Isiah 1:17- Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
I retweeted Rich Miller's post on Twitter so now I must blog about it. As I said on Twitter it was just too "rich" to share and no pun intended.
Part-time DuPage Dem social media staffer resigns after horrid and stupid tweets https://t.co/QRkq9DiePZ
— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) November 22, 2021
The news from over the weekend. The President of Afghanistan flees, US diplomatic mission destroys classified documents and evacuates, and Afghan citizens concerned about a return to Taliban rule want to flee. This is starting to be called President "Sleepy" Joe Biden's Saigon moment. The President had already announced that he had planned to remove U.S. troops from there by Sept. 11, 2021 - oh wow!
20 years after some devastating terrorist attacks on U.S. territory resulting in a huge loss of life. We went there to eliminate Al Qaida and remove the Taliban regime from power. In 2001 the Taliban largely had control of a huge swath of territory there, I suppose classic might makes right if you got the guns and troops what can anyone else do about it. Then American forces came and held the territory for just about 20 years and fought a lethal insurgency there.
The Taliban never really went away. Al Qaida is actually still around they're less one important leader who Seal Team Six killed in neighboring Pakistan in 2011. Wait what's his name again?
And now we have the disaster of Afghanistan under Sleepy Joe's watch. I can never really appreciate the Vietnam situation and the fall of Saigon and how it came to be. However it seems what's happening in Kabul over there seems quite needless and have only served to reverse what we hoped to accomplish after the deadly terrorist attacks of 20 years ago.
How did this come to be CNBC writes about an intelligence failure
The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, including its capital and the presidential palace, suggests that U.S. military intelligence failed in its assessment of the situation, according to Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“This is an intelligence failure of the highest order,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday, adding that it’s the “biggest intelligence failure” since the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, a campaign of devastating surprise attacks on the U.S. and its allies in 1968.Roggio said the Taliban pre-positioned equipment and materials, organized, planned and executed a “massive offensive” since early May before beginning its “final assault,” while U.S. officials said the local government and military forces should be able to hold out for six months to a year.
Last week, Reuters reported that a U.S. defense official saw Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, falling in 90 days. Instead, that happened on Sunday, less than 10 days after the first provincial capital of Zaranj was taken by the Taliban.
Would this be any different under a President Trump? Under that orange man so many people hate so much that they wanted Sleepy Joe in power!
The two governments said the operations, which allegedly involve planting malware on internet routers and other equipment, could also lay the foundation for future offensive cyberattacks.More things to worry about in the world!
A joint statement Monday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre says the targets include public and private internet equipment, but provides no details.
A companion technical alert says both nations have "high confidence" in the finding. It adds that state-sponsored Russian cyber-meddling has been reported by multiple sources since 2015. The alert urges affected companies and public sector organizations to take action to harden poorly-secured devices, but cites just one specific product. Russian hackers are trying to gain access to the devices that control the flow of internet traffic, the US and UK warned Monday in an alert for organizations and individuals worldwide.
Gloria Steinem’s new book, “My Life on the Road,” recounts her life’s journeys and travels. Early reviews and profiles reveal incredible detail of Steinem’s barrier-breaking feminist role, liberal politics, romances, proclivities and style.Ahhhh, I see whats going on here, methinks:
What is often missed, or mischaracterized, however, is the work she did as a CIA agent: Steinem was a spook.
CIA agents are tight-lipped, but Steinem spoke openly about her relationship to “The Agency” in the 1950s and ‘60s after a magazine revealed her employment by a CIA front organization, the Independent Research Service.
While popularly pilloried because of her paymaster, Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.”
Less cloak and dagger and more a young, energetic, global representative for American values and freedom, Steinem leveraged her underwriting to attend international youth festivals organized and otherwise ideologically dominated by America’s adversaries.
Long before the formalized concept of soft power, Steinem personified and promoted abroad the vigor and progressive nature of the U.S. youth movement..
Strange as it may seem, Steinem’s personal views and CIA political goals aligned. Her brand of social revolution, promoted by American tax dollars, was meant to counter Soviet-sponsored revolutionary messaging. Public funds were intended to slow the Soviet scourge while showing America’s alternative democratic face.Basically engineer a response to whatever propaganda the USSR was trying to pump into America. Perhaps their own program as opposed to something homegrown. Now it seems like the Russians and America have always played this games.
