Some Missing Context (Afghanistan, again)

Posted on August 16, 2021 by tengrain

We continue to be shocked, shocked I say!, that the US State Department was unable to recover from being hollowed out by the 4th Reich, and then undermined / converted into  household staff for social climbers M. and Mme. Pompeo’s in less than a year, and ultimately servants and entertainers at their intimate Madison Dinner Parties during the pandemic.

And now, some of that missing context that our Failed Political Press ™ cannot seem to find:

 

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5 Responses to Some Missing Context (Afghanistan, again)

  1. Bruce388 says:
    August 16, 2021 at 9:26 am

    The new president of Afghanistan on the right.
    MAGAt who thinks he’s presidential material on the left.

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  2. brucedesertrat says:
    August 16, 2021 at 11:01 am

    This is worth spending one of your WaPo freebies on;

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/afghan-security-forces-capabilities/2021/08/15/052a45e2-fdc7-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

    In the summer of 2011, Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV made a round of public appearances to boast that he had finally solved a problem that had kept U.S. troops bogged down in Afghanistan for a decade. Under his watch, he asserted, U.S. military advisers and trainers had transformed the ragtag Afghan army and police into a professional fighting force that could defend the country and keep the Taliban at bay.

    [Narrator] “They had NOT, in fact, transformed the ragtag Afghan army and police into a professional fighting force”

    The forthcoming book is called “Pentagon Papers II: Pashtun Boogaloo.”, sorry, it’s: “The Afghanistan Papers: The Secret History of the Afghan War” Hell, and they didn’t even have to get it from a whistleblower, and go to the Supreme Court to get it published, this time.

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  3. T_Reg says:
    August 17, 2021 at 6:28 am

    The Mullah’s story is worth reviewing. Co-founder of the Taliban (according to a BBC report). Fought the Soviets, fought the Northern Alliance, fought the Americans. Captured – in Pakistan – by the ISI and the CIA. Released per Trump’s request (I’d like to know the story behind that deal). He practically personifies recent Afghanistan history.

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    • Ten Bears says:
      August 17, 2021 at 7:05 am

      Something about that, I don’t know … echo’s? More like the theorizations I read following the Boxer Day earthquake and tsunami that the planet was for up to a year afterwards ringing (and may have shifted slightly on our axis). One man’s Freedom Fighter …

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