Extracts from a wonderfully trenchant and funny article by Mark Steyn:
Across the Atlantic, Boris and the EU chaps were on the screen responding to an all too predictable atrocity. But in the White House Joe Biden’s meds hadn’t yet kicked in - or, conversely, they’d shot him the juice too early and it had worn off. So, as has become familiar, the melting waffle cone was hours late in tottering across the room, squinting into the camera and reading with woozy and wooden defiance. This time he gave it the full Corn Pop:
“To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget.”
But Joe, a man who cannot reliably name his own Defense Secretary, has already forgotten. …
Meanwhile, back at the fiasco, the old axiom still applies. The three nations keeping their Afghan embassies are China, Russia and Pakistan. Unlovely as they are, these guys, unlike the Big Nothing, each represent something real. So do the Taliban, who are playing this beautifully. …
All America’s toys are made in China, in a huge Crap R Us warehouse behind the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And, as with everything else made under the supervision of Chairman Xi, there are suddenly strange, arbitrary disruptions to the supply chain, “supply chain” being a euphemism for the fact that global trade is a giant version of Kabul airport security, entirely reliant on our enemies. …
The excitable Mohammedans jumping up and down in the streets have never really needed to yell “Death to the Great Satan!” because the Great Satan is doing a grand job of committing suicide.