Since Engel can’t blame the Afghanistan debacle on the Bad Orange Republican Man, it’s a collective shame. (See also: response from American leftists over Roosevelt’s decision to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II.)
But does Engel view America’s humiliation on the world stage as a bad thing? Flashback to 2003: “In that April 12 CyberAlert I astutely observed that ‘Engel may be the only non-Arab reporter in Baghdad to have managed to find both universal love for Saddam Hussein up until early this week [when Baghdad fell] and universal hatred of the U.S. since his regime fell.’”