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“The report concludes that the October 7th attack was a dress rehearsal for much grander and more lethal attacks that will be orchestrated by these groups in Europe and the US homeland in the future”

FIRST POST How US unknowingly funded Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel Abhinav Pandya January 26, 2025 …Amidst the flurry of diplomatic and military developments in West Asia, the critical investigation of the conspiracy behind the Hamas attacks has remained … Continue reading

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Widespread tortures and executions by Taliban, facilitated by US 2021 exit

ASSOCIATED PRESS UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees Rahim Faiez September 20, 2023 The United Nations said Wednesday it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by authorities … Continue reading

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“Al Qaeda once again has a safe haven in Afghanistan, endangering Americans”

FOREIGN POLICY On 9/11 Anniversary, End the Self-Delusion About America’s Enemies H. R. McMaster and Bradley Bowman September 9, 2022 To understand the persistent malady of self-delusion in Washington, consider U.S. President Joe Biden’s comments in August 2021. “What interest … Continue reading

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An appeal from Clarion Project, an organization I support

The Afghans who helped U.S. forces are now, along with their families, under direct threat of torture, enslavement, and death at the hands of the Taliban, and you can help them. Since the Taliban takeover, we have received hundreds of … Continue reading

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Biden caught in an extraordinary lie but the media is silent

WASHINGTON POST Our military leaders confirm: Biden misled America by Mark A. Thiessen September 30, 2021 After two days of testimony by our military commanders on the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, here is what we have learned: Joe … Continue reading

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“All things considered, a review of the relationship between Washington and Islamabad seems long overdue”

ISRAEL HAYOM (be agreement with JNS) Unfriending Pakistan by Clifford D. May September 22, 2021 …We now know for certain that powerful elements within Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment helped create the Afghan Taliban in the early 1990s and continued … Continue reading

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“The U.S. has abandoned Kabul, but America’s former client in Islamabad still holds leverage over the superpower it helped defeat”

BLOOMBERG How Pakistan Won the War in Afghanistan by Eli Lake September 9, 2021 For much of the war on terror that began after 9/11, Pakistan played a double game. It occasionally helped track and detain al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. … Continue reading

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Guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, have proved meaningless

JNS As Afghanistan collapses, Israel learns the value of international ‘security guarantees’ by Amir Avivi and Or Yissachar September 12, 2021 …Further still, guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, were given to both the Afghani and … Continue reading

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The fall of Afghanistan: Service can’t review its own performance. An independent civilian commission is necessary.

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster by Frank Sobchak and Matthew Zais September 8, 2021 The U.S. war in Af­ghanistan was a costly fail­ure. More than 2,400 Amer­i­cans died dur­ing the two-decade con­flict. Tens of … Continue reading

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Can one even imagine Truman begging the Iranian ayatollahs for a nuclear deal not in our favor? Or handing over the keys to a country to the same terrorists who used it to launch an attack on America only 20 years ago?

NEW YORK SUN A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas by Warren Kozak August 30, 2021 Two photographs, taken 76 years apart — within the lifetime of many — drive home the change our country has taken in that … Continue reading

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