he can get a job as a doorman at one of the tonier hotels (call me softhearted).