https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/who_will_take_the_fall_for_afghanistan.html
One of the Marine Corps principles of leadership is to accept responsibility for your actions. In most Western cultures, those who fail spectacularly then resign. Traditional Japanese military culture demanded that those who failed commit suicide out of shame and honor.
In modern Democrat party political culture, there is no true individual responsibility for one’s own actions, either in public or private life. Everything that goes wrong is either someone else’s fault or society’s fault. It’s a victimology cult. A hollow, ritualistic statement of “the buck stops here” is then usually accompanied by the non sequitur of blaming someone else. This is what President Biden did yet again in recent days.
Not long ago, the U.S. military was the one branch of government that worked because of its culture of accountability. There isn’t accountability in the civilian branches because of civil service rules and public employee unions. President Obama began the aggressive politicization of flag officers, dismissing those who disagreed with his policies and promoting leftists.
Now Secretary Austin and Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Milley aim to purge the entire officer corps and enlisted ranks of anyone who isn’t woke. The results of their policies are on parade in Afghanistan.
A new and massive failure has entered the American Pantheon of Military Fiascos: “The Biden Blunder,” “The Kabul Katastrophe,” or “Stan Ran ’21,” take your pick. It joins others in the Hall of Shame:
The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776
Custer’s Last Stand, 1876
Pearl Harbor, 1941
Bataan-Corregidor, 1941-42
The Yalu River, 1950
Saigon, 1975
9-11, 2001