Glad we got them all! This is awesome! Wars over, everyone was evacuated, we won’t have any more bad news coming out of Afghanistan. Mission accomplished.
Geraldo Rivera ranting on the tube about what financial problems Afg has now and how are they are going to be able to run a country as a result. He rants: "How are they going to keep the lights on, how are they going to be able to pay the teachers." Can't make this shiite up. They can go decades without either and if no teacher gets paid, well, that is a victory for them. Not a problem, that is the goal.
The last US military planes have left Afghanistan, marking the end of the United States' longest war https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/politics/us-military-withdraws-afghanistan/index.html
Not a lot of money required for buying books at those madrassas either. Just get the Cliff Notes for the Quran and you are pretty much all set for several years. No video equipment required for all those critical race theory courses either.
Ocho.... Could one not say the same thing about Central America? Just sayin'.... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biden Immigration Bill Sends $4B to Central America to Deal With 'Root Causes' of Migration, Including Corruption By Susan Jones | February 19, 2021 | 6:02am EST President Trump blocked aid to Central American countries because of scenes such as this caravan making its way to the Southwest border. (Photo by John Moore/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the Senate sponsor of President Joe Biden's comprehensive immigration bill, on Thursday explained why Biden's bill is an improvement on President Trump's strict crackdown on people coming here illegally. "Number one is, we deal with root causes, which has not been dealt with in the past," Menendez told MSNBC on Thursday. "When President Trump eliminated all of the assistance that we had built into Central America, he eliminated the ability to stop the root causes of why people flee." Biden's bill would send $4 billion to Central American countries over four years, conditioned on the ability of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala "to reduce the endemic corruption, violence, and poverty that causes people to flee their home countries." [/QUOTE]
Here are the Talis.........showing their appreciation to Trump. The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a stunning lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy In the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that the insurgents could potentially access biometric data collected by the U.S. to track Afghans, including people who worked for U.S. and coalition forces. Afghans who once supported the U.S. have been attempting to hide or destroy physical and digital evidence of their identities. Many Afghans fear that the identity documents and databases storing personally identifiable data could be transformed into death warrants in the hands of the Taliban. This potential data breach underscores that data protection in zones of conflict, especially biometric data and databases that connect online activity to physical locations, can be a matter of life and death. My research and the work of journalists and privacy advocates who study biometric cybersurveillance anticipated these data privacy and security risks.
Sending money to foreign countries is bullcrap, no accountability, who knows where it goes. Give them 4B in credits to buy whatever they need from the US, 100% made in the USA goods. Want to create some jobs???? Easy fix.
Estimate of less than 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan, probably around 100 per State Department... There was a lot of pressure and danger around this mission. As Americans fought from the safety of their couches a massive evacuation operation happened and I don’t think enough people appreciate the size, scope and complexity of it. Also, many people jumped calling the withdrawal an indication of losing a war. Nothing could be further from the truth and people were looking to take cheap shots for political reasons. There was a day when all of that stopped at the shores. There’s lots of lessons to be learned from Afghanistan for the US and for the world. First is that we can take over a country easily but we cannot make it governable or agreeable with democracy or liberalism (think Jefferson not AOC). Second we really need to put a limit on the amount of lives and treasure we are willing to spend. Nobody watched the loses because we were all caught up in “the price of freedom” narrative. And terrorism isn’t something our military can defeat. It certainly is a tool but we have to be smarter with intelligence, surveillance and homeland security. Diplomacy and economics are tools we should better leverage. Lastly, when the war drums start on Iran, try to remember these lessons.