Two weeks ago I said the MIC had every incentive to botch the Afghanistan withdrawal. If it went smoothly, who knows which militarily occupied nation we might pull out of next?
The news media went into overtime trying to create a climate of fear that we should never pull our troops out of anywhere ever again.

Afghanistan's reputation of being the Graveyard of Empires is actually a new thing.
You could say it started with Mahmud Hotak in 1722, when his Afghan army marched into Persia and ended the Safavid Empire.
Next came the British.

If you listen to the media, our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a "betrayal", while our occupation of the country was benevolent and costless. That assumes the media reported on our 20-year long occupation at all.

The news media has discovered something extraordinary: A whole bunch of opium is grown in Afghanistan. Who knew?
The media is shocked! Shocked I say!

I read the text of Biden's speech today, not having the courage to watch it yesterday, perhaps because I was afraid of him being too weak, perhaps because I was afraid his critics would be too awful.

But I hope we all have a chance to read it at least once. I think it's a very good speech. Here's just one interesting part:

Full text of Joe Biden’s speech on withdrawal from Afghanistan

When it comes to say, a presidential debate, there are snap polls within the hour, and more comprehensive polls the very next day.
However, with the debacle in Afghanistan, which has been happening all week now, I have not seen any new polls. Instead you have the media universally spinning this as "we shouldn't have pulled out".

You people are so selfish. All you want is to end a pointless war after merely 20 years, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians being murdered.
But have you given even a thought about the wants and needs of the CIA, you selfish bastards?
No! Our murderous spies are people too, and they don't want to leave and you can't make them.

Venezuela is the Bad Kind of Narco State.
Last year Washington indicted the elected government of Venezuela on charges of “narco-terrorism,” and even sent warships to patrol the coast to stop the flow of drugs from Colombia.

It looks like the corrupt puppet state that we've been propping up in Afghanistan for a generation may not even last to the end of the year.