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It's time for my semiweekly rant about Friday's episode of Left Right and Center!
Though it's a very specific, very narrow rant this time, since the whole focus was Afghanistan, which I don't know a ton about and therefore can't get too outraged about inaccuracies for. But oh how I hate Elizabeth Bruenig.
Why was I listening to it, you ask, since I've not listened to it because of her before? Well, the right panelist was Megan McArdle and I do like her. I don't often agree with her, but there's always a sense that she came to her positions via actually thinking about them and that she's aware that the reality of governing involves actually building towards something. And she's not shy about where she disagrees with current Republican leadership. (The best weeks are when Megan McArdle and Christine Emba are on together; they work at the same newspaper and play off each other really well.)
Anyway, it's just one very specific moment I want to complain about now: Bruenig using the Afghan Army not fighting the Taliban as an example of Afghanis not loving freedom like we do. Because if they loved freedom they'd have fought. When it was pointed out to her that the Taliban's victory was basically inevitable and they decided they wanted to live to see their families again, she responded in so many words "See, that's not wanting freedom."
And I just... how is this woman still considered left?
Though it's a very specific, very narrow rant this time, since the whole focus was Afghanistan, which I don't know a ton about and therefore can't get too outraged about inaccuracies for. But oh how I hate Elizabeth Bruenig.
Why was I listening to it, you ask, since I've not listened to it because of her before? Well, the right panelist was Megan McArdle and I do like her. I don't often agree with her, but there's always a sense that she came to her positions via actually thinking about them and that she's aware that the reality of governing involves actually building towards something. And she's not shy about where she disagrees with current Republican leadership. (The best weeks are when Megan McArdle and Christine Emba are on together; they work at the same newspaper and play off each other really well.)
Anyway, it's just one very specific moment I want to complain about now: Bruenig using the Afghan Army not fighting the Taliban as an example of Afghanis not loving freedom like we do. Because if they loved freedom they'd have fought. When it was pointed out to her that the Taliban's victory was basically inevitable and they decided they wanted to live to see their families again, she responded in so many words "See, that's not wanting freedom."
And I just... how is this woman still considered left?
