To me this article is the type of outrage porn typically amplified by social media / web, which is quite facile and ultimately contributes little to no value to

To me this article is the type of outrage porn typically amplified by social media / web, which is quite facile and ultimately contributes little to no value to the discourse surrounding recent events in Afghanistan. I see a lot of buzzwords relevant to theory recent iteration of the of the culture wars, but nothing about the neocon think tanks of the early aughts (ex. Project for a New American Century) that steered US foreign policy toward misguided adventures in “nation building”, nor any mention of the military leadership that successfully kept us engaged in Afghanistan for 20 years and four different administrations. The “sudden silence” is because there is broad agreement across the American populace that the war in Afghanistan had long passed its expiration date.