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Hekate

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17. I kept the TV off for 3 or so days, knowing events on the ground were horrible & news presentation

Reply to betsuni (Reply #13)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 11:47 AM

Aug 2021

…was going to be ghastly, blaming Biden, ignoring Trump.

This chaos was all foretold, dammit, and I didn’t need a crystal ball. I wanted there to be some distance from the initial shock, and there were only a handful of folks I wanted to hear from.

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I have decided I have no opinion on all this. That's because I really have... [View all] TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 OP

one suspects taliban are not invaders, they are from there and part of that culture. right now they msongs Aug 2021 #1

Just one more small part of the puzzle-- didn't Reagan fund the Taliban, or... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #2

See the movie Charlie Wilson's War for an amazing take on how that happened Hekate Aug 2021 #3

I remember the movie, but not much of what happened... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #6

It's actually rather enjoyable, about how one Southern congressman had a passion for "the 'Stans" Hekate Aug 2021 #10

The Mujahideen marie999 Aug 2021 #9

I know we needed to pull-out, I just feel sick for the women and girls. Laffy Kat Aug 2021 #4

I think they exist, these trained women. In Afghanistan secondwind Aug 2021 #5

That is a reality that could never be changed there. msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #16

I would argue MuseRider Aug 2021 #7

I would think that targeting women the way they do makes... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #11

Interesting. MuseRider Aug 2021 #15

If you get MSNBC at all I highly recommend DVRing both Nicolle Wallace & Rachel Maddow... Hekate Aug 2021 #8

I caught some of each of them today. This seems simply... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #12

The coverage I saw was so horrible, all blaming Biden: failed, catastrophe, disaster, Biden's betsuni Aug 2021 #13

I kept the TV off for 3 or so days, knowing events on the ground were horrible & news presentation Hekate Aug 2021 #17

A few years ago on one of the anniversaries of the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan I abqtommy Aug 2021 #14

Lest we think that only the Japanese suffered firebombing we did the same thing to Dresden. CTyankee Aug 2021 #20

This has been in the works for years ismnotwasm Aug 2021 #18

Winner. GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #19