Yet, as most here agree, Afghanistan has been a work without much progress, a money pit, and a cash cow for all of the above, plus the oligarchs of Wall Street.

It’s a worthwhile analysis of the Deepest Deep State infighting: after all, these lists were provided by the CIA and DoS https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/27/the-report-on-u-s-officials-giving-taliban-a-list-of-american-and-allied-afghans-makes-sense-the-lists-were-provided-to-taliban-by-state-dept-and-cia/

The most shameful indicator of the Fall of The Republic is the failure of Congress to restore Federal Budgeting after the Great Recession.

Instead all “budgeting” is done by managed decrees manifested by “omnibus spending” bills. That no one reads.

The model was Obamacare. And it’s become the new norm of post Constitutional government “control” ever since.

SCOTUS essentially rubber stamped the Fall of the Republic with Chief Justice Robert’s blessing when he declared what was everywhere legislatively not a tax – or, the individual mandate to have health insurance – merely a tax and hence Constitutional.

We’ve lost The Great Republic — which Winston Churchill called our nation — and which the excellent classic US history survey by Harvard’s Bernard Bailyn named his classic textbook, following Winston’s recommend.

Class War follies, anyone? It’s the oligarch’s delight.

The Great Game may be tired of us. But the terrorists aren’t, and that’s what the current concern is.

Of course, in Hong Kong, that’s not your concern.

We always back these kinds of guys. They always lose.

At most this guy might hold his valley. If so, good for him. Nothing wrong with defending home and hearth against guys from next valley over. It’s as human as you can be. But build him up into the Great White (errr) Hope? Jaysus Wept.

Everybody just STOP puhleeeeese and GTFO and go play other games. The Great Game is Tired of us.

My favorite book on Rwanda:

–Philip Gourevitch, “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda”
https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Inform-Tomorrow-Killed-Families/dp/0312243359

Part of my bleak outlook above is from wading into my local NextDoor.
LOTS of talk about vaccines.
There are only 2 choices:
1) get vaxxed and maybe have some short term discomfort
2) get infected, get intubated and probably die.
To fail to be vaccinated is to consign your neighbors to death.

It’s just crazy talk.
There’s a meme going around which is true:
“The only people worried about Covid now are those who are vaccinated”

We the unvaxxed are entirely willing to live and let live. We are not spending our time in anxiety. When pushed, I think most would say we’ve gone past “pandemic” to “endemic”. Covid is a permanent part of the medical landscape and we will all eventually get it. Perhaps multiple times. Nearly all will survive the experience, but some will die. Keep your lifestyle healthy and your immune system tuned up.

In areas under Dem control the outlook described above is intolerable.

If passed, all CA emps must vaxx. CA citizens denied access to anything except churches and grocery stores.
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/california-legislature-guts-transportation-bill-to-create-vaccine-mandate-on-private-industry/
California Legislature Guts Transportation Bill to Create Vaccine Mandate on Private Industry
AB 455 by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), was a bill to authorize the Bay Area Toll Authority to designate transit-only traffic lanes on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, Caltrans.
Gut-and-amend bills can be particularly insidious. This secretive process often leaves lawmakers, as well as the public, little or no time to review entirely new legislation dropped into an old bill. And usually, the subject of the legislation has nothing to do with the bill’s previous legislative issue.
Gut-and-amend typically happens with budget issues and heavy special interest legislation. Lawmakers have complained loudly for years that the gut-and-amend process has been grossly abused by whichever party is in power.
Sources say they don’t know if this bill will come to fruition or not.

“Literally they are trying to gradually ramp up their supporters to perform indiscriminate murder. Am I wrong?”

Nope. Rwandan Radio. Do not adjust your set.