Politics

By Michele McAloon, The Catholic Thing - Since 2001, almost 3 million members of the military have served in post-9/11 war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq... The psychological wounds of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have proved deadlier than actual combat. Four times as many than died in combat have died by the taking of their own lives. Over 30,177 service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have committed suicide.

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - What we have done to ourselves in allowing this to happen, what we have allowed to be done to the Afghans we promised to protect, is unspeakable. We have dishonored ourselves before the world... let us at least remove the people responsible for this catastrophe, beginning with the President and the whole wretched crowd of his advisors, including especially those buffoons in uniform whose incompetence has been amply demonstrated in the course of this disaster.

By Steven Mosher, LifeSiteNews - If you thought that President Joe Biden sent the 82nd Airborne to Kabul to make sure that all Americans were evacuated, you would be mistaken. The vast majority of those who have been evacuated are Afghanis, and now Americans are being left behind. As Logan herself later tweeted, “All that stands between these Americans and safety/home is the US govt and military.”