In Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods, there’s a point in the story when things have gone terribly wrong for everyone. The characters respond by disavowing personal responsibility and telling everyone else that it’s “Your Fault.” That song could have been the background music to the nauseating spectacle in the Senate Tuesday, when defense secretary Lloyd Austin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the debacle in Afghanistan.
Each general swore under oath that he had advised Biden to leave troops in Afghanistan:
In other words, Biden was either lying or being senile when he assured George Stephanopoulos that “no one said that to me [keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan] that I can recall.” Note the wiggle room about maybe not recalling. Heck, I can believe both (lying or senile). After all, Biden is both the most corrupt man ever to occupy the Oval Office and the first person to be actively senile when he took the presidential oath of office.
Having said that, Austin, Milley, and McKenzie are such a disreputable, craven, dishonest, pathetic bunch of political hacks that it’s entirely possible to believe that they’re just singing the Sondheim song: “It’s Biden’s fault!” I mean, look at these three: