I struggle with the emotions of the moment. The US hasn't won a war or conflict, excepting, I suppose, the Gulf War in 75 years. We've been shoveling trillions of dollars into a bottomless hole, where defense contractors got rich but most Afghanistans outside of Kabul saw little change in their daily lives. I understand the policy of withdrawal. I understand the wretched position left by the catastrophic Trump-Pompeo deal. I understand that there was a small window for withdrawal, that Trump-Miller deliberately slowed the SIVs to a crawl. What I don't understand was the lack of planning. Why not move people out and process them later? The military performed brilliantly, but the slow-walking of initial evacuations is incomprehensible. There is a vacuum of information about the 'why' that's being filled with propaganda and nonsense on the right and grandstanding on the left. Sadly, most people will have forgotten about the Afghanistan people in light of our own meteoric plummet into Covid hell, led by power-crazed governors and an ignorant, self-absorbed faction of the population.
Hope, and sending all journalists a prayer, and a hug. Thanks for this. Very sobering.
Heartbreaking.
I struggle with the emotions of the moment. The US hasn't won a war or conflict, excepting, I suppose, the Gulf War in 75 years. We've been shoveling trillions of dollars into a bottomless hole, where defense contractors got rich but most Afghanistans outside of Kabul saw little change in their daily lives. I understand the policy of withdrawal. I understand the wretched position left by the catastrophic Trump-Pompeo deal. I understand that there was a small window for withdrawal, that Trump-Miller deliberately slowed the SIVs to a crawl. What I don't understand was the lack of planning. Why not move people out and process them later? The military performed brilliantly, but the slow-walking of initial evacuations is incomprehensible. There is a vacuum of information about the 'why' that's being filled with propaganda and nonsense on the right and grandstanding on the left. Sadly, most people will have forgotten about the Afghanistan people in light of our own meteoric plummet into Covid hell, led by power-crazed governors and an ignorant, self-absorbed faction of the population.