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2022-08-15 Afghanistan

'Where states fail they create resentments and they create anger': On 1st anniversary of Kabul’s fall, UK's former man in Afghanistan warns that allowing Taliban to destroy country could create new extremism problem for West while Talibs celebrate

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:51|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
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#1 Biden's Afghanistan debacle began with the fall of Kabul a year ago and Americans deserve answers

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:54|| 2022-08-15 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Afghanistan: Biden’s Most-Telling ‘Illusion’

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:59|| 2022-08-15 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 President Biden enjoys bike ride with family on Kiawah beach

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-15 07:02|| 2022-08-15 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow, you mean a man who has a vested interest in starting up a war again is advising us to start up another war again? Gosh, what a surprise.

Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-15 10:42|| 2022-08-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 To hell with Afghanistan.

Posted by Chris 2022-08-15 11:02|| 2022-08-15 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Playing the Great Game in Afghanistan and hunting Russian moles in their intelligence services - it's all so very British.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-15 11:04|| 2022-08-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 To hell with Afghanistan

Whenever the devil visits here,
he walks at a goodly pace.

When they're upset in hell they say,
'To Afghanistan with this place!'

😁

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-15 11:16|| 2022-08-15 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 If literally everything except total submissions will create extremism ten doing what is in your best interests is the best call.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-15 11:17|| 2022-08-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 "'I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,' he said."

Is he talking about Afghanistan or the United States under the Puppet Show?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-15 14:18|| 2022-08-15 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 What if they hate 'unbelievers' and already think Allah gives them license to steal everything the West has?

Posted by magpie 2022-08-15 14:35|| 2022-08-15 14:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Rudyard Kipling wrote ...

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains.
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains.
And go to your g-d like a soldier."

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-08-15 19:16|| 2022-08-15 19:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Airdrop Milley in. Don't tell him that nobody else is coming with him.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-15 20:58|| 2022-08-15 20:58|| Front Page Top

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