that kind of magical thinking to me is the kind of magical thinking that will lead you into a war like this that you are unable to get out of. if we look at some of the dysfunction that was inherent with this evacuation and you re honest about it with yourself, how can you possibly think the united states could remake afghanistan oren gauge in a nation-building exercise that s successful? but when folks in washington talk about the capabilities of u.s. military, they always imagine a perfect scenario that has no human error and that foresight rather than hindsight is going to be 20/20. of course, a ceo of a corporation could never tell his investors, by the way, everything would have been okay, the business wouldn t be bankrupt if we had made precisely perfect decisions at every juncture and there was no human error. that s not how you approach risk. i think the experience of the last 20 years, which this evacuation is but an extension
texas democrats managed to delay this moment for six weeks, but tonight the texas house of representatives is debating a republican bill to restrict voting rights in texas after enough democrats returned to establish a quorum. the bill would ban drive-through voting, ban overnight voting, restrict vote by mail, add new requirements to people who assist voters, impose criminal penalties on workers and give more power to partisan poll watchers, among other things. any action by the texas legislature could in effect be overruled by congress with the passage of the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. on saturday thousands are expected to march on the national mall in washington for the anniversary of dr. martin