Kabul Now

September 27, 2021

Guest Commentary by Rev. Peter Wm. Gray P.S.S.

This horrific photo was just sent to me from my sources, contacts in Kabul.

It is authentic.

These 2 young men were caught stealing bread this AM. They are now on display before they will be “disciplined”. This spying and capturing is now a daily occurrence in Afghanistan and nobody will do anything to alter this draconian interpretation of the Koran.

Where is the outrage from the International Islamic Communities ? Where are the media from the West? Where is Pope Francis? Where are our bishops and other Christians?

I am beyond anger when I am seeing this and realizing that there will be no one to intervene and stop this barbarity.

Our government, the Legislative Branch no less than the Executive Branch is responsible for this debacle, which was the conscious choice of both parties. Yet having made “peace” with the Taliban, our government writ large is now pretending this is not a problem at all. Meanwhile, the jaws of Hell are opening wide.

Father Gray is a Roman Catholic priest of the Order of St Sulpice. He is actively supporting Christian families in Afghanistan and working to get endangered students and friends out of the country.

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My rant is brief, and to take this discussion beyond my conclusions I am recommending a selection of articles representative of the research on which I have relied. The first is a basic survey of the growth of the managerial state, followed by DEI in military services, suppression of results at NIH, and climate policy. I end with a contrary and more optimistic point of view. My point is not how misguided policies adopted in the past four years have been -- I need not repeat that story -- but how these policies did not get or need Presidential attention in order to be adopted. They are the continued working of a self-perpetuating layer of managers.

A basic introduction to how the managers have taken over everything from elected officials

The great historian Niall Ferguson, now an invaluable columnist in the Free Press, discusses how far we have fallen under Biden-Harris-Blinken-Sullivan foreign policy.

A detailed report on how our military establishment has decided to indoctrinate future generations of admirals and generals.

How an NIH researcher is withholding results that undermine claims that sex change is good for teenagers.

A good discussion of the basic unrealism of EPA’s new regulations to mandate electric vehicles and remove natural gas and coal from electricity generation. It is complemented by this survey that few Americans even care about the climate cause or want the regulations imposed by these managers..

And to wrap up my concerns about the powers that be, a point by Matt Taibbi: “Something’s up. Suspiciously similar editorials about possible post-election emergency measures coming out in multiple publications” The managers are worried but have a plan to hold on to power.

But maybe I am wrong. Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger observe how Kamala’s campaign is ”circling the drain,” in the immortal words of Bo Snerdley. Gutentag and Shellenberger describe its many pathologies that have driven pillars of my “managerial class” away from Democrats. One good line is that in Kamala’s world “shaming and belittling take precedence over actual debate. This, in the long-term, has been another losing strategy.” I have been the target of shaming and belittling, and we will see if these optimists are correct. I hope and pray they are.