You can make arguments about balance for the later parts but the first few weeks were pure incompetence with no redeeming features, because the failure to do cheap things early meant you had to do ex… (View Post)

I haven't read the report yet but the baffling thing watching this from Japan at the time was that the British government spent weeks refusing to do the simple things that Japan had already used… (View Post)

The implicit assumption there is that there was a non-shitshow way to withdraw from Afghanistan. But look how weak the best objections they could find are: He didn't anticipate the speed of the … (View Post)

America isn't broken, America is a perfectly functional country full of smart and mostly friendly people. The problem is its constitution. If your constitution can't cope with normal human … (View Post)

This is true, but also, the constitution of the United States of America is hot garbage. (View Post)