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To: stsimon who wrote (486697)	2/21/2022 2:31:39 PM
From: TigerPaw	2 Recommendations Recommended By koan Terry Maloney Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

The fundamental flaw in Afghanistan policy for the last 20 years has been to blame the Taliban for 9-11. That wasn't the Taliban on the planes and it wasn't them in the planning room. At best they were some kind of accessory to the action, they rented out the safe house.. 9-11 was developed and executed by citizens of Saudi Arabia. This mistake of perception has kept the US on a war footing against the wrong enemy, when it should have been on a criminal offense against Bin Laden and his organization. Cheney didn't want to make arrests, he wanted to get on to the oil fields of Middle East. The mistake of Obama and Biden is to continue to think that 9-11 was a cause for war against a country when that country hasn't been fighting the US.

To: stsimon who wrote (486697)	2/21/2022 3:28:34 PM
From: Sam	3 Recommendations Recommended By Elroy Jetson koan Tom Daly Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

Why don't they say that the Taliban has to change course? That they must agree to govern in the 21st century? Or stick to their mosques and stop pretending to be a government?

To: stsimon who wrote (486697)	2/22/2022 10:54:03 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540724

I still don't understand why the Afghan army virtually surrendered to the Taliban. And how quickly. They wanted US troops to die for their country, or they were going home. It caught the US intelligence by surprise, and I believe that began the chain of disasters. Biden had to rely on bad intel to make his decisions. How much in that chain is due to corruption or biased thinking in the system? How do we fix this? Vice News has covered this still devolving Taliban story deeper than anyone. If you don't record and/or watch Vice Nightly News you are missing a lot. JMHO. Isobel Yeung has interviewed Taliban and brave critics recently there. She is the most courageous reporter ANYWHERE today IMO. Her dramatic reporting on Yemen and China also: From her short wikipedia: Yeung traveled to to report on women in Yemen during the Yemeni Civil War. In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", Yeung interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict, female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemini Ministry of the Interior who downplayed gender discrimination, gender violence, and the financial displacement of Yemini women. [9] Yeung also interviewed former Houthi child soldiers while in Yemen where adolescent boys describe the difficulties "us[ing] different types of rifles and machine guns" and "seeing all the dead bodies". [10] In 2019, Yeung went undercover to cover the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, reporting on their mass detention, familial separation and surveillance at the hands of Chinese authorities. Numerous times during her reporting, Yeung was followed, accosted, and had camera footage deleted by Chinese police and security services. [11]