Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller relieved of duty for calling out brass over Afghanistan

Others have posted this video, but not from my point of view. I have a very archaic view of commissioned officers and their role likely inspired by my fascination with history, a view that I have stated here on RP before. The principle role of leaders is to take responsibility for command decisions.

President Truman's famous observation that "The Buck Stops Here" was incomplete. I believe that the "Buck stops where it was spent." That is, leaders must take responsibility for the decisions they make.

Likewise, LTC Scheller has mistaken where the buck was spent that led to the shit show in Afghanistan. It wasn't spent by his superiors nor the Secretary of Defense nor even the President. It came from the pockets of We the People. We traded a President who presided over a brief period of peace and prosperity for one who arrived in office with a well enunciated agenda to undo everything his predecessor had done. President Biden wasn't handcuffed by President Trump's agreement with the Taliban. The Taliban had already voided that agreement, and President Biden made his own decision, free of any constraints. Obviously, it was a very bad decision, and the military leaders he endorsed exacerbated that decision with their own contributions. Still, the buck must float to We the People who spent it. All that has happened, the descent from energy independency to dependency, from prosperity to economic ruin, all of it falls on us, We the People. Blaming President Biden (or blaming President Trump, which is even more ridiculous) is US attempting to avoid responsibility. And, if we succeed in deluding ourselves that we don't bear the responsibility, we will continue to vote as fools...