Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Blood And Treasure

And considering the number of people crowding the airfield, and the complete collapse of whatever government Afghanistan (allegedly) had, the idea that Biden could have done this better, or earlier, or more deliberately, is nearly laughable. Should we have stayed longer and educated the Afghanis on how to self-govern, or at least not try to climb onto a moving plane? Or we could spend another $6 trillion defending ourselves against the possibility of a terrorist attack sometime in the next 20 years, while China rebuilds the world? Because, you know, that's a good reason to keep killing people and spending treasure in Afghanistan. The possible terrorist attack that possibly doesn't come. Because, you never know, you know. Besides, what battleground are all those foreign correspondents gonna report from now? Meanwhile, measure this against the responses to this withdrawal, especially from the media: The media is not best pleased: That’s the respectable media version of “some people say.”

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