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Episode 37: History Repeats Itself: From Vietnam to Afghanistan, Trump to Carlson…? Related commentaries: al-Qaeda obits…snatching defeat… failure in Afghanistan is likely… Obama saluting… Pentagon report… WikiLeaks… how many more must die… aping “stupid” Obama… Listen.
Episode 33: Signing Executive Orders to Reverse Trump’s Policies Was Easy… Related commentaries: I picked Biden… rogue nations… Chutzpah!… boycott Olympics… Russian hackers… China Uighurs… Groundhog-day flare up… Neverending story… 1 dead Israeli… Afghanistan… Listen.
Here is the forlorn note I sounded at the beginning of “Friday Will Effectively Mark The End of America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan,” January 11, 2021: _________ I have been pleading for nearly 15 years for the United States to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. Because it has been patently clear for at least that… Read more.
United States intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan. … Mr. Trump defended himself by denying the Times report that he had been briefed on the intelligence, expanding on a… Read more.
For the record, I’ve been declaring America’s war in Afghanistan a lost cause for nearly 15 years. This, because it has been patently clear for at least that long that this war is eerily reminiscent of Vietnam … in every unwinnable respect. As I have noted on previous occasions, the titles to just a few… Read more.
Like Obama, Trump made ending America’s longest war a signature promise of his presidential campaign. We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let’s get out! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2013 Now, like Obama, he’s reneging on that promise just months into his… Read more.
The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government… Read more.
The media stopped giving the deaths of American soldiers anything more than passing coverage years ago. More to the point, cable news stations seem obsessed these days with providing 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump’s snarky tweets and lunatic antics – complete with all of the international scandals and congressional investigations they spawn. Unfortunately, their obsession… Read more.
Yesterday, the US military dropped the largest bomb in combat since it dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki during WWII. This explosion had the American media in postcoital delirium. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, was dropped Thursday night on a network of fortified underground tunnels that ISIS had been using to… Read more.
The U.S. will slow the pace of its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving 8,400 troops there when President Barack Obama completes his term, Obama announced Wednesday in a blunt acknowledgment that America will remain entangled there despite his aspirations to end the war. In a statement at the White House, Obama said the security situation in… Read more.
