| SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE  Now that 30,000 people—and counting—have been evacuated from Afghanistan, Charles P. Pierce would like the elite political media, especially its cable TV news divisions, to tell us what the magic number is that will change the prevailing narrative. 40,000? 100,000? Everybody in that country except the leaders of the Taliban? All of southwest Asia? Let us all know so we can stop telling people what a Benghazi-sized dog's breakfast you all are making out of this story. It would be very helpful. But there's also how Trump and his Republican colleagues worked together to make the process of getting people out of Afghanistan harder. Quite simply, any report on the "catastrophe" in Afghanistan that doesn't include these facts, especially the involvement of the odious Steven Miller, which continues to this hour, is not worth your time. Any report on the decline in the president's poll numbers that doesn't mention the deliberate efforts to sabotage his administration, and the real human cost of those efforts, can be considered disposable.
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 Twenty years later, Lee's stand against the tide of American vengeance, when all that a nation in shock and mourning could contemplate was retribution, has been vindicated by events. We are leaving Afghanistan now, and the same people who controlled it when we arrived will control it when we're gone. Osama bin Laden is dead—killed in Pakistan—but so are more than 240,000 other people. And the sinking feeling, the bitter taste that is perhaps coloring how much of the mass media is digesting these events, along with the fact that so many in our power structures got it all wrong, is that the United States may well have lost something of itself along the way.
  We're at the bottom, not the peak, of the wave of sick kids, just as schools are re-opening. We have to talk about this.
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Monday, August 23, 2021
Any Afghanistan Story Without These Facts Is a Waste
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