listen closely all you youngsters and braying trumpists...there is an instructive point or two to be made if you leave behiind your exceptionalism and pay attention...
kabul yesterday ( i believe )...
saigon april 1975...
kabul...
saigon...we have done this before and, rendered stupid by american exceptionalism, will doubltlessly do it again...g.w.f. hegel maintained that the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history...i would, in the case of imperial thinking, amend that to all we learn from history is the wrong thing...we simply refine the mistakes of the past into the policy of the present and future because we think we know better when we do not...we are learning what the british and the soviets learned...you do not win in afghanistan...one would have thought the war in viet nam would have brought imperial adventures into question...but empires lie to themselves as well as the rest of the world...all viet nam taught the military was that they needed to control the media and how it presents information more closely so the public doesn't find out how inept it really is ( is where you work a chaotic mess most of the time...all anthropogenic structures are inherently unstable and prone to entorpy...the military, despite its hubris, is the same )...read some history...reflect on the mistakes you have made...amplify them with american exceptionalism...and you might have an epiphany...or you can close you mind and keep making the same stupid mistakes thinking " it'll be different this time"...and, before i go, whose adminstration negotiated a peace deal with the taliban? that's right, donny greenlighted this...and the viet nam withdrawal ( no not the entire war ) was a wholly republican affair...get a grip yahoos.
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