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2021-08-17 Afghanistan
Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?
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Posted by Fred 2021-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
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#1 Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that.... "this is manifestly not Saigon"
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-17 00:53||   2021-08-17 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 They said it would collapse within 90 days... it did.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-17 01:41||   2021-08-17 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 US leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything,

That's probably the wrong thing to say to 'the leaders' after getting them to pump a trillion into your cockamamie strategies for decades.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-17 02:00||   2021-08-17 02:00|| Front Page Top

#4 At least the South Vietnamese turned back the first invasion of the country by the North. Then the Donk Congress cut all aid money making the second one successful.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-17 07:02||   2021-08-17 07:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Afghanistan was a House of Cards


And the Afghanistan House was only made up with the Jokers, and the Paki's Surrogate - The Taliban
Posted by Gretle Anguger1393 2021-08-17 07:51||   2021-08-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe that much of the ABC reporting over the last five days has been a grain of truth covered by bullshit. If the CIA had been so insistent it certainly did not get that point across to the NYTimes, which has been its media handmaiden and whose ability to PYA and CYA is almost as notorious as that practiced by the CIA itself.
Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-17 09:38||   2021-08-17 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 What have our intelligence agencies gotten right in the last 30 years?
Posted by Chris 2021-08-17 10:13||   2021-08-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Amazing that Chinooks are still the go to evacuation copter decades later?
Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-17 12:50||   2021-08-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Profit margins. Well, apparently, not even that.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-17 12:52||   2021-08-17 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Ruprecht, I remember building a Revell model of the Chinoook when I was a kid; I'm well into Medicare now.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-17 14:11||   2021-08-17 14:11|| Front Page Top

#11 What is the CIA assessment on the Taliban’s inclusion, diversity and equity programs?
Posted by Airandee 2021-08-17 17:21||   2021-08-17 17:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Pulled this out of the assessment file, just to answer your question.

Posted by Darkstate Opensource9666 2021-08-17 17:33||   2021-08-17 17:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Finally some good news !

Home COVID test.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-17 17:38||   2021-08-17 17:38|| Front Page Top

#14 ^^^
Damn, that was great, (LMAO)
I wonder if I can replicate her test results ?
I'm going to give it several 'shots' with
the stuff I have on hand...
I'll check back tomorrow with the results...
Posted by Omeaque Sleatch3340 2021-08-17 18:02||   2021-08-17 18:02|| Front Page Top

#15 ^^^
After taking the NMCR750ml version of the Home Covid Test
I'm please to report that I am Covid-19+20+21=60 Free - so all clear - from Alpha to Lambda -
The onlyn side effect eye can deetect is I missed my Della Plane, is it tomorrow yeat ?
Posted by Omeaque Sleatch3340 2021-08-17 18:40||   2021-08-17 18:40|| Front Page Top

#16 ^^^^
Della plane ✈ ticket 🎫 counter
Posted by Omeaque Sleatch3340 2021-08-17 18:54||   2021-08-17 18:54|| Front Page Top

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