What is Buhtphuckery?
Not just corrupt politics, but corrupt politics that lead to the WORST possible outcome at the HIGHEST possible expense--exactly what we don’t want. Unfortunately, our government seems to be able to regularly squander our blood, treasure, and trust with impunity. It is a cycle of “Rinse and Repeat” and then explained away with word salads and finger-pointing.
Here is a classic example of Buhtphuckery, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, which has led to even more Buhtphuckery in the form of proxy wars. It is clear: Buhtphuckery begets Buhtphuckery.
Why did we post a “Gone By” date in advance for our adversaries? Why did we sneak out in the middle of the night without notice to our allies? Why did we empty the jail at Bagram (where the Abby Gate bomber was being held)? Why did we leave behind billions of dollars of assets? Why did we evacuate the military before the civilians? Why did we leave so many SIVs behind? Why did we evacuate out of Kabul rather than Bagram? Why didn’t we act on the intelligence that a bombing was being planned? Why didn’t the US sniper get permission to fire when he had the bomber in his crosshairs? No shortage of Buhtphuckery with this move.
Why did we leave at all?
I get it, 20 years, but we hadn’t lost a US soldier in 18 months. We have military bases in 25 different countries and had some for more than half a century. Bagram was strategically located. Our European allies didn’t want us to leave. We could have drawn down to 3500 or so, asked the Europeans to contribute more, provided air support, and maintained our human intelligence in the region. Instead, we snuck out and caused a deadly disaster. Many of our intelligence assets (informers) were left to the Taliban, we killed 10 innocents, of which six were children with our over-the-horizon capabilities, the freedom that the people of Afghanistan came to know was snatched away with our departure and fundamentalists have reinstated Sharia law.
Bagram Air Base Afghanistan
Fast Forward, now the Chinese control Bagram and will soon have more rare earth minerals than they know what to do with—BTW, we found them. For more information, read this article, by Nikkei Asia, China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S.
Ok. We looked stupid, weak, disorganized and showed the world one of the greatest examples of Buhtphuckery we ever concocted. And, nobody lost their job or was reprimanded. In the hearings during the House investigation, all of the Generals said the same thing, “we gave the President options” Bullshit. More Buhtphuckery.
The Presidential Failure
OK, Buhtphuckery begets Buhtphuckery. Our departure turned out to be an invitation to the Russians to pick off the Ukraine. Look at how that’s going. We’re spending billions of dollars to maintain a stalemate. Just enough to keep the Ukrainians in the fight but not enough to win. The government won’t tell us what a successful outcome looks like and they won’t tell us what the money is being spent on. Hmm? Is anything fishy going on here? Of course, there is. But lots of politicians have made lots of money from the Ukraine so why abandon such a good gig, especially with the cover story they —protecting democracy in Europe?
General H.R. McMaster
Buhtfuckery is begetting more Buhtphuckery now in Israel. An intelligence failure? Really? The Israelis? Not sure about that, but I am sure that this is going to escalate—and I know who is going to pay for it. Amazing how two out of three recent administrations have been duped by the Iranians. Anyway, we will soon be stretched out to the point that there will be a signed permission slip for the Chinese to formalize their control of Taiwan without firing a shot.
General H.R. McMaster
