Afghanistan
"No serious leader in Kabul is asking us to leave. Instead we are being asked to withdraw by American leaders who begin their analysis with the presumption that victory is not possible."
"They seem to want to ensure defeat by leaving at the very moment when our military leader on the ground has laid out a coherent and compelling …
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"So you dislike Democrats as much as you dislike the GOP?"
Details asks Woody Harrelson (who played Steve Schmidt in that movie about Sarah Palin, "Game Change")" It's all synchronized swi…
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"This is a fight between extremism and moderate Islam."
"It is easy to say that something is against Islam and get people upset, but there is no article in this law against Islam, and those who say so…
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"Insurgents launched a complex assault against the American Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters on Tuesday..."
"... pelting the heavily guarded compounds with rockets in an attack that raised new questions about the security of Afghanistan’s capital and t…
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Afghanistan
"With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color..."
"... his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amo…
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McMaster used a 1972 black-and-white photo of 3 Afghan women in mini skirts to persuade Trump about Afghanistan.
According to The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is extracting a tidbit from an WaPo article titled "'It’s a hard problem’: Inside Trump’s decis…
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Afghanistan
"I know the reality of life for Afghan women."
"If these women were treated with justice, I don't think 50% of them would be in [this prison]. They are here because of problems in the fam…
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Afghanistan
"There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan..."
"... according to the U.S. State Department." “Negative societal opinions and suspicion of Christian activities led to targeting of Christi…
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"Yes!!! I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me..."
"... and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it … and some that…
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Afghanistan
"How to Win in Afghanistan We tried the 'offshore' strategy before. The result was 9/11."
Max Boot boots George Will.
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The White House inadvertently exposes the name of the CIA’s top officer in Kabul.
"The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity …
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Did a suicide bomber in Afghanistan almost kill Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta?
The NYT reports: The Pentagon press secretary, George Little, said that Mr. Panetta was never in danger but he could not explain the Afghan’s motive …
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"Baad involves giving a young woman, often a child, into slavery and forced marriage."
"It is largely hidden because the girls are given to compensate for 'shameful' crimes like murder, adultery and elopement...." The …
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Afghanistan
"Yes!!! I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me..."
"... and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it … and some that…
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Afghanistan
"With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics."
Disillusioned cynics ≈ realistic skeptics. I don't see the problem.
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Afghanistan
"The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself..."
Reports the NYT: The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — a…
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Afghanistan
Caption contest!
(Photo by Doug Mills. Click here for full size and here to read the NYT article.)
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Afghanistan
"With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics."
Disillusioned cynics ≈ realistic skeptics. I don't see the problem.
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Afghanistan
Taliban shoot down helicopter and kill "30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed... bin Laden."
"It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against the Taliban."
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