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Liz V's avatar

Agree. We have utterly failed the Afghan people. Shameful.

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Geoff's avatar

Chris - Thanks for this important post. Your piece is repeatedly critical of President Trump in 2020 - now five years ago - with "disgraceful" and "knee-capped". But your piece doesn't mention Presidents Biden or Obama. Readers will notice and wonder why you ignore those presidents' policies in Afghanistan. Readers are alert to political biases in writing, which can diminish the credibility of the essence of your piece. Also, your piece emphasizes the horrible life for girls. Agreed. But young men were killed by the tens of thousands. No mention. Finally, every reader will be puzzled that your piece makes no mention of the abrupt pull-out by the U.S.

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Ukrainian Ross's avatar

Wow. Some sharp brain noted that the leader of Ukraine had the capacity to notice and speak.

The Ukraine has a geopolitical position, close to the small nations inside the Kremlin Imperialism of Muscovy.

compared to 3T, Ukraine's leader has a leadership role of the WEST potential. 3T = Third Trudeau.

Ukraine has Development of State Policy for cooperation with National Movements of Small and Indigenous Peoples of the terrorist ethnic Ruusskie Federation. Ukraine understands the centuries of silencing, dispossession + forced assimilation under Muscovy's Imperial rule. It is only since 1581 that Mongol Muscovy started invading towards Siberia, starting with the Khanate of Sibir.

One can only recall that young boys out of high school fought + cleared the Boy dancers muslims out of the Kandahar region. These Canadian boys were loaded onto schoo;l buses in small towns in Canada, fought with zero high tech, costly tech like the Yankee empire funded themselves with. Oh yeah, the heroic Canadian big brass provided the kids with ancient museum era tanks that actually still worked.

The current 3T Carney refuses to issue stamps that commemorate the bravery of these Canuck kids, bravery that was moronically squandered by late-coming cowardly Yankee degenerates. But, the boys got to see brave Taliban Muslims forcing "special" boys to dance on table tops as muslim tea time recreation.

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Hi Chris, I wonder if you'd consider taking the paywall off of this entry so that I can cross post it? It's an important reminder.

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Chris Alexander's avatar

Hi Claire, Great idea! I’ve dropped the paywall: please share away.

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Thank you!

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

I'd like to have you back on the podcast specifically to talk about this. I'd like to devote some time to what went wrong, what we should have done, what we can learn from it, and what we should do now. Are you free over the weekend?

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Chris Alexander's avatar

3 pm your time tomorrow (Sunday) works well — send a link. I will be ready!

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Fabulous. Looking forward to it greatly.

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Chris, do I have your email address? I'll send the link via the chat, but I'm worried you won't see it. I'd swear I have your email address, but my computer thinks otherwise. In any event, I hope you see this.

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Chris Alexander's avatar

Yes! Let’s do it. Tomorrow afternoon EST is possible — after 2 pm. Or Sunday morning at 9 or 10 am or afternoon after 3 pm. Your choice!

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Do you mean your time or mine? Tomorrow might be better for me: I'm not free between 4:30-6:30 my time, but any time before or after would work. So looking forward to it!

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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Ah! You wrote EST--I read too quickly. 9 am your time is 3 pm mine, right? That could work.

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