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  • Joe Biden Defends Afghanistan Exit

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2021 5:08pm EDT

    This was a bold and smart move. Donald Trump was incapable of standing up to the generals, the “journalists” and the Republican Senate with impeachment hanging over his head. Now the GOP owns staying in Afghanistan forever.

  • Poll: Most Americans Support Afghanistan Withdrawal

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2021 4:57pm EDT

    I would like to see these numbers a year from now. Staying in Afghanistan is a losing argument now at the height on the media onslaught and in the wake of the worst optics of the withdrawal. Pew Research Center: Note: MAGA now supports occupying Afghanistan forever to own the libs.

  • Breaking Points: Matt Taibbi Calls For Third Party To End Forever Wars

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2021 2:07pm EDT

    Now that the war in Afghanistan is over, there will be an insatiable push to start a new war somewhere else to keep the grift going. The American Empire will need to demonstrate its “credibility.”

  • Rachel Maddow: With Final Exit, U.S. Joins List Of Countries Unable To Break Afghanistan’s Will

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2021 10:30am EDT

    I had a good laugh watching this segment. Aren’t conservatives supposed to study history? Aren’t conservatives supposed to be wise? Aren’t conservatives supposed to be skeptical of utopian social engineering projects? Isn’t conservatism supposed to be based on experience?

  • Ross Douthat: Joe Biden’s Critics Lost Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2021 10:12am EDT

    When I was 13 we invaded Afghanistan. I’m 33 now. We were told we have to get Bin Laden then that we had to destroy al-qaeda’s safe haven. Both of those were accomplished by *2011*. I don’t care how loud & long the pro-war media ghouls shriek. Today is a good day. We’re fully out […]

  • Taliban Gives Free Helicopter Rides To Traitors

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 30th 2021 5:35pm EDT

    WATCH: Taliban reportedly flying American-made Black Hawk helicopter over Kandahar, Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/yNZPknlrZY — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 30, 2021 Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter in Kandahar pic.twitter.com/TwCkVzUrnL — Old Holborn® (@Holbornlolz) August 30, 2021 ZOG has been humiliated. This is so terrible. We have to go back now and fight to defend its honor. […]

  • Brian Stelter: “Journalism” Could Become a Black Hole In Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 29th 2021 4:18pm EDT

    the media’s biggest Afghanistan sin? it got married to a narrative; @ReliableSources pic.twitter.com/SIZWvnnQcd — Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 29, 2021 Earlier this month Beheshta Arghand made Afghan history by interviewing a Taliban official on TV. But now the 24-year-old Afghan journalist has fled the country. Here’s what she told me via WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/RIXdgDA1UM — Brian […]

  • Mitch McConnell: Afghanistan Isn’t An Endless War

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 29th 2021 2:11pm EDT

    As we approach the 2022 midterms, Mitch McConnell was on FOX News Sunday this morning to discuss the GOP policy on Afghanistan which is supporting imperialism and endless war. George W. Bush’s policy was working in Afghanistan. It wasn’t an endless war. Everything was under control. Terrorism was under control in Afghanistan in spite of […]

  • CNN: Mitt Romney Pushes Back On Endless War Debate

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 29th 2021 1:26pm EDT

    It takes “two sides to end a war,” Jake. As we approach the 2022 midterms, the GOP is making it clear that their side wants to resume the war with the Taliban, reinvade Afghanistan, retake Bagram Air Force Base and resettle hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in the United States. Presumably, the GOP wants […]

  • National Review: The Forever War Fallacy

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 29th 2021 11:44am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Noah Rothman, one of the loudest unreconstructed Jewish neocons from Commentary Magazine who opposed Donald Trump in the 2016 election, has a front page article in the latest edition of National Review called “The Forever War Fallacy.” In spite of the puppet government in Afghanistan collapsing in […]

  • Chris Hedges: “Suddenly, The Media Cares About Afghanistan”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2021 3:06pm EDT

    Chris Hedges makes an excellent point. If you look at the big picture, every country in the region is the way it is today because of decades of American imperialism and meddling. This is particularly true of Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Syria and Libya. It is also our so-called allies in the region – […]

  • FLASHBACK: U.S. Leaves Bagram Air Force Base

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2021 2:30pm EDT

    I didn’t write about this when it happened at the time. The GOP wasn’t screaming about how pulling out of Bagram Air Force Base was the worst catastrophe in history at the time. The “journalists” were still ignoring Afghanistan even though the Taliban was steadily gaining ground. New York Times: “KABUL, Afghanistan—American troops and their […]

  • The Return of the Pro-War Right

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2021 12:21pm EDT

    The anti war movement has finally gotten what it wanted. They ended the forever war in Afghanistan. As a result, women will return to bondage, our allies will be murdered, America has been humiliated and Afghanistan is again a safe haven for terror. — Eli Lake (@EliLake) August 27, 2021 Soviak graduated highschool in 2017. […]

  • President Blumpf: “We Would Have Bombed The Hell Out Of Them”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 27th 2021 1:28pm EDT

    Miss me yet? The Federalist: “While Biden continues to point the finger at Trump for negotiating with the Taliban, the former president said the agreement his administration orchestrated was clear about consequences. “We had a very strong agreement. It was conditions-based. Now there were many other parts of the agreement also. And if they violated […]

  • Kevin McCarthy: Joe Biden Chose The Taliban Over Americans

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 27th 2021 11:41am EDT

    The pro-war and imperialist propaganda coming from the GOP has reached a 2004 pitch. It hasn’t been this bad since the George W. Bush administration. The Atlantic: “When the Taliban sacked Kabul this month, they refrained from immediate reprisals against their enemies, with one exception: “The only known ex­e­cu­tion since the cap­i­tal’s takeover was of […]

  • RT: ISIS-K Claims Responsibility For Kabul Airport Attack

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 27th 2021 10:25am EDT

    Who is ISIS-K?

  • Secular Talk: $2.02 Trillion Went To Top 5 Defense Contractors In Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 26th 2021 3:31pm EDT

    This is why it is so hard to get out. We just need to spend another $2 trillion in Afghanistan, stay there for another 20 years, lose another 2,000 troops in yet another surge and import 200,000 Afghan refugees – bring them here to this country because we meddled in and sowed so much chaos […]

  • Donald Trump Never Intended To Withdraw From Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 26th 2021 2:17pm EDT

    I will send in the TikTok Battalion and SAVE AFGHANISTAN! https://t.co/TyeLXT7b96 pic.twitter.com/uGA0d1Qb1e — Blompf2024 (@Blompf2024) August 26, 2021 President Blompf & the troops victoriously retaking Kabul (2024) https://t.co/zIiXiwxmx5 pic.twitter.com/KEw6HZ6K2F — Blompf2024 (@Blompf2024) August 22, 2021 Donate now and you too can get your complimentary SAVE AMERICA BoosterVax shot on stage with me at the next […]

  • The Grayzone: Afghanistan War Profiteering: 90% of U.S. Spending Went To Military-Industrial Complex Contractors

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 26th 2021 9:38am EDT

    The endless war and occupation of Afghanistan was one of the biggest grifts in American history. Note: It is worth noting that the Taliban got its start among refugees in Pakistan where millions of displaced women and children fled Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention and occupation in the 1980s. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia cultivated the […]

  • Secular Talk: Media Tanks Joe Biden’s Approval Rating

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 25th 2021 4:09pm EDT

    I completely agree. We’re all sitting here watching it. After one day of chaos at the Kabul airport, the withdrawal from Afghanistan is now going smoothly and might even be ahead of schedule. We should be out of Afghanistan by next week. Meanwhile, the corporate media is full of wall to wall coverage of retired […]

  • Joe Biden: U.S. On Pace To Complete Full Withdrawal By Aug. 31

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 6:17pm EDT

    Very depressing email just now from someone who’s been working day and night in the evacuation effort: “It’s over. Retrograde has begun. Only AMCITS and green card holders will make it. I’m calling our contacts and having some very hard conversations.” — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 24, 2021 “With President Joe Biden intending to stick […]

  • Kevin McCarthy: Joe Biden Should Not Allow The Taliban To Dictate To The U.S.

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 1:14pm EDT

    The GOP is currently trying its hardest to keep us in Afghanistan.

  • Rich Lowry: The Media’s Finest Hour

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 1:04pm EDT

    The “journalists” are pro-endless war and pro-imperialism and aligned with the “intelligence community” and military-industrial complex. In fact, they are so aligned with the Deep State and Pentagon and the Blob in Washington that they are willing to trash Joe Biden and push down his poll numbers in order to sustain the occupation of Afghanistan. […]

  • Mitch McConnell: Afghanistan Withdrawal Weakened Our Efforts In “War on Terror”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 12:32pm EDT

    What is the alternative to our devastating withdrawal from Afghanistan? Break the peace deal with the Taliban Go to war with the Taliban Occupy Afghanistan forever against the will of its own people Resettle hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in the West Salute the failed generals and “intelligence community” who assured us for 20 […]

  • Julian Assange: The U.S. Goal Is Endless War, Not a Successful War

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 11:38am EDT

    It was mainly due to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks that we found in the first place how rotten the war in Afghanistan was because the generals had been blowing smoke up the ass of Congress. None of them gave a shit about what was going on in Afghanistan as long as the grift continued. Powered […]