I'm starting to question whether I've been burdened with "Biden Derangement Syndrome." I still think he's essentially evil and all his policies are in service of himself first and after that global elites, but I had assumed that his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by 9-11 was a total lie and he had no intention of withdrawing. Now, I'm not so sure.
I think Biden and/or his top tier advisors realized that Afghanistan is an albatross and made a genuine and sincere decision to withdraw. As that became more and more apparent to the war profiteers infecting his regime's 2nd tier of hierarchy, just as they had infected the previous Trump regime, they made a decision (consciously or unconsciously) to sabotage the withdrawal and make it a disaster that could deter similar decisions in the future. Thus, rather than advising NGOs and aid workers to get out, and spiriting high level Afghan collaborators out, they allowed those people to remain. The entire withdrawal procedure was dominated by "passive aggression" at the second tier level of bureaucracy. I support Biden's one good act, but the redeployment to DRC shows that evil is still in control.
In the rest of the article, Caitlin once again conflates capitalism with corporatism, Mom and Pop's store with monopolies, a desire to control the proceeds of one's own lifetime of hard work with the privilege of acquiring wealth through investments in multiple corporations whose profits are privatized while their debts are soicalized, and well-meaning right-libertarians who don't recognize the evils of limited liability with corporate oligarchs in charge of military contractors, bankers, silicon valley and Hollywood. Caitlin and others on the antiwar left need to listen to and understand the libertarian right (and vice verse).
I'm starting to question whether I've been burdened with "Biden Derangement Syndrome." I still think he's essentially evil and all his policies are in service of himself first and after that global elites, but I had assumed that his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by 9-11 was a total lie and he had no intention of withdrawing. Now, I'm not so sure.
I think Biden and/or his top tier advisors realized that Afghanistan is an albatross and made a genuine and sincere decision to withdraw. As that became more and more apparent to the war profiteers infecting his regime's 2nd tier of hierarchy, just as they had infected the previous Trump regime, they made a decision (consciously or unconsciously) to sabotage the withdrawal and make it a disaster that could deter similar decisions in the future. Thus, rather than advising NGOs and aid workers to get out, and spiriting high level Afghan collaborators out, they allowed those people to remain. The entire withdrawal procedure was dominated by "passive aggression" at the second tier level of bureaucracy. I support Biden's one good act, but the redeployment to DRC shows that evil is still in control.
In the rest of the article, Caitlin once again conflates capitalism with corporatism, Mom and Pop's store with monopolies, a desire to control the proceeds of one's own lifetime of hard work with the privilege of acquiring wealth through investments in multiple corporations whose profits are privatized while their debts are soicalized, and well-meaning right-libertarians who don't recognize the evils of limited liability with corporate oligarchs in charge of military contractors, bankers, silicon valley and Hollywood. Caitlin and others on the antiwar left need to listen to and understand the libertarian right (and vice verse).