Category: geopolitics, Page 39
Brian Stelter: “Journalism” Could Become a Black Hole In Afghanistan
Occidental Dissent - Aug 29th 2021 4:18pm EDTthe 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 EDTAs 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 EDTIt 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 EDTEditor’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 […]
Daily Mail: Up To 100 Afghan Refugees Are On Intelligence Agency Watch Lists
Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2021 4:25pm EDTWe don’t ever learn anything from experience. ZERO THOUGHT is given to the consequences of resettling refugees from war zones and vastly different cultures in the secular and liberal West. We are ruled by grifters and emoting morons. Daily Mail: “As many as 100 Afghan evacuees flown out of war-torn Kabul are on intelligence agency […]
Chris Hedges: “Suddenly, The Media Cares About Afghanistan”
Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2021 3:06pm EDTChris 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 EDTI 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 EDTThe 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 EDTMiss 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 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 […]
