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I knew only Lysenkoism and it's war against genetics, but naturally the "political correctness" went on to every field of science there is. Well, like...

Yes. Just like they did in Hungary 1956 or in Czechoslovakia 1968. It's interesting to note that to crush the "Prague Spring" the Soviet Union along w...

Are there things we can’t describe with the English language? Some philosophers think this way. Or that basically some things ought to be uttered in t...

Actually not. Start with finding people who have absolutely no connection and focusing on totally different aspects noting the conspiracy. Learn the h...

A good response , just some observations about it: Right. By first killing the Afghan president. I wouldn't use the term "protect" there. I think it's...

Yes. If it is so. But notice the other options: a) For Media programs it's great for ratings to get the most extreme views to be declared on the progr...

Likely as just like with communism, it's the means how this "well-being of everyone" is achieved I guess. I think the basic uneasiness with the Muslim...

Sorry baker, but I'll have to ask this. Were they really "covid deniers"? To myself a "covid denier" would be someone who denies that millions of peop...

There you have it. It's not all about the existing laws, but how they are implemented. And how the society works. Besides, one should note that both i...

Uh, no. I'll refer to my original post on another thread (one year ago):

Still, generally the Muslim Brotherhood is viewed to be founded in Egypt by Hassan Al-Banna. There you said it yourself.

(I first thought you were responding to my next response about the Nordic countries... :joke: ) Yes, this is true. Povetry means lack of funding for e...

This thread reminds me of it again. The fact that my country, and Sweden and Norway and Iceland and Denmark are in fact are legally tougher at women g...

And if Afghanistan has the highest child mortality rate (exceeding countries in the Sahel region), then things have gotten better: https://www.indexmu...

One Trump would have been passed as a peculiarity. But the unilateralism that Biden made it two in row and really put it out there. I think Europe is ...

No, yet Afghanistan is different from Pakistan. And wasn't part of British India. The influence that the British had until 1919 was limited. This is i...

India? I think you are confusing the topic that we were discussing.

I'm not an expert, but I would agree. During those time when nationalism (& socialism) were the new in the Middle East, Islamism likely was seen as ne...

Yes. I'm not so good in languages. :yikes:

Couldn't one reason from the above that anybody saying anything else than that will be instantly banned from the site? Just that "a strong wind" would...

Who reads history in other language than English? I read naturally Finnish, but even Finnish or German would be difficult to follow. Actually, the rea...

? I was referring to the Egyptian revolution of 1952. the military coup that topple king Farouk. Egypt had already been a kingdom during the era of th...

People look to find from history things that suite them for the present.

The fall of Constantinople was what I referred to being "the last bastion of the Roman empire" to be conquered. And Turks then were muslims. Why Pan-A...

And were brought down by Muslims, who's state actually still exists even today. :wink: I agree with this. I think the obsession on things "Arab" is a ...

Many of those that have an agenda have the best intentions. They are there just to change your mind. :wink: And naturally we take things personally. S...

Well, during the Spanish-American war the Spanish didn't actually attack you (likely the explosion on the Maine was an accident). Or what about the Me...

Hello wanderoff, wellcome to the Forum. Outright censorship as a government action is quite rare especially in democracies. Hence as a tool of power i...

I'd disagree. Don't think that these countries are so obsessed with Afghanistan as the US is. Both have already dealt with their own internal "muslim ...

Perhaps one simple (if not already mentioned) issue is what is the agenda, the motivation of someone to engage in a discourse. This can vary a lot. Ma...

Yes they are. They ought to be. But fun fact: The American voter isn't. The ordinary US soldier isn't either. Hence policy is made by what the voter w...

If we forget Afghanistan, just like we forgot Vietnam, that would be success. No news is good news. Because that "no news" means that the US won't do ...

That is true, but by "the West" people typically forget (or ignore) East Rome. My point is that the populations that the Muslims conquered likely knew...

Or too dismissive of the prevailing culture in what just earlier had been part of the Roman Empire or the Sassanid Empire. Besides, this was many cent...

China can use their proxy Pakistan to try to calm things down in Afghanistan. Then if there is peace or let's say enough stability, then the Chinese c...

Of course. From the US embassy in Pakistan internet page: Yep! I'm not making up that above. Constructive role. See https://pk.usembassy.gov/our-relat...

:up: Glad that we can have lived for so long in peace with other cultures, I guess.

I'm not sure just what year was it, but for a long time the Taliban was winning this war, not losing. If I remember correctly, someone put it to 2014....

:snicker: Good question, glad you asked it. Ummm...how about like, uh Iraq? You left, but didn't. Is it catastrophic that you have 2500 US troops, sim...

This is so true. I think the former Afghan vice-President is back at his comfort zone when fighting now the Taliban as an insurgent in Panshjir Valley...

The actual date was September 11th. But the Taliban conquered the country far more rapidly. So actually the US had to change it's timetable. Which I g...

Yes, this is so true, James. :up: Only a Houdini-level mastermind of a politician would have pulled it off in some other fashion. Falling Afghans that...

:roll: Yeah, unlike with the case of South Vietnam, you still had US ground troops in Afghanistan. Not so when in the pictures of the Saigon embassy. ...

This actually is a primary reason why the house of cards fell down. All the money poured into Afghanistan made it simply totally impossible for the Af...

Joe Biden was pretty sure that the Afghan government would not collapse. Events like in Saigon wouldn't happen. They happened. For starters. I assume ...

So officially saying one thing and anticipating another. But that anticipation didn't go deep enough and hence the withdrawal was chaotic. It's tellin...

Here is good discussion about Afghanistan. Rory Stewart, Former Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, is one of the ...

Now it seems you are separating the state department and the Biden administration. And one could argue similarly that it was a success that only 13 US...

I think Afghanistan has been on the official "do-not-go, try-to-avoid"-list for years now.

Unfortunately a kidnapped US citizen is a "threat to US interests". That's why the question as obviously guys like ISIS-K are looking for them. Well, ...