I Guess It All Makes Sense

     We have a had a couple letters to the editor in our local newspaper blaming the recent, disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan on George Bush, the president who initiated military action twenty years earlier in response to Bin Ladin's terrorist attacks. Even many Democrats recognize the illogic of that argument. Regardless of who authorized entering Afghanistan two decades ago, the only one to blame for the botched, bloody exit strategy is our current Commander-in-Chief and his military advisers.

     I would like to think if I sold a car that was resold again three times over twenty years, and the last owner caused a fatal accident, that I would not be blamed for it. I would like to think that, but in our over-lawyered, litigation loving nation I would be wrong. Gun manufacturers are sued for the sins of criminals who stole the weapons. Aircraft manufacturers get sued for accidents caused by pilot error. Aircraft mechanics with liability insurance get sued for accidents involving planes that crash many years after they last maintained them--which is why Reed does not have that coverage. Lawyers regularly sue people they know are not responsible because they also know most insurance companies would rather write a check than right a wrong. 

     But I guess it all makes sense in a society that wants people who have never owned slaves to pay reparations to people who have never been slaves. Although our welfare system and victim mentality mantra are the next best thing. In a cupcake culture that is offended that people of 200 years ago were not as woke as we are, we might expect Bush to be blamed for Biden's bungle. Such an idea requires giant leaps over logic and possibly time travel but, to the letter writers and their kind, it all makes sense. But if time travel works both ways, it could also be argued that Biden is responsible for Ford's failure in the fall of Saigon, after all, the images of desperate nationals clinging to departing aircraft defy coincidence. So, Uncle Joe, here's what I want to know--The U.S. got out of Afghanistan, but how do we get out of Fantasyland?