Above: Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Taliban Political Deputy Mullah Beradar welcoming the launch of Afghan peace negotiations – without the government of Afghanistan. Damn, did this fool and his boss ever get played by the Taliban. Tom Boggioni reports, RNC busted for deleting campaign page touting Trump’s ‘historic peace agreement’ after Afghanistan … Read more
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in just days is mostly a shock to people (including many in the Biden/Harris Administration) who thought this unwelcome development would have taken at least weeks if not months to complete. While the quick fall of the United States supported Afghanistan Government and military/police forces in record time … Read more
Watching the news this past week has been a flashback to April 1975, and the rapid advance of the North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong insurgency allies in South Vietnam on the capitol of Saigon. The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) collapsed in the face of this lightening assault, and Saigon fell on April 30, … Read more
850,000 new jobs were created in June. Sectors that grew the most were hospitality and leisure, education, and state government workers. It is the highest monthly jobs growth this year. However, there are still 6.8 million fewer jobs than when the COVID 19 Pandemic surged across the nation. In comments to the nation, President Joe … Read more
Today (April 14, 2021,) President Joe Biden, the fourth American Chief Executive presiding over Military Involvement in Afghanistan, announced that he would not pass on that responsibility to a fifth American leader and said he would start the withdrawal of the remaining United States troops from that nation on May 1, 2021. The President cited … Read more