Frank's Musings

 The plan of the Trump administration to offer refuge in Congo to America's Afghan collaborators sheltering in Qatar (cf. New York Times, 4/21/2026) is another example of the cruelty, not to mention immorality, of the Trump administration.  Its failure to fulfill the country's obligation to them is horrifying.  Another instance of such disregard of civility has been Trump's refusal to recognize the assistance and support that the U.S. received from its NATO allies for its retaliation against the Taliban for allowing Al-Qaeda to use Afghanistan as the base from which to mount the 9/11 attack.  Now Trump acts ungratefully by treating shamefully those Afghans who courageously helped us penalize the terrorist plotters who had trained on their soil.  

Hopefully, Trump's embarrassingly selfish attitude towards fulfilling universal norms of human behavior will be corrected soon and considered by the people of other nations as only an aberration, to the extent possible.  Otherwise, finding powerful allies in the future will be next to impossible.