Corporate media does the war pigs' bidding on Afghanistan

There's nothing surprising at all about this. Many of the same people who own corporate media, and ultimately determine how it spins things, have also undoubtedly made money off the death and suffering there.

Incidentally, I just read America's War for the Greater Middle East: A History, by Andrew Bacevich. If in some fantasy world I got to pick a book that every American has to read, right now, that would be it.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize the foreign policy of President Biden: his failure to fully end U.S. participation in the Yemen war more than five months after he pledged to; his staffing out of his foreign policy to a shadowy consultant firm called WestExec whose clients include military contractors and powerful corporations; his support for Israel’s brutal bombardment of Gaza.

But when it comes to U.S. press outlets, they’re more likely to critique Biden when he steps away from militarism. This reality was on full display following the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Bagram Air Base, which began in late June as part of the Biden administration’s broader exit from Afghanistan (which, it is important to note, does not constitute a full withdrawal and is likely to result in the farming out of the war to the CIA). - In These Times