World News: Veterans are not happy with Biden

Wednesday, August 25

A U.S. Marine assigned to 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit comforts an infant while they wait for the mother during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 21, 2021.

America's veterans are ashamed of Biden's ugly retreat

Good morning! Here are today's columns.

Today we have a column about American veterans being "horrified" by the last week's events in Afghanistan and the Biden administration's handling of the issue. There's also more about COVID-19 in schools and one journalist's experience with cancer.

Afghanistan: Why veterans are outraged

By Brett G. Odom

Last week was a searing experience for many veterans. We watched a dissembling commander in chief smear Afghans who fought and died for their country (the Afghan National Security Forces suffered more casualties this year alone than the U.S. did in our 20-year campaign).

We watched him trot out a focus-grouped phrase — "the buck stops here" — while dodging actual responsibility and casting blame everywhere but at his own door.

If the goal of the Biden administration was to prove that "America is back," we have established exactly the opposite.

Today's Editorial Cartoon

Keeping children safe during COVID

Mike Thompson, USA TODAY

•	Keeping children safe during COVID

I hate cancer. I hate the incremental death.

By Jack Kurtz

My oncologist confirmed what others said: I have stage IV prostate cancer, and the bone scan showed it has metastasized. He said it had spread so much that surgery to remove the prostate would be ineffective – there was too much cancer to treat with radiation, although some individual tumors might be treatable with radiation.

He said my cancer was terminal.

He also told me to consider the cancer a chronic disease, like diabetes, that would be with me until I died.

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