Manufacturing a crisis to defend perpetual warhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/08/manufacturing-a-crisis-to-defend-perpetual-war …
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The problem is that leaping from "bad things are happening in a war zone with a failed state" to "Biden's handling was incompetent" should require comparing results to baselines and alternative scenarios, which isn't happening https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/media-bias-biden-polls-approval-afghanistan-withdrawal.html …pic.twitter.com/ak2HU1O8IC
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Scott Lemieux Retweeted Josh Rogin
It's just remarkable responsbility-dodging to claim that the near-instantaneous collapse of the Afghan state is *Biden's* mess, as opposed to the mess of the people who spent 20 years and a trillion dollars on a massively failed nation-building planhttps://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1430519729626755083 …
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Everyone knows Joe Biden hopped in a time machine back to 2003 to tell the W administration, who totally cared what he thought in the first place, to just not bother trying to get a strong, responsive, effective, and non-corrupt democratic Afghan government up and running
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