Tag: complacency

(Copyright) by Richard Markland (London, Ohio)  Ask any given American what has been their view of the country’s involvement in Afghanistan, and most people will say it was time for America’s presence to end. It’s a generic and shallow response without consideration for the complexities of both the short and long term consequences involved. What objective has been successfully achieved when witnessing the Taliban retake territory, it once held? What justifiable pride is there when looking at the thousands of American lives that have been sacrificed, and lifelong injuries, both physically and emotionally for those who were sent thousands of miles […]