Afghanistan. It's fucked

[laklak]

Ban the Taliban? No, MUCH better to ban the President of the United States. I mean, he made mean tweets! He OFFENDED people!!!!!

All the Taliban does is burn people alive and rape children. NOWHERE near as bad a Orange Man.

[Cunt]

But Trump might cause someone to wear horns and wander into federal buildings...can't allow that. Might lead to not taking Nervous Nancy seriously.

In other news, she talked about caring for the women and girls in afganistan. Showing her bigotry, insensitivity and hilarity all at once. I bet she would kneel, if their tone was the right one.

[Cunt]

The memes have it.

Someone should fact-check this - stat!

[Joe]

Fake news! There's no hair sniffing!

[Cunt]

One of the commentariat said there was a high percentage of Muslims in that country who prefer sharia law.

If true, that suggests kicking out the US and bringing in someone more agreeable to that, sounds like democracy.

Sure got me wondering who will end up with the poppyseeds though...

[macdoc]

not the brightest bulb

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ewax/ ... ource=digg

[aufbahrung]

not the brightest bulb

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ewax/ ... ource=digg

Unless you be living your life dancing on the edge of a volcano you ain't living. No one gets out alive anyway.

[Cunt]

not the brightest bulb

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ewax/ ... ource=digg

Got called 'Absolute Mad Lord' by the Lotus Eaters today. They also pleaded with their government to protect this national treasure.

It's bold, whatever else it is.

[aufbahrung]

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-17/ ... /100382960

China is ready to deepen "friendly and cooperative" relations with Afghanistan, a foreign ministry spokeswoman says, after the Taliban seized control of the country.

"The Afghan Taliban said on multiple occasions that it hopes to grow sound relations with China, looks forward to China's participation in Afghanistan's reconstruction and development, and will never allow any force to use the Afghan territory to engage in acts detrimental to China," spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a press briefing.

"We welcome those statements."

I trust that Afghani women and girls deeply appreciate these sentiments...

[Cunt]

My sweetheart has had an interest in the secret marathon.
https://thesecretmarathon.com/



I'm guessing we won't be going this year. Might try to get a copy to watch with my sweetheart. One of the small things I try to do to be a good runner, is to make myself available to run with people who are anxious about running alone (we ran past 2 sleeping mumblers tonight). It looks so feeble compared to trying to train in Afghanistan. And with hills like that on top of everything else...

[aufbahrung]

Westernised enough to know the West, fundy enough to try blowing up the West, trouble ahead I figure...trumps final gift gonna be a gift that keeps giving

[Cunt]

How can you blame Turnip for this? Didn't Biden just say a little while ago, that there wouldn't be helicopter rescues from he embassy.

Before he sent Psaki on vacay, and hid in the basement, I mean.

[Hermit]

How can you blame Turnip for this?

Trump initiated the peace deal with the Taliban. You can't have peace with the Taliban.

gop.com trumpeted the following in June last year:

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS CONTINUED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN PEACE TALKS AS HE SIGNED A HISTORIC PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN, WHICH WOULD END AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR

On February 2, 2020, the Trump Administration signed a preliminary peace agreement with the Taliban that sets the stage to end America's longest war.

Of course it has deleted the page as soon as events proved the deal to be inevitably disastrous, but it has been archived at the Wayback Machine.

Trump's idiotic peace deal has placed Biden in a no-win position. He looks bad for going through with the withdrawal of troops because of the catastrophic consequences for most Afghanis. He'd be called a warmonger if he reneged on the deal Trump has signed. All the right wingers would wag their finger, saying "We told you so" and use it as evidence that Biden just cannot be trusted to do the right thing ever.

[JimC]

There is little point in blaming individual western politicians. The whole fucking catastrophe is a nasty intersection of the poisonous fruits of religion and the turgid forces of power politics.