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

Posted on September 9, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

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

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

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”

Posted on September 10, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

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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“As the post-9/11 chapter closes, a new one begins, marked above all by the end of American deterrence and the eclipse of American power”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

FEDERALIST Our Defeat In Afghanistan Is Only The Beginning by John Daniel Davidson September 2, 2021 …As we learn more in the coming weeks and months about the fecklessness and deceit of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal — including Biden’s … Continue reading →

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“Brzezinski recognized that his policies brought about the Taliban and said it was worth it”

Posted on June 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

THE LID Zbigniew Brzezinski’s REAL Legacy: Creating The Taliban & al Qaeda, Promoting Antisemitism by Jeff Dunetz June 8, 2017 Zbigniew Brzezinski passed away two weeks ago. Unlike the obituaries published after his death, It is time to tell the … Continue reading →

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Say It Like It Is

Posted on January 22, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

A rare exception for me–posting a Thomas Friedman article–but here goes. NEW YORK TIMES by Thomas L. Friedman January 20, 2015 ….When you don’t call things by their real name, you always get in trouble. And this administration, so fearful … Continue reading →

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Obama Frees a Nuclear Terrorist

Posted on January 1, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE by Daniel Greenfield December 31, 2014 ….It was no wonder that Mohammad Zahir had been rated as posing a high risk, but Obama had already freed a number of other high risk Guantanamo Bay detainees. Yet Zahir was … Continue reading →

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Obama Fails to Blame Taliban for Mass School Murder in Pakistan

Posted on December 16, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WEEKLY STANDARD by Daniel Halper December 16, 2014 President Obama’s statement condemning the mass murder in a Pakistan school fails to blame the perpetrators, the Taliban….As NBC reports….The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, which appeared to be targeting … Continue reading →

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We left, ISIS stayed. 5 Key Implications if Baghdad Falls to ISIS

Posted on October 18, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

PJ MEDIA by Patrick Poole October 14, 2014 Reports that ISIS has surrounded Baghdad and is quickly closing in on the Baghdad International Airport (armed with MANPADS, no less) are troubling. Baghdad itself has been rocked by a series of … Continue reading →

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A Muslim comments on Muslim double standards

Posted on July 21, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

TORONTO SUN by Tarek Fatah July 15, 2014 If there is a God, he has some explaining to do. On the one hand he tells us Muslims in the Qur’an that we are “the best of peoples, evolved for mankind”, … Continue reading →

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