Lee Smith has an interesting Tablet piece on the recent leak of classified military documents in the US.
Leaker, Whistleblower, Racist, Spy
If the story of one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history sounds too good to be true, maybe that’s because it is?
Media reports following last week’s arrest of a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman for disclosing classified information were designed to send out one crucial message—Jack Texeira was not any kind of hero of free speech. Rather, outlets like The Washington Post insisted, he fits the profile of an enemy of the regime. “‘I would definitely not call him a whistleblower,’” one of Texeira’s onetime internet friends told the Post. “‘I would not call [Texeira] a whistleblower in the slightest,’ he said, resisting comparisons to Edward Snowden, who shared classified documents about government surveillance with journalists.”
Thus, once again, the Democrats have turned a national security issue into an instrument to serve party interests.
As many will know already, it's an odd story and the whole piece is well worth reading for that reason.
Never mind about Joe Biden’s dangerous proxy war, or that one of the largest security breaches in American history took place on his watch. What matters is not the leaks themselves or the information they disclosed but the 21-year-old who we have now been instructed to understand is not a whistleblower like the left’s heroes but is instead a racist gun nut. He’s a stand-in for one half of the country, people who call themselves Americans but must in fact be seen as traitors—who deserve everything that’s about to come to them.
Thus, once again, the Democrats have turned a national security issue into an instrument to serve party interests.
As many will know already, it's an odd story and the whole piece is well worth reading for that reason.
Never mind about Joe Biden’s dangerous proxy war, or that one of the largest security breaches in American history took place on his watch. What matters is not the leaks themselves or the information they disclosed but the 21-year-old who we have now been instructed to understand is not a whistleblower like the left’s heroes but is instead a racist gun nut. He’s a stand-in for one half of the country, people who call themselves Americans but must in fact be seen as traitors—who deserve everything that’s about to come to them.
6 comments:
Political success is one way the Elite use to cement their status. When politics becomes polarised everything else becomes polarised - and ordinary people can find themselves carrying the blame for a game they did not even know they were playing.
Luckily, most normal citizens see the Bidenkind as a sort of odd leftie bunch who just hate everything!
Theyve got huge fiscal problems lurking around the corner, and need every diversion they can dream up at the moment!
The really worrying angle is to do with Israel.Under Trump, I think the Americans were straight with them, and everyone knew where they stood. If they are playing a sort of double game now, they run the risk of panicking Netanyahu into doing something stupid. In general with the Democrats, we have seen an abandoning of Western values in favour of some sort of relativistic mess.
DJ - maybe highly polarised politics has come about because democracies are undergoing a trend towards one party politics under the pressures of globalisation. Mainstream parties seem determined to be that party, as if that's their vision of the political future.
Scrobs - they do need every diversion they can dream up. Unfortunately at the moment they seem to have a steady supply of them.
Sam - I agree and playing a double game with Israel feels as if Obama is still running the show. It isn't even clear what they hope to achieve and not even clear that they know what they hope to achieve other than mess up what Trump achieved.
I only hope that the American electorate have the sense to re elect Trump. It will get the path back to sanity started and then perhaps someone like Desantis can consolidate and continue. Otherwise, there is no hope for the US but to continue the spiral of decline and twont be good for us too.
Tammly - I agree, it's the only hope they have of climbing out of the decline. Even then I think the Swamp could keep the decline going.
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