That same media could have shown an ounce of interest in Afghanistan over the past decade and not have to look too hard to see how useless our occupation was. The Afghanistan Papers have been out since 2015. The complete failure of our colonial project isn't some new thing we're being blindsided by, and the media whose job it should have been to ring the alarm bells about what was going on were largely silent because A) they don't actually care about Afghanistan no matter how much they're bleating now, and B) they support and are complicit with US hegemony and saying anything against that would conflict with their own worldview.
So making this all about the pullout rather than 20 years of failure shifts the blame from US imperialism to just Biden's current mistakes and allows them to remain the responsible shepherds of truth they want to be seen as rather than incompetent collaborators with a government who makes them feel important by letting them sit in the White House for press briefings and embedding them within the military to take state sponsored guided tours of war zones.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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