Abandoning the Afghans who Helped Us is Unconscionable*
(*Beware: I’ll be using some colorful (a.k.a. foul) language in this article)
I don’t normally write about politics or world affairs. I’m keenly interested in them, but I just don’t consider myself expert enough in anything to draw myself into heavy arguments, or worse, the insatiable jaws of the endless supply of trolls out there. However, there’s a first time for everything (and a last, I’m sure), and I’m so overwhelmed by what is happening in Afghanistan right now that I just had to put it to “paper.”
Seriously, Joe. What were you (and your people) thinking?
Anyone who knows me is well-aware that I was no fan of our previous Administration. My hopes for a calmer, more measured, appropriately experienced, adult group this time around were not, I think, overly lofty.
Perhaps that’s why I’m so angry and disappointed over the current Administration’s utter failure to plan for honoring our promises to the legions of Afghan citizens (and, by extension, their families) who risked literal life and limb to help us and our allies over the past 20 years. Putting aside such a colossal fuck-up in planning and logistics for the moment, however, I’m compelled to ask a pointier question: now that…
