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Sorry but something is either unique or not unique. There's no scale of uniqueness.

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Great video!

We need to ban All foreign vessels from the Far Western American Sea unless we've given them a permit. We don't permit China to put their ships in our ocean and we're going to just have to stop it. And the Philippines is in arrears on their payments so they can't even fish there unless they pay up.

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These people are so stupid. lol "integrity"! only 250!

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Yes what we need to fight the real antifa are the fashion police!

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Here are two more. The Taliban shuffle is insightful story of a young reporter determined to make her mark. They made it into a great movie. Karzai is a good explanation of the power structures in place in the early US occupation. Another great movie was War Machine with Brad Pitt.

Here are some good books about Afghanistan. Ghost wars was how the isi created the taliban. Wrong enemy shows how we fought the war against the wrong people. And 88 days shows how we installed Karsai.

I am angry at the sunglasses. I want to smash them for the good of the people!

Lost at Tora Bora (Published 2005)

Here is a good write up of what actually happened there.

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I've never heard that. No memoir I've read ever said anything like that. Where are you getting that information from? Were you there? We hit the mountain with airstrikes. It was a big mountain. We had nothing that would reach those caves. The MOP was delivered in 2011.

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The war was not over. The new government was a sham. Our efforts there were focused on funneling money to the NGOs and practicing special ops. The Pashtun made up 45% of the Afghanistan population. Their leaders were safe in Pakistan, flown out by the ISI and the CIA.

There were no good decisions.

I usually like your takes.. but when Rumsfeld refused to even talk peace w the Taliban no less allow them to join a reconciliation government, the war would *never be over. After botching Tora Bora, Operation Anaconda set up a pattern of useless operations all over the country. then, off to Iraq!

Yes, and by choosing Karsai, from a family often part of governments, Educated, normal spoke English well and welcomed into the salons in Islamabad... we *ensured that the warlords would be in control.. because he had no independent power base. and we liked that as we could control him.. sortof.

We should have dropped the 82nd in Pakistan and sealed the border and sent in every available man to catch obl. We would have got him. And then we could have left afghans their own reconstruction. Spread some tens of millions around with some sorry I killed your father / brother / uncle notes

The new government was a puppet of the United States and could never have existed without 100% support. We never should have let Osama get away from Tora Bora. Rumsfeld refused to use the 82nd instead we sent Khandahar militia up the mountain to shoot off their ammo and come back to drink tea

Look at all that hair! Holy cow how long did it take to get it to look like that? And she shakes it fiercely in disapproval!

Say what?

"Washington called up the state militias from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey, which ultimately amounted to close to 13,000 troops, to put down the rebellion by force"

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We’ve also got to stop imagining that this will all somehow stop and go back to normal overnight once Trump makes some specific key mistake or, eventually, leaves the stage entirely.

We are a decade into Trumpism. Whatever comes after him for the GOP isn’t going to be a McCain or a Bush.

In the Bob Dylan biopic, part 1, Johnny Cash is totally cool, if somewhat drunk and disorderly.

Republicans: "fuck those ferrets"

What do you think about this New York times article? it claims increased risk of LC after a second infection.
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