Fullbore Friday: Another Child Sacrifice

What were we told in the early years by those put in leadership with responsibility for stewardship of our nation’s security?

Even that was made a lie. This last week, the failure of our nation’s elite in leadership and vision required another child sacrifice, just as it did at Abbey Gate.

You weren’t even born yet when the attacks of 9/11 took place. You weren’t even of legal driving age when your nation was defeated in Afghanistan by a loosely organized tribal society, and forced into a humiliating retreat from Kabul.

You weren’t even of legal drinking age when—in the shadow of the Army & Navy Club where the appointed and important would meet to discuss defending your nation from enemies foreign and domestic—the end result of a quarter century of bad leadership and worse policy decided to walk up to you.

The highly credentialed and peer-reviewed best-and-brightest who brought a whole series of national humiliations at home and abroad during your short life—who to your face will make condescending comments about your home state and make patronizing tut-tuts to your social class—decided for their own self-referential reasons to import millions of people from the cultures you watch attack your nation across the globe.