The Final Question
In these troubled times, which are well-defined by maladies like rising costs, rising debts, and the rise of socialism, there’s no shortage of questions you could ask a Congressional candidate. But one question has lingered most persistently.
Maggie Goodlander and Lily Tang Williams are very distinct candidates. But to understand this question—and just how different they are—I need to take you down an old path that’s more relevant than you realize.
Now, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster, and I confess my arsenal of words is not adequate to truly describe it. However, for the sake of the topic at hand, I’ll dedicate myself to an attempt.
We left behind billions of dollars in military equipment, including guns, rockets, communications technology, armored vehicles, drones, night vision goggles, and aircraft like Black Hawk helicopters. We armed terrorists like a US military battalion.
Additionally, people who risked their lives to aid the American military were also left behind and, in all likelihood, were tortured to death by the Taliban for helping us.
Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews was on the ground in Afghanistan, and he testified that many Afghans opted to kill themselves on the razor wire in front of him, rather than let the Taliban capture them. He testified that the withdrawal was a catastrophe, that there was an inexcusable lack of accountability.
Also, among those who were flown back to the US inappropriately, were adult men with child brides. Families desperate to get their little girls out of Afghanistan gave them to grown adult men who assaulted and raped them, because what the parents feared even more—was what was coming for their daughters if they failed to get them out.
Now, Jake Sullivan is someone Maggie knows well. That’s because he is the man she is married to, who she stands by and supports. And he was the National Security Advisor—one of the senior-most officials responsible for, and also not held accountable for—this understated catastrophe that was the Afghanistan withdrawal.
I know I could convince myself that Goodlander succeeded at something, that she’s a beneficent champion for some worthwhile cause or another. But in the end, I know that however successful I was at this, that the final question would still haunt me: What kind of person would stand by a man like that?
This is a candidate who will quietly accept what is unacceptable, who will yield the road and fast-track crises like the socialism many politicians are actively advancing. And the inevitable endpoint for us of this course will be a terminal cancer called communism.
So, don’t vote for the congresswoman who stands idly by and votes “present” in the midst of a spreading darkness like that, from which she has been shielded all her life.
Vote for the candidate who would lay down her life to stop what happened to her from ever happening to you. Vote this November for Lily Tang Williams.
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