Afghanistan
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Taliban block Kabul airport to most as foreign airlifts wane
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142792693
Afghan vet Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), “US citizens are not being allowed into Kabul international. Biden has ordered the gates closed. Our fellow Americans will soon be left behind. Unbelievable and unforgivable.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3989986/posts#comment
'This strike was not the last': Biden vows to hunt down those responsible for Kabul bombing
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IVwMzgqht2M/
Today, the DeptofDefense
https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1431664801013551106
- announced the deaths of 13 service members who were supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. They died Aug. 26, 2021, as the result of an enemy attack while supporting non-combatant evacuation operations in Kabul, # Afghanistan.
Turkey and Qatar will jointly operate the Kabul airport?
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/106835086712627193
Glenn Beck claims US State Dept. and Biden's White House are BLOCKING his efforts to rescue Afghan Christians from the Taliban who 'want to set them on fire'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931647/Glenn-Beck-tells-Tuck
er-Carlson-State-Department-blocked-attempts-rescue-Afghan-Christians.html
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'We have to send people into even greater danger to try to smuggle these Christians out who are marked not just for death, but to be set on fire alive because they are converted Christians.'
His organization is now working to set up refugee camps in two other countries, he said, but he did not want to name them 'because I'm afraid our state department will call them and threaten them.'
'It's really really interesting,' Beck then mused. 'We have open borders and closed airports. One group of people are exploited, raped, and killed by drug cartels and the other group of people are raped, exploited or crucified by terrorists.
'It seems to be a pattern with the Biden administration.'
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The ancient wisdom of Joe Biden's Afghanistan strategy.
https://twitter.com/Chaleck/status/1431502493612134401
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Hey buddy. Back off. The Taliban are our friends now. The media says so.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Stranded in Kabul?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/stranded-in-kabul-americans-lprs-sivs-st
opped-at-taliban-checkpoint
The Afghan Safe Zone idea? Macron says France, Britain to propose safe zone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/29/france-and-uk-to-propose
-kabul-safe-zone-at-un-meeting-says-macron
such a deal would be a prerequisite for constructing a future western relationship with
the mohammedan islamist jihadi Taliban.
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Peter (who voted for Trump twice): “As you well know, Biden is under intense attack for the Afghan withdrawal, with many claiming he is no longer compos mentis. But the colloquy with FOX’s Doocy shows quite the opposite. He gives briefly a quite lucid and informed understanding of Afghan history, the reasons for our involvement and why we are now at last leaving, and the most persuasive and compelling argument for his policy I have yet seen. Dems should show this video widely, because it is Joe Biden at his best, and it should quell his current attackers.”
Nothing will quell most of Biden's current attackers, but given Peter's voting history, it’s awfully good to see Peter sharing this view. Well worth watching that five-minute clip.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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This is how the Pentagon ended its longest war:
Friends have been combing through wreckage in Kabul, searching for the remains of 10 family members they say were killed in a US drone strike on Sunday.
The family told the BBC that six children were among the dead, including Emal's two-year-old daughter Sumaya.
More at https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58389241
The US was assessing and investigating reports of civilian deaths.
Mr Ahmadi said he and others in the family had applied for evacuation to the US, and had been waiting for a phone call telling them to go to the airport.
That included one of his relatives, Ahmad Naser, who was killed in the strike and had previously worked as a translator with US forces. Other victims had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them entry to the US.
The US, Mr Ahmadi added, had made "a mistake, it was a big mistake".
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the US was "not in a position to dispute" the reports.
"Make no mistake, no military on the face of the Earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties than the United States' military, and nobody wants to see innocent life taken," he said.
"We take it very, very seriously and when we know that we have caused innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations, we're transparent about it."
More at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58380791
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul killed a family — and began a new chapter of the war
Though U.S. forces are leaving Afghanistan, the war could continue with remotely controlled drone strikes — and even less accountability.
The drone strike that hit Khwaja Burgha, a working-class residential neighborhood in Kabul, was said to have killed numerous members of the Ahmadi family, with the youngest alleged victim being a 2-year-old girl. Morgue footage shared on social media showed the burned bodies of several children, as well as photos of the victims before their deaths. One of the dead, according to members of the Ahmadi family who spoke to reporters, was a former Afghan military officer who had served as a contractor for U.S. forces, as well as a worker at a charity organization.
The Kabul drone strike is just one in a long string of attacks in Afghanistan by U.S. forces and their proxies reported to have killed large numbers of civilians. Past attacks have hit families traveling in cars and buses, wedding parties, hospitals filled with patients, and groups of farmers working in fields. While the withdrawal of American troops can be described as the end to the war in Afghanistan, the Kabul strike shows how the war may simply enter a new chapter, with the U.S. striking targets with aircraft launched from faraway drone bases.
Critics of civilian casualties in the U.S. war have pointed to the lack of serious investigations on the ground into the deaths — accountability that will be even harder to come by in a remote war.
“In my experience, the bar for thorough military investigation has been so high as to discount a majority of credible incidents. What investigations do take place are neither consistent nor rigorous,” said Nick McDonell, author of “The Bodies in Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars,” an analysis of the impact of the U.S. air wars in the Middle East. “At the same time, the military has repeatedly suppressed information on civilian casualties. The drone program is opaque, with extremely limited accountability for anyone involved.”
What separated the recent Kabul drone strike from the long pattern of reported civilian deaths was the level of immediate attention and outrage it has generated. The U.S. war in Afghanistan has mostly been waged in rural areas, away from the attention of international media. Kabul, on the other hand, is the highly populated capital and the country’s center for expatriates, nongovernmental organizations, and both Afghan as well as international journalists.
When the strike was reported, immediate video footage of the civilians who were killed in the attack began to circulate, and even international journalists were able to quickly access the attack site.
In contrast, many past strikes have gone under the radar — and continue to do so.
More at https://theintercept.com/2021/08/30/drone-kabul-afghanistan-civilian-c
asualties-children/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Are Former Professors As National Leaders More Prone To Black Swan Events That Overthrow Their Governments?
Recent events in Afghanistan suggest an example. This would be the sudden departure just over two weeks ago on Aug. 15 from Kabul of then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, which triggered the sudden collapse of his government and the unexpectedly sudden takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Even the Taliban did not see this coming. What was the black swan event involved? It was reported in the Aug. 29 Washington Post that Ghani was told early in the afternoon that Taliban were in his palace searching room by room for him, which led him to leave almost immediately with his family and a few aides off the roof in military helicopters for Uzbekistan where they took a plane to the UAE. He basically informed nobody of his exit. In fact the Taliban were not even in Kabul at the time and were sitting outside awaiting the outcome of an ongoing negotiation in Doha, Qatar that was supposed to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power by August 31. Indeed, only the day before Ghani did not even want to discuss defense arrangements with US military leaders because he was planning to give a talk on digitizing the economy. Not even the Taliban foresaw what was coming, although all kinds of columnists are given President Biden heck that he did not foresee it. As it is, no one has yet explained why those guards informed President Ghani of this false report about Taliban in his palace.
More at http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2021/08/are-former-professors-as-nation
al.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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He was the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., was the final soldier to leave Afghanistan as U.S. troops boarded a C-17 aircraft at the Kabul airport just before a self-imposed U.S. deadline to evacuate.
The Pentagon tweeted a photo recognizing Donahue as the final soldier in America's longest war, which saw more than 775,000 American troops serve over two decades.
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In Afghanistan, President Biden had to play the losing hand his predecessors dealt him
The president's critics have been less forthcoming about the losing hand - and lack of viable options - his three predecessors dealt him.
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Quote:Being the "last" soldier isn't much honor if the Pentagon drops bombs on Afghanistan after today. There are plenty of reasons to believe the Pentagon will keep bombing the so-called "terrorists" and will keep denying it is actually bombing Afghan civilians, both women and children:
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He was the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation
U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul killed a family — and began a new chapter of the war
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/30/drone-kabul-afghanistan-civilian-c
asualties-children/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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