Thomas E. Ricks

Our brilliant young minds are being replaced by goat herders from Afghanistan.

“Oh. You want to be an English major?!” “Yes.” “Great! Here’s some books to read.” “No.” 🙄

Ok so Markwayne has told me directly that he has done “some private security work” oversees in the wars. And implied real combat He needs to prove it or admit it was made up. I’m starting to wonder if it was ALL untrue. it’s NOT classified

Ook. Now i'm really intrigued by this Markwayne Mullin congressional trip that is apparently very classified.

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from ICE!

𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 Joey Jones lost both legs in Afghanistan serving this country. So when he has something to say to Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries, you should probably listen. He didn't mince a single word. Where were these Democrats when Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan? Where was the outrage when Abbey Gate was bombed — when every piece of intelligence tells us it was an absolute cluster of an operation that left American service members sitting as d∗cks? Where was the moral urgency when the Biden administration retaliated by k!lling ten random people they thought might have had something to do with it? And where — 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 — was the righteous indignation when the administration called that catastrophic withdrawal 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 — while Americans watched people fall from the wheels of departing planes? Silence. Complete silence from every Democrat currently clutching pearls over the Iran operation. Now thirteen Americans have d!ed in Iran and suddenly these same Democrats have 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 to say. Now they want to use those thirteen heroes as political ammunition. Now they care about American lives lost in military operations. Joey Jones called it exactly what it is: using the sacrifice of men and women in uniform to score partisan points. And he had a simple, devastating response to all of it. 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. You want to litigate the operation politically? Fine. Impeach everybody over it if you win the House. Go to town. But 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. Not while they're out there. Not while they're still in harm's way and fighting for the country that these politicians are using as a backdrop for their press releases. The men and women in uniform don't get to choose which war they're sent to. They go where they're told and they do the job with everything they have. The least — the absolute 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 — the people back home can do is want them to win. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧?