{"id":325388,"date":"2021-08-16T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:17:07","slug":"interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Interventionism met its end in Afghanistan and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bc19d684a3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bc19d684a3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_The_End_of_Interventionism\" >Conservative: The End of Interventionism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/#Feminist_Why_Cuomo_Got_MeTood\" >Feminist: Why Cuomo Got #MeToo\u2019d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_The_Blight_of_Cuomo\" >Culture critic: The Blight of Cuomo<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/#Hunter_watch_The_Latest_Biden_Blackout\" >Hunter watch: The Latest Biden Blackout<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/interventionism-met-its-end-in-afghanistan-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_YouTubes_Mask_Hypocrisy\" >From the right: YouTube\u2019s Mask Hypocrisy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Interventionism met its end in Afghanistan and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_The_End_of_Interventionism\"><\/span>Conservative: The End of Interventionism<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Summing up her\u00a0colleague Mollie Hemingway\u2019s remarks on the \u00adAfghanistan withdrawal debacle, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/15\/hemingway-afghanistan-disaster-is-the-result-of-20-years-of-failed-interventionist-strategy\/\">The Federalist\u2019s Evita Duffy laments<\/a> how \u201ctwo decades of disastrous nation-building in Afghanistan that have resulted in strategic failure and a resurgence of the Taliban upon the United States\u2019 exit from the country.\u201d\u00a0As Hemingway noted on Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 \u201cSpecial Report,\u201d \u201cThis is the natural result of 20 years of failed strategy. We went from using our military to fight and win wars into the impossible task of nation-building. When we were attacked on 9\/11, we needed to have a swift and serious response. We did that, but then-President Bush took his eyes off the ball. He and Cheney and Obama and Biden took on this task of nation-building in \u00adAfghanistan \u2014 the country historians call the \u2018graveyard of empires.\u2019\u200a\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Feminist_Why_Cuomo_Got_MeTood\"><\/span>Feminist: Why Cuomo Got #MeToo\u2019d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIn the murky forest of American politics,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/08\/cuomos-accusers-have-corrupted-metoo\/\">sighs Kat Rosenfield at \u00adUnHerd<\/a>, \u201cthere\u2019s only one weapon powerful enough\u201d to take down liberal \u201cwerewolves\u201d like Gov. Cuomo: \u201ca good old #MeToo-ing by an army of brave women warriors.\u201d The problem is that the allegations\u00a0\u2014 some damning, some less so \u2014 obscured the governor\u2019s bigger sin: \u201cThis was the man who mandated that COVID-infected patients be admitted to nursing homes without testing,\u201d killing thousands and then trying to cover it up \u2014 crimes he got away with for months because the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> class preferred him to \u201cthose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>-denying yokels in, say, Florida, who wouldn\u2019t even wear masks at the beach.\u201d The lesson: \u201cIf the government and media would stop providing partisan cover for political werewolves, maybe desperate citizens wouldn\u2019t feel the need to use #MeToo as a silver bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/cuomo-1-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-19140036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/cuomo-1-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/cuomo-1-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/cuomo-1-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Seth Wenig<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_The_Blight_of_Cuomo\"><\/span>Culture critic: The Blight of Cuomo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With sexual-harassment claims dominating headlines, \u201cfar less has been said of\u201d Gov. Cuomo\u2019s \u201caesthetic abuse of New York. And Cuomo was a \u00adserial abuser, wantonly so and without remorse,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/book-and-art\/andrew-cuomo-design-new-york-house\/\">snarks James Panero at Spectator World<\/a>. \u201cFrom Albany, he dreamed of the glories of Rome. Regrettably, he was only looking as far as the City of Rome in Oneida County.\u201d The Penn Station \u201cdebacle\u201d was just one of \u201cDandy Andy\u2019s many design ambitions.\u201d He \u201chad a chance to right a historic wrong by rebuilding Old Penn,\u201d but \u201cwhy fix a broken neighborhood when you can break even more?\u201d He earlier \u201cwasted $30 million\u201d to replace some of the Midtown Tunnel\u2019s white tiles with his favored blue and gold. \u201cBy the time he released his poster called \u2018New York Tough,\u2019 an art-brut collage of every flatten-the-curve clich\u00e9, our collective immunity to the Cuomo-esque was at its lowest point.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hunter_watch_The_Latest_Biden_Blackout\"><\/span>Hunter watch: The Latest Biden Blackout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe media blackout on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop remains in force\u201d despite \u201ca videotape that purportedly shows Biden claiming that one of his laptops was stolen by Russians for blackmail purposes,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/08\/12\/it-was-fing-crazy-sh-videotape-shows-hunter-biden-purportedly-admitting-russians-have-blackmail-material-on-him\/\">fumes \u00adJonathan Turley at his blog<\/a>. Reported largely by foreign media, the tape features Hunter talking \u201cafter filming having sex with an alleged prostitute in a Las Vegas hotel,\u201d telling her of the drug-fueled benders he went on with Russians \u201cfrom penthouse suite to penthouse suite.\u201d The president\u2019s son \u201cwas receiving massive payments from dubious foreign figures from China to the Ukraine to Russia during these years,\u201d claiming \u201cthey needed his guidance on issues like \u00adenergy development and financial dealings.\u201d Let\u2019s be real: \u201cWhy would these sources be forking over millions to a self-admitted hopeless addict other than buying access and influence with his father?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/YouTube-Rand-Paul.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,\" class=\"wp-image-19140053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/YouTube-Rand-Paul.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/YouTube-Rand-Paul.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/YouTube-Rand-Paul.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul for seven days  after he posted a misleading video suggesting face masks don\u2019t prevent infection by COVID-19.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefani Reynolds\/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_YouTubes_Mask_Hypocrisy\"><\/span>From the right: YouTube\u2019s Mask Hypocrisy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYouTube deserves every shred of scorn and ridicule we can still muster in these crazy, exhausting times,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/aug\/12\/the-real-reason-youtube-silenced-rand-paul\/\">rages The Washington Times\u2019 Charles Hurt<\/a> in response to the Google-owned video platform\u2019s decision to ban Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). In a video, Paul, a physician as well as a lawmaker, had dismissed the \u201cfalse sense of \u00adsecurity that cloth, store-bought masks provide people who are concerned about COVID-19. Lobbying for mask mandates, Dr. Paul warned, could be \u2018potentially deadly misinformation.\u2019\u200a\u201d Of course, national virus guru and elite darling Dr. Anthony Fauci has fulminated against masks even more adamantly before flip-flopping. The difference is that Paul \u201copenly calls on American citizens to stand up for their constitutional liberties.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Compiled by Sohrab Ahmari &amp; Kelly Jane Torrance<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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