The Diversity Crowd Fails

 ... to understand both "diversity" and "defeat."

How many of the people insisting on diversity and respect for women can verbally derive the Islamic position on sex roles from Koranic first principles? My bet would be that it's substantially less than 1%. My experience with the LGBT crowd's ability to derive the Catholic view of marriage, derived from our theological first principles, suggests that less than 0.01% can do so.

To the Ivy League diversity and justice folks, diversity is skin color and nummy-nums at their favorite ethnic restaurant. They have no appreciation for the substantive differences in cultures.

They also don't appreciate power relationships. Here in the US, they can silence you on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. You can be kicked out of school or shouted down. Your speakers can be disinvited. They don't have to hear you if they don't want because they have all the power.

We were just defeated in detail in Afghanistan. We don't have any power there any more. We are an artillery barrage and a wrecked C-17 from having all of our ground troops annihilated. They live because the Taliban wants them to live. If the Taliban change their minds, those guys are dead.

I used to wonder what it felt like to be a Japanese citizen and see IJN ships limp or be towed into harbor with terrible battle damage.

A Japanese watercolor showing rice farmers overlooking the wreckage of the IJN Ise.

"Torn and seared she seemed a part of the rugged upheaved terrain -- and the handy rice workers would gaze out over her -- perhaps toward distant Hiroshima. Then they would turn again to their task, night soil had to be spread, the crops reaped."

That's where we are right now, but our social justice warriors still think they wield some kind of power in Afghanistan. Yesterday, I heard a quote from Nancy Pelosi about how the Taliban needed to respect the rights of women and girls. Nancy doesn't understand either diversity or defeat. Listening to her is like listening to a recording of a Nazi propaganda broadcast from 1945 where they're still making demands as if everything is going swimmingly. 

Nancy and the others aren't simply in denial now, they've been in denial all along. Now they deny defeat, but before they denied that unbridgeable cultural differences existed. Our academies are populated by people who have become deliberately ignorant about such things. They're turning out a professional class that cannot grasp them. To them, any deviation from the orthodoxy is hate, not a logical position which comes from a different set of basic assumptions about the world.

But that leads me finally to the delusional pundits, both red and blue, who demand, DEMAND that we rescue every single American in the country. Get over it, people. You aren't going to rescue any of them who can't make their way to Kabul airport on their own and do that before we pick up and leave. There will be thousands left behind. 

Our only operational forces in the country are trapped in the equivalent of very small, regional airport. The only way they will leave that airport is when the C-17s fly them away or when they get killed and thrown into mass graves by the Taliban.

That's what it means to be utterly defeated.