In the first few days of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the mainstream media coverage ratio was about 50/50—about half of the reports were reporters and anchors trying to cover the Biden administration, and the other half were surprisingly honest and outspoken about Afghanistan. Terrible situation on the ground.
As the situation deteriorated in the following days, the media criticized President Biden and various government officials responsible for the final decision on the Afghanistan issue.
In turn, I started to notice that you usually see people who praise the media suddenly start complaining about how “unfair” they are to Biden. Remember, this is not necessarily because what the reporter said about what is happening is wrong; on the contrary, it’s just that these newly discovered critics are not used to gaining a foothold in how the Democratic Party is reported by the media. The result was a lot of tantrums and strange accusations of “belligerence” against various reporters, just to point out the obvious characteristics of what has happened in the past two weeks or more.
Perhaps there is no better example than NBC News’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel’s reaction to the brutal and honest assessment of Afghan heritage to illustrate how this exact situation can be seen on social media and in shows like Joey Reid. Played a role in political authority. Always report in Kabul and provide the latest developments.
This is some of what he reported as the United States today Officially moved out Afghanistan:
.@Richard Engel“This is a day of humility for the United States, and a day of humility for the superpowers of the world. Afghanistan is known as the cemetery of the empire… [U.S.] fighting [there] 20 years, now…exit…failure. This is a difficult time for the military” pic.twitter.com/pSw4ezkxq7
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 30, 2021
.@Richard Engel“The most powerful army in the world could not hold on, and eventually returned this country to the same extremist who was overthrown a few weeks after the events of 9/11… the next Osama Ben. Bin Laden may be paying attention to what is happening now[.]” pic.twitter.com/7C0VQTTnhX
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 30, 2021
“But if you step back and see what happened, this is the United States 20 years from now. This war was once called Operation Enduring Freedom, and it turned out that it won’t last. They didn’t leave a free society,” he Said in the clip below. “It is only free according to what the Taliban said, and the Taliban promised that it will be free.”
“You can also think of this as a very humiliating moment-the moment when the United States left humiliatedly, was forced to leave on the Taliban’s clock and was favored by the Taliban,” Engel continued. “So tactically speaking, it makes sense, but I’m not sure about history-I think history will judge this moment as a very dark period for the United States.”
watch:
NBC @Richard Engel Reaction to Biden asking the Taliban to decide the deadline for withdrawal: “I think history will judge this moment as a very dark period for the United States.” pic.twitter.com/IM84Dkvc6Y
-Kyle Drenn (@kjdrennen) August 24, 2021
I think his analysis is very accurate-what he said is largely in line with what I have seen of Afghan war veterans who are angry and heartbroken by what happened. But Twitter leftists, some of whom have a large following, clearly disagree. As I write this article, “Richard Engel” In vogue On Twitter, some well-known accounts described him as a “war monger”, others told him to “get out”, and some thought he was a “bastard” who was “obsessed with” war because of his extensive coverage of him after 9/11 Have done it in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I believe in veterans and those who served in the war zone Can explain Much better than me, but I will try my best here. The reality is that people don’t have to be “belligerents” to see the writing on the wall.
When you spent 20 years in a country where Americans and Afghans were bleeding, thousands died and thousands were injured. Some of them were seriously injured. You can’t see all the videos and photos of what we have experienced. Saw it In Afghanistan instead of feeling anger and fear, especially considering that due to the way of the current government, most of it happened Clumsy withdraw.
As Engel pointed out in his report, we overthrew the Taliban in the weeks after 9/11. And now, 20 years later, in just a few weeks, the Taliban have gained control again, because of the way they withdrew.
Few people want a so-called “eternal war”, but few people want to see all the work that our army and its allies have done over the years collapse in the blink of an eye, and what’s worse, in the process Killed in. This makes it seem that the sacrifices made by us men and women in military uniforms and those who have fought with them over the years are in vain. This is yet another tragic situation in Biden’s disastrous exit strategy.
If you state the inconvenient facts about President Biden Serious flaws Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan makes a person a “war monger”. I think this means that 60-70% of Americans are also dissatisfied with the way things are handled. They are also war mongers.
