The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.

They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.

Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:44:04 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <temp6@tiglath.net>
wrote:

>The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.
>
>They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.
>
>Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.
>
>

There are others willing to take over.....
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cartoons-s3/styles/product_detail_image/s3/raum%20kacheln%20ffeii.jpg?itok=enDB1u_3

On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 5:58:05 PM UTC-4, Peter Jason wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:44:04 -0700 (PDT), Tiglath <te...@tiglath.net>
> wrote:
> >The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.
> >
> >They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.
> >
> >Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.
> >
> >
> There are others willing to take over.....
> https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cartoons-s3/styles/product_detail_image/s3/raum%20kacheln%20ffeii.jpg?itok=enDB1u_3

Yep.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

-- Sun-Tzu

On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:44:05 AM UTC-7, te...@tiglath.net wrote:
> The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.
>
> They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.
>
> Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.

The following recent Youtube upload has already more than 3m views and over 23k comments:

Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer

This poster thinks we can't go to YouTube and get our own links without having to depend on clicking the links of others.
Given the CONSTANT thread of phishing, is almost impolite to ask people to follow links posted by anonymous people so frequently.

I rarely do so, and I am not anonymous around here.

On Friday, August 20, 2021 at 12:01:08 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:44:05 AM UTC-7, te...@tiglath.net wrote:
> > The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.
> >
> > They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.
> >
> > Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.
> The following recent Youtube upload has already more than 3m views and over 23k comments:
>
> Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer

> gggg gggg
>
> The following recent Youtube upload has already more than 3m views and over 23k comments:
> doesn't post the link...

https://ibb.co/RGnqnCP

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:01:07 -0700 (PDT), gggg gggg wrote:

> On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:44:05 AM UTC-7, te...@tiglath.net wrote:
>> The first time I heard of Afghanistan outside school is when the hippies went around smoking hashish from that country, Black Afghan, if I remember correctly was a reference to the dark balls of hashish collected by women in Afghanistan by brushing their hands against the cannabis indica buds and rolling the sticky resin into a ball as it accumulates.
>>
>> They are even doing better with drugs now, there are a narco state par excellence. The fact that we've frozen the Taliban's money assets, will compel them to expand opium cultivation even more.
>>
>> Biden screwed the pooch so royally at the level of... "How can you spoil a hard boiled egg." The perfectly good idea of leaving that god forsaken country, executed so sloppily, without notion of what the operation entailed and what could go wrong. To the point that Biden has now the equivalent of a Berlin Wall for quite a few news cycled around Kabul's airport. This is Biden's responsibility, but it's the Pentagon's fault. General Milley should have spent more time on contingency plans and the withdrawal operation, and scale it appropriately instead of spending so much time writing a book. Bad general.

Yep for what he has done, Biden shows that he is an idiot

>
> The following recent Youtube upload has already more than 3m views and over 23k comments:
>
> Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer

A better discussion on the subject is here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgPPZ39ITE

I think he makes some very good points.

The incompetence of the U.S military top brass is staggering. Absolutely Trumpian.

It's Biden's responsibility, but it's the general's fault.

Less time writing profitable books, General Milley, and more time developing contingency plans.

Explain to me how this is not incompetence if when there is a CREDIBLE threat from ISIS, they continue to use cordons of soldiers for crowd control and processing.

The measures in place AFTER the bombing should have been in place BEFORE the bombing.

They have the money and resources to build rapidly concrete walls and other anti-blast measures, and use cameras to effect the searching of people and document inspection REMOTELY, without risking going near the crowd. They couldn't think of or manage such low-tech precautions.

And the young men and women in uniform pay the price.

It takes two to tango. There can be Afghan corrupt officials only if there are American corrupt officials. The fraud the military engage in it's the Greatest Robbery of American Taxpayers, in our history. It's trillions.

The Pentagon doesn't get audited. It's a racket.

On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 12:26:40 PM UTC-4, te...@tiglath.net wrote:

> The Pentagon doesn't get audited. It's a racket.

The last time that the Pentagon was going to get audited was in 2001 and "somebody" dropped an airplane on the office where the files were stored. Dear me....

Score: Graveyard of Empires 3, Empires 1.