I think we’re just more lucid and aware of what our government has been doing since the ink on the Declaration of Independence was signed.

People don’t say this often, but the quality of the coverage of this horrifying ordeal is the best I’ve ever really seen. There’s plenty of shortcomings, but the wars in Vietnam and Iraq and even against Isis weren’t covered this closely or clearly.

I think Biden et al are operating as they always have, it’s just the level of public awareness of it all that makes this so shocking.