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What level of incompetence is it when you mess up the withdrawal from a war so badly that: 1) You hand over a list of everybody who ever worked with you to the

What level of incompetence is it when you mess up the withdrawal from a war so badly that: 1) You hand over a list of everybody who ever worked with you to the people who will likely execute them (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provid...) 2) You shut down your major airbase (with a hospital) in the middle of the night without telling anybody (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57682290 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57682290) 3) Military veterans are now having to fucking self fund their own personal missions back into the country to save people. This is happening completely outside of any chain of command. 4) Nobody has been fired over this except for a marine who spoke out against the fact that nobody had been fired. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/marine-officer-relieved-duty-after-viral-video-questioning-senior-leaders-n1277853 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/marine-officer-relieved-d...) Meanwhile the Commander in Chief of our fighting forces is an 80+ year old, rapidly deteriorating old man who appears to be barely aware of where he is half of the time. What in the HELL are we doing? How are we to be considered a serious people anymore?

mistermann 5y ago
A scorpion enlists a frog to take him on his back across a stream, even though the frog is astute enough to protest that the scorpion "will surely sting me, and I will die." The scorpion points out that if he stings the frog, he will die too. The trusting frog thus takes on his passenger, is stung by him, and the two creatures drown together. But before the frog drowns, he asks, "Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion, even though it costs us both our lives?" to which the Scorpion replies, acceptingly, "It is my nature."
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mistermann 5y ago

A scorpion enlists a frog to take him on his back across a stream, even though the frog is astute enough to protest that the scorpion "will surely sting me, and I will die." The scorpion points out that if he stings the frog, he will die too. The trusting frog thus takes on his passenger, is stung by him, and the two creatures drown together. But before the frog drowns, he asks, "Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion, even though it costs us both our lives?" to which the Scorpion replies, acceptingly, "It is my nature."

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