Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't #186 By Hank Silverberg Much is being written and said this week about Afghanistan. There have been horror stories about the chaotic evacuation of Americans and Afghanis who have worked for the United States over the last 20 years. We have lost another 13 Marines and sailors, young people who are often the best of our future. It is a bad situation. I am irked by the blame game that is playing out with politicians in Washington and the right-wing media everywhere. So I will put this to the critics in simple terms that even the uneducated and misinformed can understand. Kabul Airport, Aug 17 (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul) Put yourself in the Oval Office. You are President of the United States and you have inherited a 20-year-old war that has failed to bring peace to a region that never seems to have it. Your predecessor (Donald Trump) has made an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces and has freed 5,000