Afghanistan

Chinese Foreign Ministry mocks US over Afghanistan, says its ‘war machines’ have become Taliban playground

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has mocked the US and the chaotic collapse of the Washington-backed Afghan regime they left behind, as he shared footage of Taliban soldiers using captured aircraft as a swing.

On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a video on his Twitter account, claiming Afghanistan was the “graveyard of EMPIRES and their WAR MACHINES.” As highlighted by the outspoken Foreign Ministry diplomat, the video shows Taliban troops tying a rope to the wing of a captured aircraft and using it as a swing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Afghanistan, USA

Celebrating Our Enemies, Twenty Years after 9/11 America dives, Islam thrives.

On 9/11, the world was shown, in one horrific, indelible image, precisely what Islam is all about. Today, to write the previous sentence is to be guilty of Islamophobia. How did that come to be? It began in the days after 9/11 itself, when George W. Bush – by repeatedly insisting that the cause of the jihadists had nothing to do with Islam – effectively ruled out of bounds any criticism of that religion, or any honest education and open discussion about it. Instead, Bush – who had gotten it into his head that all religions are basically good, and who was manipulated by advisors who wanted to project American power in a part of the world about which they knew very little – used 9/11 as an excuse to rein in Americans’ civil liberties and go nation-building abroad. It was a massive folly, doomed to failure. Why doomed? Because Islam is utterly irreconcilable with American-style freedom and incapable of reform, at least not without a far more aggressive effort than America was willing to commit to. Unlike America, moreover, Islam has a long memory. Muslims recall their forebears’ foiled attempts to conquer the Christian West at Tours in 732 and Vienna in 1683; the attacks of 9/11 were part of a history of such actions that goes back to Islam’s earliest days. Yet few Westerners know about this history or are aware that 9/11 was part of it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Accountability for Afghanistan

Accountability for Afghanistan

America has just experienced perhaps its greatest foreign policy debacle in modern history by surrendering to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The enemy that the U.S. held accountable for harboring the al-Qaeda terrorist group that attacked us on 9/11 once again governs Afghanistan. The Taliban now holds the keys to whether, how, and when Americans left behind will be returned home safely. The question today is who will be held accountable for this debacle, a debacle in both strategy and execution.

There is really no debate about whether the exit plan from Afghanistan failed miserably. Americans left behind, our military equipment left behind, and the Taliban are victorious and now in power while our wartime allies were left blindsided and furious. We lost 13 U.S. service members along with nearly 200 Afghans killed. Who will be held accountable?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Taliban: Women cannot be ministers in government, may inaugurate new government on 9/11 anniversary

The only people this is a shock to are those in the Biden administration. The Taliban is talking of inaugurating their new government in Afghanistan on the anniversary of 9/11 and no, there will not be any women in leadership positions. The new Taliban is the same old Taliban and the bad old days are back.

Boy am I shocked. Did Malala speak to them yet?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

‘Remarkable, even though it go off to a hazy start’: Nancy Pelosi PRAISES Biden’s ‘historic’ Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 US service members dead and hundreds of Americans still stranded on the ground

The House leader’s comments are particularly noteworthy as President Joe Biden’s handling of the total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has been widely criticized by Democrat and Republican lawmakers and politicians, as well as the general American public.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Bad Optics", "President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Afghanistan, idiot politician, terror attack

Reports: China Eyes Takeover of US Air Base in Afghanistan

The Chinese military is reportedly eyeing a move into Bagram Air Base, only weeks after the Biden administration ordered a withdrawal from what was the United States’ largest military installation in Afghanistan.

Multiple sources confirmed to U.S. News that the Chinese military is assessing the feasibility of sending soldiers and other officials to the abandoned military base, which the Biden administration shuttered in July before a full withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Subterranean Tone-Sick Blues

A decade and a half back, the late Christopher Hitchens was talking to the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and brought up my demographic-death-spiral thesis from America Alone. Hitch wanted to know whether, when the PM got together with the Continental bigwigs, it was part of “the European conversation”.

Tone replied that it was part of “the subterranean conversation”.

By which he meant that nice house-trained EU prime ministers hadn’t figured out a way to raise such subjects in public without being damned as racists and becoming electorally unviable, at least anywhere west of the Landstraße, to modify Metternich. They still haven’t. Fifteen years on, almost every subject worth talking about remains part of “the subterranean conversation”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Chaos and confusion: The frenzied final hours of the Afghan government

For a generation that grew up with education, international investment and hope in a democratic future, reading that line must feel scarcely believable.

So how did the previous administration fall so quickly? The Taliban went from taking control of their first major city to arriving at the gates of Kabul in just 10 days.

But the capital, it was assumed, would be different. Most observers believed that Kabul would hold until a negotiated agreement could take place. On Sunday 15 August, that all changed. Within hours, the president and his top officials had fled. What was left of the Afghan army and police forces changed out of their uniforms, and went into hiding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Send in Rapinoe! Taliban official says women will be barred from playing sports in Afghanistan

“I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary that women should play cricket,” Wasiq said. “In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and bodies will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this.”

If allowed to take participate in sports, there will be “photos and videos” of the women that people will undoubtedly watch – something that cannot occur, Wasiq said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Four Taliban members swapped for Bowe Bergdahl now in Afghan government

Four of the five Taliban members released from Guantanamo Bay by the Obama administration in 2014 in exchange for admitted US Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl are part of the Islamic fundamentalist group’s new hardline government in Afghanistan, according to local media reports.

The four members of the so-called “Taliban Five” who have joined the new government are Acting Director of Intelligence Abdul Haq Wasiq, Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Norullah Noori, Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Fazl, and Acting Minister of Information and Culture Khairullah Khairkhah. The fifth member of the Taliban Five, Mohammad Nabi Omari, was appointed governor of eastern Khost Province last month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, Obama - Are You Absolutely Sure He Isn't A Muslim?

Some people should have small rocks tossed at them…

The State Department and the EU are concerned the all-male Taliban government isn’t diverse enough

Late on Tuesday, a US State Department spokesman said: “We note the announced list of names consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates and no women.”

Update – Of course Canada’s Sharia Council of the Woke – CBC News is running with the same idiocy. Funny how they made the Ceeb’s “news” service free for streaming this month. Justin’s propagandists never miss a trick.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Afghanistan

The Roots of America’s Defeat

It was laid in the days, weeks and months that followed 9/11.

Even before the suicide bombings outside the Kabul airport on Thursday evening, the US media was acting with rare unanimity. For the first time in memory, US media organs across the ideological and political spectrum have been united in the view that US President Joe Biden fomented a strategic disaster for the US and its allies with his incompetent leadership of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some compare it to the 1961 Bay of Pigs; others to Saigon in 1975; others to the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. Whatever the analogy, the bottom line is the same: Biden’s surrender to the Taliban has already entered the pantheon of American post-war defeats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan