Fox News host explains what the Left really means when they say 'adults' are back in charge after Biden was elected and compares that statement to his administration's failures on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
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Good evening and
welcome to a special edition of
Tucker Carlson tonight
in July of two thousand and seventeen, every member of
the joint Chiefs of staff met
with the newly elected President
Donald Trump. For the first time
it didnt go. Well,
you are losers. The president
told them come according to a
foreign policy magazine account,
you dont know how to win
anymore.
That is a harsh assessment. The
arguably true,
but the joint Chiefs of staff
are keep in mind the Countrys
highest, ranking military
officers. Their job is to follow
the orders of elected officials
that protect the country, no
matter how much their feelings
may be hurt.
But in this case that is not
what happened,
because the rules are different.
Now,
according to U Dot S Army Major
General, the presidents insults
that day, similar comments he
made in public were a bitter
humiliation for the countrys
military leaders
and they made it their mission
to undermine civilian control of
the Pentagon ever after.
I was really shocked by how
many of my former colleagues
voted for the former president
and openly supported him, but
when Trump turned on the
military. Well, the military
turned on him
keep in mind. That is not how
democracy is supposed to work.
Military leaders report to the
people you elect,
but again that is not what
happened.
Stories began leaking about how
the President President Trump
was ignoring classified
intelligence about russian
counties in Afghanistan.
Where do you think the stories
came from
the Pentagon? It was payback,
the military simply refused to
withdraw troops from Syria and
Afghanistan, even though they
were ordered to do so by the
President of the United States.
Again, no more civilian control
of the military
and Joe Biden finally became
president on inauguration day.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Mark Milley was so
excited. He couldnt control
himself.
No one has a bigger smile today
that I do Milley told
Michelle Obama sucking up like
a child.
You cant see it under my mess,
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 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
professional adult once again in
the White House who is just
simply doing the work.
The theme, I would say the
adults are back beard. 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 is
glorious
laughs.
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 just seen in
Afghanistan
these days, Joe Bidens friends
in the Pentagon and the foreign
affairs desk at NBC, news no
longer think he has an adult.
He abandon american citizens, he
got thirteen Americans killed and
suddenly they seem a little
ashamed
plus. He is turning his back on
the neocon project, and that is
the greatest offense of all.
But the greatest 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?
If you follow what they have
been telling us about
Afghanistan, you realize adults
means people who are willing to
pretend everything is fine when
it is 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 spokesmen repeatedly
told us. We were making them
incredible progress and
progress of the where they used
again and again and again
in two thousand and five, for example, the head
of: U Dot S, Control Command, told
reporters over the three years
we have been operating here.
Afghanistan has shown interest
in progress.
Two years later, a website
reported that there was a
similar message. I would like
to point out. There was
significant progress in the
forward movement of the Afghan
National Army
in two thousand and eight, the commander of the
101St airborne. Apparently
another adult concurred that
progress was ongoing. We are
making some steady progress
here
than in two thousand and ten coalition
casualties increasing, but the
progress somehow continued
unabated.
It was progress, no matter what
and army general informed
reporters at a news conference
in Kabul we are steadily
making deliberate. Can you
guess progress
that same year, Stanley
Mcchrystal than the general
of all? U dot S forces in
Afghanistan also wanted us to
no progress was being made. I
think we have made significant
progress since the conditions in
two thousand and nine and beginning some progress,
and we will make real progress
in 2010,
which we remind you was eleven years
ago
than 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 to quickly
declared progress has been
achieved in some critical areas
and we are poised to realize
more progress.
Just a year later, in twenty eleven
Petraeus double down and 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 echoed
that theme
and what you have
accomplished is extraordinary,
because over the last year,
essentially, you have ejected
the Taliban 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.
He didnt actually
use the word progress. He had
more original language than
that, but the message was the
same.
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 confirmed
that progress was indeed
continuing.
At this point we have made
significant progress.
He said that in two thousand and thirteen than
three liters in two thousand and sixteen the new
commander in Afghanistan, John W
Nicholson, said the same thing.
We are seeing some progress.
As recently as last year,
spokesmen of Mark Milley said he
was hard at work making sure to
accelerate progress Afghanistan.
So if youre wondering why
Americans are so confused by the
fact that Kabul fell in an
afternoon and the Taliban
control the country that we
occupied for twenty years, maybe it
is 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 Bidens recent conversation
with the guy we installed as the
President of the Afghanistan
some college, professor called
Ghani,
Joe Biden, told Ghani that even
if the Taliban were taking over
the country the summer, the most
important thing to do was to
keep up the appearance of you
guessed it progress.
I need not tell you that
perception around the world and
in parts of Afghanistan I
believe said 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.
We know that conversation took
place because the Pentagon
and Slash or the State Department
leaked it to Reuters.
Now. Why would they do that?
Because, whatever bidens fault,
he did pull american troops out
of Afghanistan and they hate
that,
so they leaked an audiotape of
the President speaking to
another head of state.
That is illegal.
You cant conduct statecraft. If
people are leaking the contents
of your conversations
and yet they are doing that to
get back at him because he broke
the rules,
he stopped at a 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 a foreign country that
has been the philosophy of this
countrys military establishment
for twenty years.
It is also the philosophy of
every high ranking official in
the Biden Administration
projects, the illusion of
progress, even when it is clear
we are failing
Tony Blinken, who runs the
State Department. Ineptly just
announced the news that more
than one hundred american citizens
remain trapped in Afghanistan, r
progress.
Now: u DOT S? Military flights
have ended and our troops have
departed Afghanistan.
A new chapter of Americas
engagement with Afghanistan has
begun.
We believe there are still a
small number of Americans come
under two hundred and likely closer to
one hundred who remain in Afghanistan
and want to leave.
We are trying to determine
exactly how many
laughs
we had twenty years to figure it
out, but we have no idea how
many Americans, including
school children, remain in
Afghanistan,
because we are the adults in the
room.
That is why we are going to lead
with our diplomacy,
and I what does that? Look like
exactly? How do you lead with a
flood policy
heres one example
back in April Tony Blinken and
the State Department announced
spending hundreds of millions of
dollars on social programs in
Afghanistan
and to destroy the patriarchy,
because that is really our goal:
impose our modernist social
values on prehistoric countries.
We are going to pay for programs
and support womens
empowerment.
Where did that money? Go
people like this who posted
this on social media for eight point five
years, I I taught at the
university in Afghanistan. I
found her the first gender
studies program in Afghanistan
in history there
all of our hopes, dreams
progress only to have it
snatched away.
We used to call this cultural
imperialism to imagine that
other cultures want your family
structure, for example,
isnt it up to the Afghans what
families they want.
No,
we tried to impose our customs
on them and they hated it.
Maybe that is one of the reasons
the Taliban took over. In a
weekend we heard people to lead
diplomacy.
Meanwhile, we have been leaving
with our diplomacy and leaving
billions of american military
dollars worth of 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 there
seizures of the assault rifles
in the afghan city and at the
airport, armored humvees by the
dozen some mine resistant
vehicles, costing hundreds of
billions of 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 Dot S to their
fallen afghan allies.
So now we are.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-04.