Edward Snowden's Thoughts

$If there are any lessons to be learned from this tragic sequel to Saigon, you can be assured, we will not learn them. We will just sit by as the people of Afghanistan– many of whom were as deluded by American promises as Americans themselves -cling to hopes and cling to planes and fall, lost to the desert of theocratic rule. Some will say, they didn't fight! They get what they deserve! To which I say, "And what do we deserve?" A fractious country comprised of warring tribes, unable to form an inclusive whole; unable to wade beyond shallow differences in sect and identity in order to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity, and so they perish-in the span of a breath–without ever reaching the promised shore. Today, the country this describes is Afghanistan. Tomorrow, the country this describes might be my own.$