Writing for Townhall, Kevin Roberts finds the debacle in Kabul to be simply one example of a general inability of the federal government to accomplish its assigned tasks.
Afghanistan is part of a larger pattern. Pull the camera back a bit, and the picture becomes more disturbing than even the grim images from Kabul’s beleaguered airport. The incompetence on display in that country is just the latest episode of blundering from a federal government that increasingly cannot do anything it should.
Roberts exaggerates, but his list of federal failures truly is disconcerting. He argues for enhanced federalism, for the states to step up and accomplish what the feds cannot seem to manage. That is decent advice.
