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2021-08-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-08-18 05:51|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 The strategy for the "War on Terror" was paying danegeld to peoples of the Islamic world and simultaneously sending the message that one could get political concessions from the West without resorting to terrorism.

Since the West has ZERO civilizational confidence this was perhaps the only option.

It was also pure self-destructive madness.

Looking e.g. at these randomly selected vignettes, how could anyone have ever believed that this would not end in a disaster?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-08-18 08:04|| 2021-08-18 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Since the West has ZERO civilizational confidence this was perhaps the only option.

Withdraw from Chicago?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 18:26|| 2021-08-18 18:26|| Front Page Top

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