TAPS: The Silence of the Bugles

I’m going to start my unplanned summer vacation because I’m a wreck, but first I have something to say. Something I’ve written about before, but now weep at while I seethe with anger.

Here’s the reason and this article from the Army Times is disgusting.

And look, I understand why our Commander in Chief is doing it. I just don’t understand why it has to be done right now, and with such chaos that it’s a clusterfuck.

And this is not our first time. This came into my mind on reading the above article. Saigon, 1975. I googled it and found that of course I’m not alone. I haven’t read this article but I don’t need to. The headline is a punch to the balls. I remember watching that footage all those years ago. I felt deep sadness, sure. But also shame. And now we’re doing it again.

China, Iran and the Russian Federation are all laughing at us. And our allies, at the G-7, retorted when Biden said America was back, “But is it?”.

What we are doing is an egregious and dishonorable thing. It is shameful.

Al-Qaida is in the process of raping women and killing them and men are being tortured whether they helped Americans or not. It’s as much revenge as a purge. Boys will be taken and brainwashed to be the next generation of terrorists. Whatever good we accomplished in the beginning has been negated. The lives of those we lost were sacrificed for nothing.

TAPS has been blown. The bugles are silent. What remained is a shameful silence.