Kerby Anderson

Today is election day, but it isn’t as significant as a presidential election or even an off-year congressional election. Nevertheless, Americans are going to the polls to vote and may illustrate the mood of the electorate during this time of turmoil. Victor Davis Hanson describes the striking dichotomy. “The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength.” It is preeminent in goods and services as well as its university graduate programs. The military is the best funded in the world. But “something has gone terribly wrong within America, from the southern border to Afghanistan.” Here are just two of his examples. Candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris trashed the Trump vaccines manufactured under Operation Warp Speed. After the inauguration, Biden falsely claimed no one has been vaccinated until his ascension. He claimed he didn’t believe in vaccine mandates . . . until he did. Victor Davis Hanson also reminds us that all American citizens must be vaccinated, but not the two million noncitizens expected to illegally cross the southern border this year. A recent book reports that General Mark Milley promised his Chinese counterpart that he would tip off the People’s Liberation Army of any planned US actions. He was clearly violating laws established in 1947, 1953, and 1986. But it is unlikely he or any other general who criticized the previous president will be punished. Two retired army generals even urged Milley to order army forces to remove Trump from office if, in their opinion, he obstructed the results of the 2020 election. There are three other examples, but these two examples document what he calls the Afghanistization of America. In some ways, we are starting to look like a third-world country.