An anti-war magazine gets a General fired because he tells the truth?  So unbelievably ridiculous.  Yet emblematic of the government America voted into power less than two years ago.

Here’s what happened.  Our Bureaucrat-in-Chief  gives a gaggle of bureaucrats overlapping responsibilities in Afghanistan and appoints General Stanley McChrystal to deal with all these idiots and apparatchiks.  In late June 2010, Rolling Stone reports the General’s frustrations.  No one is fired except the General.

And every day this fiasco costs us a billion dollars. I repeat: the Afghan war costs a billion dollars and several dead and maimed servicemen a day.  We went in to clean out bin Laden and his henchmen.  They escaped to Pakistan, but we can’t go after them because Pakistan would be upset.  So we stay in Afghanistan and build bridges and community centers and try to create a nice little democracy.  In a country ruled by tribal warlords for thousands of years.  How stupid have we become in the US?

General Stanley McChrystal lets the world know the truth about the dysfunctional operation of the billion dollar a day war in Afghanistan and he’s forced to resign and then quits the military.  Our foul-mouthed Vice-President and the other career politicians causing the problem are untouched.

So we bring in a smooth-talking, book-writing General Petraeus to win this war.   Articles on the war don’t even mention Obama these days.  He’s becoming irrelevant.  Everyone seems to know his decisions will be the consensus of  the best and brightest.  In short, politically correct conventional wisdom.

No reason to criticize Obama.  He’s an epiphenomenon.  We don’t really need to consider Obama in predicting what his Administration will do.  We know he will just let his advisors argue it out until they come up with a consensus pleasing to today’s academic elite.

Another process so transparently silly we are tempted to laugh.  And laugh we can because we live in a prosperous country created by practical, hard-working, God-fearing, optimistic people and defended by courageous men who defeated those who would destroy us.

We can just laugh about it over a good meal and come home and watch the ball game.  We can just enjoy our bread and circuses and let the American dream die.

Or we can wake up and support the practical no-nonsense engineers who can fix our problems.  And when these leaders emerge, as Stanley McChrystal did, we won’t fire them and let fools like Biden continue to rule the roost.