A Crisis of Legitimacy for the Prog Project

[Bud_Spencer]

Brilliant column from Roger Kimball:

https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/21/the-rotten-edifice-revealed/

What is happening here is something much deeper, more existential, if you will.

What just happened—what is happening still—in Afghanistan is an unfolding horror for the Afghan people.

For the United States, it is a rude snatching away of the curtain of legitimacy.

That curtain concealed a rotting edifice.

The government put in place by Wilson a century ago is imploding. What will take its place?

 

[AlterErgo]

I could care less about the Afghan "people"....fuckem.....its the way we left that is at issue

America first

It was right to get out...shulda done so 19 yrs ago

Now lets leave EuroPuke and S Korea

 

[ll74]

Brilliant column from Roger Kimball:

https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/21/the-rotten-edifice-revealed/

What is happening here is something much deeper, more existential, if you will.

What just happened—what is happening still—in Afghanistan is an unfolding horror for the Afghan people.

For the United States, it is a rude snatching away of the curtain of legitimacy.

That curtain concealed a rotting edifice.

The government put in place by Wilson a century ago is imploding. What will take its place?

We had a lot of things in motion there. Multiple projects which the US encouraged by third parties...and we really have left them to deal with the aftermath.

And it all stems from our moving from the initial goal of UbL to nation building.....horrible choice to make....and invading Iraq just compounded it

Every single person should vehemently reject future efforts like this.

 

[Lazaran]

We had a lot of things in motion there. Multiple projects which the US encouraged by third parties...and we really have left them to deal with the aftermath.

And it all stems from our moving from the initial goal of UbL to nation building.....horrible choice to make....and invading Iraq just compounded it

Every single person should vehemently reject future efforts like this.

It was an unholy alliance of the modern crusaders, the military industrial complex, and opportunistic natural resource vultures. UBL and 9/11 were the PERFECT catalysts for the comcerted effort, and that PERFECTION will always foster conspiracy theories.

I highly doubt we've seen the last of such ventures, or the last of the "Muslim super villains."

 

[ll74]

It was an unholy alliance of the modern crusaders, the military industrial complex, and opportunistic natural resource vultures. UBL and 9/11 were the PERFECT catalysts for the comcerted effort, and that PERFECTION will always foster conspiracy theories.

I highly doubt we've seen the last of such ventures, or the last of the "Muslim super villains."

I remember when the whole Nostradamus thing was.going strong and there was an evil force that would come to power in the 90s that would start World War 3.

Who doesn't love a good Nostradamus good vs evil prediction now and then?