The above is NOT in the media narrative ….
It doesn’t fit….
But if one reads enough they CAN find a pattern developing….
The guys who are in charge of running Afghanistan now are NOT the guys who took to arms to take over the country try….
The new leaders lived ‘outside’ the country and flew in to assume control….
They have extensive contacts with the West, American included….
The old violence back in the day has NOT been seen that much….
The ‘elders’ are well aware that they will need to be part of the world to govern…..
They have been standing by their promise to the American President and others to let people leave their country unharmed….
The August 31st deadline that Biden wanted is fast upon us…
But the American President has cut another ‘deal’ with the Taliban to allow more people to leave….
Yes…
Another ‘deal’….
The Taliban leadership is well aware that the country is losing talent it NEEDS to function in a coherent way in the future…
The US and other Western countries have frozen the Afghan money, which sits mostly in the West….
The American military is now helping the Taliban with a domestic terrorist problem….
ISIS-K….
One would think that this effort WILL CONTINUE….
The action by President Biden’s military is mutually beneficial….
No matter what may be happening now….
One CAN see where President Biden wants to be down the road…..
American went to war with Japan, Germany and Viet Nam….
Those countries are now America’s allies….
That should not be lost on anyone….
In addition?
IF?
IF the Taliban can prove to Afghan’s around the world that their country will try to NOT be the revenge capital of the world?
One might see some those that are now taking ‘Airbridge Evacuation Flights ‘ out?
Returning home…..
Lot’s of if’s though….
Just a look at a possible Afghan future….
The United States and 97 other countries said on Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the American military departs next week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving.
The Taliban’s chief negotiator, Sher Mohammed Abas Stanekzai, had announced on Friday that the group would not stop people from departing, no matter their nationality or whether they had worked for the United States during the 20-year war.
The joint statement released on Sunday on behalf of more than half of the world’s governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said that they had “received assurances from the Taliban” that people with travel documents showing they were clear to enter any of those countries could safely depart.
The countries also pledged to “continue issuing travel documentation to designated Afghans” and cited a “clear expectation of and commitment from the Taliban” of their safe passage.
Like free trade with Vietnam and normalized relations with Cuba, a good idea.
Now let me get this straight.
Donald Trump ie,most of the Republican Party,is upset with Bidens handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and our “abandoning” so many of our Afghanistan “allies,” but are opposed to resettling the ones we are withdrawing in the United States because they might be terrorists?
Have I got that right?
The Republican Party 2021
Tom Rice ,the S.C. Republican Congressman ,who received accolades from some here for voting to impeach Trump after the Republican insurrection of Jan.6 , and is facing a tough re-election campaign next year with a number of pro Trump opponents is now calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden.
I suspect that Rice’s support for impeachment of Biden was designed to help him save his seat, and offset his Trump impeachment vote. We’ll see if it works.
There are very few principles in the GOP, but doing what you can to stay in power might be #1.
Oh undoubtedly.
Rice is in serious trouble and I don’t know if even this mea culpa will appease the Right Wing nutjobs in his district.
The largest county in the district is Horry , whose Republican Party was taken over by supporters of Trump lawyer Lin Wood in his unsuccessful bid to become state chairman.Wood was recently cited by a federal judge for his antics in trying to steal the election forTrump and moved to S.C. from Georgia where his law license was in danger of being pulled.
These people care about only one thing…total subservience toTrump..What Rice did is beyond redemption.
My World Almanac says that Trump beat Biden 104 thousand to 40 in Horry County, and beat Clinton 89 thou to 39 — i.e. the Dem. vote (presumably largely non-white and/or non-Anglo) barely nudged, while Trump increased his vote by 15 thousand.
So much for Trump voters’ remorse in the Palmetto State.
I know SC isn’t gaining or losing seats next year but I wonder how redistricting might affect the partisan balance in the districts.
Here in Missouri the 5th District, which is centered in Kansas City and is D+8 is being eyed by Republicans in the legislature to be redrawn in a way to make it more likely for a GOP nominee to take it. The problem is they may be getting greedy trying to turn the eight seat MO delegation from 6 to 7 GOP seats. By shifting too much they could wind up diluting the most vulnerable Republican held district–MO 2 to a point where it is even rather than the slight GOP tilt it has now.
The overwhelmingly Republican SC legislature will redraw the districts ..
The plan is always to place as many Blacks as possible in Clyburns district .
The first district ,on the coast around Charleston ,which elected Joe Cunningham in 2018 (he narrowly lost re-election last year) will likely be due some creative gerrymandering to make it more Republican.
Clyburn, the only Dem Congressman in the state is safe. He wins by margins of more than 2-1.
I agree with Jack. The GOP will gerrymander to strengthen its majority in Charleston.
Lindsay Graham, miffed at Biden because he wouldn’t make nice with him after his shilling first Trump in attacking Bidens son,is also calling for Bidens impeachment .
Graham fears anothe 9/11 attack.No word on whether he “ fears” another Republican attack on the Capitol.
Breaking…….
US Government announces its military has left Kabul Airport……
Says there is an ‘agreement’ with the Taliban that those who want to leave the country can do so…..
There are reports that the airport will be under Taliban control but that a or several other foreign countries could run the airport….
Western countries acknowledge that there are some of their national’s and those Afghans’ who helped them still trying to leave the country…..
Poor Biden
The guy avoids the press like posion ivy before this and now he’s going before the camera every ten minites to say he did’t and hasn’t fucked up on the ‘HOW’ not the ‘When’….
I hope he doesn’t listen to others and fire his staff for his impatience and haste