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President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw a residual U.S. force could look like an amateurish, unforced error if an expected Taliban resurgence materializes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/07/opinion-biden-afghan-withdrawal-498702
"If", "Unexpected"
Does anyone believe the Taliban are not going to take over Afghanistan when we're gone?
Wonder what the over and under is for executed interpreters and family members?
We need to get as many out as possible. We evacuated many Vietnamese who fought with us.
It will be inexcusible, a tragedy, and a travesty of justice in terms of what is fair and right to those who have risked their lives relying on U.S. assurances and ability to bring change to Afghanistan. They most cerainly have been given a death sentence by the Biden administration.
This is a Trump policy, too.
It will be inexcusible, a tragedy, and a travesty of justice in terms of what is fair and right to those who have risked their lives relying on U.S. assurances and ability to bring change to Afghanistan.
That is where the USA is right now. It's what nation in decline looks like
It would take at least three generations of educating children about sciences, mathmatics, world history, democracy and captialism in an effort to break or moderate their fanatical religious views.
The reason we're in decline is because of the efforts to diminish religious values
Back when "religious values" were promoted as a basis for American culture (one nation, under God), we had Jim Crow laws and then strict segregation in the South, women didn't have equal opportunities for education or employment, contraception was outlawed in some states, rape was generally viewed as the fault of the woman, drunk driving was a misdeanor and considered an "accident," state colleges supported with taxpayer dollars could reject black applicants, and belting kids with a leather strap was an accepted form of punishment.
You need to change churches.
Religious people led the civil rights movement. Get a copy of Eyes on the Prize by Williams
Black churches led the Civil Rights movement.
Most white churches wouldn't allow Black families to worship there. I was a kid in the 1950s and a teenager in the 1960s and my church refused to allow Black people in. So much for "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight."
You're deflecting.
My point is that we have never been one nation under God. Like all nations, we have an ugly history of abusing immigrants and minorities and people we've conquered (native Americans) both thorugh the law and despite the law.
The idea that the past was some kind of Christian-values utopia that we've now moved away from is bunk.
What has changed significantly is that a lot more people went to church in the past. That change, where churches are losing members, is not due to a decline in values. Policy-wise, we're trying to treat all people, including women and minorities, better than we did in the past. It's due to the politicization of churches and the rank hypocrisy of religious leaders who lie about, ignore or cover up child abuse by pedophile priests / pastors, commit financial fraud and cheer false prophets like Trump on for waving a Bible upside down from the steps of a church he didn't belong to.