The Afghanistan Failure Proves America s Regime Isn t Fit To Lead
What Afghanistan shows, not just over the last two chaotic months but over the last two tragic decades, is that the American regime is not fit to lead this country. That regime, unfortunately, operates independently of political leadership. It is the Pentagon bureaucracy that lies to our president about troop levels, the State Department that thinks the women of Afghanistan need gender studies programs more than security, the top universities that teach our elites to be stupid conformists, and the media that cover for these institutions instead of telling the truth about them.
We tried to change the regime in Afghanistan, and we failed. If there is a silver lining in that failure, it reveals that one regime in the world is desperately in need of change: America s.
J.D. Vance is not wrong.