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Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
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Afghanistan
Afghan debacle shattered foreign policy establishment's 'expertise' mystique
[NYPOST] When President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan......
­addressed the nation on Monday, he was admirably clear-eyed about the reason for leaving Afghanistan: US forces had killed the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again......
long ago. America should have sought no more than to find and kill him and neutralize al Qaeda — not to will liberal democracy into existence in a country that has rarely enjoyed a stable central government at any point in the last 2,000 years.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11 didn't?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Gives us an example when they made correct prediction, P2K?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2021 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  ...hmmmm...still thinking...maybe this one.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Korea, right?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I' put any faith into "forirgn policy" experts. No offense intended to anyone here.
Posted by: Chris || 08/18/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Wasn't #2 in the Saddam deck of cards also a red head? Just askin' for a friend...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 yep. then again, the same old hands from WW2 still on board.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  excuse my gibberish. I don't put any faith in "foreign policy experts".
Posted by: Chris || 08/18/2021 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  #2, maybe the Marshall Plan. That was nation building too but then at least we had some material we could work with.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/18/2021 14:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Oh, and then there are the foreign policy experts who think of Israel as an ally we should support. Biden might not be one of those. He seems to favor Iran just like his former boss.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/18/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||

#11  The "mystique" existed only among those in the media sucking Brennan's and Clapper's d*cks. Everybody eles saw them for what they we for over a decade.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 15:25 Comments || Top||

#12  What M.Murcek said.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2021 17:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Re #2 & #9,The largest difference between AFG and the Marshall Plan in Europe and Japan, is that in the WW2 examples, the people there already had a developed country, and wanted one back. The people of AFG didn't have one to begin with, and would routinely bail out when given the opportunity.
I have repeatedly seen police reports advising of AFG personel being trained in the US, and would go AWOL in order to not go back hame.
Ponder this: Is there now an anticipated migration of immigrants to go back to AFG?
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/18/2021 19:06 Comments || Top||

#14  I've heard it also said Japan is a culture based on honor. Where Afghanistan is a culture based on shame.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/18/2021 20:11 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Whoa… Tens of Thousands of Photocopied Ballots for Biden
[Right Wing]
Snip. Duplicate — see Related links below.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2021 08:01 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Afghanistan debacle will now be blamed on "conspiracy theories surrounding the election."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  According to Favorito, the two sides are scheduled to meet in court to resolve the motion on June 21. OK, so what happened?
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/18/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  great Afgan smoke screen, very well timed.... (sarc off)
Posted by: 746 || 08/18/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Silencing and Repressing Information on The 2020 Election - The Dangers of "The Jab" and on other Issues

Posted by: Phaque Anguish4404 || 08/18/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Ice cream cone is going to be synonomous with liar going forward.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Why is an old story being reprinted todays as if its new?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/18/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  You'd think this would be trivial to spot?
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/18/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Election fraud. If Biden is the most popularly elected president in history (81 million votes), you would think the left would wouldn't mind a healthy look at the vote to show this.

All the push-back, lying, and lawyering-up by the left would seem to indicate the election wasn't on the up-and-up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/18/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||

#9  It is hard to tell a new batch of fake ballots from an old batch of fake ballots.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2021 15:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Vice President Kamala Harris vanished from public view for five days as President Joe Biden and his administration tackled their worst foreign policy blunder to date.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2021 06:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She was probably "reviewing the situation"
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/18/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting the last tweaks in on the Stepford anaimatroics model down? Getting it to swallow is often tricky.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  She should do us all a favor and keep it that way.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/18/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Kamala — ‘You will not pin this shit on me!’
According to multiple reports, Harris was asked to address the American people on Sunday about the unraveling situation in the war-torn country, but refused. As the Taliban threatened the lives of thousands of Americans and allies in Kabul, pressure mounted on the White House to look the people in the eye and explain what happened.

Yet, no one did.

A well-placed source inside the White House informs Becker News that Kamala objected to addressing the nation on Sunday. The source reports that Harris could be heard screaming, “They will not pin this shit on me!”
Posted by: Clavique Chanter2227 || 08/18/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#5  She's as cameragenic as Pence. Which is to say not at all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#6  She's on her way to Vietnam on Tuesday.

That's going to be a bit awkward.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2021 16:57 Comments || Top||

#7  That's going to be a bit awkward.

If she dies.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2021 18:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Poor Vietnam. They don't deserve to have her inflicted on them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2021 22:32 Comments || Top||


Ayanna Pressley, 'cancel rent' advocate, discloses thousands of dollars in rental income
[FoxNews] Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley's annual financial disclosure shows she and her husband made thousands of dollars in rental income last year.

Pressley has been one of the most prominent advocates for canceling rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We must cancel rent, extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, provide rental assistance, and offer legal representation for those at risk of eviction," Pressley, a member of the far-left "Squad," wrote in a Dec. 2020 tweet.

She introduced a bill in March 2021 that, if passed, would have canceled rent and mortgage payments nationwide.

The bill would have required the federal government to reimburse landlords for any rent not paid during the pandemic.

Pressley's 2020 financial disclosure, filed on Friday, disclosed between $5,000 and $15,000 in rental income from a Boston property in her husband's name. The property was converted into a multi-family apartment after it was purchased, according to Pressley's disclosure.

Pressley's office did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment on whether she and her husband canceled rent for their tenants at any point in 2020. She disclosed the same range of rental income – between $5,000 and $15,000 – in 2020 as she did in 2019, before the pandemic began.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The bill would have required the federal government to reimburse landlords for any rent not paid during the pandemic.

Why of course. Guaranteed income for them. It's all one big racket to shear the serfs sheep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2021 5:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't you get it yet? These restrictions they advocate are for everyone else, not themselves. They of course can do this because their hearts are pure and they deserve a good income for the good things they're doing. We get no such consideration as they have determined our hearts are evil and only bad things come out of us.

Yes, they really think this way.
Posted by: Cleaque Hatrack2665 || 08/18/2021 6:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Everyone is a conservative where their own finances are concerned...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Google "Benefit of the Clergy".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace
Sun 2021-08-15
  Kabul has fallen, Taliban is killing political leadership and religious minorities in Afghanistan
Sat 2021-08-14
  Herat: Ismail Khan captured by the Taliban
Fri 2021-08-13
  Source: US tells Ashraf Ghani to step down
Thu 2021-08-12
  Bangladesh Police Arrest 3 Men Suspected of Planning Drone Attacks
Wed 2021-08-11
  Taliban takes control of border with Uzbekistan
Tue 2021-08-10
  Cuomo finally resigns!
Mon 2021-08-09
  Taliban say capital of Afghanistan's Takhar province seized
Sun 2021-08-08
  Taliban take over Kunduz
Sat 2021-08-07
  IDF attacks Hamas headquarters in response to balloon fires
Fri 2021-08-06
  Jihadists kill 30 in north Burkina Faso, says official
Thu 2021-08-05
  Israel moves cyber sabotage units to UAE to turn Persian Gulf into crisis hub
Wed 2021-08-04
  375 Taliban killed in past 24 hours: MoD


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