Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

NBC 'News': Biden Was Meticulously Engaged in Drone Strike Planning, Even Inquiring What Kind of Building Materials the House Was Made of the Strike Was So Absolutely Flawless No One Else in House Was Disturbed

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At AoSHQ, " This article was written by several people including Deep State Stenographer "Fusion Ken" Dilanian. I believe all...
Monday, August 1, 2022

U.S. Says Drone Strike Killed al Qaeda Leader Ayman al Zawahiri (VIDEO)

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I watched President Biden's address live this afternoon, now available at the video below. And at the Wall Street Journal, " First ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Biden's Foreign Policy is Driven by Impulse, Not Reason

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From Caroline Glick : Almost every day, questions arise about President Joe Biden‘s ability to make presidential-level decisions. The questi...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Bernard-Henri Lévy, the 'Last Liberal Interventionist'

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A phenomenal, wondrous interview, at Bari Weiss's Substack, " A Conversation With the Last Liberal Interventionist ": Do you t...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Afghan Women Lose Hope

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 At WSJ , " After Taliban Return, Afghan Women Face Old Pressures From Fathers, Brothers ": KABUL—When Marjan Amiri marched for wo...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation

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This is going to be biblical, and the world won't care. No "Concerts for Kabul" to raise the tens/hundreds of $millions needed...
Monday, December 13, 2021

For a Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, and the Rest of the World, a Crisis Looms

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A year-end review, at WSJ , " The new Taliban administration is struggling with a devastated economy. The fallout likely will extend we...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan

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At Amazon, Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History .
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Taliban Covert Operatives Seized Kabul, Other Afghan Cities From Within

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Foreign policy is rarely the driving factor in voter choice, but Afghanistan needs to stay in the news, and G.O.P. candidates need to run ca...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

As Afghanistan Sinks Into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive

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At WSJ , " U.N. warns that 95% of Afghans aren’t getting enough to eat as winter approaches ": HERAT, Afghanistan—Desperate to fee...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Afghanistan Mosque Bombing Kills at Least 38 Shiite Worshippers in Kanduhar

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The news for Biden is so-bad all-around there's not enough room for above-the-fold headlines in the nation's newspapers. The bad new...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

What Happens When the Last Jew Leaves Afghanistan

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From Dara Horn, at NYT :  My dad called to tel me that @DaraHorn had written the best oped he'd ever read. I think he might be right. h...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Inside Biden's Controversial Decision to Abandon Bagram

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At Politco , " ‘Speed equals safety’: Inside the Pentagon’s controversial decision to leave Bagram early: The administration didn't...

Senators Question Milley and Austin on End of War in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

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 At NYT, " Top defense officials acknowledge they advised against withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan ": Top U.S. military off...
Monday, September 27, 2021

U.S. Spent Billions on Afghanistan and Failed to Build a Sustainable Economy

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Afghanistan update. At WSJ , " Country faces economic collapse with the withdrawal of foreign assistance under Taliban rule ": KAB...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Trapped in Kabul, Prominent Afghan Women Fear Retribution Under Taliban Rule

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The fate of women (and girls) in Afghanistan ... I can't. At WSJ , " Lacking documents and unable to flee, high-profile women are a...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Biden's (In)competence

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 From Amy Walter, at the Cook Political Report, " The Competency Question ": When Biden was running for president, his message was...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?

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At Amazon, Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East .
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Within the Margin of Error: More Americans Than Ever Before Disapprove of Joe Biden's Performance as President

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And this is after a big PBS News poll earlier this week, " More than half of Americans disapprove of Biden right now ." At YouGov ...

Americans Stretch Across Political Divides to Welcome Afghan Refugees

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This is fine with me, though, of course, not for most Trump supporters.  As always, my concern is that jihadi terrorists will be admitted to...