Hypocrisy

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Months ago, I had promised myself that I would avoid anything political in my articles. Primarily because the articles don’t do very well for the emotional investment I put into them. Plus, the political discussion online is flooded with opinion, fact, fiction, and flat-out lies to the point where one more person posting one more set of opinions or facts isn’t going to be heard above the herd. However, I feel like I have to say something about the absolute hypocrisy and insanity being spouted by some people online about what has happened in Afghanistan.

First, some background, I am not a veteran. I have had a family member killed in a war. An uncle in Viet Nam, and yes, I am old enough to remember both that war and my uncle, him dying and going to his funeral. I was not only an adult and aware at the time of 9/11; I was working for a company that regularly flew into and out of Boston Logan airport. I had flown on UAL 175 several times due to working on projects in Boston and places where UAL 175 sometimes had layovers depending on the schedule. So, it was primarily luck that neither myself nor anyone from my company was on that flight that day.

Emotions were running very high, high enough that my first reaction was to bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age. Regardless of how many people in the country were actually responsible, just keep bombing until nothing was left. This would have been wrong. On…