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Think Trump is crazy and stupid? Well, yeah, he is…but these guys are catching up!
From Harper’s Weekly Review: [T]he Taliban imposed a nationwide telecommunications shutdown in Afghanistan, cutting off the nation’s nearly 43 million inhabitants’ access to internet and telephone services for two days. “This measure was taken to prevent vice,” wrote Balkh province’s … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, News media, Religious fundamentalism, The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged Afghanistan, Harper's, the Taliban, Trump
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What really happened in Afghanistan
Each morning when I turn on my computer, I go first to the Times and their opinion section. There I read maybe one essay and mark in my head the others I will want to read later. Today, amid the … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged Adam Nossiter, Afghanistan, Algeria, Battle of Algiers, Carter Malkasian, Charles de Gaulle, colonial wars, Damon Winters, Donald Trump, Gillo Pontecorvo, John Kennedy, Kabul, Mao, Mike Mansfield, New York Times, Patrick Chabal, pieds noirs, Taliban
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Re Afghanistan, last night I had a wave of guilt
…about what I’d written yesterday. When my fury overcame my keen awareness of my own Mid-East history ignorance. Guilt, because without any real knowledge of Afghanistan’s history, I trashed the country. Called it primitive, regressing to a state of misogynistic … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan withdrawal, Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
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