One does not make peace with our friends, that is why it is called making peace.
Roland00 Send a noteboard - 27/08/2021 06:16:20 AM
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It’s somewhat ludicrous to be treating the Taliban as if they are our partners. If we’re such good friends, why the two decades of hostilities? If not, then why trust them? It’s mind boggling.
It’s somewhat ludicrous to be treating the Taliban as if they are our partners. If we’re such good friends, why the two decades of hostilities? If not, then why trust them? It’s mind boggling.
One can only hope that we stop sending our military into any situation that doesn’t have national security implications for the US. No more “nation building.” Unless it’s at home.
We learned that lesson in Vietnam, right? In Kuwait? Sudan? Iraq?
Afghanistan?
Or not.
I say this above, and I do not like what is happening either. It is out of my hands, and I have no power to change it.
It is like getting angry at Twitter for being a medium that will piss people off. After all Twitter is more or less a 2010s version of the 1840s electric Telegraph.
( Oh Spencer Ackermans book that dropped two weeks ago is very good 
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U.S. officials provided Taliban with a list of Americans, Afghan, allies to evacuate
- 26/08/2021 10:57:12 PM
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Stupidity to the very end
- 27/08/2021 01:32:02 AM
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Yes that’s the official explanation.
- 27/08/2021 02:38:09 AM
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America has a near criminal definition of "national security"
- 27/08/2021 04:23:52 AM
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Perhaps discipline is linked to welfare and other life giving things.
- 27/08/2021 06:21:54 AM
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One does not make peace with our friends, that is why it is called making peace.
- 27/08/2021 06:16:20 AM
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Absolutely agree on every point except....
- 03/09/2021 01:15:34 PM
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Huh. Never expected to agree entirely with a Cannoli post. Are you ok?
- 03/09/2021 01:19:55 PM
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