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I was a marine in Afghanistan. We sacrificed lives for a lie
Aug 19, 2021 12:23The 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 12:15The 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 10:22Republican 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 12:04Rarely 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 04:31Nearly 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 04:18It 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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Biden isn’t ending Afghanistan war, he’s privatizing it: Special forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
May 13, 2021 04:55Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
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Washington war party creates another organization to promote endless wars
May 11, 2021 14:22After 20 years of U.S. deaths and destruction in Afghanistan, the US administration ordered a withdrawal. Most Americans backed the decision to stop at least one endless war, but the bipartisan War Party in Washington is horrified.
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As Biden plans withdrawal, analysis shows Afghan war cost at least 241,000 lives and $2.26 trillion
Apr 18, 2021 12:27What Biden did not admit is that the United States and its allies, with all their money and firepower, were unable to vanquish the Taliban, who currently control about half of Afghanistan and are positioned to control even more in the coming months without a ceasefire.
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Biden to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Apr 14, 2021 12:01US President Joe Biden will withdraw American combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, declaring an end to the nation’s longest war and overruling warnings from his military advisers that the departure could prompt a resurgence of the same terrorist threats that sent hundreds of thousands of troops into combat over the past 20 years.