We should all be thankful that Biden had the experience and courage to put a stop to the war in Afghanistan. If you ask the Pentagon, of course we need to leave thousands of troops on the ground. Biden ended this because it needed to end.
The fundamental dishonesty regarding the coverage isn’t that there is no comparison or precedent for the sheer numbers and efficiency of this evacuation in human history. It is a remarkable logistic fete. The dishonesty is also not measuring success not based on Americans left behind, but every Afghan ally? Really? In what war has that ever been the standard? The dishonesty is not regarding who some of the Americans left in Afghanistan are — mercenaries and private contractors who were paid well for their risk, unlike American soldiers.
The real dishonesty is…
...where was all this concern for woman, children, babies and cooperative civilians when we rolled into Iraq and Afghanistan years ago? How many children were bombed? How many of an entire generation have a trauma we Americans can’t really imagine? By sheer numbers, there are as many or more civilians, including children, who were killed by our acts of force in these wars than there are waiting to get out.
Where was the concern when the press cheered Bush on with his fake evidence to go after Saddam, when you or I sitting on our couches in middle America knew they were not telling the truth. Where was the investigation? Where was CNN with bloody bodies of civilians? Of showing children blown up by US bombs?
How about the news media fawning over “the mother of all bombs” being dropped on caves… the indiscriminate destruction these bombs caused likely had nothing to do with us getting Osama Bin Laden. How many innocents were killed? Where was the media’s concern?
Biden is a profile in courage for standing up to the certain criticism and messiness of this operation. If there is a President I trust to do this in a humanitarian way, it is Biden.
Let’s call out this “mother of all lies” when we see a media story showing people trying to get out, by the same media that ignored wanton death and destruction.
...between 1000 and 1300 civilians killed in the bombing campaign through 1 January 2002.
In other words, our indiscriminate bombing early in the war killed far more innocent Afghan people than the media is worried might not get out.