Events in Afghanistan are about to destroy our American complacency

"When you're dead, you're a dead peckerhead." —John Prine

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We humans struggle with the realities of life and death. Whether you're religious or not, the death of someone with whom you're close profoundly affects you. "If it bleeds, it leads," on the other hand puts death at a distance. We are disturbed, yet fascinated with mayhem, but unless it happens to someone we know personally, we can, and do, dismiss localized violence from our minds. If we didn't do that, we'd drown in sorrow every day.

When we witness extraordinarily callous behavior, such as that from our president and his minions (or is it the other way around?) when they simply abandoned Americans, Afghan allies, and even dogs to the Taliban, it's harder to shield ourselves from a sick stomach, even though it's all happening far away. We did this. Our decisions and the paralysis of those in D.C. to stop the bad actors have caused these life-and-death problems.

Haunting images of a brutal regime at its worst are blasted across TV screens, as pundits and guests on talk shows rationalize the decisions made. Knowing we left a vague "10%" of our resident Americans behind in-country, and that this number apparently includes a whole lot of schoolkids from California, we start feeling a bit rough. The same occurs when we see pictures of dog crates left on the tarmac, our loyal companions, bomb-sniffers, helpless to let themselves out of the cages. We are a little relieved to hear they've been set free to roam Kabul, but only until we remember that this is a culture that reviles dogs as unclean despite the Afghan hound breed's existence. I'm not sure which are held in less regard, dogs or women, but I suspect that the answer is both.

We have innocent children, we have hapless dogs, we have people who were turned away from the airport gates, others who had their passports stolen at Taliban "checkpoints," and who knows how many others, who we suspect are all doomed but for the surreptitious help they're getting from retired combatants desperate to uphold our honor.

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Events in Afghanistan are about to destroy our American complacency

Events in Afghanistan are about to destroy our American complacency

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