The Worst Instincts

 

"I'd start killing bad guys" -- Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) on how he'd respond to the attack in Kabul pic.twitter.com/38AFNd6Nim

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2021

"Pew! Pew! Pew! Muddafakas!" he did not add. I don't know what he thought we had the military doing there for the last 20 years, and I'm not sure he even gets that "putting in more US troops" isn't the way to get all Americans out. This isn't a thought process--it's the equivalent of when a house cat jumps because you set a cucumber down next to it. 

In order to keep from writing an increasingly expletive-laden 2500 word excessively linked screed about what the whole hell is wrong with Republicans, I'm just going to boil it down to this: people who have more smoke for President Biden than ISIS and make saying he has to resign or be 25th Amendment-ed the first thing to fall out of their mouths, are just partisan ghouls. Any tragedy to seize on and make political hay of would do. 

I didn't respect that nonsense when they tried it with Benghazi and I'm a whole lot less charitable to it after January 6.

UPDATE:  Yeah, this tracks: 

Amid the chaos in Kabul, Business Insider is highlighting a November 2020 article written by James Golby for The Atlantic. 

"Perhaps by design, perhaps by incompetence, perhaps out of sheer spite or arrogance, Trump has created the circumstances for another Bay of Pigs, Black Hawk Down, or Benghazi," Golby wrote in his piece published by back in November. 

Golby, also a U.S. Army veteran, emphasized how those were all incidents "where the United States inserted itself into overseas conflicts enough to draw lethal opposition but without sufficient strength to protect its people."