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Faced With National Humiliation, Self-Justification Becomes the Theme

Faced With National Humiliation, Self-Justification Becomes the Theme
U.S. soldiers stand guard as Afghan people wait to board a U.S. military aircraft to leave Afghanistan, at the military airport in Kabul on Aug. 19, 2021. Shakib Rahmani/AFP via Getty Images
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Whatever happened to being wrong?

James Bowman
James Bowman
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James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
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