I’m not sure where today’s Midrats will take us. Our co-host is getting a little underway time, so this will be just you and me.
As the initial stage of the collapse of Kabul unfolded last weekend, a lot of Midrats loyalists reached out to me to ask, “Where is this week’s Midrats?”
In hindsight, perhaps I should have brought up a show, but last Sunday was just not a good time to put a microphone in front of me,. By Monday I was ready, and my posts last week covered much of the thoughts bouncing around my head then.
Today from 5-6pm Eastern we’re going to free-form this together. The chat room is open for questions or points of order, and the studio phone line is open as well if you have a question you want to call in or if you served in Afghanistan and just wan to talk it out a bit. Call in.
Outside of that, I’ll try over the next hour or so to give you my thought on how we got here, what happened, and what we need to look at next.
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We are still in Germany, Japan, Korea and many others. Did we lose there too? It seems like people have some kind of fetish calling this an unwinnable forever war to satisfy some deeply seeded victim narrative they've been telling themselves. The consequences of what we just did have been on display in Iraq and Syria for a decade now and I can't take anyone acting blindsided seriously.