Looking For the Adults

For John, BLUF:  The Biden Administration is under the illusuion that the are the adults.  They are misinformed.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Quote of the Day

From Samizdata, by Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts), 29 August 2021.

Here is the lede plus one:

The American generation which counts those who gave their lives this week among their ranks has grown up with elite, institutional and expert failure not as a shocking aberration but as the default setting.  Time and again, foreign policy elites have issued the wrong diagnoses and the wrong prescriptions. Economic conventional wisdom has been shattered, upended, disproven.  Politics grows more bad-blooded and less serious.  Claims of competence and expertise are regularly proved to be unfounded.  More recently, America’s cultural elite has turned on its own country:  happy to pronounce America irredeemably wicked whilst kowtowing to Chinese censors.

And after all of this, America elected a president who treated his predecessor and the last four years as an unseemly aberration and whose staff boasted that the adults were back in charge.  Thanks to the decisions of those adults, young American soldiers found themselves in a deadly trap at the gates of Kabul airport.

– Oliver Wiseman

Perfect.

Regards  —  Cliff