Listen up, to these hard truths on Afghanistan

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On August 19, Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria and Rebecca Crosby of Popular Information wrote a piece headlined “Where are the anti-war voices?”.

You can read the whole thing here but if you don’t, suffice it to say that the three of them offered insights you won’t get elsewhere.

In fact, anywhere.

Highlights are below:

** The media is largely overlooking voices that supported the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Popular Information quoted a veteran communications professional to say it was impossible to get other viewpoints heard: “I turn on TV and watch CNN and, frankly, a lot of MSNBC shows, and they’re presenting it as if there’s not a voice out there willing to defend the president and his decision to withdraw. But I offered those very shows those voices, and the shows purposely decided to shut them out.”

** The media narrative is ignoring the fact that most of the criticisms of the withdrawal are from people who opposed it altogether. For instance, former U…