Anyone ever notice that RW/MAGA assholes ALWAYS harass women?

Like this asshole here:
https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1427243607791177728

What has the GOP done since inauguration that warrants one to cast votes for them?

Is it the voter suppression?

The fear-mongering over the Southern Border?

Their do-nothing approach to fighting COVID?

Their feigned concern for the women and children of Afghanistan?



I wondered the same back in 2016 and couldn't come up with anything then either.

Successful withdraws in war history that should have been used as a template in Afghanistan

I cannot think of any outside of Europe and Korea but I'm sure others can cite instances. Please list them below.

Also, is this why we're still in Iraq? Because if we leave, shit will hit the fan?

The Taliban has announced their political agenda for Afghanistan and it includes:

- Abortion is banned
- Gay marriage outlawed
- Rejection of science
- No vaccines (against their religion)
- No separation of church & state
- Religion taught in schools.

Sound familiar?

from Peter Galbraith: I watch the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with disbelief and horror.

I watch the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with disbelief and horror. I first visited the country with the mujaheddin on February 14, 1989--the day the Soviets withdrew --and served there as Deputy Head of the UN mission in 2009. So much went wrong but here is my very partial list of those most responsible for the fiasco.

1. The Afghan political and military leaders who were more interested in staying in power than doing anything while in office except for stealing as much as they could.

2. The US government which pumped so much money into Afghanistan that there was a lot to steal and it was easily stolen.

3. Hamid Karzai--Afghanistan's first president was corrupt, ineffective, weird, and--after the massive fraud that accompanied his reelection, illegitimate. In 2009, he organized the fraud that got him a second term. That enabled him and his cronies to steal everything else.

4. Ban ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General who tolerated the massive fraud in the UN sponsored (and paid for) Afghanistan 2009 presidential elections. This undermined Obama's surge which may have been the last chance to get it right.

5. David Petraeus, the other US military commanders and the so called strategic thinkers who all declared the Afghanistan War to be a counter-insurgency and also stated that successful counter-insurgencies require a local partner. They then pretended the corrupt Afghan government was a real partner when they knew it wasn't.

6. USAID which built roads intended to raise rural incomes by getting farm products to market but actually enabled corrupt police to shakedown farmers. This won the Taliban new supporters and the new roads gave the Taliban speedy access to previously defensible areas like the Pansjir Valley (which neither the Soviets or the pre 2001 Taliban ever took).

7. Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan second president, who was a victim of Karzai's fraud in the 2009 presidential elections and willingly took office--twice--thanks to massive electoral fraud. Ashraf is personally honest but when you come into office thanks to a stolen election, it is hard to crack down on the corrupt power brokers who got you there.

8. The US and UN architects of Afghanistan's highly centralized constitution that was utterly inappropriate for a country that is as ethnically and geographically diverse as Afghanistan. Not only did the Constitution concentrate all power in Kabul at the expense of the provinces and districts but it also gave all power within Kabul to a Pashtun president as opposed to sharing power with an ethnically diverse parliament.

The rapid collapse follows a surrender agreement negotiated by Donald Trump and implemented by the Biden Administration. There is no reason to think the outcome would be any different if the US took another ten years to withdraw.

https://www.facebook.com/peter.galbraith.522/posts/4514778401912498

Canada to resettle 20,000 vulnerable Afghans threatened by the Taliban and forced to flee

The US went into Afghanistan to steal all their shit and used 9/11 as an excuse. Plain and simple.

Spare me this bullshit about fighting terrorism, caring about the rights of women or spreading Democracy.

Didn't work out. And it won't for Iran or China or Pakistan either.

An interesting take on Afghanistan