shakahislop
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runs deep doesn't it
Rolling Afghanistan Thread
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- #squadgoals allahu ackbarz barry chateau battle rhymes bit of a pickle come mr taliban tally me banana designer fundamentalism do not face allah alone when astral projecting every possible contingency is biden's fault follow the white high-tops islamic magic jihaute just do it lord miles moon demon popping down to afghanistan roadman mask servis cheetahs that spring we lived on bowls of risotto the hexing of an oppressive regime the taliban's secretive one-eyed spiritual leader the whitest most out of touch witchcraft tl;dr
Leo
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"Please hold that pose, Mr. Skeleton Heroin Addict, I need to adjust the lights to more convincingly portray the despair of your situation to my publication's upper middle class readers, who will appreciate the emotional and artistic value of the image while viewing it on their new MacBook Air with enhanced pixel density."
WashYourHands
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Monstrous detox program profiled to say the least, funnel the addict into prayer. Reintegration masking recidivism
Tehran and Iran as a whole has an opiate problem that‘s well hidden. Ever passed through @shakahislop ? Hefty purity, punctuates classes
If any org deserves a spare tenner anyone has kicking round this crew are worthy of it, more Afghans than ever hitting migration bottle-necks and none of it goes towards blister-packed pharmacology (masked as treatment) either
Tehran and Iran as a whole has an opiate problem that‘s well hidden. Ever passed through @shakahislop ? Hefty purity, punctuates classes
If any org deserves a spare tenner anyone has kicking round this crew are worthy of it, more Afghans than ever hitting migration bottle-necks and none of it goes towards blister-packed pharmacology (masked as treatment) either
shakahislop
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never been able to go there - hard to get a visa on a UK passport. a long-term frustration.
version
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What do you think of this, @shakahislop ?
It's a bit of an intelligence services puff piece with that title and lines like this . . .
"Why did America's policymakers dismiss the astute counsel of the CIA’s wise men?"
. . . but it's reasonably convincing.
The U.S. Keeps Losing Wars Because Nobody Listens to the Spooks
The intel failures behind conflicts from Vietnam to Afghanistan are not identical, but most of them come down to the people in power not listening to the spies on the ground.
www.thedailybeast.com
It's a bit of an intelligence services puff piece with that title and lines like this . . .
"Why did America's policymakers dismiss the astute counsel of the CIA’s wise men?"
. . . but it's reasonably convincing.
shakahislop
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hi from kabul, appropriately. it's absolutely clear that starting a war anywhere puts you in a situation where it's pretty much impossible to predict accurately what the consequences will be. the guys who are in a position to make that decision (Bush, Blair, Putin, whoever) have access to what I'd imagine is very good analysis of the situation, including from intelligence but also from the Foreign Office and so on. but that kind of analysis can only go so far because the consequences of any invasion or foreign intervention are unpredictable. Russia in Ukraine is the obvious example at the moment of a situation which has gone totally contrary to how anyone seemed to expect.What do you think of this, @shakahislop ?
The U.S. Keeps Losing Wars Because Nobody Listens to the Spooks
The intel failures behind conflicts from Vietnam to Afghanistan are not identical, but most of them come down to the people in power not listening to the spies on the ground.www.thedailybeast.com
It's a bit of an intelligence services puff piece with that title and lines like this . . .
"Why did America's policymakers dismiss the astute counsel of the CIA’s wise men?"
. . . but it's reasonably convincing.
for Afghanistan I don't think it really mattered what the intelligence guys were saying. America wanted revenge and they made it happen quickly with very little resistance from the intelligence world (who were profoundly ashamed and cowed from their failure on 9/11), the US public, or other countries. Once the revenge was done and the collective bloodlust sated the rest of the war was about trying to figure out what to do in the aftermath. I'm pretty confident about that analysis. for Iraq i know a lot less.
Leo
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Hey @shakahislop, slick work in taking out al-Zawahiri. In downtown Kabul, no less.
shakahislop
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i drove through there the other day.
as usual in afghanistan, another development in the story that comes out of the blue. there was a report on afghan news at the weekend about a drone strike in kabul but the facts were very vague. that area sherpoor where it was is very dense, they've done well to manage to do it without killing a load of other people, if that is indeed the case, its a part of town that was essentially land-grabbed by the northerers when they came into kabul with the americans in 2001. dostum's house is/was there.
version
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Reconnaissance.