A Briefer Comment on Afghanistan

 I don't agree (for the moment) with putting this on Biden. You cant put something on someone in office for eight months after three Presidents spent their whole tenures doubling down on making withdrawal as awful as possible. But I do agree with putting this on absolutely everybody else. You didn't care. If you're a Democrat you bought the old Soviet lie that all Western foreign policy is imperialism without even the Soviet Union to feed it to you. If you're a Republican, there wasn't a single malpractice you weren't willing to excuse in the name of a fight for freedom abroad that you did everything in your power to stop within in your own country. Before 9/11 was even five years ago, you'd all forgotten that the rest of the world exists. Why? Because we're Amurrikans damnit and even the ones of you who are ultra-critical of America don't give a shit about anywhere else. An Arab Spring couldn't make you look elsewhere, neither could a ten year war in Syria with three million refugees that involved the very people who interfered in our election. Global warming certainly can't do it, and the only people who cared about the world economy opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and put 5 trillion dollars into the Chinese dictatorship's pocket. Hell, even Russian interference in an election can't make you think about anything but whatever side you take in a futile battle to change masculinity..., even a virus from halfway across the world that's going to kill more than a million of us can't make you stop thinking about whatever side you take in a futile battle to change law enforcement.... In the bubble of your privilege you got to pretend small issues were large, you read slogans and political memes when you should be reading policy briefs. And now, the chess pieces are all in place for war everywhere, genocide everywhere, dictatorship everywhere, and all it takes is one natural disaster to light the whole world on fire. So now we all get to watch a genocide for which we are responsible, a genocide which may well be a pre-echo of what's coming for billions - including us. Billions of dollars of equipment and economic stimulus get to benefit the very people who sponsored 9/11. If you're feeling sick right now, good. Don't get angry, get nauseous. Whatever you see in Afghanistan, that could be us.