All focus on the few casualties, not, or hardly a word on the fact that actions saved the vast majority of staff at these sites, and got them out of the country. Yes, “foreign service” is dangerous, as drybones notes. My son’s been there recently, I helped in some situations 42 years ago.
It is our national ignorance in all things, believing the tV fictions that make politicians able to “make hay”. For many of them, we should make that hay the torches that consume them and remove them finally, and forever, from the public arena.
All focus on the few casualties, not, or hardly a word on the fact that actions saved the vast majority of staff at these sites, and got them out of the country. Yes, “foreign service” is dangerous, as drybones notes. My son’s been there recently, I helped in some situations 42 years ago.
It is our national ignorance in all things, believing the tV fictions that make politicians able to “make hay”. For many of them, we should make that hay the torches that consume them and remove them finally, and forever, from the public arena.