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8/19/2021

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 . . . who isn't all that interested in what has happened in Afghanistan? 
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Jake
8/19/2021 23:00:16

No.
It's obviously some kind of script.
Regardless, the main point is that the US Empire is collapsing.
Moral degeneracy and profligacy go so counter to logos that it inevitable crashes the nations that engage in it.

It's also so boring. Who, other than System People, can really force themselves to care?
I'd rather plant my garden, go fishing, read a good old book.

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Sasha Melnik link
8/20/2021 00:07:35

I'm happy about it. I hope it is something like the first 'retreat' from the high water mark of the system of evil that now wears the skin of the USA, how far the tide will go out in our lifetimes, remains to be seen. I suspect when the eye of Soron looks inwards it will find itself busier than ever.

I ponder what might have been achieved with the lives and money otherwise wasted, alas, the satanic graft machine would have picked some other poor, out-of-the-way place to destroy instead.

Over here in our corner, we're preparing to baptise our 2nd this Saturday and we're enjoying the start of the end of summer (cooler days) - I've just finished 'Soldier in the Mist' by Gene Wolfe (recommend). Jupiter is in full opposition and I await a clear night to gaze.

Sasha

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Francis Berger
8/20/2021 09:44:45

@ Sasha - Retreat from Afghanistan marked the end of the Soviet Empire as well, so you're probably right about the high water mark.

Happy to hear that all is well with you and your family.

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Magnus Stout
8/20/2021 00:44:35

The MSM is trying to paint it as another "Fall of Saigon." Except...

Over 1 Trillion spent;

174K dead;

20 years of conflict.

All so that a tiny elite can enrich themselves.

Yes, we should all feel very sad, but not for reasons parroted by the MSM.

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Francis Berger
8/20/2021 09:45:53

@ Magnus - Makes one wonder what they were really doing there for twenty years.

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Jeffrey Cantrell
8/20/2021 18:27:07

Julian Assange hit the nail on the head in 2011:
"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688

William Wildblood
8/20/2021 00:48:15

No.

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bruce charlton
8/20/2021 01:06:35

No - me too. Everything I have been told about the place has come from the mass media - so it can't be true and must be of malign intent. What's the point of having an opinion that is certain to be factually incorrect and to have been manipulated? Hence my lack of interest.

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jorgen b
8/20/2021 03:21:36

Its a distraction. Taliban returns to impose religious hijab on women who globohomo was already imposing medical hijab on. Durpa durpa.

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William James Tychonievich link
8/20/2021 05:18:28

Hey, man, pushing back against the official distraction is Not Cool.

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Carol
8/20/2021 05:53:48

No, you're not the only one who lacks much interest in that particular 'current event'....I feel the same - simply, not "all that interested"...

I think there's just such an inordinate amount of disturbing ('can't believe it's happening') type stuff going on in the world -
- that this present Afghanistan debacle sort of seems like just another in a long line of 'turmoil in the mideast' dust ups...

Feeling badly for 'not' feeling 'more' badly over what people there are going thru, is pretty much all I've got compassion-wise...

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ben
8/20/2021 13:29:45

"Feeling badly for 'not' feeling 'more' badly over what people there are going thru, is pretty much all I've got compassion-wise..."

Why should you?

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Wm link
8/20/2021 07:10:44

And no, you’re not the only one. There’s Joe Biden for starters!

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Michelle
8/20/2021 11:59:09

Actually, I am very interested in the goings-on about Afghanistan.

It's so interesting to see and hear the regular people around me take off their (D)emocrat vs (R)epublican glasses and see things how they really are- the System has been feeding them bulls##t for 20 years and all you have to show for your money and "patriotism" are men (and now women- yay equality!) with their limbs blown off, lots of dead people, and lots of rich contractors and advisors.

Truth is good to see and understand for what it is when it is revealed. Even just a small grain of truth can open up someone to question everything they think they know.

While I've been hearing overwhelmingly how sad it is to see all those people clinging on to that airplane- I point out to them- where's all the women?!? are all these men fleeing their families? Do you really want these kind of weak men in your country?

And yes, I do believe this is a high water mark for the u.s.

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Anthony Probst
8/21/2021 01:14:37

I thought the high water mark for the USA was in the mid 1950s. This is a new low point and probably not the lowest.

Then again, if you're making flood metaphor maybe it is a high water mark!

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Mike Bryant
8/20/2021 13:50:42

It was only ever a racket but now of course we have a moral obligation to take more migrants.

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Francis Berger
8/20/2021 21:23:39

@ Mike - A friend of mine, who works as a cop, has just been deployed to the southern Hungary to guard and reinforce the border there. It doesn't take too much imagination to figure out why.

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Whitney
8/21/2021 02:16:11

It was actually a relief to see you wrote that because no I don't care. The incompetence and the highest levels of government mean that pretty much anything we do is going to be incompetent. What's driving me crazy is everyone blaming it on the dementia patient. Every single person, no matter what side they claim to be on, who says Biden is going to have to answer to this is complicit in this giant lie that installed him in office. And then I see the articles of the women being beaten and the children being killed and for all I know it's all lies. I salute the Taliban for getting the Invaders out of their country and now apparently they're going door-to-door and killing the traitors. I hope someone's taking notes

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Howard Sutherland
8/22/2021 19:52:12

I'm interested only because I was an officer in the U.S. armed forces for so long. The institutional failure should be astonishing, but is not after the gross civilian and military dereliction that led to 9/11. I'd left active duty a few years before, but that left me wondering if we hadn't been pointed in the wrong direction all those years.
Incompetent leadership, or malicious? They're not mutually exclusive. America's political failings are now obvious. The military failings, inevitable once feminism and the diversity became the disordering principles of the U.S. armed forces, are now in unmistakable focus. A sane regime would bring all U.S. forces home and make their primary mission securing the United States' southern borders. But a sane regime America does not have, and has not for many decades.
That this fiasco is playing out in Afghanistan, lands that have frustrated would-be occupiers ever since the Achaemenids and Alexander, only makes the moral of this misadventure more plain: hubris begets nemesis.

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Francis Berger
8/22/2021 20:38:12

@ Howard - Personal connections are obvious exceptions. For example, anyone who lost a family member to Afghanistan is bound to be interested in a way I cannot possibly be.

What you have outlined above is all true and obvious. I like your point about incompetence and maliciousness NOT being mutually exclusive, which is the correct counterpoint to the adage of not assigning to maliciousness what you can assign to incompetence.

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