Regardless of everything that has happened and how it has been covered...

[H2O Man]

14. Many people vote

on emotion. And we know that republicans always campaign on naked emotion, especially when it comes to a mistaken notion of patriotism. Losing a war has consequences, as the republicans found out after Nixon and Vietnam -- though obviously Watergate et al played a role.

Likewise, in the republican playbook, they will reverse course from the deaths during the Trump year, and blame Biden for the on-going covid crisis. It is important to recognize that the current republican party has gone from amoral to immoral, and that they are going to campaign on the synergy of emotion and ignorance.

I agree 100% that we should be engaged in a campaign to correct all the misinformation and disinformation regarding Afghanista. I attended my uncle's burial ceremony last Friday at a National Cemetery in NYS. One of the speakers was one of the guys who had served with my uncle. At the reception, he was seated at the table next to mine, and was giving me the hairy eyeball that his generationtended to view long-haired, bearded youth back in the day. He was arguing about Afghanistan with my cousin, a retired military man.

Being without any social graces, I said, "I thought the mission was to kill those who attacked us on 9/11. Something like having special forces block any path to Pakistan while bombing Tora Bora. It didn't include making the defense industry rich by sacrificing our military." He got up, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, "Exactly! You're god-damned right!"