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2024-09-08 Afghanistan

Afghanistan and Pakistan resume fighting in the disputed border area

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
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#1 Both sides deserve our help.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-08 01:51|| 2024-09-08 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Another stroke of failed Pommie genius and feckless foreign intervention, circa 1893:

Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-08 05:56|| 2024-09-08 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't we all just get along? (in the meantime, who brought the popcorn).

Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-08 08:54|| 2024-09-08 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 "Let's you and him fight!"

I wonder what Mr. Kipling would make of all this.

Posted by SteveS 2024-09-08 09:51|| 2024-09-08 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ He had quite a bit to say:

Kipling and Afghanistan : a study of the young author as journalist writing on the Afghan Border Crisis of 1884-1885

"White Man's Burden" address of imperialism is equally appropriate here, as it was for Roosevelt regarding the Philippines.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-08 11:23|| 2024-09-08 11:23|| Front Page Top

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