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** MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2021
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You may ask what then will become of the fundamental principles of equity and fair play which our constitutions enshrine; and whether I seriously believe that unsupported they will serve merely as counsels of moderation. I do not think that anyone can say what will be left of those principles; I do not know whether they will serve only as counsels; but this much I think I do know -- that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.
– Judge Learned Hand,
The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization [1942]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 13, 2021
Blame Biden for Losing Afghanistan? ([link removed])
It is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy of interventionist dead-enders is to blame President Biden for losing Afghanistan to the Taliban. If only he had kept U.S. troops there a bit longer or even indefinitely, their argument goes, the crooked and corrupt U.S.-installed Afghan puppet regime could have won the war and finally brought “enduring freedom” to Afghanistan.
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Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities ([link removed])
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Taliban Victories Explain the Wisdom of US Withdrawal ([link removed])
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As America’s Imperial Ambitions Collapse, Washington Should Ask: Who Lost Afghanistan? ([link removed])
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