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Globe & Mail wrote:“The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large and plotting,” he said, echoing Mr. Bush's oft-repeated refrain.

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globeandmail wrote:Sounding presidential ...

“The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large and plotting,” he said, echoing Mr. Bush's oft-repeated refrain.

au·dac·i·ty (ô-ds-t)
n. pl. au·dac·i·ties

1. Fearless daring; intrepidity.

2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.

3. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness: warned the students than any audacities committed during the graduation ceremony would be punished.

Jeff wrote: Obama favours U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan

Peace or no peace, US presence in Afghanistan to end by 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

by Jamie McIntyre, Senior Writer | | April 14, 2021 07:28 AM

AND SO IT WILL END: In the end, no one’s position changed except Joe Biden’s. The president, who as a candidate advocated keeping a small residual force in Afghanistan and argued against an arbitrary withdrawal date, came to embrace his predecessor's conclusion that it was time to extricate the United States from a no-win, endless, forever war.

So, all 2,500 or so remaining U.S. troops will leave between now and Sept. 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attack on America that triggered the war to topple the Taliban and one month shy of the 20th anniversary of the nation’s longest war ever. The five-month withdrawal timeframe is intended to give the 5,000 plus NATO troops and 13,000 U.S. contractors time to pack up and leave, too.

The first word of Biden’s decision came, not in a somber nationwide address to a war-weary country, but in a relatively brief conference call to a small group of reporters (Pentagon reporters were not invited), in which an official who did not want to be named laid out the president's thinking.

“We went to Afghanistan to deliver justice to those who attacked us on Sept. 11 and to disrupt terrorists seeking to use Afghanistan as a safe haven to attack the United States,” the senior administration official told reporters. “We believe we achieved that objective some years ago. We judge the threat against the homeland now emanating from Afghanistan to be at a level that we can address it without a persistent military footprint in the country and without remaining at war with the Taliban.”

The president will make the official announcement of his decision at 2:15 p.m. in the White House Treaty Room.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/peace-or-no-peace-us-presence-in-afghanistan-to-end-by-20th-anniversary-of-sept-11-attacks

On Edit: I just noted my 666 inauspicious post number.

After Herat, Kandahar falls to Taliban; US, Britain rush troops to Afghanistan to evacuate nationals​

August 13, 2021

The Taliban seized more major cities yesterday as they raced to take full control of Afghanistan and inched closer to Kabul, with the United States and Britain deploying thousands of troops to evacuate their citizens from the capital.

The evacuation orders came as the Taliban took control of Kandahar -- the nation's second-biggest city -- in the insurgency's heartland, leaving only Kabul and pockets of other territories.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/aft...fghanistan-to-evacuate-nationals-9883381.html

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stickdog99 » Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:51 am wrote:Fentanyl killed the opium star.

Brilliant. Yours?

DrEvil » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:34 am wrote:So, who's next? They can't justify throwing another trillion bucks at the MIC without a good war to spend it on.