A summarized version of this article: "I'm complicit in the war that costed the lives of millions because I distorted facts but I now wonder what the ramifications of my actions were? Anyways I have white privilege so who cares really, just be thankful I'm being honest"https://twitter.com/BRRubin/status/1205852384943054849 …
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This an important thread. Op eds like this make me want to tear my hair out. A lot of people knew, took the paychecks, took the promotions and now, by acknowledging their part in things, are taking bylines. Theirs is not the perspective I want to hear. It should not be privileged
We should be calling this out. And yet, in the isolated echo chamber of US policy, this is still a voice of dissent. Like @and_huh_what says, there's a battle over the narrative of Afghanistan w/in the US. That narrative matters. As much as it makes me want to bang my head
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into a desk (you knew! couldn't you have taken a stand when it might have mattered most?) -- it still matters that they are speaking up. That might be the first step on a long road to actual accountability and acknowledgment, like
@mebtikar, is rightly calling for. But man the -
US is so far from that. If this is a baby step on the way to that reckoning, OK. I guess I have to here for it. I don't have to like it. But I have to acknowledge that, just maybe, this is part of how the US begins to understand the full horror of the past 18 yrs
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