Everyone you admire proves to be all too human eventually. This, on the other hand:Our government abducted people and took them to a secret off-shore military prison to be tortured before a drumhead trial, and they're *still waiting for a trial* two decades later, but people like Rich think ending the war is the worst capitulation of our values https://t.co/Xhl5nwlypK
— Owen Barcala (@obarcala) August 31, 2021
...is the NYT just trying to make Richard Engle cry.well, well, well....
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 31, 2021
NYT finally interviewed swing districts voters about Afghanistan and found almost universal agreement: "After a two-decade war, President Biden was right to pull American troops out of Afghanistan." https://t.co/kLqCFmNQU1
Since this is the most recent post about Afghanistan, I will put it here. The Brits have an idiomatic saying I like, "grasp the nettle". When someone grasps the nettle, they are making the hard decision even though it is painful. Biden grasped the nettle on Afghanistan. Continuing the war was the easier path that avoided criticism, but Biden understands the cost. Most importantly, he is accountable for the costs. He is the one that needs to answer to the families that would continue to lose their loved ones and to the those permanently wounded. None of the pundits are accountable, but Biden recognized he is accountable, and he is unwilling to let the war drag on for more years to claim more victims. Bush had the dead brought into the US at night, Trump avoided ever going to funerals or acknowledging the losses. Biden holds himself accountable. I think a certain amount of the push back is that by ending the war, there will be an accounting of the failure and those responsible.
ReplyDeleteI am finally reminded of the school board member that said she didn't want to have to say to a parent of the child that got sick from COVID they caught at school, that she as a board member didn't do what they could to keep the children safe. She was holding herself responsible to answer to that parent. I am grateful for presidents, school board members, and those in between that recognize their responsibility to the least members of society, those that will suffer the actual consequences of their decisions. Be they privates on the front line or children in the classroom. There is still hope in our system of government.