{"id":79220,"date":"2021-08-16T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79220"},"modified":"2021-08-16T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:15:08","slug":"trying-to-put-the-best-face-possible-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79220","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Put The Best Face Possible On This.  And Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking at the collapse of Afghanistan, and the likely re-emergence of Al Quaeda and ISIS, as well as the inevitable surge of Chinese, North Korean, Iranian and Russian aggression that will attend the adminstration&#8217;s show of not just weakness but pathetic senility, one looks for some bright spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/tmshort34\/status\/1426989766931894281\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s not <em>actual<\/em>ly Saigon&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/viet_t_nguyen\/status\/1427005001721733121\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; a bright spot to the most dismal day of American foreign policy since I watched that Huey take off from the roof of the embassy in fifth grade? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s this:  some of the top &#8220;minds&#8221; in DC Democrat messaging are going to have to spend so much more time thinking of ways to convince people that &#8220;conservative white supremacist terror&#8221; is the greatest threat facing this nation, they won&#8217;t have time to think of anything new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said I was &#8220;looking&#8221; for a bright spot.  I didn&#8217;t say I found one.   But then, what the heck, we can&#8217;t even find the ^$#@ President:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ShireenQudosi\/status\/1427001762339192833\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Site note:  as I watch thousands of Afghans trying and failing to flee for their lives because American bureaucracy is more concerned about Covid testing than mass murder&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGirdusky\/status\/1426944641207832577\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;I have to wonder if Michelle Obama is still proud to be an American .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m have a touch of &#8220;not&#8221;, at the moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the collapse of Afghanistan, and the likely re-emergence of Al Quaeda and ISIS, as well as the inevitable surge of Chinese, North Korean, Iranian and Russian aggression that will attend the adminstration&#8217;s show of not just weakness but pathetic senility, one looks for some bright spot. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not actually Saigon&#8230;&#8221; So &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79229,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79220\/revisions\/79229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}