Who *is* us?
Us is a people who complain about ending a war after only twenty years of accomplishing nothing. (Yes, I know President Biden claims we accomplished something - we killed ben Ladin in Pakistan. How does that count as part of our war in Afghanistan? I guess that makes as much sense as attacking Afghanistan because nineteen Saudis attacked us.) Us is a people who fight a war for twenty years without ever finding out whom we're fighting, or whom we're aiding whether they want it or not. Us is a people who fights a War on Drugs that triples and quadruples and may ten-tuple the drug problem. Us is a people who fight a War on Poverty by incarcerating two million (going on three million) of ourselves. Heaven help us if we ever fight a War on Ignorance!
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