Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the entire country in the last few weeks. This culminated in President … Continue reading "Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster"
This weekend the US experienced another "Saigon moment," this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight. The corrupt Potemkin regime that the US had been propping up for two decades and the Afghan military that we had spent billions training … Continue reading "Kabul Has Fallen But Don’t Blame Biden"
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in a bombing.
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United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|August 16, 2021 Trump’s Doha pullout pledge to Taliban triggered surrender deals by tribal and province chiefs, setting stage for disintegration of Afghan army; 7,000 US troops are enough for Afghan redout to hold airport enclave, airlift Americans and friends to Guam over coming weeks. Biden [...]
Ambrose Bierce’s Pro-Freedom Cynicism by James Bovard The friends of freedom must recognize the verbal charades that sway people to surrender their rights and liberties. The political establishment and its media allies are continually abusing the English language to lull people into submission. From pupils being required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the […]
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From 6 August 2011 Information supplied directly by ‘No-one Can Divide Afghanistan’. I have not edited this at all. The TAPI pipeline – the real reason for the War in Afghanistan, with a cost of more than 300.000 (+) Afghan lives. Indian energy minister Murli Deora, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov …Read More
America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan is nearly over. Yesterday Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared: "This is manifestly not Saigon." Yet Associated Press reported: "panic set in as many rushed to leave the country through the Kabul airport, the last route out of the country as the Taliban now hold every border crossing.
About 20% of the PAGES 2019 proxies are 50 Asian tree ring chronologies, all of which were originally published as chronologies in PAGES (2013). At the time, none of these series (and certainly not in these digital versions, had ever been published in technical literature, peer reviewed or otherwise. Nothing in the Supplementary Information to […]
Catastrophic Afghan rout would be crushing US humiliation, liable to encourage many aggressors across planet; blunders on Afghan front will be paid for along Korean DMZ, the east coast of Taiwan, and the Black and Baltic Seas; Taliban must not enter Kabul! 5,000 US forces should secure fortified Afghan National Redout around Kabul & main [...]
As I write this column, the Taliban are on a roll. They’ve taken 12 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals in a single week, including the country’s second and third largest cities (Kandahar and Herat), and Ghazni, which sits astride the main highway connecting Kandahar to the national capital of Kabul. The US occupation’s puppet president, … Continue reading "Afghanistan: Taliban Victories Explain the Wisdom of US Withdrawal"
