Blue big cities are most vulnerable, so “move your families to places that are willing to defend you,” Dr. Tony Brooks says.
An ex-Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan before becoming a successful doctor blames the bungled exit from the war on generals more interested in “wokeness” than in military strategy and warns America is facing the threat of a new wave of terrorism.
“I don’t think it’s a possibility — I think it’s an absolute guarantee,” Dr. Tony Brooks told Just the News in an interview Monday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “I think it’s time to recognize that and protect ourselves at home, move your families to places that are willing to defend you.”
“I myself, have moved my family from the West Coast to Texas,” added Brooks, who served as an Army Ranger specialist in Afghanistan and Iraq before opening a successful chiropractic medicine practice. “And we did that for security reasons.”
The warnings about new terror from Brooks mirror those offered in classified briefings to U.S. senators by Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as Homeland Security bulletins issued in the waning days of the Afghan war exit.
They cautioned that Afghanistan could be used as a launch paid for terror attacks against America within two years and that Taliban, ISIS and Al-Qaeda elements released in the Afghan chaos could penetrate American targets or use disillusioned and radicalized people already on U.S. soil to carry out attacks.
Brooks said liberal metropolitan areas that have cut funding for police and security and limit citizens’ access to guns are prime soft targets.
“They’re going to hit us where we’re weak,” he said. “And we’re weak in our big cities on the West Coast.”
Brooks, who wrote a best-selling book entitled “Leave No Man Behind,” has been working with private groups to rescue Afghan allies before the Taliban complete their takeover of the country. He blamed the bungled exit playing out on television on a current generation of generals he says were more interested in culture warfare than military warfare.
“It’s a generation of wokeness,” he said. “What can I say? I mean, you look at the majority of the top leadership, and they are not the cream of the crop, like they used to be. General Petraeus was one of them. General Stanley McChrystal was one.
“I know a few others that are currently serving that are amazing generals, I won’t name them, but they are, you know, kind of being held in positions where they can’t do much.”
Failed strategic leadership was evident in the American surrender of the strategic Bagram Air Base in July before evacuations were complete, said Brooks, calling it the “specific moment where you knew it was going to go bad.”
“We couldn’t launch any of our drones, and they knew it,” Brooks said of the Taliban. “So when we left Bagram Airfield, which is the most strategic airbase in the entire country, they knew exactly what they could do. They knew that was the moment that it all went down. Leaving Bagram Airfield, we couldn’t launch any of our drones, and they knew it.”
But Brooks said the seeds of failure in the Afghan War were sown much earlier by generals who tried to use force to export democracy to a country with a population that often seemed not to want it.
“I think we tried to nation-build with the war,” he said. “And we we know through history, that that doesn’t work. You don’t nation-build through war. War is for eliminating enemy. And we failed.”
He added: “The military didn’t fail. It was the plan that failed.”
Gates Foundation ‘Working With Chinese Gov’t’ to Promote Beijing’s Global Medical Clout: Report
In January 2020, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would donate $10 million to contain the spread of the coronavirus in China and Africa.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation closely cooperated with Beijing to enable the sale of Chinese-produced medications outside China, new emails have revealed.
The documents, recently released from the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Dr Anthony Fauci, were obtained by the American activist group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The emails contain a 5 September 2017 report by Ping Chen, an NIAID representative in China, who told her colleagues she attended a Gates Foundation meeting that “initially planned to talk about global malaria eradication efforts”.
She mentioned the Gates Foundation providing funding for China’s National Medical Products Administration, previously known as China’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to appoint experienced Chinese-Americans who had worked at the US FDA to work in the Chinese agency.
Ping also claimed that the Gates Foundation “is working with the Chinese government” to promote Beijing’s medical clout in countries, including those in Africa.
The past few years have seen China expand its clout in Africa, with the US-based think tank Heritage Foundation claiming in a report last year that “Beijing likely has better surveillance access to Africa than anywhere else by having built or renovated at least 186 African government buildings”.
Separately in the email, Ping referred to a meeting with a group from the Global Virome Project (GVP), which aims to tackle “high impact viral epidemics and pandemics” and is partially funded by USAID [United States Agency for International Development].
Ping was apparently referring to WIV Deputy Director Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese virologist, who was dubbed “Bat Woman” by the Chinese media for her consistent work with bat coronaviruses and included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Shortly after the emails were released by NIAID, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton demanded that the Gates Foundation “explain the government report about its assistance to and advocacy for China”. The organisation has yet to comment on the matter.
China Slams US Intel Report on COVID Origins
The emails come after the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, bashed a newly released US intelligence report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the document does not have scientific credibility and incorrectly suggests that Beijing is hindering a global investigation into the origins of the deadly outbreak.
Beijing has repeatedly rejected Washington’s allegations that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, warning the White House not to politicise the issue. China also often refers to theories suggesting the coronavirus leaked from the US Army’s Fort Detrick base in Maryland, in 2019, insisting that Washington should invite World Health Organisation (WHO) experts to investigate Fort Detrick.
Late March saw the release of a WHO report that argued it is “extremely unlikely” the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan bio lab. China recently rejected the WHO’s call “to work together” on the UN body’s second probe into the origins of COVID, insisting that the first probe was sufficient and that Beijing prefers scientific to political efforts to find out how “the worst pandemic in a century” started.