And I'm supposed to give a rat's az what this creepy (broad?) thinks why?
Posted on 08/28/2021 5:37:25 PM PDT by Twotone
I’ve been silent for a while. I’ve been silent about Afghanistan for longer. But too many things are going unsaid.
I won’t try to evoke the emotions, somehow both swirling and yet leaden: the grief, the anger, the sense of futility. Instead, as so often before, I will use my mind to shield my heart. And in the process, perhaps help you make some sense of what has happened.
For those of you who don’t know me, here is my background — the perspective from which I write tonight.
I covered the fall of the Taliban for NPR, making my way into their former capital, Kandahar, in December 2001, a few days after the collapse of their regime. Descending the last great hill into the desert city, I saw a dusty ghost town. Pickup trucks with rocket-launchers strapped to the struts patrolled the streets. People pulled on my militia friends' sleeves, telling them where to find a Taliban weapons cache, or a last hold-out. But most remained indoors.
It was Ramadan. A few days later, at the holiday ending the month-long fast, the pent-up joy erupted. Kites took to the air. Horsemen on gorgeous, caparisoned chargers tore across a dusty common in sprint after sprint, with a festive audience cheering them on. This was Kandahar, the Taliban heartland. There was no panicked rush for the airport.
I reported for a month or so, then passed off to Steve Inskeep, now Morning Edition host. Within another couple of months, I was back, not as a reporter this time, but to try actually to do something. I stayed for a decade. I ran two non-profits in Kandahar, living in an ordinary house and speaking Pashtu, and eventually went to work for two commanders of the international troops...
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“for NPR”
You own this b*tch.
She tried to change Afghanistan.
To no avail, they are 7th century muslims and that’s all they will ever be.
And I'm supposed to give a rat's az what this creepy (broad?) thinks why?
But the gist of her article is the fact that Pakistan has been funding the Taliban & is in the middle of all the awful things going on. Why are we still giving that country billions of dollars? How stupid can this country be...administration after administration after administration?
Geez, I wonder what it’s pronouns are?
Yes, you would do well to read the article.
“Yes, you would do well to read the article.”
Sorry, but I did not ask a yes/no question
We should not be, they invented the Taliban and hid Osama bin Laden for years.
Because our government is just as corrupt. She misses that part.
What she didn’t say was that this was Viet Nam all over again. US creating and maintaining a corrupt government. We chose to not demand a democracy. We chose to deal with corruption. That was a conscious decision made by Zerohissef, Crustiness Hitlery and Jao Bai Den.
DJT at least tried to get us out.
I dovfeel for the folks who just want to milk goats.
Given her history, I kept waiting for her to go full TDS.
Never happened. She mentioned "the Trump administration" once, in passing.
Twotone wrote: "But the gist of her article is the fact that Pakistan has been funding the Taliban & is in the middle of all the awful things going on."
Some very interesting factoids about the Pakistani connection. She fingers them as the guilty parties in this - even accusing them of creating "the Taliban" in the first place.
That was Lara Logan's point on Tucker last Wed.
Two women who could not be less alike in many respects, drawing on different information sources . . . It's obviously true.
“But the gist of her article is the fact that Pakistan has been funding the Taliban & is in the middle of all the awful things going on.”
That of course is profoundly obvious to anyone who has anything more than a passing knowledge of the Taliban.
There was some cognitive dissonance that she admitted waking up from.
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