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Taliban

Rumsfeld’s Folly: 20 Year ‘Forever War’ In Afghanistan To End With The Chaotic Fall of Kabul

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

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

America’s ‘Forever War’ In Afghanistan to Finally Come To An End?

April 13, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

President Joe Biden plans to withdraw all 3,500 US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, finally bringing an end to America’s longest war 20 years to the day after the terror attacks that prompted it. Alex Ward reports at Vox, Biden wants all US troops out of Afghanistan by September 11: Biden is expected … Read more

An agreement to negotiate a peace agreement to end the war in Afghanistan

August 27, 2020February 29, 2020 by AZ BlueMeanie

Above: Cheers, whoops and shouts of “God is Great” broke out after Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s political leader, signed the landmark agreement in Doha on Saturday. Hussein Sayed / AP On Saturday, more than 18 years after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. made a bid … Read more

Donald Trump is gaslighting America with the alternate reality in which he lives

November 30, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

While you were stuffing yourself with Thanksgiving dinner and plotting your plan of attack for black Friday Christmas shopping, you likely were not paying attention to the news. Two reports over the holiday demonstrate, one again, how Donald Trump is gaslighting America. First, it appears that Ambassador Sondland invented the phone call in which he … Read more

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