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KABUL, AFGHANISTANAs reporters, news crews, and pundits rushed to evacuate from Hamid Karzai International Airport, the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan Monday, thereby marking the end to the longest media farce in American history.
Today, 20 years after the first invasion, we are finally concluding our nations longest-ever campaign of media hot air and bullshit punditry, said Georgetown University historian Alan Hawthorne, adding that the medias mission to sell the American public on the essentially impossible goal of establishing a self-sufficient government in Afghanistan had dragged on through two decades, four presidents, and three generations of journalists.
Ever since the attacks on September 11, the U.S. media machine has sacrificed countless hours of prime-time coverage to validate the idea that we could accomplish something of lasting value to Afghanistan, struggling valiantly against common sense and any inkling of skepticism toward the policy establishment. Of course, Americas newspapers engaged in similar campaigns in Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq. But none lasted so long, and few mischaracterized the situation so thoroughly to the American people.
Hawthorne went on to add that despite having withdrawn from the occupation, the damage the U.S. media did to the reputation of journalists everywhere could last for generations
https://www.theonion.com/withdrawal-from-afghanistan-ends-longest-media-farce-in-1847496557/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Mr.Bill
(24,238 posts)Every word of that article was absolutely true.
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,581 posts)misanthrope
(7,408 posts)Might have to pass that on.
Shoeless Louis
(73 posts)paleotn
(17,881 posts)showed some skepticism and not devolved into cheerleaders. It's also the fault of several US command staffs and a few presidential administrations. But someone had to stop kicking the can and that person was Joe Biden. That took guts. I couldn't be happier with our President.
malaise
(268,693 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,371 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)niyad
(113,055 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:56 PM - Edit history (1)
Paladin
(28,243 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)I thought that story about the bidding war over a burnt-our house in California was a one-off
crickets
(25,952 posts)burrowowl
(17,632 posts)it's hard to do satire when what is reported on seems like satire.
Texin
(2,590 posts)after the fall of Saigon.
dalton99a
(81,392 posts)Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Man, that's one expensive stunt...
SergeStorms
(19,186 posts)That's approximately 7 years for each generation of " journalist".
A "journalist's" career runs that long? Who knew?