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Military Intervention Can Help Uphold Human Rights
There has been a long tradition among some in the political press corps to sort of take the view that military intervention can somehow help uphold human rights around the world, wherever they're threatened. Eric levitz wrote a fantastic piece in new york magazine that you shaul ll read about this. He said if news coverage focuses exhaustively on the shortcomings of byden's withdrawal, while largely ignoring what our client state's abrupt collapse tells us,. then the lesson of coble's fall could be quite favorable for beltway hawks. Presidents shouldn't end wars in defiance of the military brass unless they wish to become unpopular. And it's very hard to tell that story.