The mainstream media have largely adopted a pro-war narrative: the U.S. should have stayed longer, Biden’s withdrawal is precipitous, the president has failed to secure all the good things that America brought to the people of Afghanistan/Kabul. Biden has gotten surprising support from the left, which has long opposed the Afghanistan occupation, and from some independent voices who have said that the 20-year war was catastrophic and violent and the chaotic scenes at the airport are merely the last chapter in a misbegotten policy.
Rep. Gary Ackerman speaking outside the United Nations in September 2011 (Photo: Ackerman.house.gov.) The controversy…
As mass uprisings in Arab states continue, the Israeli government and its neoconservative supporters in…