{"id":491,"date":"2021-08-23T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2021-10-26T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:29:45","slug":"the-afghanistan-war-was-lost-before-biden-ended-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"NYT OPINION: The Afghanistan War Was Lost Before Biden Ended It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”|||4px||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.5″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]\n

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The Afghanistan War Was Lost Before Biden Ended It<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Michelle Goldberg<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/23\/opinion\/afghanistan-biden.html<\/p>\n

Louisa Gallas | Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not since the Civil War has America needed so desperately to save our own freedoms, our own Democracy. Yet so many Americans have no \u2018strategic patience\u2019 to protect our rights here. They prefer to undermine equity to protect their own privileges or hawkish greed to control a foreign country where we kill so many civilians in our deluded efforts. Yes, many Afghans and certainly women have a clear vision of their freedoms. May their own government and military step up and fight for them. Let\u2019s stop so many of our oppressed citizens and civilians from being murdered here. Let\u2019s spend our time with strategies for more enlightenment from those who refuse to protect the collective here about vaccination. Spend our war chest on fighting the Pandemic. I hear too many Democrats putting a cowardly short-sighted focus on Biden\u2019s flaws when we have a much more dire big picture that needs our attention. Let\u2019s get busy back home and struggle together with wisdom. Keep Bush in your rear view mirror when you start to make Biden comments. Suit up, be disciplined with your discourse, set our sights on the civil war at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Opinion The Afghanistan War Was Lost Before Biden Ended It Michelle Goldberg \u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/23\/opinion\/afghanistan-biden.html Louisa Gallas | Michigan Not since the Civil War has America needed so desperately to save our own freedoms, our own Democracy. Yet so many Americans have no \u2018strategic patience\u2019 to protect our rights here. They prefer to undermine equity to protect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}