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Home Front: WoT
Assabiya Wins Every Time
2021-08-20
IMO the key paragraph:
[AmericanConservative] The reality is that America lost its war in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, roughly around the time when CIA officers began bribing aging warlords with Viagra. The Americans knew all about the young boys the tribal leaders kept in their camps; because the sex drug helped Afghan elders rape more boys more often, they were beholden to America’s clandestine service. Losing Afghanistan then is the least of it. When you choose to adopt a foreign cohort’s cultural habits, customs for which the elders of your own tribe would ostracize and perhaps kill you, you have lost your civilization.
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#3  This is but one example of Western political consensus legitimizing and internalizing vile alien tyranny.

Tolerance for child sexual abuse was the official policy of NATO military forces in Afghanistan.

Intolerance was punished.

I could go on about the Bush administration's lukewarm non-criticism of liberated Afghanistan's murderous intolerance in the Rahman case, Western governments & miltary siding with Afghan and OIC demands for an end to free speech civil rights in the West, while humiliating themselves before the murderous tantrum throwing 'Noble People of Afghanistan', etc.

The point is that the West of the 21st Century has ZERO civilizational confidence.

This is why, since 2001 our NATO governments have hallucinated the presence of Afghan 'allies' even though liberated Afghanistan's political posture (no peaceful coexistence but submission to Rushdie rules) was officially more hostile than the post Stalin Soviet Union's.

This is why we are failing, miserably and dangerously.

Scrapping "Infinite Justice" and pursuing "Enduring Freedom" made sure that freedom was doomed.

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Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2021-08-20 11:31  

#2  That's nothing compared to the war it's losing to Wakanda.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-20 11:06  

#1  I take his point but inasmuch as this was done by a handful of individuals without civilization's consent with only after the fact discovery I think I'll hold on a little longer.

I think it was far worse in terms of informing the enemy a weakness unnecessarily. Much in the way of killing thousands hard and fast then sending civil engagement as if to apologize. In this case, ' We want to be friends so badly we champion and salute your repulsive lifestyle.'

Most of our global tribal adversaries aren't all that bright. But they are uniformly cunning and know how to observe and take the simplest route to a conclusion, as they remain unburdened with Hamlet-esque psycho drama.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-08-20 10:59  

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