One of the most frustrating things about law enforcement, intelligence, military missions, and even presidencies, is that 90% of the time, people only hear about the failures. Often there are most successes than failures, but there are seldom full-page headlines; “Terrible Suicide Bomber that would have left hundreds of victims dead in the street, arrested in basement planning…”

We just don’t hear of it.

We might just have heard it today. The military, which is headed up by Joe Biden, used a drone to take out an empty car. The car exploded, and then really really exploded. The working assumption is that the car was full of explosives and was to be driven into a solid crowd of people. There are reports of casualties around the area of the bigger bomb blast, not caused by the drone strike.

This is breaking news. We don’t normally do breaking news. We don’t have the tools, nor staff to cover breaking news and want to admit it upfront. We leave that to the New York Times:

A U.S. military drone strike blew up a vehicle laden with explosives in Kabul on Sunday, Defense Department officials said, hours after President Biden had warned that another terr*rist attack against the Afghan capital’s airport was “highly likely.”

The strike, which came two days before Mr. Biden’s deadline to withdraw from the country, eliminated an imminent threat to Hamid Karzai International Airport from the Islamic State Khorasan group, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said. The group had claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the airport on Thursday that killed 13 American service members and as many as 170 civilians.

 Given that we analyze and opine on news, rather than break it, our question and analysis is this: Will the Fox audience even hear about this incident and the possibility (it is not confirmed) that perhaps hundreds of lives might have been saved?

Cars can carry a lot more explosives than a guy walking through a crowd. Who knows how many might have been saved? Who knows if any? We do know that generally speaking, normal people don’t drive around with explosive material in their car.

If in the aftermath of this investigation, it is established that the U.S. stopped something terrible, will the Fox audience hear about it? We know that the first two to three days of the evacuation got off to a terrible start, but now the number of people evacuated is approaching 100,000. We don’t hear much about that on Fox, other than the country is about to be overrun with too many Afghans.

We are hearing calls for impeachment and the invocation of the 25th Amendment. What about this? Or does “this” say it all about a polarized media where people hear what they want to hear?

More here: https://t.co/V8RLAq7caD

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 29, 2021

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