The political Right has very successfully labeled Biden as a war loser. The MSM often has stated in recent days that "the USA lost the war in Afghanistan." Even Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour said that Monday night. Of course, like Vietnam, the US never declared war on Afghanistan, so there was no war to lose. Nevertheless, there were losses. Lives were lost and a lot of US money was lost. Otherwise, the Taliban were in power when we invaded and they are in power now that we left. Our invasion excuse, Bin Laden, was never there. We killed him in his compound in Pakistan.
There were lessons learned in Vietnam which we ignored in Afghanistan and Iraq. We might learn one lesson. Our exceptionalist white-hat self image is delusion. We do not make the world better by spreading global democracy much less capitalism. We always make it worse. One more thing that Congress could fix if it really wanted to atone for Foreverwar - Defund the CIA. They almost always start conflicts that end in disaster - Afghanistan for example. They should stick to intelligence gathering, and leave covert special ops to the military.
So many of the war hawks these days are in the democratic party while many on the right have an America First aversion to foreign interventions like Afghanistan. I'm not certain that terms like left and right even have meaning any longer.
One reason Trump was so hated was he questioned America's forever wars. The establishment of both parties are now very much on the right, as are their war and ratings loving media cheerleaders.
Left and right still have meaning - just not when it comes to the MIC, even though their support for war is often motivated by differing idiologies. When were kids in school, civic class was superman ideology; truth, justice, and the American Way. Our truth, justice upon others, and ram democracy and capitalism down their commie throats.
The political Right has very successfully labeled Biden as a war loser. The MSM often has stated in recent days that "the USA lost the war in Afghanistan." Even Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour said that Monday night. Of course, like Vietnam, the US never declared war on Afghanistan, so there was no war to lose. Nevertheless, there were losses. Lives were lost and a lot of US money was lost. Otherwise, the Taliban were in power when we invaded and they are in power now that we left. Our invasion excuse, Bin Laden, was never there. We killed him in his compound in Pakistan.
There were lessons learned in Vietnam which we ignored in Afghanistan and Iraq. We might learn one lesson. Our exceptionalist white-hat self image is delusion. We do not make the world better by spreading global democracy much less capitalism. We always make it worse. One more thing that Congress could fix if it really wanted to atone for Foreverwar - Defund the CIA. They almost always start conflicts that end in disaster - Afghanistan for example. They should stick to intelligence gathering, and leave covert special ops to the military.
So many of the war hawks these days are in the democratic party while many on the right have an America First aversion to foreign interventions like Afghanistan. I'm not certain that terms like left and right even have meaning any longer.
One reason Trump was so hated was he questioned America's forever wars. The establishment of both parties are now very much on the right, as are their war and ratings loving media cheerleaders.
Left and right still have meaning - just not when it comes to the MIC, even though their support for war is often motivated by differing idiologies. When were kids in school, civic class was superman ideology; truth, justice, and the American Way. Our truth, justice upon others, and ram democracy and capitalism down their commie throats.