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Short Read of the Week for August 19, 2021

Our top recommendation in this morning’s discussion - the one article you should read this week if you don’t read anything else - was this defense of President Biden from an old-school Republican:

Why Traditional Conservatives Should Root for Biden's Success
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/12/why-traditional-conservatives-should-root-bidens-success/
[our copy here]

We recommended it not because we have much hope that many traditional conservatives will read it, but because the left wing of our own party needs to. Your friends on both the left and right should be open to reading this, so please share it with them.

Our second-place recommendation was Robert Hubbell’s concise explanation of the rationale and the correctness of Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, including a brief history of this decades old deadly debacle.:

Biden Steps Up
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/todays-edition-biden-steps-up
[our copy here]

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Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2021/8/19/short-read-of-the-week-for-august-19-2021.