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Five years after America’s ignominious retreat from Afghanistan, the Taliban are back to veiling women, excluding girls from school, and presiding over a culture in which powerful men rape vulnerable boys under the euphemism bacha bazi. iPINIONS argues that Taliban 2.0 preaches sexual purity for the powerless while allowing powerful men to profane it. Read… Read more.
At this point, Afghanistan is beginning to rival Haiti as the most godforsaken country on Earth… Heavy rain and strong winds were frustrating search and rescue efforts late Wednesday after a massive earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 and injuring more than 1,600, government officials said. A sudden downpour washed away roads leading… Read more.
President Biden should command prime time on all networks tonight to announce a Berlin-style airlift of all Americans and Afghans who supported America’s 20-year war. He should also lay blame for this debacle where it belongs, namely at the feet of the Afghan soldiers who used those feet to high tail it and run when… Read more.
America spent 20 years investing lots of blood and treasure to build an Afghanistan that could fend off the Taliban. Yet the world is watching things fall apart in just 20 weeks after President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all US troops. But who would’ve thought this was possible? And don’t blame it all… Read more.
Here is the forlorn note iPINIONS sounded at the beginning of “Friday Will Effectively Mark The End of America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan,” January 11, 2021: _________ I have been pleading for nearly 15 years for the United States to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. Because it has been patently clear for at least that… Read more.
For the record, I’ve been declaring America’s war in Afghanistan a lost cause for nearly 15 years. This, because it has been patently clear for at least that long that this war is eerily reminiscent of Vietnam … in every unwinnable respect. As I have noted on previous occasions, the titles to just a few… Read more.
Like Obama, Trump made ending America’s longest war a signature promise of his presidential campaign. We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let’s get out! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2013 Now, like Obama, he’s reneging on that promise just months into his… Read more.
The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government… Read more.
The entire world watched in horror on Monday as police stormed a café in Australia to take out one Islamic terrorist – who was holding 17 people hostage. Miraculously, despite all of the terror that incident inflicted, only two innocent people were killed. Now, just a day later, comes this humbling reminder that, when it… Read more.
Nothing affirms the proposition that only authoritarian regimes can govern Arab countries quite like the very Egyptians who protested against the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak being the ones now cheering for the authoritarian regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Especially given that al-Sisi seized power from the country’s first democratically elected government of Mohamed… Read more.
