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Dead Superpower Walking
Steyn Online ^ | 17 Aug 2021 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/17/2021 2:11:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what's left of "Hamid Karzai International Airport" (the signs will be coming down even as you read this).

America is a global laughingstock right now, but that's no reason not to give Chairman Xi and Putin and every up-country village headman in Helmand a few more yuks. Step forward, State Department spokeswanker Ned Price:

State Department calls for Taliban to include women in its government

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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Buffoon Alert (Ned Price)

Even CNN has a more proximate relationship to reality. Here is their Kabul correspondent, Clarissa Ward, reporting on Sunday:

And here is the same Miss Ward reporting on Monday:

Can anyone spot the difference?!

1 posted on 08/17/2021 2:11:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Just for the record, the Kingdom of Afghanistan introduced votes for women in 1964 - whereas Switzerland did not get even a very limited female franchise until 1971, and full suffrage not until the Nineties.

Yet, oddly, every Pushtun warlord prefers to keep his retirement account in Zurich.

2 posted on 08/17/2021 2:11:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

We will be feeling this one for decades. This is all very, very big.


3 posted on 08/17/2021 2:16:00 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The ramifications from it will be enormous and they will be worldwide. We have displayed our weakness to the world and will pay a heavy price for it.


4 posted on 08/17/2021 2:22:17 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Rummyfan

A 125 pound metro-sexual, milquetoast, wallflower, spokeswanker. Yeah, the Taliban will listen to that pencil neck freak.


5 posted on 08/17/2021 2:24:23 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn, as usual, nails it.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 2:27:11 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Rummyfan
Here's a different comparison that makes a point. Can anybody spot the difference?:

Who is that loser on the top? Only one row of medals? Probably didn't do a thing.

7 posted on 08/17/2021 2:30:23 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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8 posted on 08/17/2021 2:34:06 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Rummyfan

Ned Price - the BEFORE photo for a hotline for self-abusers.


9 posted on 08/17/2021 2:35:37 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Jim Noble

More medals more a desk jockey butt kisser. Paper Generals can’t lead armies to Victory.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 2:35:53 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Rummyfan

>>Do you think there’s any chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at West Point? It might be a nice change of pace for cadets to learn from someone who actually won a war.

That’s going to leave a mark.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 2:36:05 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Rummyfan

I think the airport should be renamed to
“The Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Airport”

Include his whole pathetic name just so everyone knows exactly who is responsible.


12 posted on 08/17/2021 2:37:16 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. OR THE MASK)
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To: Jim Noble

I’ve got it - the bottom guy, “Thouroughly Modern Millie,” is trying to look like the generals from North Korea!


13 posted on 08/17/2021 2:39:13 PM PDT by RickyW (Primary Romney!)
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To: Rummyfan

Pink lipstick ion the first one, nothing in the second picture?


14 posted on 08/17/2021 2:41:39 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Rummyfan

And here I am with an electric oven.


15 posted on 08/17/2021 2:42:47 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Jim Noble

I am truly offended at your question....General Dwight Eisenhower, an American of loyalty and devotion to his country as a General and a President. The other is a political General, always suspect as to his loyalty and his sincerity and as a true American soldier.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 2:43:53 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: Rummyfan
"Joe Biden's recent taunt that no American needs an AR-15, because, if you want to defeat the mighty US government, you're gonna need fighter jets and nukes.

"Well, the Taliban just took out Joe as Leader of the Free World with no nukes, no F-15s, just a big bunch of AR-15s."

Thanks, Mark!

17 posted on 08/17/2021 2:45:01 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Wokeness is weakness, and diversity is where nations go to die. Mark Steyn)
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To: Jim Noble

One is a General who won a war and became President. The other is a homosexual poser.


18 posted on 08/17/2021 2:46:08 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Rummyfan

Comment from one of Steyn’s readers:

“Do you think there’s any chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at West Point? It might be a nice change of pace for cadets to learn from someone who actually won a war.”

Devastating.


19 posted on 08/17/2021 2:46:40 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Rummyfan
Should have known anyone coined that title

Steyn

20 posted on 08/17/2021 2:47:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps)
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