These last two days have shown the mainstream media at its worst: none of them are speaking truth to the (bipartisan) political & military & *media* power that made this 20 year fiasco happen.
If you are going to interview someone who started the Afghanistan War 20 years ago, ask them why we were national building rather than just destroying Al Qaeda, why we diverted resources to Iraq, how the Afghan Army was not ready after 20 years (and so many lives & so much money)
If someone has been lying to US for the last 20 years, your job as the mainstream media is not to make them feel better by letting them blame the person who finally pulled the plug after 20 years, but to press them on what went went wrong over the last 20 years.
And, if you have a Trump official on: either they are stoked Biden carried out their policy or they think Trump was wrong to push this policy, but don't let them hold both positions. Idea that Trump would have done same policy, but more competently, is insulting to all of US.
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