In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week’s top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback.
— USA TODAY Opinion editors
By Robert Robb
“President Joe Biden doesn’t deserve the blame for the Taliban taking over Afghanistan. However, he is at fault for the disorderly, dangerous and chaotic end to the U.S. involvement. The original, and tragic, strategic miscalculation in Afghanistan was made by President George W. Bush. He repeated the error in Iraq.”
By Jack Kurtz
“It is completely mental, but the paralysis is total. I can’t function. It’s a horrible thing to be sitting in the car, in a state of mental paralysis, and not be able to get out. At home, when I’m triggered, I go to bed and try to burrow through the bedding to some place cancer doesn’t exist.”
