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US government lied for two decades about Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2021 16:37Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. Numerous documents, largely ignored by the public, proved that U.S. officials knew what they were saying was false — just as happened so many times in prior wars — and even deliberately doctored information to enable their lies.
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There 'will never be' a US military solution in Afghanistan: Rep. Barbara Lee
Aug 20, 2021 08:27US Congresswoman Barbara Lee—who cast the sole vote against the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force that was used to justify the war in Afghanistan—reiterated on Sunday, August 15th her assessment that "there is no military solution" to address the worsening chaos in that country.
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I was a marine in Afghanistan. We sacrificed lives for a lie
Aug 19, 2021 16:53The Afghan cities fall in rapid succession, like men caught in enfilade fire. First Zaranj, Kunduz a few days later, then Kandahar and Lashkar Gah. Next is Mazar-i-Sharif. And finally, the Taliban begin their move to swiftly and decisively take Kabul.
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Expected Afghan influx reopens divisions over refugees in Europe
Aug 19, 2021 16:45The fall of Kabul has reopened divisions over immigration in European countries as government leaders brace themselves for an inevitable surge in refugees.
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Biden hammered for spending time at Camp David as Taliban take control of Afghanistan
Aug 18, 2021 14:52Republican members of Congress on Sunday, August 15th criticized President Biden for spending time in the presidential retreat from Camp David instead of the White House as the Taliban fought to finalize the takeover of Afghanistan.
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For Biden, images of defeat he wanted to avoid
Aug 17, 2021 16:34Rarely in modern presidential history have words come back to bite an American commander in chief as swiftly as these from President Biden a little more than five weeks ago: “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan.”
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After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as Taliban retake control of Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 09:01Nearly two full decades of lies and wishful thinking from U.S. generals, politicians, liberal interventionists, and neoconservative talking heads came into full view as the Taliban in Afghanistan surrounded Kabul.
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Will Taliban play the role of US’s proxy group?
Jul 14, 2021 08:48It is obvious that there is no single ethnicity that can claim absolute majority status in Afghanistan, and can resultantly proclaim the right to wrest control of the administration as well as the country and its organizations.
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A true Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan? Don't think about it
Jun 17, 2021 09:14Biden’s early rhetoric was reminiscent of both Obama’s and Trump’s initial seeming decisiveness about ending American’s West Asia invasions. As Biden’s self-imposed September deadline approaches, the so- called War on Terror military/civilian lobby is going into overdrive to keep a U.S. presence there.
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Biden joins long line of presidents to ‘woefully’ undercount civilians killed in US wars
Jun 13, 2021 08:58Human rights defenders have recently accused the Biden administration of joining its predecessors in undercounting the number of civilians killed during US wars, as the latest annual Pentagon report on noncombatants killed by American bombs and bullets was blasted as “grossly inadequate” by a leading ACLU official.