“But who cares about our country? Let’s get back to Afghanistan!”
Why does the establishment think that whenever something is amiss anywhere in the world, we need to scramble jets and fly in to fix it?
There’s a girl in Sudan who can’t get treatment for a cut on her finger — but they will treat the boy! Fire up the missiles!
Naivete + hubris is a bad combination, like ignoring the label and mixing toilet drain cleaner and bleach.
For a thoughtful defense of Team America: World’s Policeman, we turn to the journal of consensus liberal opinion, The Atlantic. Peter Wehner, a George W. Bush speechwriter and renowned cheerleader for flinging our troops around the globe to wipe out poverty, misogyny, homophobia, badness and meanness, recently penned a piece announcing that he is hopping mad at President Biden for ending the war in Afghanistan after a measly 20 years.
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