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That is a pretty amazing result with that framing. https://t.co/QT1JCVG15v

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 25, 2021

I'm not much interested in polls like this because: how do you ever prove their veracity?  That said, the framing raises an interesting question:  America:  Imperialist power, or not?

Because how many countries are we supposed to subjugate for fear of terrorism being visited upon our shores?  Maybe we should subjugate some states to suppress domestic terrorism?

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan:  chaos.

(!) President Biden says the U.S. has now evacuated 70,700 people from Afghanistan since August 14.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 24, 2021

(The NYT sets the number higher:

The U.S. has evacuated about 82,300 people from Kabul since Aug. 14. But against a looming Aug. 31 deadline, it is believed that thousands of U.S. citizens and tens of thousands of Afghans who qualify for special immigration visas remain in Afghanistan. https://t.co/YFFRMjbFsw

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 25, 2021

So apparently it's a moving target.)

Biden is going to be punished for this for years to come.  Or the commentators will be; oh, wait, I forgot:  they write the commentary:

"I’ve also noticed a naïveté about some of the commentary on Afghanistan. It presumes that there was a clean solution for the U.S., if only the Biden administration (and, to a lesser extent, the Trump administration) had executed it." https://t.co/WH8LL0Wrog

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 25, 2021

"One of Ghani’s main requests was that the U.S. ... limit evacuations.
It was an understandable request. A mass evacuation would have amounted to a surrender to the Taliban (for which Biden would have been blamed)." https://t.co/WH8LL0Wrog

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 25, 2021

I think the historical record reflects that Ghani fled the country BEFORE mass evacuations could get underway.

How many of the newly-minted armchair experts on Central Asia will parse and analyze this June 25 request of Ghani's?

Or commend the United States for rapidly extracting 100,000 or more from Afghanistan?

One does wonder.https://t.co/vzyOOrVnLS pic.twitter.com/BEuNx18G7J

— riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་ (@riwoche) August 25, 2021

From the chronicles of "America Descending into prolonged national adolescence:  'You're Not The Boss of Me!' chapter:

This is how I know COVID is going to get worse.

There are adults - and parents of children - who not only refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine but also REFUSE TO GET TESTED IN ER or let THEIR CHILDREN GET TESTED IN THE ER.

They don’t care if they have it or are spreading it.

— Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, FACEP (@NickSawyerMD) August 25, 2021

And on the "rational economic being" front:

“What’s amazing to me is that a vaccine we’ve been working on for 10 years, they are deathly afraid of,” said a nursing officer. “But this highly experimental cocktail? They’re willing to run in there the minute that they’re sick to get this infused into their bodies”

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) August 25, 2021

And Regeneron is only FDA approved for experimental use; which is supposedly what was wrong with the vaccine all along.

I have to say, I do support this idea:

It would be morally wrong to promote junk science and civilizational collapse by experimenting to see if we can get Trumpists to switch from Ivermectin to something even more ridiculous, but it's tempting. Is it less immoral if the alternative is less hazardous? pic.twitter.com/lrB0hcDzo8

— UtterDebacleHat (@Popehat) August 25, 2021

We all must do our part for the greater good!