Than you, I think, for reminding me of so many times in the last 25 years that made me apoplectic. I lived through all that and had a hard time putting all the pieces together (I didn’t watch Fox, where Rupert told fools what to think). I knew about the Northern Alliance and felt that the loss of Massoud was a game changer and really bad…
Than you, I think, for reminding me of so many times in the last 25 years that made me apoplectic. I lived through all that and had a hard time putting all the pieces together (I didn’t watch Fox, where Rupert told fools what to think). I knew about the Northern Alliance and felt that the loss of Massoud was a game changer and really bad omen. Only later did I hear about “Charlie Wilson’s War,” and would love to hear your take on that sometime.
Another gobsmacking game changer was the 2020 election steal. I watched as W/Dickie turned an epic failure into a war cry for revenge, with absolutely no acknowledgment for “previous.” My best friend and her family celebrated W with a Fox fervor that I could no longer abide.
As to that roller coaster of history, Tom Turo of the New Yorker has a cartoon that said “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everybody else repeats it.” You said it best. We all are on the roller coaster with too many fools.
The Iraq debacle was as deliberate and as stupid as any US action has ever been. So hard to even remember the horror, and the Isis it created (Abu Ghraib helped). W’s “mission accomplished“ bs almost caused a meltdown in the grocery store where the management had it on tv. First time I have ever made a scene in public.
And then came the tea party, with the solution - to white wash “guilty as sin” Repubs and blame a barely black man for every thing that had gone wrong and everything that could.
And their greatest accomplishment, the rise of the white supremacist, religious fascists. Well done America. Biden has a mountain of Schitt to shovel, with precious little help and an army of opposition who are constantly adding to the pile. I’m sure Chaney needed a new heart after all this because his had been dead for a long time. And W now pretends to be the responsible elder statesman. You are a great writer, but no fiction could ever match the unf**kingbelievable story behind this nightmare. And then came chump…
Than you, I think, for reminding me of so many times in the last 25 years that made me apoplectic. I lived through all that and had a hard time putting all the pieces together (I didn’t watch Fox, where Rupert told fools what to think). I knew about the Northern Alliance and felt that the loss of Massoud was a game changer and really bad omen. Only later did I hear about “Charlie Wilson’s War,” and would love to hear your take on that sometime.
Another gobsmacking game changer was the 2020 election steal. I watched as W/Dickie turned an epic failure into a war cry for revenge, with absolutely no acknowledgment for “previous.” My best friend and her family celebrated W with a Fox fervor that I could no longer abide.
As to that roller coaster of history, Tom Turo of the New Yorker has a cartoon that said “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everybody else repeats it.” You said it best. We all are on the roller coaster with too many fools.
The Iraq debacle was as deliberate and as stupid as any US action has ever been. So hard to even remember the horror, and the Isis it created (Abu Ghraib helped). W’s “mission accomplished“ bs almost caused a meltdown in the grocery store where the management had it on tv. First time I have ever made a scene in public.
And then came the tea party, with the solution - to white wash “guilty as sin” Repubs and blame a barely black man for every thing that had gone wrong and everything that could.
And their greatest accomplishment, the rise of the white supremacist, religious fascists. Well done America. Biden has a mountain of Schitt to shovel, with precious little help and an army of opposition who are constantly adding to the pile. I’m sure Chaney needed a new heart after all this because his had been dead for a long time. And W now pretends to be the responsible elder statesman. You are a great writer, but no fiction could ever match the unf**kingbelievable story behind this nightmare. And then came chump…