It's going to be a long three more years for President Biden, as the apparent snafu in Afghanistan will be forever pinned to him.

I admit this looks entirely bungled.

But I also will say I admire Biden for sticking to his position: The US, at some point (and 20 years seems like that point to me), had to leave Afghanistan.

We gave them twenty years of training, resources, intel, and our blood.

Now, I don't think we should have even been there a month to begin with. But that's just me. I'm no foreign policy expert. Maybe we should have attacked a country where (nearly?) none of the 9/11 hijackers came from.

I dunno. But it's time to get out.

AND in the case of "these things can be true at the same time" department: We fucked it all up.

We have a moral obligation to help the people of Afghanistan not get raped and beaten and murdered.

We do. And we still need to pull out.

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In other news, school districts across the nation can't fill bus driver positions. So they're paying parents to do the driving. LOL.

Bus drivers are in such short supply that EastSide Charter School in Wilmington, Del., is offering parents $700 to drop off and pick up their children for the school year. Pittsburgh Public Schools, which needs more than 400 drivers, is delaying the return to classrooms by two weeks.

And in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest district, Montgomery County Public Schools is being walloped on both ends: by delayed deliveries of new buses due to a lack of computer chips for the buses’ air-conditioning systems and a shortage of people to drive the them.

For months, the economy has been rattled by labor shortages and supply chain shocks slowing the delivery of goods around the world. As schools reopen under the shadow of a worsening coronavirus pandemic, they are being squeezed by both — facing shortages of bus drivers, substitute teachers, computers, even ketchup packets and dry-erase markers.

So I can become Ottoman? Yay! This pandemic ain't so bad after all.

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Bill

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