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In reply to the discussion: Nicole Wallace for the Win 👍 [View all]SergeStorms
(19,666 posts)19. When the so-called "liberal" media.....
are losing their collective shit about this, you have to wonder. Did they give this much of a shit when MF45 "negotiated" the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters? Those are the same Taliban terrorists who are taking over Afghanistan at this very minute.
All day, nothing but hand wringing, wailing and gnashing of teeth about the poor Afghani people, and how we've let them down.
20 years, untold billions of dollars, thousands of American dead, and the minute we start to leave the entire country folds like a 2 legged card table? Bullshit. We didn't let them down. They let themselves down.
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All of this! Plus, no media has reported on the many Afghans we've been extracting for months.
MerryBlooms
Aug 2021
#35
"They" never asked "us" to invade them and create a total bloodshed to begin with.
Justice matters.
Aug 2021
#50
Once again, the press is interested in the controversy and the argument...
Wounded Bear
Aug 2021
#16
MATT ZELLER ( my non-profit can't make me rich if we ain't at war!)& sensationalist Richard Engel
Budi
Aug 2021
#28
With very few exceptions, YES. Obviously Rachel is not one of them. She is actually trying
onecaliberal
Aug 2021
#51