re: #50 jaunte

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My editors explained to me Afghanistanism. Its slightly different from Merriam Webster definition, but I lived it: No one cared about Afghanistan so write a “Somebody Should Do Something About Afghanistan” in Aug. and no one would care 2/ https://t.co/yY5NxZ1Ub2

— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) August 31, 2021

And that’s really how it has worked for the past 2 decades: When a Repub was in office then the August period would be spent commenting on how we’re “winning” the war in Afghanistan/Iraq, while a Dem would spend August getting bombarded with stories about how we’re “losing the peace” in Afghanistan/Iraq. But the theme was always the same: Domestic issues could wait, we needed to focus on foreign adventurism.