re: US is evacuating all Embassy Employees from the Green Zone in Iraq.

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How useless are our intelligence agencies?

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Bro, the taliban won't take over Afghanistan for like a month after we bail. All these lies about taking over in 72 hours is just Russian misinformation. Next thing you'll tell me is that we'll be asking the taliban to provide security for the outer perimeter during the evacuation.

At least they are evacuating them this time.

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Year to the day we cut & ran from Afghanistan.

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Good thing we didn’t leave $80B in military equipment over there when we left….
Oh wait….
Nevermind.

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The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo-intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence.

They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks — Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, the Atlantic Council and the Brookings Institution. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many murderous military interventions go bad. They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power vomited up in the dying days of any empire, including ours, leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next.

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This is perhaps the best linguistic throttling of American imperialists I've ever read. Donald Trump should rightly be remembered as the man who purged the neocons out of the Republican Party. Now they've wormed their way back into the Democratic Party. Funny how the progs in this country will preach critical race theory here and get offended at the slightest racial statement, but yet ally themselves politically with people whose entire life is consumed with murdering brown people in the Middle East. People like Bill Kristol, Max Boot and David Frum are seriously despicable people.

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And we seriously need to look at the usefulness of our Special Forces. We spent billions of dollars and countless years training Afghan and Iraqi armies and quite frankly, ISIS and the Taliban were better fighters at the end.

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The reason for that is that instead of combat we were busy training them in this:

Baghdad protestors moving towards the Greenzone

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Al Sadr was able to hold things somewhat together but if he bails (leaves the country) the Sunny are about to run wild.

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Reports are that Elvis has left the Country. He resigned so that Maliki could return to power. Well Maliki just left the country too.

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All those dudes dressed in all black can't be a good sign

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What does it mean?

Here we go again!