Category: geopolitics, Page 35
Kevin McCarthy: Joe Biden Chose The Taliban Over Americans
Occidental Dissent - Aug 27th 2021 11:41am EDTThe 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 EDTWho is ISIS-K?
Secular Talk: $2.02 Trillion Went To Top 5 Defense Contractors In Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 26th 2021 3:31pm EDTThis 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
The Grayzone: Afghanistan War Profiteering: 90% of U.S. Spending Went To Military-Industrial Complex Contractors
Occidental Dissent - Aug 26th 2021 9:38am EDTThe 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 EDTI 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 EDTVery 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 EDTThe 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 EDTThe “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 EDTWhat 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 EDTIt 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 […]
Breaking Points: How The Hell Did Joe Biden Actually Do Something Right?
Occidental Dissent - Aug 23rd 2021 8:59pm EDTJoe’s long experience in the Swamp came in handy for once.
China Mocks America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 23rd 2021 9:09am EDTWhere’s the lie? The GOP is incapable of conceiving of a future which doesn’t involve squandering an endless stream of money and lives on that rathole.
Tom Cotton: Repercussions From Afghanistan Withdrawal Will Reverberate For Many Years
Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 4:11pm EDTLets hope that Afghanistan proves to be the “graveyard of empires.” There are plenty of other countries around the world that we need to get out of as well before it is too late. There are plenty of other potential wars which ought to be avoided because the lesson of this one is also nothing […]
Ben Sasse Slams Afghanistan Withdrawal
Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 3:16pm EDTI’ve spent the last eight months criticizing Joe Biden. What’s the alternative though? Do we want to engage in another round of pointless backlash politics and bring the GOP back to power? Would we be better off with Ben Sasse and the True Cons and MIGA running our foreign policy? Did Trump ever really intend […]
Poll: Americans Still Support Afghanistan Withdrawal
Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 1:53pm EDTNew this AM: Americans react negatively to events in Afghanistan, more concerned about terrorism Biden ratings down — both overall and handling troop removal, plus qualities like competence/effectiveness But public distinguishing between idea of withdrawal and its handling 1/6 pic.twitter.com/kDwtwVjVt4 — Kabir Khanna (@kabir_here) August 22, 2021 Support for withdrawal itself down 14 pts since […]
Brian Stelter: The Fall of Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 1:37pm EDTHere’s the first half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – about what it was like to leave Afghanistan and get home to her family pic.twitter.com/p7GdlcJC3M — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 22, 2021 Here’s the second half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – talking about what her week in Kabul was like, why she decided to […]
Joe Biden Dives In Polls
Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 11:25am EDTThis was going to happen anyway. We’ve been saying it for months. It was happening before the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It also happened to Obama and Trump at this point in their presidencies. There are lots of issues that are dragging down Joe Biden – crime, inflation, illegal immigration, gas prices, censorship and especially COVID […]
The Atlantic: Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight
Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 5:08pm EDTKids, this is what it was like. pic.twitter.com/BlWrjCe8LL — mattgallagher0 (@MattGallagher0) August 20, 2021 I am really struggling to think of a time when I despaired more for the country and had so much contempt not just for both parties, but the bases of both parties. — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 19, 2021 Yes. The […]
Joe Biden: America Has No National Interest In Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 4:40pm EDTYES. Exactly. It is their country, not our country. Who cares if the Afghans want sharia law instead of liberal democracy? Who cares if Afghanistan becomes an Islamic emirate? Who cares about women’s rights in Afghanistan?
National Review: Yes, Bring the Afghans Who Helped Us
Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 12:43pm EDTSome things never change: We are burdened by a class of pudgy, sheltered, bespectacled, bow-tied fools who start wars in distant countries based on foolish expectations. The war plays out like anyone with a sense of the history and culture and Afghanistan could have predicted and who were shouted down when we plunged in during […]
Poll: Republicans Now Oppose Withdrawing From Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 12:18pm EDT49% of voters back the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, down 20 points since April. https://t.co/YwZFA493k3 *Poll conducted Aug 13-16, 2021 pic.twitter.com/9nDoRKGm16 — Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) August 17, 2021 I’m ridin’ with Biden pic.twitter.com/pwfUo1HMPV — Raiden (@SeekerRaiden) August 18, 2021 lmfao! pic.twitter.com/pDfDRGo7Xk — VGrillerManV (@V_GrillerMan_V) August 19, 2021 I can’t stop watching this. pic.twitter.com/o3tbjJqo25 […]
Breaking Points: The Real Tragedy Was The Corrupt Afghanistan War Itself
Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 11:54am EDTThe War on Terror did not build lasting peaceful nations in the Middle East. It built Northern Virginia. Effectively, Afghanistan cost the GOP any chance of ever winning Virginia ever again. How’s that feel, neocons? pic.twitter.com/SSkTmakESu — Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) August 19, 2021 The only time I’ve seen the media try and portray Biden in […]
The Federalist: After Afghanistan, No More Moral Blackmail From Failed Global Interventionists
Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 10:34am EDTI don’t blame Joe Biden for the Afghanistan withdrawal. Donald Trump negotiated the peace deal with the Taliban. The Taliban upheld their end of the agreement and refused to fire on American forces in Afghanistan. The Afghan puppet government and its fake army ultimately refused to fight to preserve its own existence without American support. […]
Capitol Bomber Surrenders Without Blowing Himself Up
Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 9:32am EDTpic.twitter.com/y3Hzhl4xjt — Escalated Entropy ? (@EscalatedEntro1) August 20, 2021 Breaking: VIDEO The suspect, Ray Roseberry, has been live streaming the bomb threat at the Library of Congress on Facebook. He is demanding to talk to Joe Biden on the phone. pic.twitter.com/A0iZ4XDZjM — Chris Weidner ???? (@CWNewser) August 19, 2021 Library of Congress bomb suspect says […]
