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Disaster in Afghanistan Will Follow Us Home
New York Times ^
| August 15. 2021
| BRET STEPHENS
Posted on 08/15/2021 6:56:23 PM PDT by be-baw
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Now these arguments belong to the past. The war in Afghanistan isn’t just over. It’s lost. A few Americans may cheer this humiliation, and many more will shrug at it. But the consequences of defeat are rarely benign for nations, no matter how powerful they otherwise appear to be. America’s enemies, great and small, will draw conclusions from our needless surrender, just as they will about the frighteningly oblivious president who brought it about.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan
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I only posted the last paragraph of this opinion piece.
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posted on
08/15/2021 6:56:23 PM PDT
by
be-baw
>> A few Americans may cheer this humiliation
FO, Stephens — you POS
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posted on
08/15/2021 6:57:45 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: be-baw
In a few years the reconstituted Al-Qaeda shall again attack New York City.
I will not shed a tear.
No more red blood for blue cities.
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posted on
08/15/2021 6:57:47 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
To: be-baw
What does it mean “follow us home”?
It started here last November.
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posted on
08/15/2021 6:59:07 PM PDT
by
farmguy
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: be-baw
..... I believe that The Biden Administration just handed the Taliban and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan a 10,000 plus person sized hostage barganing chip ... And will soon be making huge demands of the BSA (Biden States of America) which is now run by paranoid Woke Snowflakes that will certainly melt under pressure and heat of this Real World Non Woke situation.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:01:48 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
To: be-baw
the frighteningly oblivious president who brought it about.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That BOTH parties colluded to cheat into office!
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:02:33 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: be-baw
Stephens has been a Trump-hating neocon for years. Don’t need him or his opinions.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:02:44 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: be-baw
Watch Taiwan go next. China knows how weak we are. Biden will do nothing.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:05:04 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
To: be-baw
Stephens should STFU. Americans from every part of the political spectrum got tired of his warmongering globalist crap years ago.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:06:14 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
To: Lurkinanloomin
both parties allowed the fraud election of Biden to stand....
Absolutely right.
When Robert Redford was asked to allow the film of All the President’s Men to be used for Dem Party fundraising events he denied permission. “Neither political party has anything to be proud of.”
I feel that way in 2021.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:06:40 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: be-baw
Only if you let it, by letting in a bunch of Afghani refugees.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:06:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: NoLibZone
“No more red blood for blue cities.”
Amen.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:06:57 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
To: be-baw
America’s enemies, great and small, will draw conclusions from our needless surrender, just as they will about the frighteningly oblivious president who brought it about.This from the New York Times?!
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:07:16 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: be-baw
The Soviet Union collapsed 2 years after it withdrew from Afghanistan. With open borders, endless spending and woke idiocy, could the same happen here?
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:07:25 PM PDT
by
Husker24
(Pp)
To: be-baw
The advantage has forever been to the resident Afghans. Lack of seaports and secure shipping routes put every visitor at a tactical disadvantage.
We began failing the day we tried to stay more than a few weeks.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:08:19 PM PDT
by
lurk
( )
To: NoLibZone
"
In a few years the reconstituted Al-Qaeda shall again attack New York City."
They'll gov after Texas. Dallas (big city), Houston (oil & gas)...
The previous governor from that state temporarily removed them from power.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:10:49 PM PDT
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
To: be-baw
Everything seems to follow us home.
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:10:52 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: be-baw
There’s only one thing you need to know about this retarded @sshole:
“On Being a Biden Conservative”
By Bret Stephens
THE NEW YORK TIMES
AUG 18, 2020
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posted on
08/15/2021 7:11:11 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
To: NoLibZone
No more red blood for blue cities.Well said.
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