1. If the reports are true that the #ChineseCommunists have occupied the US base at #Bagram, #Afghanistan @POTUS @JoeBiden's @WhiteHouse must confirm it. First, I have a rule about reporting. If I know something about a US operation that is not publically known, including
2. being known to our adversaries, I won't post it. My dad covered the Chinese Civil War for the @AP and my mom, who witnessed it, and I often discussed the ethics of reporting in a war zone, and I'm confident that the US press corps is not obligated to report things that might
3. harm national security. My general rule is, if the enemy knows, then the US people generally have a right to know. Besides the terrorists, the #ChineseCommunists are as close to an enemy as we currently have. And if they are in Bagram they certainly know it and our confirming
4. it does nothing that could aid them. Concealing it aids our enemies in that circumstance. The argument that we would be disclosing sources and methods is specious because the Chinese Communists know we have the capability to observe Bagram from overhead, even if our
5. adversaries are unaware of our full capability. We don't need to confirm the methods and sources to provide the American people with the facts required to conduct democratic oversight. In addition, we lost Vietnam because we fought a bad war by lying to the American people.
6. The damage to our military and its public support should never be repeated. If the Chinese Communists are now providing military support to the Taliban, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization, Congress has the right to consider sanctions. We must remember that
7. the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to impose the ultimate sanction by declaring war. I'm not suggesting that war is warranted, but simply that there is no rational Constitutional basis for keeping the Chinese Communist military occupation of Afghanistan

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