No accountability

No accountability

There will be endless numbers of post-mortems with respect to the Afghan debacle. Whatever the debacle is supposed to signify, it should have some accountability attached to it. If not, how can anything good come from it?

In this system, there is an opportunity to have accountability. That opportunity is not being realized. In fact, accountability is being stripped from the system. A system of merit is being replaced with a system that depends upon political power.

This kind of system has no accountability. Therefore, it will careen from one failure to another without any means of correction. Whatever you may think of the US involvement in Afghanistan, there is no getting away from the fact that it failed. Not only that, it has failed spectacularly.

There was a poll that said that Bush has the greatest responsibility for this failure. It may make sense in that he was the one who put US troops there in the first place. But what about the guy in charge when the debacle came? Does not Biden deserve some blame for the way this thing has played out? He did promise that there would be no 1975 Saigon type scenarios, but that is exactly what is playing out. Or if anything, it is worse than that.

Biden seemed to be taking responsibility, but that may be only superficial. A lot of empty words from an empty suit. A leader in any real sense would not have let this happen, nor would he let it continue. There could be large numbers of US citizens who will get caught up in this debacle. For that, he bears sole responsibility.

If his words really meant anything, he would resign. No president has overseen this level of failure, and no president is more responsible than he is for having caused it. He was warned about this. There is no excuse. But our system right now seems to have thrown out any sense of accountability. When that happens, much worse things will be on the horizon.

There has to be accountablilty for this debacle. He is the man on the scene. There is no escaping it, but it looks like that is exactly what he is trying to do.