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Or theyâll be future NHL stars.
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Weâre not done there, never were. Weâve been there since before the Soviet Invasion in one form or another, no reason to think that weâre going to stop now. Itâll just morph into something different.
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What do you do with the Afgan women leaders once you evacuate them? They wonât be welcomed by Tucker Carlson or the various other MAGA carnival barkers. Do we send them to Gitmo?
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Mixed bag on these, though. With how often folks change allegiances there, just because someone worked as an interpreter doesnât necessarily mean that they didnât also work for the taliban, either then or at a different time.
The BBC has had some good profiles over time on some of the cases, itâs definitely not a black-and-white issue.
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OT and congrats!
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Whether it was a red flag or bureaucracy, something happened.
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A step in the right direction, but for some of the named countries âstopping deportationsâ of Afghans already in those countries kinda pales in comparison to accepting ânewâ Afghan refugees.
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Tucker and the MAGAts? Sure. Problem solved!
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O/T More of this please
Alabama doctor says he wonât treat unvaccinated people: âCOVID is miserable way to dieâ - al.com
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if i were a woman living under these conditionsâŚi would kill any newborn childâŚi fully expect the mew leaders to take babies from the mothers and raise them in taliban facilitiesâŚit sounds like a Margret Atwood bookâŚor Aldous Huxley
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The US used local Tribal leaders to hunt down Bin Laden. These people knew where he was and led the US astray, and or gave Bin Laden heads up. These people had connections with the Taliban. We were more concerned with Iraq at the time because? Bush?
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i have family all across CanadaâŚone guy is a nurse in BCâŚthey have AFGHANS who have earned their medical statusâŚthey also have Sikhs⌠they wear the big black turbans⌠excellent people.OH CANADA!!!
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The refugee act of 1980 as well as previous acts had widespread bipartisan support. During the Cold War we admitted around 200-250k refugees a year with few issues. One of the few flair ups was off of Galveston where the very apt Vietnamese shrimpers were hassled by the Klanners including David Duke.
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Exactly why we should get out.
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There is only so much we as a country, or even NATO, can do about any of this beyond what teh Taliban will allow. Thatâs the fact UNLESS the urgent calls assume that âwhatever it takesâ and âmoral responsibilityâ include restarting a shooting war which will kill thousands at least.
Iâm hearing a lot of easy media platitudes these days, the loudest coming from bad actors and people who donât want to be held accountable for tough decisions or the consequences of actually meeting their demands
As has been repeated for the last decade, Americans werenât going to be there forever and the Taliban were going to take over sooner or later. Afghan nationals knew all of this â as well as appreciating that the army and government didnât have the will to protect anyone â so they should have made plans long ago to get out and executed those plans at the first sign of trouble. But human nature being what it is ⌠they screwed up and waited and are not desperate. That desperation is THEIR OWN FAULT, although the existence of the peril is not.
So far at least, the Taliban are behaving reasonably well under the circumstances. There are scattered stories of bad behavior on the part of some of that group, but at least thereâs not combat at the airport and they are letting a lot of people go. Thatâs wise on their part rather than create a huge headache for themselves and pick a fight with the vanquished American. That means there are people running the Taliban who think things through rather than act emotionally. I wish I could say the same of American media types. It seems they are the snowflakes in this situation, as Josh pointed out.
Somehow some way, the Biden administration has diplomatically secure an evacuation cease fire and as gracious an exit as possible. In this regard, itâs actually better overall to instill some panic in Kabul so that people get their heads straight and focus on the task at hand. If it had taken weeks instead of days for the Taliban to take Kabul, weâd still be in the same situation only with many people still insisting the situation could be saved or postponed â with a massive military effort. So in moving so quickly into Kabul, the Taliban actually did Americans a favor.
The media crying about people dying or losing civil rights (in Afghanistan) is kind of hollow since itâs been a 20-year war with lots of casualties already, with barely any attention paid while the inevitable was postponed.
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Something something nuclear weapons something something kabul something something stone age
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a friend is an infectious disease nurse at a local hospitalâŚi get what this DR. is doingâŚthere is no excuse for not being vaxxedâŚshe said the staff in her section is really getting annoyed at people who refuse to get vaxxed and then go to the hopsital for treatment; they donât believe the MEDICAL PROFESSION when they reccommend vax, but run to hospital when they get covid.who do the dummies think is going to treat themâŚa witch doctor?
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At this point, if youâre over 12 and youâre unvaxxed, hospitals and clinics should be refusing treatment. Your body, your choice.
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