Tonight, on the The Private Citizen, I talk about breaking news from Afghanistan. Not so much the war or the troop withdrawal itself, but how politicians reacted to it. And why we, as freedom-loving, democracy-affirming citizens can not let this blatant (and dumb) propaganda stand.

→ The Private Citizen 82: The Afghan Disaster

The people responsible claim nobody could have predicted what happened in Afghanistan this week. But their experts did in fact did predict it, which wasn’t exactly hard, and then the people in charge lied about it. The public now desperately needs to understand how governments operate, or it will all happen again. And soon.

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