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The Deep State and Afghanistan

THE  foreign policy mega-blunder that has been unfolding in Afghanistan for the last month has been a crisis that has done the best to unify Americans since 9/11. People on both sides of the aisle are in agreement that Biden goofed up big time with the withdrawal. While some pundits have tried to sugarcoat it, or argue that Biden's error was somehow because of Orange-Man-Bad, the simple fact is that Afghanistan has rapidly turned into a Vietnam 2.0 . Numerous years, dollars, and lives later, look at how far we have [not] gotten. The question on my mind, and of others who have a like-minded perception of the World at-large, is simple, and is given in this article’s title: “Did or didn’t the Deep State have a role to play in this blunder?” How could something this important and large-scale have not have their handprints on it? Now, upon stating this, some readers might have a ready objection; if not, I’ll provide it for them: This couldn’t have been engineered by them! Losing A...