Partly from horrible events in the news, but also with a generous mixture of ham-handed retail politicking tossed in, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz did not have a very good Labor Day weekend. And it continued a downturn trend that began on the third anniversary of the catastrophic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, killing 13 servicemembers in the process, wounding several others, and condemning Afghani women back to life under wraps and in slavery.
At Arlington Cemetery on August 26th, Donald Trump accepted the invitation from several of the gold star families of those we lost three years ago trying to defend the indefensible – both a gate at Hamid Karzai Airport as thousands literally tried to catch the last American plane out of Kabul before the country fell back into the hands of the Taliban, and a policy that saw our military bug out of Bagram Air Base before all civilian…