Whereas the president of the United States can dismiss any
ambassador and no small number of other executive branch personnel for any or
for no reason, why were we subjected to the teeth gnashing and anguished tears
over the dismissal of former ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich?
Apparently, the tough-as-nails strong empowered woman named
Yovanovich was sorely offended that anyone, especially Rudolph Giuliani had spoken ill of her. Her presence at the House Intelligence Committee hearings
yesterday had nothing to do with impeachment, and frankly, nothing to do with
intelligence—which quality was sorely lacking from the minds of Democratic
outrage mongers. And yet, the crowd stood up and cheered for a woman who has
landed a teaching job at Georgetown. Oh, the indignity of it all.
One feels compelled to mention that the president’s hostile
tweet, offered as the proceedings were beginning, tended to draw attention away
from the show trial and toward his bad habit of throwing himself in the middle
of a hearing that his allies would have worked in his favor. Bad move,
undermining your supporters at just the wrong time.
As for ambassadors Taylor and Kent, star witnesses on the
opening session, Mark Steyn offers a few thoughts on the work of these
distinguished gentlemen. (via Maggie’s Farm) In truth, they were both seriously
distinguished foreign service officers. In truth, foreign service officers do
not make foreign policy… point that seems to have escaped them. Again, they seem
largely offended by the fact that a New York real estate developer is not doing
things as they would have wished.
Given the warped minds running these hearings, when the
Obama administration refused to send arms to Ukraine to defend itself against
hostile Russian aggression, it was no problem. When the Trump administration
did send said arms to Ukraine, it was really, really bad. Perhaps not an
impeachable offense, but still, very, very bad.
It takes boundless stupidity to take these hearing
seriously. Steyn is the perfect man to point this out. He begins by exploding
the myth that Ukraine is a vital national security interest of the United
States:
In
fact, northern Mexico is a vital national-security of America's, but under the
mass wankerization of public policy Perma-Beltway cares more about the borders
of Ukraine than it does about the borders of the United States.
As Ambassador Taylor put it:
Ukraine is a strategic partner of the United
States, important for the security of our country.
We will not mention how well the
Obama administration sat idly by while Russia annexed Crimea… duh, but Steyn
offers his normally tart description of the overwhelming importance of Ukraine:
Does
any rational person believe either half of that sentence? Ukraine is
endemically corrupt and its principal exports are, to London and Paris
"escort" agencies, its comely if unibrowed blondes and, to America,
Hunter Biden's monthly stipend. Ukraine is a "strategic partner" of
the Biden Family trust fund, and one can see that it might be inconvenient for
sleazy corrupt princelings thereof to have to find new oligarchs to be on the take
from. But out there in America Trump was elected because Americans think
"the security of our country" starts on the Rio Grande not the
Donets.
"And yet, the crowd stood up and cheered for a woman who has landed a teaching job at Georgetown." See my comment on "Colleges Discriminating Against Minority Applicants".
ReplyDeleteI have actually met a Ukranian. He was a First Lieutenant in my first assignment as a brand-new Second Lieutenant. His first name was Ihor, he was married to a Polish woman, and his last name I remember but will not give it. Started with a Z.
Our ruling elite lies reflexively and compulsively. Our media allows and even encourages them to lie, and lies on their behalf. Our universities are the seminal origin of lying in the US. Evil arises from lies, and the more blatant and malicious the lies, the more damage it does to the polity. Soon it becomes impossible to tell truth from falsehood, and evil grows larger. Then war comes. These liars would prefer a war with Russia in Ukraine to coming clean about their ongoing coup against the elected president.
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