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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Attacks In Kabul

 Unsurprisingly, if you thought leaving was a bad idea, this proves you right, because apparently we want to be attacked with suicide bombers. There are whispers that sources in the Taliban tipped off American intelligence that ISIS-K would try this. The reality of suicide bombings is that they are undeterrable. If America stays in Afghanistan, there will be more of these attacks. 

I heard some fucking journalist say that this was an embarrassment to the United States. How is someone who is willing to blow themselves up an embarrassment to the United States? Does that make the entire occupation of Iraq an embarrassment to the United States? Does that makes the previous 19 years in Afghanistan an embarrassment to the United States?

The suicide bombing is why we are leaving. I'm very, very sorry for the Afghan people and the shitshow they are going to inherit. But it's their country, and if they don't like it, the Northern Alliance is waiting.

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