WASHINGTON — Lucas Kunce is talking about Afghanistan.
The 13-year Marine-turned-Democratic-candidate for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat made his rounds on MSNBC last month as the beltway media chronicled the American withdrawal from Kabul and, with it, the end to America’s longest war.
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable and anyone telling the public differently is lying, he told Lawrence O’Donnell and Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle. An op-ed, based on his deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, spread through social media.
