It's a difficult point to get across as I ultimately think that @"StreetlightX" is pretty alright enough of a person and am emphatically against exces...
If anyone is curious about the insult that I previously levelled at @"StreetlightX", it plays off of that my choice of examples is redundant to get th...
Where does the world stand on Afghan refugees? Who is Welcoming Afghan Refugees? The coming U.S. political fight over accepting refugees from Afghanis...
Eh, @"StreetlightX" just wants his place in the sun among the left-wing European intelligensia. Without their mythic Goliath in the form of the United...
I don't think that you have aptly considered the expediency or efficacy of our nonviolent gradualist Anarchist deprogramming and educational initiativ...
If anyone wants to discuss Some People Worry About the Weather, they're more than welcome to, but I'll be off for a while, and, so, won't get back to ...
Eh, any time there are any people who can be characterized as "anarchists" rioting anywhere, some commentator or another, as well as some anarchists, ...
Because the character suffers from schizophrenia and psychosis, there are sections of the story that he hallucinates, and, so, it can be a bit difficu...
Having successfully utilized this form to draw attention to the Afghan refugee crisis, I, as I do have other things to do, will, again, be taking off....
That, too, of course. Anyways, I'll be off. It's been fun, in ways. All that we can do now is to hope for the best. I, or one, am somewhat hopeful. So...
Alright, well, if there is no further commentary, I'll be off. Thanks to @"jorndoe" for letting me blow up this thread and @"ssu" for his apparent wil...
I thought that it was an interesting perspective to present and fairly good analysis from the ground of the war. I also liked his concluding remarks. ...
Here is a Crimethinc article written by a war veteran. After a lengthy analysis of the war and American society, he concludes: "Now is the time to lis...
In a less humane appeal, Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, has attacked none other than former Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, for postin...
Spencer Ackerman has written a piece on his blog in favor of "a life they can live, resettling them in the United States if they so choose" and "repar...
Knowing nothing about the circumstances surrounding or motivations for doing so other than that George Orwell once authored a text called Homage to Ca...
Taliban seek no ‘revenge’ and all Afghans will be ‘forgiven’ Also from the Guardian: On women’s rights, Mujahid said the issue was “very important”. H...
There's even more to the paintings than you'd expect. Oh, and that is an image of Joan of Arc on the cover. Originally by Albert Lynch for Figaro Illu...
Fair enough, but that quip is pretty goddamn clever if you ask me. There was no justification for the invasion of Afghanistan in the first place and w...
I suppose that they could be a Green Party or independent candidate. Assuming that they come from one of the two parties, though, there's only one lik...
You just make snide remarks like this so that you can score more acolytes of whatever your particular left-wing cult is. Anyone on the left who is wit...
The point being, here, is that, aside from the very time consuming gradual reform of the Democratic Party, what can, otherwise, be done is to find a s...
Furthermore, as I edited the above post to clarify, staging mass protests just raises awareness and, at least, in these regards, very slowly reforms t...
If you think about the CIA and what can be done about it for long enough, that is the only conclusion to be drawn. Consider the absurdity of a few alt...
I edited that post, as the Church Committee was effectuated under Gerald Ford. Reforming our intelligence community was just a campaign promise of Car...
I guess that Carter did approve Operation Cyclone, and, so, it's wholly incorrect for the above articles to invoke the "Carter administration". He had...
I'm not sure that your above posts are to the point. All of the stuff about the mujahedeen is fine, but the Common Dreams article includes the Afghan ...
I said forty-odd to harken back to the creation of the mujahideen, but, yeah, of course, the Soviet presence also had an extraordinary effect. Why not...
That's a good point, but I'm not entirely sure that you read the latter half of my post. What I'm suggesting is that, were it possible to believe in t...
I'm not quite so sure that I agree. I think that, had we really believed that we were building a liberal democratic Afghanistan so as to offer the peo...
Of, most definitely. I was just suggesting that the current airport situation doesn't have to be looked at as something that we will ultimately abando...
The Taliban involvement in the meth trade, though I am sure that it will some rather drastic socio-political consequences, may not turn out as poorly ...
Reports suggest that the airport has now reopened and that the West has two weeks to fully withdraw, and, so, the lucky few who make it on the planes ...
Apparently, we are negotiating with them, and, so, we don't have put all of our faith in Karzai and Abdullah, though I do think that, they too, in som...
I see what you're saying, but think that you are mistaken. Perhaps you, and maybe even I, ought to prefer Abdullah Abdullah? As I estimate the parties...
I think that Karzai's appeal to the Taliban was quite sincere. I'm not saying that he's Mahatma Gandhi; what I am saying is that he has made a difficu...
It's a very real possibility that what could happen within the negotiations is that the people there will become a mere cynical vying for some form of...
In the beaten way of political analysis, I would suggest that both the opinions of Western spectators and long and troubled political history of what ...
Afghanistan's Hekmatyar says heading for Doha with Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah to meet Taliban The glimmer of hope that former Afghan President, Hamid K...
I will say that I do appreciate his commitment to end the war. It was kind of a publicity spin, but, as has been said before, what can you expect? I h...
Joe Biden's pass of blame unto the Afghan military is just simply pathetic. The former Maoist allies of the mujahideen are singing "Algeria, Algeria" ...
I once had a bandcamp where I listed my sole influence as "The Beatles", referring to the White Album, in jest. My second-favorite song is Fairport Co...
That's only within the distorted form of recuperation that is born in response to the American discourse on such issues. Most animal rights activists ...
It sounds somewhat incredulous at first, but I'm sure that there's an activist defense lawyer who, with considerable effort, will, and determination, ...
Well, the rather naive anti-imperialist narrative is that things like so-called "human rights" are just a "liberal" pretext for humanitarian intervent...
The Animal Liberation Front does engage in direct action, namely the freeing of animals from facilities that do animal testing, which you could consid...
It can and very well might be that, but I think that you would then have to include that most nihilists have done so, which would be somewhat absurd. ...
All in good critique, but it's not as if Americans and completely lacking in empathy. I'm not sure what anyone else thinks that we can even do about o...
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