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WOW! Such great feelings towards the Afghans, bravo Canadians! About time yous’ spoke of what lies in your hearts, for the Afghan nation.

Taliban and Al Qaeda were all the products of the Western World, Afghanistan NEVER EVER had a “Mullah – Priest” controlled government in its 5000 years of history, thanks to the Western nations for giving us our first “religious” government.

This is not a War Pashtuns wanted, it has been brought to their doorstep by the warmongers, and God as our witness, all those with negative intentions towards Afghanistan will crush to the ground, for Afghanistan is the “Graveyard of Super Powers.” Your homo Alexander couldnt do jack shit, neither could the Mongols, then came the British who we gave a good lesson to, and then the Russians, and now the rest of the world allied together in the massacre and ethnic cleansing of the Pashtun Tribal Nation, and they think they will succeed? Hahahahaha…

Someone people just never learn from the past, history repeats it self, and it will once more, in Afghanistan.

God Bless Afghanistan.

Posted by: Afghan at August 23, 2008 1:11 AM

“why the situation in Kabul is so bad.”

Terrorism 26 Comments

Single runway Kabul international airport sits in the middle of a city of 5 million. Bagram Air Base (which was closed a month ago) sits 25 miles to the north, in an easily defensible area, multiple runways, secure perimeter.

The US left Bagram in the middle of the night. Up and disappeared. That was a voluntary choice, and it means the plan included evacuating tens of thousands out of a single runway airfield in the middle of a city.

Also, if an enemy attacks the airport, they’re going to be attacking from the city. Urban warfare is the worst type of warfare. Incredibly hard to utilize air support, massive collateral damage.

Kabul International is surrounded on all sides by dense urban housing. High rises have a vantage point over the runway and airport facilities.

Related, at Conservative Treehouse;

Oh boy, Lara Logan appeared for an interview with Tucker Carlson [Full Article Here] and shouts a big trumpet. In essence, Ms. Logan points out the current situation in Afghanistan is exactly the outcome those controlling the Biden administration want. There is a benefit to someone or some group in the current outcome; because if there wasn’t, the outcome would be different.

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Based on current political alignment, alliances, and the ideology behind who is in charge of specific U.S. government agencies, it can reasonably be assumed someone (insert Obama here) wants Pakistan and Iran to have advanced military technology via the stolen weapons we leave behind in Afghanistan. Why? Because those same people already made money selling advanced military tech to Iran, and this ‘crisis’ provides cover when it shows up later in their arsenal.

But read it all.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords

Self Driving Roadkill Tech 11 Comments

Car & Driver;

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary evaluation into Tesla Autopilot systems and the ways this driver assistance technology works to “monitor, assist, and enforce the driver’s engagement with driving while Autopilot is in use.”

The reason for the preliminary evaluation is so that the agency can better understand the causes of 11 Tesla crashes that have happened since the start of 2018, a NHTSA spokesperson told Car and Driver in a statement. Seventeen injuries and one death are part of these 11 incidents. More Tesla crashes in which Autopilot was said to factor have happened, of course, but these are the 11 that NHTSA will look into to determine what the agency’s next steps should be regarding Tesla’s technology.

This subset of Tesla Autopilot crashes is important to NHTSA because they all involved cases where first responders were active, the agency said, “including some that crashed directly into the vehicles of first responders.” NHTSA told C/D that it confirmed that in all of these cases, the Tesla vehicles in question either had Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control engaged just prior to the crashes. Most of the incidents also happened after dark, the agency said, and “the crash scenes encountered included scene control measures such as first responder vehicle lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board, and road cones.”

Related.

h/t Raymond

Truinnerashuvaduprezure

Operation Empty Chair Truinnerashuvaduprezure 39 Comments

Get over it.

More @JackPosobiec: Biden telling staff he wants to go back to Delaware. Hasn’t been sleeping well this week. Thinks he will be more functional if he stays over at home in Wilmington.

Into the quagmire: Biden declares war on Republican governors.

Update: Biden and Kamala Camps Falling Out Over Afghanistan Disaster

Hmm…

CreepyJoeBiden Democrats 22 Comments

@RaheemKassam

Big story coming today.

I mean real big.

Bye-den

It may amount to nothing, but 2022 is approaching fast. If they can shove Biden out the door, the Afghanistan baggage goes with him.

Update

Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Anthony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. […]

In a lengthy article in Vanity Fair from May 2021, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) – also referred to in overlap with a predecessor/partner bureau called “OpMed” is described as a “little-known team of medics and miracle workers—hidden deep within the U.S. Department of State.”

There are thousands of Americans still trapped in Afghanistan.

“Hello Chaps, We’d like $3 Billion in Gold”

Historical Events 9 Comments

Exactly 50 years has passed since the US Government famously suspended the convertibility of US dollars into gold on 15 August 1971 in a speech announced by then US president Richard Nixon.

This convertibility of US dollars into gold applied to US dollars held by foreign governments and foreign central banks, which based on the rules of the Bretton Woods monetary system, allowed them to legally show up anytime at the ‘gold window’ of the US Treasury and exchange their excess US dollars for physical US Treasury gold.

There will be much written this month about the 50th anniversary of the closure of the US gold window, but less so about what exactly triggered it and why the timing had to be 15 August.

h/t Adrian

What Would We Do Without Experts?

Drain The Swamp Great Reset The Deplorables 25 Comments

Farewell to Bourgeois Kings

I suspect we are currently witnessing the catastrophic end of this metaphysical power of legitimacy that has shielded the managerial ruling class for decades. Anyone even briefly familiar with the historical record knows just how much of a Pandora’s box such a loss of legitimacy represents. The signs have obviously been multiplying over many years, but it is only now that the picture is becoming clear to everyone. When Michael Gove said ”I think the people in this country have had enough of experts” in a debate about the merits of Brexit, he probably traced the contours of something much bigger than anyone really knew at the time. Back then, the acute phase of the delegitimization of the managerial class was only just beginning. Now, with Afghanistan, it is impossible to miss.

It’s why you keep coming back to SDA — to read think pieces on questions I raised five years ago.

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