Lies We Tell Ourselves

Nobody likes to think they've offered up their sons and daughters in defense of their country when in reality, they're actually offering up their sons and daughters for no reason whatsoever, so to compensate, we mythologize our wars, and an unpleasant side-effect of this is a tendency for the people who fight our wars to mythologize their own accomplishments. For this reason (among others), we should expect to hear the time-tested "stabbed in the back by Obamabots and communists" line to reemerge from the primordial swamp as soon as the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan. And they will. It's their turf, and forewarned is forearmed.

---Baron V