Excerpts from another energetic Ann Coulter column:
Nowhere is the explosion of phony experts more annoying than in the bloated ranks of foreign policy hacks. It’s as if the world decided to solve the problem of “elite overproduction” by creating a full employment program for them as government bureaucrats and quotation providers.
Thus, a recent Times article accused Donald Trump of “Flying Blind” by stripping the government of high-quality intelligence experts, horrifyingly, just as he’s trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Instead of relying on experts, as other (obviously better) presidents have, Trump, the Times reports, “has taken a different approach …: He’s fired them.”
Meaning he will not be deferring to people whose sole objective in life is being quoted in the Times. Without losing accuracy, the cited authorities could all be identified as professors of Trump-Hating.
To prove what a nightmare Trump’s housecleaning is, the Times quotes the very sort of experts he’s sidelining. Evelyn N. Farkas at the McCain Institute in Washington, DC (very confidence-inspiring) said of the expert-less administration: “They’re flying blind without the expertise.” Amazingly, that’s just what the Times thought.
Because only true “expertise” could get us to spend $2.313 trillion over two decades to turn Afghanistan into the exact same country it was when we invaded — except with an extra $7.1 billion in U.S.-made weapons — or, in a mere three years, cost us $180 billion and tens of thousands of dead Ukrainians in order to give Vladimir Putin an even stronger hand than when he first invaded. (Hey, maybe we’re getting better at this!)
New definition of “expert” updated by me 10 seconds ago: “Someone who agrees with us, preferably who’s been repeatedly proved egregiously wrong.”
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As if Trump is nursing some ancient grudge, like the Greeks and the Turks, the Times describes the pink-slipped NSC experts as those who worked on the “nearly decade-old investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
Of course, the reason it’s a “decade-old” is that these nincompoops have been noodling almost nothing else for the past decade, rather than, say, wondering if Hamas had anything up its sleeve. It took them 10 years to prove that the Russians did not steal the 2016 election. It only took me about 20 minutes.
We all should hold a grudge against those guys.