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Afghanistan
What I saw in an Afghanistan abandoned pool changed my life
2022-12-28
[FoxNews] Editor's note: The following is taken from Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban by Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas. Copyright © 2023 by Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas. Used with permission from Nelson Books.
A quick read, but worth the time.
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  I worked for a company in the pool industry. The pool angle is not making sense to me with regard to the executions described. If seems unlikely that the pool would exist with all that physical evidence and no one bothered to snap a cell phone picture of any of it. They shoot video of gays being pitched off of buildings and beheadings and upload them to Twitter, but nothing on this. I am no fan of the Taliban. There is plenty of evidence against them. This does not strike me as legit.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-28 23:50  

#6  Oh, geeze, they're back.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-28 23:35  

#5  And speaking of (purported) propaganda, how about some corny old propaganda... for Propaganda?
Posted by: Slim Gaillard   2022-12-28 22:56  

#4  Gawd, I hate agreeing with Herb. So I won't... though I might've, if he weren't always doing the same thing he's ripping this Marine for... not that he does it anywhere near as poignantly and convincingly.
Posted by: Slim Gaillard   2022-12-28 22:42  

#3  "The pool wall was riddled with thousands of bullet holes head-high of a person on their knees. In the shallow end, the same pattern of bullet holes were the height of the head of a kneeling child."

What the...huh? What kind of idiocy is this? This is where my propaganda detector kicked off.

"Aziz knew this place would show me why his family was so caught up in our presidential election. My home country was the land of the free. Theirs was now becoming one. They needed us to help bring that freedom to completion for them and for future generations of Afghans."

Aziz said all this? He's remarkably eloquent and supports the writer's point excellently. A good writer could not have come up with a better fictional companion to riff off of.

"There, I discovered that America does make a difference in the world, that what we do outside our borders matters because other countries look to us for leadership."

There it is: 100% pure globalism. We can't stop starting wars because it's profitable and this immense profit enables the publishing of propaganda, like the above.

Learn how to detect it, folks. Don't get fooled.

And what happens at the end of the piece?

"If I could prevent one teenage girl from choosing to jump from a rooftop rather than suffer rape and abuse at the hands of the Taliban, my time in Afghanistan, however long that might be, would be worthwhile. If I could prevent one family from being forced to watch their father shoved off the highest platform to his death in the empty swimming pool below, I would fight for every member of that family. If I could prevent one child from dropping to their knees inside that pool to be murdered by a monstrous coward, I would give my life for that child.

Before, retaliation had consumed me. Now, my heart broke with compassion for the Afghan people. I had to help. I had to fight for them."

Mentally re-read this saying "you" instead of "I" and you'll understand the point. He's giving instructions about how to behave. You would fight, you would give your life for the ambitions of the deep state, because of this pool metaphor the writer came up with. They want war, no end to it, and you're supposed to get really emotionally upset if anyone suggests otherwise. If you don't support globalism, then you support pools of dead children.

This stuff is so easy to spot when you know the buttons being pressed. This is a skill which may be learned by anyone.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-12-28 15:46  

#2  Should be mandatory reading for the crowd that always cries, "Islamophobia" when criticized.
Posted by: Tom   2022-12-28 14:45  

#1  Wow. The face of evil.
Posted by: Bobby   2022-12-28 09:45  

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