Tom Nichols (The Atlantic): The American public now has what it wanted (Afghanistan)

[Arazi]

1. I have the photographic evidence that I forcefully objected to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Many are of me in a crowd of MILLIONS of people who similarly objected.

More than a few are me along with 20 or so like-minded folks on the street corners of my little town (which is solidly purple now - a fact I'd like to believe was helped along by our very visible presence).

I'm irritated that the millions of us who took to the streets about this are now whitewashed out of these analyses.

We objected. Loudly. Visibly. We were called un-American and unpatriotic. But we were out there